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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Knapper on January 22, 2012, 12:34:45 am

Title: Yellow Jacket
Post by: Knapper on January 22, 2012, 12:34:45 am

I know I"m new to the PA community so let me say I should have joined years ago. Flint knapping lead me to serch out more info on the topic and I found a PA mag in a sporting goods store one day and joined the next. I've been hooked ever since! Enough about me here's my latest bow. It got it's name because every time I would warm the shop up to work on it yellow jackets would buzz my head >:( Osage, 43#@24", 67" overall, shoots great! Feel the sting ;D

Title: Re: Yellow Jacket
Post by: Knapper on January 22, 2012, 12:39:17 am

Took me awhile to figure out I needed to crop the photos to get them to fit. Some I wanted to post I couldn't :-[

Title: Re: Yellow Jacket
Post by: Bevan R. on January 22, 2012, 12:39:48 am

Very nice curve you have on that tiller. Well done.

Title: Re: Yellow Jacket
Post by: seabass on January 22, 2012, 01:03:02 am

good job,i like your handle.looks great buddy,Steve

Title: Re: Yellow Jacket
Post by: Pat B on January 22, 2012, 01:04:35 am

Very nice job on your bow. The tiller looks spot on. Are you drawing 24" in the full draw pic?  Looks longer.

Title: Re: Yellow Jacket
Post by: Knapper on January 22, 2012, 01:13:34 am

Actually my draw is 28" and the bow handles it well!though I have not checked the poundage at 28

Title: Re: Yellow Jacket
Post by: Pat B on January 22, 2012, 01:21:37 am

about 55#@28"    ;)  She sure does handle 28" well!  8)

Title: Re: Yellow Jacket
Post by: Elktracker on January 22, 2012, 02:58:34 am

Great looking bow and glad to have you!

Josh

Title: Re: Yellow Jacket
Post by: gmc on January 22, 2012, 04:49:05 am

Should be a fast one, well done.

Title: Re: Yellow Jacket
Post by: Dazv on January 22, 2012, 08:55:45 am

very nice i realy like this simple style of bow.

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Post by: ErictheViking on January 22, 2012, 01:20:14 pm

Great work.I like it

Title: Re: Yellow Jacket
Post by: Del the cat on January 22, 2012, 02:48:21 pm

Nice clean simple lines, not sure about the white fluffty bits. S'pose I could chase 'em around the floor... ::)
Del

Title: Re: Yellow Jacket
Post by: Knapper on January 22, 2012, 08:16:03 pm

I got the rabbir fur around the grip idea from a bow I saw in the PM articales , bows from the smithsonian. Exellent reading, love to see the bows and gear from the past. :)

Title: Re: Yellow Jacket
Post by: JW_Halverson on January 22, 2012, 08:50:32 pm

Those fluffy white bits remind me of them cute young gals that dress up as Santa's Little Helpers.  What can I say, I'm a dirty old man in training.

Nice work on this piece of yaller wood.  Mighty nice looking tiller, gotta be one of those all day shooters from the looks of it!

Title: Re: Yellow Jacket
Post by: Sidewinder on January 22, 2012, 11:14:36 pm

Looks good. Lays nice and flat after unstringing.  Glad you joined us.    Danny

Title: Re: Yellow Jacket
Post by: Pappy on January 23, 2012, 08:30:23 am

Very nice bow, Tiller looks good. :) Looks like a shooter to me. :)
   Pappy

Title: Re: Yellow Jacket
Post by: soy on January 24, 2012, 10:14:35 pm

This is the first yellow jacket I would like to see up close ;D great job

Title: Re: Yellow Jacket
Post by: Josh B on January 25, 2012, 02:41:31 pm

Well done sir! Elegant simplicity to be sure.  Tiller looks great.  Josh