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blackhawk

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My #1 Is Dead
« on: May 17, 2012, 08:49:02 pm »
i was just out shooting with the wife,and i took out my number one go to shooter....a bamboo backed osage if ya'll remember it. ive shot thousands of arrows out of this thing and tonight its life came to an end. i really loved this bow...dang.  :-\ i got wacked upside the head(i prob needed it),but im ok...just a small headache,and a lil heart ache to go with it. i am having a rotten week,car needs fixed,van got a flat,then van failed inspection n needs more fixing,some fam issues,i had to leave work early tue due to a small fam emergency,and blah blah blah...one of those weeks and now this....whats next!!!! ::)

the diagnoses is an easy one....it broke at a small cluster of pin knots...the osage was a plain sawn oriented piece of wood...it was a stave planed flat,and the clusters were still in the bow limb with no violation,yet its time was up..........

oh well...go make another i guess... ;)  ;D  :laugh:







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Offline Judo Point

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Re: My #1 Is Dead
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2012, 09:02:58 pm »
Bummer!!!  :'(
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Offline osage outlaw

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« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2012, 09:08:11 pm »
That stinks.  Was that the one you had at the Classic?  If it was, that thing was sweet.  Sorry about your bow and recent bad luck.
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« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2012, 09:13:12 pm »
Quote from: osage outlaw on May 17, 2012, 09:08:11 pm
That stinks.  Was that the one you had at the Classic?  If it was, that thing was sweet.  Sorry about your bow and recent bad luck.

yeah pal it was
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Offline osage outlaw

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« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2012, 09:31:44 pm »
That was one wicked little bow.  That really stinks.
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Offline lowell

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Re: My #1 Is Dead
« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2012, 09:39:54 pm »
Sorry to hear!!!   

  But you may have lost a bow but gained a garden stake....I have a couple in my garden right now!!  :'(
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« Reply #6 on: May 17, 2012, 09:51:22 pm »
Only the good die young...........stay strong friend, stay strong..........................AND BUILD TWENTY MORE JUST LIKE IT!!!!!!!!!
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Offline Parnell

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« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2012, 09:53:15 pm »
Rats.
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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« Reply #8 on: May 17, 2012, 09:56:44 pm »
One more thing.........I told ya' to stay away from those blasted glue bows!
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blackhawk

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« Reply #9 on: May 17, 2012, 09:58:32 pm »
Quote from: PEARL DRUMS on May 17, 2012, 09:51:22 pm
Only the good die young...........stay strong friend, stay strong..........................AND BUILD TWENTY MORE JUST LIKE IT!!!!!!!!!

funny and wierd thing is,is that i started making plans earlier this week to make another very similar...i will build another almost just like it,but better i hope ;)....maybe this project will be my marshall project...well one of them ;)

if this was a selfbow it prob wouldve went to cus it was those pin clusters,not the boo ;)
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Offline k-hat

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Re: My #1 Is Dead
« Reply #10 on: May 18, 2012, 12:11:15 am »
Sorry to see that one go on you.  Also sorry to hear about the other stuff, and here I was thinkin that kinda stuff only happend to me ::)  Been one of those months round here!  Keep moving forward bro :)
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Offline Del the cat

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Re: My #1 Is Dead
« Reply #11 on: May 18, 2012, 04:41:00 am »
Yeah, but the wife is still ok? Right?
Tough one dude....
I got an E-mail last night which made me panic... it started saying 'Sad news, it blew up on me...'
It took a few moment to work out it was a newbie who I'd been helping out trying to tiller a bow (starting on a knotty Yew 110# warbow was always a big ask ::)) and not one of my bows.
Had my heart going for a moment or two.
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Offline dwardo

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Re: My #1 Is Dead
« Reply #12 on: May 18, 2012, 06:25:21 am »
"If you`re going through hell,,keep going" Churchill.

Sucks about the bow looks like a lovely one.
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Offline Pappy

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Re: My #1 Is Dead
« Reply #13 on: May 18, 2012, 06:49:04 am »
Sad but sounds like it had a good life, RIP.  :(   
   Pappy
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Re: My #1 Is Dead
« Reply #14 on: May 18, 2012, 09:12:45 am »
Looks more like a glue failure
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