This bow hasn't received much finishing work yet, but has been shot a few hundred times and really performs well. The lower limb comes out of the handle more than an inch stepped down from the upper limb. I built the handle up with leather so that I could hang on to it and then tillered the bow without the usual tillering tree method. The limbs were pretty snakey and the upper limb has a big rollercoaster whoopty-do about ten inches from the tip. I know that the tiller looks sort of crazy on it, but I figured that I would post this bow for all the people who have built an ugly bow that shoots better than it looks. After the first hundred arrows I like to shoot a 550 grain arrow across the hay field to see how far it shoots as my way of gauging speed. My really fast bows shoot over a 180 steps. This one shot three arrows over 170 steps, so I figured it's one of my better 47lb draw weight bows. It goes back to dead flat afterwards with the hooks sticking up over three inches from the table. This ugly stick really wanted to be a bow. Tillering was done by looking at a shadow on the wall in the afternoon sun while drawing the bow. When it got to where it felt good in the hand and hit where I wanted it to, I quit scraping on it. This ugly duckling shoots so straight and quiet, it might be a contender for my hunting bow this year. 57" nock to nock. 47lb @ 27" 1 1/4 wide at the fades down to 1/2 tips. Made from an osage stave from an old fence post.
