Author Topic: Short bows (Read 24565 times)

david w. · « **Reply #15 on:** February 07, 2008, 11:46:50 pm »

30# @ 16"

38" ntn

oak backed with paper bags

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1/2primitive · « **Reply #16 on:** February 08, 2008, 12:44:47 am »

43" Osage selfbow, 50lb@24".

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Sean

Pappy · « **Reply #17 on:** February 08, 2008, 06:40:11 am »

Yes it is Carp,It is about like putting on Rawhide.Lot thicker and stiffer than snake.

Pappy

Keenan · « **Reply #18 on:** February 08, 2008, 07:54:58 am »

Wow, sure love all them shorties. Pappy that looks like a screamer. Keenan

Pappy · « **Reply #19 on:** February 08, 2008, 08:12:36 am »

It is a screamer but a little harder for me to shoot that one a little longer.Sean cool bow

now thats a short one.Here is the Hickory at full draw,nice in a tree stand and ground blind.
Pappy

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El Destructo · « **Reply #20 on:** February 08, 2008, 09:17:22 am »

Pappy....where do you get the Grass Carp that are long enough to do a whole Limb??? We have Carp here....but not nearly long enough to use two skins to do a Bow

Pappy · « **Reply #21 on:** February 08, 2008, 10:51:11 am »

These came from Mickey Lotzs,but we have carp that big around here,I just haven't
went after them in a while.Now that I see how they work I plan to this spring while they
are spawning.

Pappy

TRACY · « **Reply #22 on:** February 08, 2008, 10:55:00 am »

Thanks Pappy. That looks like a real good bow for taking a turkey with also!

Dingleberry · « **Reply #23 on:** February 08, 2008, 12:26:56 pm »

Sweet bows everybody.

I've never made a shorter bow, but now want to lookin at yalls. Hey Pappy, what are the dimensions on that hickory 54"er?

JackCrafty · « **Reply #24 on:** February 08, 2008, 01:06:12 pm »

Awesome!

Great bows.......and I just knew there had to be a good reason to go carp fishin'....

Pappy · « **Reply #25 on:** February 08, 2008, 01:34:51 pm »

Its 1 7/8 to mid limb and then tapered to the tips.I only used a 4 in. handle just to save some limb.
I also only made the fads 1 inch for the same reason.It is a non bending handle.

Pappy

Far East Archer · « **Reply #26 on:** February 08, 2008, 07:53:19 pm »

Wow Keenan! Your bow looks almost exactly like Korean hornbow! Very nice and I still cant believe how you find wood with such shape, amazing!

-Alex

NOMADIC PIRATE · « **Reply #27 on:** February 09, 2008, 05:44:51 am »

Little Guava shortbow, 56 1/2" ntn 56# @ 27"

bowmo · « **Reply #28 on:** February 09, 2008, 10:39:47 pm »

This is fun!

Working osage recurve that bends in the handle. 49" and only backed with rattlesnake skins, pulls 40# at 27". First bow I ever built from a stave.

dan

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mole · « **Reply #29 on:** February 10, 2008, 02:12:43 am »

Here's one that my buddy Bruce did with a little help from me. 38" sinew backed osage. 1" wide at the handle and 45# @ 23". Buckskin handle wrap and beaver fur on the limbs.

Pulled to about 20".

Primitive Archer