Update. Been busy bowhunting and duckhunting these last few weeks, plenty of ducks but no deer in the freezer. Well, there is one but its a roadkill doe I cut up. Yes I am a redneck. My wife actually saw it laying on the road and called me. She likes deer jerky. Yes she is a redneck too.
I did apply silk over the sinew on the composite bow, and painted that black. It looks OK, I still want to decorate it more than this. And I need to wrap the handle/fades with cord or something, possibly put a leather handle wrap over that. When this will get done, I am not sure.
I am writing though, to tell you that the bow has already been blooded. MY friend came over last night to put a leather handle on an osage bow I helped him make for his dad. After we did that, and made a new string for it, we went outside to shoot a few arrows. I took the composite bow along. It was dark except for the porch light but I spied a couple of rabbits in the back yard. I happened to have a broadhead arrow in my quiver so I shot at one of the rabbits and killed it. About a fifteen yard shot, nothng special but I was proud and having a witness was cool too. I had rabbits in my garden all summer, raiding my green beans. So this was an act of revenge.
