Finally manged to pull off a short (58"NTN) hunting weight (52# @27) hard-shooting bow with only a half-inch of set, so I tried my hand at copperhead skins. Boy are they tough to do! They get like tissue paper once you wet them down.
Named it after the mountain we live on here in the Shenandoah valley. The wood is from a farm on the base of it, and the skins are from here also.
Tried a handle wrap that involved cutting out an area to make the braided leather almost flush with the wood. I love the way it shoots and hope to bring a fat doe down with it Saturday morning. I think it has better cast than the 55# 62 incher i hunted with last year. It's been difficult weather-wise but it finally brightened up a bit today so I could take the pics - thanks for looking, and good luck this season.
