your best performer

[Ryano]

Bamboo backed ipe D/R hands down have been my best performing bows. 58 to 62" ntn Also a few selfbows of osage and some other white woods with similar profiles but a little longer @ 64" ntn

[n2huntn]

Read the ambush bow link and it had lots of limitations and I'm not sure the challenge was completed. I also found a link on another site that was a really good read and many of you posted on it.  Both threads are a few years old and both had limitations on design. I wonder what your opinions would be today without any limitations and having maybe learned more and taste change?
Jeff
http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=print_topic;f=40;t=000051

[Keenan]

They did the ambush a couple years in a row and posted the results of there findings. However I know for some others and myself included that there were many bows that never got sent in.  I was so pleased with the results of the one that i made that I decided not to risk putting it through to rigorous testing.  I've always wondered how it would have done but I'm also happy with my choice to keep it in my hands for hunting.    Although I gained allot of good usefull knowledge from the results posted, I think the most usefull thing was learning to be mindfull of all factors when working on a bow. Handshock, ease of stringing, toughness for all day hunting, not to mention (tight in the bush) hunting which is what I do most.

[n2huntn]

Keenan,
 Any chance we could see the one you built? PLEASE!!!!

[Keenan]

 

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,10412.msg148254.html#msg148254

[n2huntn]

Thank you Keenan,
 Very nice, and that is some beautiful country your in.
Jeff

[sailordad]

for me my best performer is the one i got from Pappy
osage with flipped tips,very nice and fast,hard hitting bow

out of what i have built,the best performer is the one i kept for myself so far
66" ttt(i think  ),1.75",12" from tip it starts to taper to 1/2 at the nocks
stiff handle,45# @ 28"(maybe a little heavier when its real dry out )