Author Topic: Bighorn sheep bow #17 black striped  (Read 14892 times)

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Offline joachimM

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Re: Bighorn sheep bow #17 black striped
« Reply #15 on: June 07, 2015, 03:16:30 pm »
Thats a masterpiece

Offline stickbender

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Re: Bighorn sheep bow #17 black striped
« Reply #16 on: June 11, 2015, 01:50:04 pm »

     Man that is slick!  That would be just the ticket for a Buffalo hunt, on horse back!

                                    Wayne

Offline loefflerchuck

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Re: Bighorn sheep bow #17 black striped
« Reply #17 on: June 18, 2015, 01:32:44 am »
Bowmo, criticism is hard to come by on this site. It is nice and refreshing for a change. The reason for the high nocks is I am using every last mm of horn to make this bow and don't want to waste any. The nocks are just sinew molded up past the end of the horn. As far as too much spine in short bows- not a problem. The goal is to get the arrows as light as possible for optimal speed and flight from these little bows.

Offline bowmo

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Re: Bighorn sheep bow #17 black striped
« Reply #18 on: June 30, 2015, 11:55:17 am »
I actually meant where the arrow is nocked on the string, it's rather high up and far from center. Is that typical in horn bows?

Again tho, I love your work.

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Re: Bighorn sheep bow #17 black striped
« Reply #19 on: July 01, 2015, 07:53:09 pm »
Oh. I gotcha. There are a very few asymmetrical old bows around for a closer to center shot. I made 2 like this again because one horn was longer than the other and I didn't want to waste any. They shoot well but tiller is harder and they always look off with the longer upper limb.