Favorite bow design for hunting?

[punch]

I want to build a new bow primary use is hunting.   I was thinking of building a molly or a bendy handle D bow. I have never made either of those. So I was wondering what your favorite hunting bow is. List the wood, design and a photo would be awesome. I am looking at Hackberry,  hickory and Osage staves or red oak and hickory lumber.

[RyanR]

A flatbow design 64" to 66" either HHB or Osage.

[JW_Halverson]

I'm a nutter for a bendy D.

[bubby]

It's the bow in my hand when I head out the door, bendy, short, long, static, if it's well made it's a shooter

[PatM]

Hard to beat a Grumley style static for close work in brush. I wish I had access to Osage to make a really authentic one.
 

[Aaron H]

That's a sweet bow Pat, what is the performance like with all that extra weight on the outer limbs?

[PatM]

The performance is still high and the design seems to pay for the extra mass with little trouble. A lot of weight reduction can be done by making the tips very narrow and grooving the sides of the tips. The added on belly section can also be made of the lightest wood possible.
 It also helps if the draw weight is higher which was generally the case in the original bows.

[Scallorn]

I like the basic bendy handle bows. As simple as you can get it

[huisme]

These are my two intended hunting bows, one for large game and one for small. Both black locust, details lie within

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,49241.msg672094.html#msg672094

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,48339.msg660090.html#msg660090

[half eye]

short, bendy, usually Eastern Woodland NA types.....48" to 54" and weights between high 40's and mid 50's at 25-26 inches of draw. I do make them shorter but still in that weight range but am not totally proficient yet with the real short draw lengths.

here are few
rich

[Buckeye Guy]

Selfbow 68 inches  long and high40 to low 50s  no bendy handle for me but shoot off my hand

[Hrothgar]

62" osage stick.

[kleinpm]

I like a 60" bow with a slight bend in the handle, about 60 lbs at 26".

 I have found that things get stuck between the bow and the string at the curve in the bow when I use a recurve.

Patrick

[PatM]

 I have found that things get stuck between the bow and the string at the curve in the bow when I use a recurve.

Patrick

That's what these are for.
 

[steve b.]

Something heavy for stability.
Something not too long but not too short.
Something that flings an arrow quietly, usually a longbow.
Something that is the heaviest poundage that I can shoot accurately for one or two shots.
Ideally a takedown.