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Offline wapiti1997

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Pecan selfbow
« on: September 03, 2016, 09:55:42 pm »
20 or so years ago I planted a couple of pecan trees.  One was shading the back deck so the wife asked me to cut it.  I put away a few staves, and figured pecan was a hickory so it ought to make a bow.  I made the wife one last year.  This year I wanted to make a new bow to hunt with..

It took some set, but feels good and puts an arrow where I look in my effective range..

It's 66 inches ntn, 47# @28.



I made a moose hide strike plate and shelf pad, shaved the hair off with a scalpel leaving a stiff bristly launcher.. The hide is scraps from a taxidermist.



Tip overlay is cow horn.


As they say on Forged in Fire... "It will Kill!"
Meet "Toxicarya"!

Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Pecan selfbow
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2016, 09:59:45 pm »
Nice bow and nice shot!
I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left

Offline Pat B

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Re: Pecan selfbow
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2016, 10:01:42 pm »
The proof is in the pudding. Well done.
Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes!    Pat Brennan  Brevard, NC

Offline H Rhodes

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Re: Pecan selfbow
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2016, 12:03:30 am »
Outstanding! 
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Offline Pago

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Re: Pecan selfbow
« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2016, 12:23:38 am »
Gorgeous!

Offline ---GUTSHOT--->

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Re: Pecan selfbow
« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2016, 07:28:29 am »
Great job on the bow and harvest!

Offline Danzn Bar

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Re: Pecan selfbow
« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2016, 08:45:41 am »
Way to go Joe....nothin like a opening day doe on the ground.
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Offline paulsemp

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Re: Pecan selfbow
« Reply #7 on: September 04, 2016, 08:49:54 am »
Great story. Congrats

Offline SLIMBOB

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Re: Pecan selfbow
« Reply #8 on: September 04, 2016, 08:53:56 am »
Nice!
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Re: Pecan selfbow
« Reply #9 on: September 04, 2016, 09:12:05 am »
Nice outcome on your bow and your hunt.Congrats.
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Offline paco664

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Re: Pecan selfbow
« Reply #10 on: September 04, 2016, 09:51:03 am »
i never thought pecan would make a bow...  the limbs always break under their own weight...

but that is a sweet looking bow and congrats on filling the freezer with it..
I'm too drunk to taste this chicken"~Col.H.Sanders

Offline wapiti1997

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Re: Pecan selfbow
« Reply #11 on: September 04, 2016, 11:08:16 am »
i never thought pecan would make a bow...  the limbs always break under their own weight...

but that is a sweet looking bow and congrats on filling the freezer with it..

I'm smoking some ribs today and chopping up some of the trimmings to use for smoke.  It's stronger in tension and very difficult to break.  Now a pithy branch full of nuts might be a different story.

It does take some set and is slow, humidity is always 70% or better, even my house is 50% or better in the summer..

It is quiet and forgiving..

Offline Lumberman

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Re: Pecan selfbow
« Reply #12 on: September 04, 2016, 11:49:46 am »
Woo! Way to introduce a bow with it's first kill (I presume)! Like that rest too

Offline loon

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Re: Pecan selfbow
« Reply #13 on: September 04, 2016, 12:01:10 pm »
isn't it just hickory..?

very nice bow!

Offline wapiti1997

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Re: Pecan selfbow
« Reply #14 on: September 04, 2016, 02:07:55 pm »
isn't it just hickory..?

very nice bow!

Pecan is in the same genus, Carya, thus the name of Toxicarya...