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Offline lesken2011

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Re: white oak recurve
« Reply #15 on: May 09, 2012, 10:49:14 pm »
Good job, Bub. I'm definitely tackling curves pretty soon, for sure.


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Re: white oak recurve
« Reply #16 on: May 09, 2012, 11:19:46 pm »
That full draw looks great. Hows it shootin' ?   '  Frank
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Offline Arrowind

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Re: white oak recurve
« Reply #17 on: May 10, 2012, 02:08:30 am »
Nice bow man. Inspiring. 
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Offline bubby

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Re: white oak recurve
« Reply #18 on: May 10, 2012, 06:40:36 am »
thank's for all the kind words, i havn't shot it past 15 yds yet but it's been makeing a real tight grouping,first four arrows were in a three inch group, Bub
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Offline H Rhodes

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Re: white oak recurve
« Reply #19 on: May 10, 2012, 10:09:00 am »
Beautiful bow.  I am working on a white oak bow right now.  I read somewhere that they can be prone to a lot of string follow, but I see that yours has none.  Did you do any tempering?   I hope mine turns out half that good.  Great work.
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Offline dragonman

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Re: white oak recurve
« Reply #20 on: May 10, 2012, 03:13:46 pm »
Nice bow, well done, I've got a lot of oak by me , been wating to try out a recurve, did it take much set after shooting in?

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Offline bubby

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Re: white oak recurve
« Reply #21 on: May 10, 2012, 03:22:59 pm »
it has taken about a half an inch of set after 100 arrows, it has a little string follow that goes away in under an hour, Bub
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Offline Eastman

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Re: white oak recurve
« Reply #22 on: May 10, 2012, 03:33:36 pm »
 Nice bow man (:

I read it only took like half an inch of set, wich to me is great. I've made 2 longbows from white oak and both had
some serious string follow.  was your oak particularly dense? how wide did you make it?

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