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Title: Sheep horn sinew backed Indian bow (pic Heavy)
Post by: IndianGuy on March 01, 2013, 12:07:27 am

Well HELLLLLOOOOOOO fellas!
Hope all is well with everyone I stopped in to share a few pics of my latest project, I have two of these bows going and this one is finished. Its sheep horn with five layers of elk leg tendon sinew backing. The bow is 37 1/4" long and has a 20" draw length. I painted the sinew black and the tips a vermillion red...sure like the red and black combo. 8)
the bow is very suprisingly fast and silent, little hand shock but does have some finger pinch. :-\
I am taking it to a friends tomorrow to get a draw weight but am guessing 44-46 pounds. Im sure it will gain as the sinew continues to cure over the next few months, I was hoping for a 50 pounder! These bows are very time consuming and horns are hard to come by, I got lucky and got a few sets from a taxidermist. The arrows are dogwood with barrell hoop iron points, double grooved and sinew wrapped.

Take care and shoot em if ya got em.

Eric

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Post by: IndianGuy on March 01, 2013, 12:12:53 am

A few more pics of sheep horn bows.

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Post by: LEGIONNAIRE on March 01, 2013, 12:58:10 am

Wow thank you for sharing.
must have been incredibly time consuming to geet that twist out as well as to cut them horns. Did you do it by hand?
I cut some water buffalo horns by hand once and took like 3 hours a piece with a hack saw.

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Post by: Arrowind on March 01, 2013, 01:03:01 am

Very cool!

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Post by: loefflerchuck on March 01, 2013, 01:36:18 am

Nice work Eric! I got the bighorn bug a while back too.

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Post by: JackCrafty on March 01, 2013, 01:52:58 am

Another fantastic bow!   ;D 8)

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Post by: raghorns on March 01, 2013, 03:29:22 am

Wow! Love the pic of the draw....great job.

Lyle

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Post by: Del the cat on March 01, 2013, 05:36:46 am

Oh man, I'd sure like to feel one of those in my paws.
Great bend, looks great with those arrows too.
Del

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Post by: Pappy on March 01, 2013, 06:43:33 am

Beautiful bow,very nice work as we have come to expect from you. :)
   Pappy

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Post by: blackhawk on March 01, 2013, 07:26:26 am

AWESOME!!!!!!! Love it.... :) .nice work Eric..

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Post by: osage outlaw on March 01, 2013, 07:30:59 am

Incredible bow Eric.  I was hoping you would start posting your bows again.

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Post by: PEARL DRUMS on March 01, 2013, 08:34:51 am

Very cool Eric.

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Post by: SLIMBOB on March 01, 2013, 09:03:30 am

Sweet looking weapon!

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Post by: BowEd on March 01, 2013, 09:06:26 am

Congratulations on finishing her.Looks great.

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Post by: JonW on March 01, 2013, 09:44:37 am

Man I like that!! Thanks for posting.

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Post by: turtle on March 01, 2013, 10:34:52 am

Very nice. What method do you use to splice the horns together?

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Post by: coaster500 on March 01, 2013, 10:36:11 am

Great work, sweeeeeet bows!!!!

I'd love to shoot that bow   :)

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Post by: steelslinger on March 01, 2013, 11:28:37 am

Very cool.

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Post by: IndianGuy on March 01, 2013, 11:36:36 am

"Very nice. What method do you use to splice the horns together?"


I use the lap splice method with wood dowells, I made my own hide glue for this project with sinew and rawhide pieces. worked very well.
Thanks for the comments guys.

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Post by: Oglala Bowyer on March 01, 2013, 11:41:48 am

Very nice Eric.  Love them bows. I agree totally about the amount of time as I have two big horn sheep horns that I cut out and are now clamped to a board.  Talk about work!  Great work Eric.

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Post by: wildkatt on March 01, 2013, 11:57:15 am

 >:D Very nice Bro. So thats whats been Keeping you to busy to call me. lol Great bows as always.


Katt

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Post by: rhansen on March 01, 2013, 12:05:00 pm

Nice Job!! :)

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Post by: ErictheViking on March 01, 2013, 12:27:23 pm

beautiful bends on those. love both.

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Post by: Trapper Rob on March 01, 2013, 01:20:54 pm

Sweet bow looks sharp.
Rob

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Post by: Carson (CMB) on March 01, 2013, 04:49:12 pm

Those are some Killer Horns Man!  Someday Ii would like to try one of those. 

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Post by: burn em up chuck on March 01, 2013, 07:42:46 pm

   super cool, that is so awesome. is it normal to find spare parts at taxidermist? just wondering if i should put them down on my drop by list  :D. thanks for posting these horn bows.

                                                                                               

                                                                                               

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Post by: Traxx on March 02, 2013, 05:52:49 pm

Hey Erixc,

I was just wonderin bout you the other day.

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Post by: swamp monkey on March 02, 2013, 09:13:58 pm

Eric, I noticed the lightly recurved tips.  Is that needed for string angle or is it simply preference?

Love it when you post your bows.  Nice work.

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Post by: DuBois on March 03, 2013, 08:02:16 am

Man that's amazing!
Hmmm, someday.... some very distant day.