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Offline Cameroo

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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #45 on: March 15, 2011, 01:35:37 am »
Wow, this thread sure took a bizarre turn.  Funny stuff though :) From frog scrotums to snail snot to foreskins.  Can't wait to see what's next!
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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #46 on: March 15, 2011, 01:39:28 am »
please, not pictures of that last idea, or ill be sick :D
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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #47 on: March 15, 2011, 01:56:04 am »
Used drywall tape on a redoak board bow shortly after joining here - I was kindly pointed to Jawge's site ;D


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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #48 on: March 15, 2011, 10:53:48 am »
  I once used snapping turtle scales off his shell. I also used scales off a tarpon I once caught. Looked cool just real shinny. I also used carp scales. The strangest on different for me was a black mamba skin over leg sinew form a cape buffalo that I got in on a trade on a bow.
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Offline cracker

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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #49 on: March 15, 2011, 10:57:22 am »
Quote from: NTD on March 15, 2011, 01:33:28 am
Quote from: mullet on March 15, 2011, 01:29:25 am
I'm gonna make friends with a Rabbi and back one with foreskins. :D

You'd have to keep a harem of hotties around if you want full performance out of that bow....
If it starts to loose tension you could always rube it with viagra it should stiffen up and shoot well. >:D
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Offline Lee Slikkers

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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #50 on: March 15, 2011, 06:41:24 pm »
Quote from: mullet on March 15, 2011, 01:29:25 am
I'm gonna make friends with a Rabbi and back one with foreskins. :D

So would that be natural reflex or static recurve Mullet?   >:D

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Offline Pat B

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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #51 on: March 15, 2011, 06:57:29 pm »
...or give it to El D to sand for you. I think his arm increased 4" in diameter at the Classic last year after sanding and sanding and sanding and sanding and sanding and sanding his bow.
  I don't think I ever used a strange backing on a bow but I don't remember!  ::)
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Offline HickoryBill

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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #52 on: March 15, 2011, 07:03:56 pm »
Wow guys this is starting to get weird!!!  ;D ;D
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Offline Postman

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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #53 on: March 16, 2011, 01:05:34 am »
Quote from: crooketarrow on March 15, 2011, 10:53:48 am
  I once used snapping turtle scales off his shell. I also used scales off a tarpon I once caught. Looked cool just real shinny. I also used carp scales. The strangest on different for me was a black mamba skin over leg sinew form a cape buffalo that I got in on a trade on a bow.

Talk about a dangerous Bow!
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Offline david w.

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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #54 on: March 16, 2011, 02:15:56 am »
Whoa Postman, why would you ever give up a cannoli?
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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #55 on: March 16, 2011, 12:20:46 pm »
You guys are hilarious. i thought i was the only smart*** and I now realize that it must come as a side effect of the bow bug. I have no strange backing to report ...yet. I think the neatest was a sturgeon skin someone posted.    Danny
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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #56 on: March 16, 2011, 03:48:08 pm »
Finely ground various kinds of flint gathered immediately after the Tennessee Classic! Sprinkled onto a thick wet layer of tru-oil, then after that coat dried...probably a dozen or more coats over the top. Dogwood bow won BOM with!  ;) Took a deer with it the next fall, and then semi-retired it.
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Offline HickoryBill

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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #57 on: March 16, 2011, 04:02:45 pm »
Greg: When you say finely ground do you mean like sand? Or finer?
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