Ol' Buck, for those who don't know, came to me in a trade in 1989. It's a 1940's lemonwood longbow, 68", 48#, backed with a Fortisan-like material...perhaps even clarified calfskin. The bow itself is pretty amazing on several levels; mainly because it's still shooting to this day, even with a few incidental fractures and subsequent wrappings, but also due to the mystery of where it came from and it's history before I got it.
I hunted with it first time in 1992 and took a nice seven point whitetail buck on the first morning of the hunt. Since then, it has traveled for six years from 2006 to 2012 all over the contiguous US and survived that as well as took some wild hogs and a doe or two along the way.
Anyway, this is my 30th year of hunting with it and it still shoots just fine, although it's lost a few pounds from 52# to 48# over those years. I take it out at least once or twice a year, sometimes more often for deer and small game and it, like the proverbial Timex, takes a licking and keeps on ticking. Here's a photo of my old friend and partner.
