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Offline bow101

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What is your Favorite Bow.?
« on: May 27, 2013, 07:45:27 pm »
Primitive style bow, selfbow, takedown, laminate or otherwise....... ;) Post photos for all of us to see if you like..?
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Offline BOWMAN53

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Re: What is your Favorite Bow.?
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2013, 07:52:54 pm »
This is my favorite bow. Chased a ring on a hickory board. Simple bend through the handle 60# @ 27"  if my life depended on me hitting a 2" taget at ten yards(which i can do now) then this is the bow i would pick up.





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Offline Cardboard_Duck

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Re: What is your Favorite Bow.?
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2013, 08:43:19 pm »
It would have to be my bendy handled osage - I shoot the best with it, plus it is the first self bow I made.







It's 58" TtT and about #50 @ 28". It's only about 15/16" at the widest point
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Offline seabass

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Re: What is your Favorite Bow.?
« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2013, 08:58:50 pm »
nice bow Duck,i like the tips.i have to many to just pick one.i love them all for different reasons.great post though.
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: What is your Favorite Bow.?
« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2013, 10:09:39 pm »
My favorite is usually the one I just finished.
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Offline AH

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Re: What is your Favorite Bow.?
« Reply #5 on: May 27, 2013, 10:25:18 pm »
Quote from: Cardboard_Duck on May 27, 2013, 08:43:19 pm
It would have to be my bendy handled osage - I shoot the best with it, plus it is the first self bow I made.







It's 58" TtT and about #50 @ 28". It's only about 15/16" at the widest point

wait....that's your first!!!?? :o :o :o

My first was literally an oak dowel with twine superglued to the tips!! :laugh:

wow, to create such a bow on the first try...
thats it. I can't match stuff like that...I quit.....
wait. I can't. If I try to quit I just find myself back at the same place the next day... :laugh:
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Offline YewArcher

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Re: What is your Favorite Bow.?
« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2013, 10:30:50 pm »
48" of sinew backed yew. West Coast style.
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Offline Cardboard_Duck

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Re: What is your Favorite Bow.?
« Reply #7 on: May 27, 2013, 10:36:27 pm »
Quote from: Livefortheoutdoors on May 27, 2013, 10:25:18 pm


wait....that's your first!!!?? :o :o :o

My first was literally an oak dowel with twine superglued to the tips!! :laugh:

wow, to create such a bow on the first try...
thats it. I can't match stuff like that...I quit.....
wait. I can't. If I try to quit I just find myself back at the same place the next day... :laugh:

My first selfbow, before this I had made a few effenglass bows, and a BBI bendy handle  ;D  I think I just got lucky with this one  >:D
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Offline CORIUS

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Re: What is your Favorite Bow.?
« Reply #8 on: May 27, 2013, 10:40:46 pm »
The most recent bow i made. 62" ttt. 50ish pounds at 27". My third bow made from a red oak board.
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Offline AH

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Re: What is your Favorite Bow.?
« Reply #9 on: May 27, 2013, 10:47:20 pm »
my favorite has to be this one.
It was my first osage orange bow. 69", 55 pounds @ 28. my scale had originally said 45, and that's what I wrote on the bow's limb, but I always thought it was a bit heavy...then I used a real bow scale and got 55.
it shoots real nice, and I don't notice any handshock.
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Offline Slackbunny

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Re: What is your Favorite Bow.?
« Reply #10 on: May 27, 2013, 11:02:43 pm »
I've noticed that most of these favorites are coming right in around 50-55 lbs. Shows just how important a comfortable draw is.

Mine is a 55 lb at 28 inch maple backed cherry bow. Hunted a bit with it last year unsuccessfully, but now that I've got a rifle deer under my belt, this will be the only weapon at my side next season.




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Offline Roy

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Re: What is your Favorite Bow.?
« Reply #11 on: May 27, 2013, 11:28:53 pm »
My 1970 Bear Victor Viking Takedown.
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Offline Zion

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Re: What is your Favorite Bow.?
« Reply #12 on: May 28, 2013, 12:55:52 am »
probably my gullwing, i wanna make a better one soon tho.
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Offline H Rhodes

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Re: What is your Favorite Bow.?
« Reply #13 on: May 28, 2013, 02:52:18 am »
Quote from: osage outlaw on May 27, 2013, 10:09:39 pm
My favorite is usually the one I just finished.

Me too.   :)

 My latest is a 60" hickory D bow, 55lb @ 27".  A real simple stick, bends slightly through the handle, has a little over an inch of string follow, but really shoots nice.  It is a real contender for my hunting bow next season.  I have built several recurves, molles, shorties, etc...  but when it comes time to hunt, I find myself reaching for a D style bow every time.
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Offline twisted hickory

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Re: What is your Favorite Bow.?
« Reply #14 on: May 28, 2013, 09:13:43 am »
I like the snake skin backed one. It is 55 at 27. It has almost no hand shock and hits were I look. Point on distance with 29 inch cedar arrows is 48 yards. It is fast
Greg
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