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Offline david w.

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Re: Short bows
« Reply #15 on: February 07, 2008, 11:46:50 pm »
30# @ 16"

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« Reply #16 on: February 08, 2008, 12:44:47 am »
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Re: Short bows
« Reply #17 on: February 08, 2008, 06:40:11 am »
Yes it is Carp,It is about like putting on Rawhide.Lot thicker and stiffer than snake. :)
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Offline Keenan

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Re: Short bows
« Reply #18 on: February 08, 2008, 07:54:58 am »
 Wow, sure love all them shorties.  Pappy that looks like a screamer.  Keenan
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Re: Short bows
« Reply #19 on: February 08, 2008, 08:12:36 am »
It is a screamer but a little harder for me to shoot that one a little longer.Sean cool bow :)
now thats a short one.Here is the Hickory at full draw,nice in a tree stand and ground blind.
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Re: Short bows
« Reply #20 on: February 08, 2008, 09:17:22 am »
Pappy....where do you get the Grass Carp that are long enough to do a whole Limb??? We have Carp here....but not nearly long enough to use two skins to do a Bow
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« Reply #21 on: February 08, 2008, 10:51:11 am »
These came from Mickey Lotzs,but we have carp that big around here,I just haven't
went after them in a while.Now that I see how they work I plan to this spring while they
are spawning.  :)
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Re: Short bows
« Reply #22 on: February 08, 2008, 10:55:00 am »
Thanks Pappy. That looks like a real good bow for taking a turkey with also!
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Re: Short bows
« Reply #23 on: February 08, 2008, 12:26:56 pm »
Sweet bows everybody. :)  I've never made a shorter bow, but now want to lookin at yalls.  Hey Pappy, what are the dimensions on that hickory 54"er?
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Re: Short bows
« Reply #24 on: February 08, 2008, 01:06:12 pm »
Awesome!  :o

Great bows.......and I just knew there had to be a good reason to go carp fishin'.... ;D
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Re: Short bows
« Reply #25 on: February 08, 2008, 01:34:51 pm »
Its 1 7/8 to mid limb and then tapered to the tips.I only used a 4 in. handle just to save some limb.
I also only made the fads 1 inch for the same reason.It is a non bending handle.  :)
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Re: Short bows
« Reply #26 on: February 08, 2008, 07:53:19 pm »
Wow Keenan! Your bow looks almost exactly like Korean hornbow! Very nice and I still cant believe how you find wood with such shape, amazing!

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Re: Short bows
« Reply #27 on: February 09, 2008, 05:44:51 am »
Little Guava shortbow, 56 1/2" ntn 56# @ 27"







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Re: Short bows
« Reply #28 on: February 09, 2008, 10:39:47 pm »
This is fun!

Working osage recurve that bends in the handle. 49" and only backed with rattlesnake skins, pulls 40# at 27". First bow I ever built from a stave.

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Offline mole

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Re: Short bows
« Reply #29 on: February 10, 2008, 02:12:43 am »
Here's one that my buddy Bruce did with a little help from me.  38" sinew backed osage.  1" wide at the handle and 45# @ 23".  Buckskin handle wrap and beaver fur on the limbs.




Pulled to about 20".
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