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Offline Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive

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Stone age bow- Pics added, page 2
« on: July 12, 2014, 10:31:25 pm »
I showed the whole set in the shooting thread, but I figured I would focus on the bow more here. 
To catch you up to speed, this very bland looking bow is special to me because it (as well as the rest of the set) was made with only stone tools. The bow is made from White Stopper (aka FL Snakewood)  it's a sapling bow and 54 inches ntn.  It's about 60 pounds. I quite literally scraped this sapling into bow form entirely with a flake of heat treated FL chert.  The string is sinew and as you can see I built it for function over fashion. There is no leather grip or strikeplate, only a slight dish carved above the handle for an arrow indicator. Pound for pound it is actually one of the hardest hitting bows I have ever made, likely because it was built so slow and made as reasonably heavy as possible.  The tiller is certainly not perfect since it was tillered by feel and by eye of looking at the limbs while braced.  Although not fancy by any means, I rank this one as one my all time best bows I've made, shooting wise.  Not picky about arrows and just seems to deliver every arrow without wobble within only an inch or 2 if its target.   I will take some more photos later and post them up, but for now, all you get is the teaser picture. 
« Last Edit: July 13, 2014, 01:26:52 pm by twistedlimbs »
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Offline JonW

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Re: Stone age bow
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2014, 10:37:57 pm »
very cool

Offline Will H

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Re: Stone age bow
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2014, 10:47:20 pm »
Nice work Ryan!
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Offline RyanR

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Re: Stone age bow
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2014, 10:50:12 pm »
Good one Ryan, you should shoot a deer with it.

Offline TRACY

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Re: Stone age bow
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2014, 11:01:43 pm »
That is the epitome of primitive archery for me. Great work all around Ryan ! Really like your abo points.

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Offline Denham Archer

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Re: Stone age bow
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2014, 11:03:11 pm »
Well done!  Good hunting with it.

Offline Swampman

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Re: Stone age bow
« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2014, 11:18:00 pm »
Love that bow.  Nice work.

Offline Badger

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Re: Stone age bow
« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2014, 11:34:58 pm »
  That was nice Ryan, I really enjoy seeing these bows. I hope you come back from a successful hunt with it one day.

Offline bow101

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Re: Stone age bow
« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2014, 11:35:27 pm »
Very good example of Primitive Archery gear.   8)
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Re: Stone age bow
« Reply #9 on: July 13, 2014, 12:26:24 am »
Nicely done!
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Offline 4dog

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Re: Stone age bow
« Reply #10 on: July 13, 2014, 01:26:48 am »
thatll do ryan....thatll do.  :)
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Offline IdahoMatt

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Re: Stone age bow
« Reply #11 on: July 13, 2014, 02:15:16 am »
Very cool Ryan.  I dig all your bows and ther posts that go along with them.  Great job man :).

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Re: Stone age bow
« Reply #12 on: July 13, 2014, 03:13:18 am »
Great, I'm sure that's what many of us aspire to doing.
Some time I'm going to walk over to the woods and make a bow, string and arrow in a day using just a knife and natural materials, that's prob as close as I'll ever get.
We all want the FD spic tho'  >:D
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Offline Benedikt

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Re: Stone age bow
« Reply #13 on: July 13, 2014, 05:23:47 am »
Very cool man!  :o
Looks like 500 years ago  :)
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Re: Stone age bow
« Reply #14 on: July 13, 2014, 05:37:07 am »
Way cool - two thumbs up ! bob
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