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Offline bowandarrow473

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Re: Osage shortbow 44"
« Reply #15 on: November 18, 2015, 09:08:59 pm »
I wear shoes because of the rattlesnakes and sand-spurs!  Either one can be a major buzz-kill if you're not wearing some good shoes!

Those don't bother me much (the sand spurs anyway) but rattlers are a different story, good thing we don't see very many in my side of the peninsula.
Whatever you are, be a good one.

Offline Badly Bent

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Re: Osage shortbow 44"
« Reply #16 on: November 18, 2015, 09:21:04 pm »
Great work on that short osage, killer looking bow.
I ain't broke but I'm badly bent.

Offline hartj57

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Re: Osage shortbow 44"
« Reply #17 on: November 18, 2015, 09:33:25 pm »
Those don't bother me much (the sand spurs anyway) but rattlers are a different story, good thing we don't see very many in my side of the peninsula.
You're a tougher man than me!

Nice bow though!  A real looker!

Offline Floridabowyer

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Re: Osage shortbow 44"
« Reply #18 on: November 19, 2015, 07:33:02 am »
Thanks guys for the comments!
PS. the barefoot thing started in my home state of WV as a method of counting past 10! However, I fit right in barefoot in FL:)

Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: Osage shortbow 44"
« Reply #19 on: November 19, 2015, 11:48:00 am »
What happens when you have to count to 21?  ;D Ok, no pictures of that! 

Sweet little killer. Eric, you are making some sweet little shorties. Keep it up and I hope this one makes meat for you!
"The bow is the old first lyre,
the mono chord, the initial rune of fine art
The humanities grew out from archery as a flower from a seed
No sooner did the soft, sweet note of the bow-string charm the ear of genius than music was born, and from music came poetry and painting and..." Maurice Thompso

Offline jimmy

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Re: Osage shortbow 44"
« Reply #20 on: November 19, 2015, 12:32:04 pm »
Cool short bow.  Iv'e been wanting to make a hunting bow kind of like that, for close shots.  I have one that is similar, but not as pretty and wicked as yours.  It's pretty amazing how hard and fast  those short bows can shoot at closer distances, not to mention what osage can handle.

Offline sieddy

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Re: Osage shortbow 44"
« Reply #21 on: November 19, 2015, 01:08:34 pm »
That looks like a little rocket launcher for sure. I find it it amazing that you can get such a powerful (and beautiful!) bend from a 44" selfbow. That Osage really is something else! :-)
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Offline BowEd

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Re: Osage shortbow 44"
« Reply #22 on: November 19, 2015, 05:13:22 pm »
Niiiiice shorty bow.Looks like it would work for a turkey from a blind if you ask me.
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Offline Floridabowyer

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Re: Osage shortbow 44"
« Reply #23 on: November 19, 2015, 05:59:44 pm »
I would love to try my hand at an Osceola turkey with a bow. That is a fantastic idea!

Offline sumpitan

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Re: Osage shortbow 44"
« Reply #24 on: November 21, 2015, 08:50:04 am »
Very nice! Museum collections abound with hunting bows around that length, so it's a proven design.

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