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Offline loefflerchuck

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30" bighorn sheep horn bow 70# @ 18"
« on: November 04, 2015, 11:11:02 pm »
I'll write about the bow after pictures post
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Re: 30" bighorn sheep horn bow 70# @ 18"
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2015, 11:13:52 pm »
strung
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Re: 30" bighorn sheep horn bow 70# @ 18"
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2015, 11:56:30 pm »
another try
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Re: 30" bighorn sheep horn bow 70# @ 18"
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2015, 12:06:18 am »
That's truly a beauty Chuck!  Beautiful unstrung shape, looks just like one I saw at the Warm Springs Tribal Museum
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Re: 30" bighorn sheep horn bow 70# @ 18"
« Reply #4 on: November 05, 2015, 08:45:40 am »
That fd is a beauty Chuck sweet
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Re: 30" bighorn sheep horn bow 70# @ 18"
« Reply #5 on: November 05, 2015, 10:38:11 am »
Very cool Chuck
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Re: 30" bighorn sheep horn bow 70# @ 18"
« Reply #6 on: November 05, 2015, 12:22:38 pm »
29" n t n measured around the curve. The horns were only 22" long so thats all i could get. the handle splice is a lap splice with 2 bone rivets(Horn rivets have broken on me before) and wrapped thick with sinew. The splice is only 2 3/4" to try to get as much of the bow bending as I can. It had a lot more reflex and was drawing 70# @ 17". I added the double curve with heat to lessen some of it and now it's 70@18. It did not add to the performance. String is 3 ply sinew with the loop copied from a find in Hogup cave in northern Utah. I put a rattler skin on the bow as there are 2 accounts I have read from the 1800s that the Shoshone and Paiute did this on their hornbows. As you can imagine a 29" bow drawing 70#@18" is a little hard to aim. Seems best suited for shooting buffalo from horseback a few feet away.
Thanks for looking
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Offline wizardgoat

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Re: 30" bighorn sheep horn bow 70# @ 18"
« Reply #7 on: November 05, 2015, 12:53:53 pm »
Beauty bow Chuck! I love those profiles and 18" draw from a 29"ntn is amazing.
First I've heard some horn bows had snake skin, will have to put a set on mine 😉
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Re: 30" bighorn sheep horn bow 70# @ 18"
« Reply #8 on: November 05, 2015, 01:50:53 pm »
It is amazing to have so much weight, bending, and ratio.  Always cool to see.
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Re: 30" bighorn sheep horn bow 70# @ 18"
« Reply #9 on: November 07, 2015, 09:44:39 am »
Wow that is totally incredible! Outstanding work there. :)
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Re: 30" bighorn sheep horn bow 70# @ 18"
« Reply #10 on: November 09, 2015, 11:24:59 am »
Kudos to you Chuck on your accomplishment there.Do they get any easier?Would that be shot right from the chest as they were riding the horse?Quite a little power package there and even more so the persuading of it to be a bow.Handy, light weight out of the way when riding a horse.That all makes sense to me.
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Re: 30" bighorn sheep horn bow 70# @ 18"
« Reply #11 on: November 09, 2015, 11:45:35 am »
Didn't think that is possible! That is a lil monster.
I like the lines, good decicion to give her two additional curves. Beautiful!
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Re: 30" bighorn sheep horn bow 70# @ 18"
« Reply #12 on: November 14, 2015, 03:39:35 am »
Absolutely incredible!  :)
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Re: 30" bighorn sheep horn bow 70# @ 18"
« Reply #13 on: November 14, 2015, 09:09:03 pm »
Another museum piece, Chuck, amazing , little bow.
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Re: 30" bighorn sheep horn bow 70# @ 18"
« Reply #14 on: November 15, 2015, 04:24:49 am »
Woo  :o mind boggling...
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