Someone asked me if I could build them the little Crow sheep horn bow in the encyclopedia Volume 2. I did not have a single horn long enough for the 30.5" bow, so I lap spliced two horns and glued and riveted the splice with copper. The other reason I say almost replica is the tips have a little of the horns natural recurve and the real thing did not. Other than that the measurements are almost exact, the thickness is slightly less after tillering. The real bow must have been 70-80# at 17" draw.
The bow is just over 30" tip to tip and 29" n to n. It has a draw of 65# @ 15". I hoped to get the draw to at least 17" like the last one I made this size, but it stacks so much at 15" I'm not willing to test it further. The real bow had no non bending 3.8" splice in the handle and was probably drawn further.
I tested it with a 23" cedar target arrow of 340 grains. All the shots were between 142 and 151 fps. not bad for a 15" draw. I call this a sidearm bow.
6 layers of elk sinew backing and a 3 ply deer sinew string.
