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Offline IndianGuy

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Sheep horn sinew backed Indian bow (pic Heavy)
« on: March 01, 2013, 12:07:27 am »
Well HELLLLLOOOOOOO fellas!
Hope all is well with everyone I stopped in to share a few pics of my latest project, I have two of these bows going and this one is finished. Its sheep horn with five layers of elk leg tendon sinew backing. The bow is 37 1/4" long and has a 20" draw length. I painted the sinew black and the tips a vermillion red...sure like the red and black combo. 8)
the bow is very suprisingly fast and silent, little hand shock but does have some finger pinch. :-\
I am taking it to a friends tomorrow to get a draw weight but am guessing 44-46 pounds. Im sure it will gain as the sinew continues to cure over the next few months, I was hoping for a 50 pounder! These bows are very time consuming and horns are hard to come by, I got lucky and got a few sets from a taxidermist. The arrows are dogwood with barrell hoop iron points, double grooved and sinew wrapped.

Take care and shoot em if ya got em.

Eric
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Re: Sheep horn sinew backed Indian bow (pic Heavy)
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2013, 12:12:53 am »
A few more pics of sheep horn bows.
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Offline LEGIONNAIRE

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Re: Sheep horn sinew backed Indian bow (pic Heavy)
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2013, 12:58:10 am »
Wow thank you for sharing.
must have been incredibly time consuming to geet that twist out as well as to cut them horns. Did you do it by hand?
I cut some water buffalo horns by hand once and took like 3 hours a piece with a hack saw.
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Offline Arrowind

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Re: Sheep horn sinew backed Indian bow (pic Heavy)
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2013, 01:03:01 am »
Very cool!
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Re: Sheep horn sinew backed Indian bow (pic Heavy)
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2013, 01:36:18 am »
Nice work Eric! I got the bighorn bug a while back too.
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Re: Sheep horn sinew backed Indian bow (pic Heavy)
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2013, 01:52:58 am »
Another fantastic bow!   ;D 8)
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Offline raghorns

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Re: Sheep horn sinew backed Indian bow (pic Heavy)
« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2013, 03:29:22 am »
Wow! Love the pic of the draw....great job.

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Re: Sheep horn sinew backed Indian bow (pic Heavy)
« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2013, 05:36:46 am »
Oh man, I'd sure like to feel one of those in my paws.
Great bend, looks great with those arrows too.
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Re: Sheep horn sinew backed Indian bow (pic Heavy)
« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2013, 06:43:33 am »
Beautiful bow,very nice work as we have come to expect from you. :)
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Re: Sheep horn sinew backed Indian bow (pic Heavy)
« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2013, 07:26:26 am »
AWESOME!!!!!!! Love it.... :) .nice work Eric..
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Sheep horn sinew backed Indian bow (pic Heavy)
« Reply #10 on: March 01, 2013, 07:30:59 am »
Incredible bow Eric.  I was hoping you would start posting your bows again.
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Re: Sheep horn sinew backed Indian bow (pic Heavy)
« Reply #11 on: March 01, 2013, 08:34:51 am »
Very cool Eric.
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Re: Sheep horn sinew backed Indian bow (pic Heavy)
« Reply #12 on: March 01, 2013, 09:03:30 am »
Sweet looking weapon!
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Re: Sheep horn sinew backed Indian bow (pic Heavy)
« Reply #13 on: March 01, 2013, 09:06:26 am »
Congratulations on finishing her.Looks great.
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Offline JonW

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Re: Sheep horn sinew backed Indian bow (pic Heavy)
« Reply #14 on: March 01, 2013, 09:44:37 am »
Man I like that!! Thanks for posting.
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