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Offline DavidV

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« Reply #15 on: June 11, 2015, 01:31:29 am »
Beautiful bow, looks like it'll continue to tell stories for years to come.


I would like to hear more about this masochist puting stands in osage trees though.
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Offline chef-d405

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« Reply #16 on: June 11, 2015, 01:54:24 am »
Nice bow man. Like the story too. I've always wanted to shoot a buck with a bow made from his rub. That would be some great irony :-)

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« Reply #17 on: June 11, 2015, 04:43:49 am »
Good story and good looking bow. Nice on both counts. :)
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Offline joachimM

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« Reply #18 on: June 11, 2015, 07:48:55 am »
Am I wrong to say that it hardly bends in the lower limbs, and that this design plus bow profile is hard to pull off with white ("2nd string") woods?
Maybe with elm

Offline PEARL DRUMS

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« Reply #19 on: June 11, 2015, 08:16:00 am »
Always a good story behind Clint's staves it seems! I happen to have a stave from gramps tree, hopefully it will measure up like yours Scott.
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.

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« Reply #20 on: June 11, 2015, 08:46:07 am »
Joachim, I'll be honest and tell you that I never saw the FD on this bow until it was finished. I tillered it in hand and shot it to feel. Once it felt right, I fell in love with it and didnt want to change it. After taking the FD pic I was tempted to get the outers bending some more, but ultimately decided against it because of how well this bow shoots. In this case function trumps design.

Thanks again!

Offline wizardgoat

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« Reply #21 on: June 11, 2015, 12:02:19 pm »
Nice story and cool bow !

Offline paoliguy

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« Reply #22 on: June 11, 2015, 12:52:53 pm »
That's a thing of beauty! Everything about it just fits.

Offline Carson (CMB)

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« Reply #23 on: June 11, 2015, 01:26:57 pm »
Very nice bow Scott! I like that subtle snakeyness with those copperhead skins. You did those gifts justice. Hope it makes meat for you this fall!
"The bow is the old first lyre,
the mono chord, the initial rune of fine art
The humanities grew out from archery as a flower from a seed
No sooner did the soft, sweet note of the bow-string charm the ear of genius than music was born, and from music came poetry and painting and..." Maurice Thompso

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« Reply #24 on: June 11, 2015, 01:45:20 pm »
I agree Carson, there just something about coppers on a snakey bow...

Chris, I'm looking forward to seeing your interpretation on the deer stand bow. I have no doubt it will be a looker!

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« Reply #25 on: June 11, 2015, 04:35:16 pm »
Well now....well....I guess it's ok  >:D
Is this bow making a sickness? or the cure...

Offline H Rhodes

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« Reply #26 on: June 12, 2015, 05:56:07 pm »
Awesome work.  That piece of osage was born to hunt as a child and to be a bow as an old man...  Pretty cool.
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Offline criveraville

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« Reply #27 on: June 13, 2015, 01:25:18 am »
Beautiful story and a nostalgic new bow. The hippo tips are over the top!! Joe, what's the story on the hippo? Clint has the best historical Osage. No doubt there.

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Offline PeteC

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« Reply #28 on: June 13, 2015, 07:34:13 am »
That's a beauty.I really like the way you used the exotics to build up the handle. Great bow. God Bless
What you believe determines how you behave., Pete Clayton, Whitehouse ,Texas