Vlad The III from the house of Dracul was nicknamed "Vlad The Impaler" for his cruel punishment upon his enemies(fact),and his wifes name was Molly and this was her bow(fiction)...lol
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Seriously tho this stave was deemed for the "firepile" by my buddies Jon(straightarrow) and Bill(hickorybill)back when we cut this lot of hedge a year and half ago. I took it with me to maybe,just maybe,one day fling some arras with it. Well guess what,that day has come and I got it flinging arras. It had three live branches sticking out of it when it was cut n split. I removed one thats in the working limb top limb and drilled it out for a 3/4" hole in the bow. The skewer in the middle is in the handle,and the skewer in the lower limb is actually a part of the lever. I only chased a ring over the working limbs and left all the sapwood on the levers and in the handle. The handle also has such a steep concavity to it,and with the skewers(knots) that it was actually best and easiest to lay out this stave as a molly and sapwood levers and handle. This bow is straight up wicked looking,i love it. Its more of a novelty bow,and made for the sake of overcoming such a flawed character stave,and to prove Jon n Bill wrong
![Evil >:D](http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/Smileys/default/evil.gif)
I probably wont shoot it much,altho it does spit an arra purtty darn quick despite that lower skewer looking all fat and nasty heavy. It does have a small noisy vibration to it because no matter how hard i tried i couldnt get that bottom limb to weigh the same as the top and be balanced because of that branch,but i wouldnt call it handshock. Its 64"ntn,50@28",24 oz mass weight,jibarillo tip overlays. Enjoy the nastiness
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and one for the sky
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thanks for looking...Chris