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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Squirrelslayer on January 24, 2013, 03:22:38 pm

Title: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: Squirrelslayer on January 24, 2013, 03:22:38 pm

have you got a favouirate bow? post it here for all to see!

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: Will H on January 24, 2013, 04:38:58 pm

Well it's hard to choose but I guess I would say "miss November" would be my favorite. If for no other reason than I won bow of the year for 2011 with it :)
(http://emob1320.photobucket.com/albums/u523/harrisonbows/photo_zpsb21e3157.jpg)
(http://emob1320.photobucket.com/albums/u523/harrisonbows/photo_zpsf430b824.jpg)

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: osage outlaw on January 24, 2013, 09:36:06 pm

I would say this is my favorite bow I have built.  It's not my best performer or shooter, but it is very unique and was a real challenge.  Besides the obvious hole in the limb, the wood was of poor quality.  My confidence went way up after I made it. 

(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/SDC14719.jpg)

(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/SDC14718.jpg)

(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/SDC14720.jpg)

(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/SDC14721.jpg)

(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/SDC14724.jpg)

(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/SDC14728.jpg)

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Post by: Dvshunter on January 24, 2013, 09:52:24 pm

This is gonna be good...

This one is tops right now. It was a very dependable bow this season and proved its worth a few times.

(http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss13/dvshunter/IMAG1323.jpg)

(http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss13/dvshunter/IMAG1129.jpg)

(http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss13/dvshunter/IMAG0953.jpg)

(http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss13/dvshunter/IMAG0942.jpg)

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: Red Tailed Hawk on January 24, 2013, 09:56:37 pm

(http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x438/lead955/JulyEnd2012071.jpg)

This is my favorite that I made so far. 68" ntn white oak stave. This was my first time flipping tips. Surprised my brother with this bow when it showed up at his doorstep.

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: Red Tailed Hawk on January 24, 2013, 09:59:12 pm

(http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x438/lead955/JulyEnd2012063.jpg)

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: Will H on January 24, 2013, 10:16:48 pm

I had forgot about that bow outlaw, man that one is sweet!!

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: osage outlaw on January 24, 2013, 10:57:17 pm

Thanks Will.  Coming from such a talented bowyer like you that means a lot.  It doesn't even compare to your bows.

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: Keenan on January 24, 2013, 11:37:24 pm

 Sweet bows,

 I remeber that one Will sure a beauty

Clint that hole in the limb is inspirational. I have one just like it for an OUTLAW!! >:D

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: bowhntineverythingnh03743 on January 24, 2013, 11:48:46 pm

First BBO bow I built 64 TTT 45# @28...

(http://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x344/bowhntineverythingnh03743/545920_3357774655811_1772177623_n_zpsce5658d2.jpg)
(http://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x344/bowhntineverythingnh03743/542980_3342904644070_1012344494_32451672_1135216130_n_zps2078f51b.jpg)

Chasing spring turkeys in 2012
Justin

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: sleek on January 25, 2013, 06:05:50 am

My favorite is one I cut of elm. It is my third bow I ever built and has served me these last 3 years very well. I cut the tree down with my K-Bar military fighting/survival knife, and made the bow start to finish with it. Not even sand paper touched it. I used the tip of my steel toed combat boots as the for to recurve the tips. This old elm bow has literally been my crutch to lean on  when I fell from a tree on year while hunting. I hit the deck, heard my ankle pop, and used the bow to help me get the 1/4 mile out the woods. The heck of it all is, a huge doe was in the field where I parked the truck.  SOB! haha, 1/4 mile into the woods, fallin from trees, and the deer are hangin out by the truck.

Here it is before I put the recurves in. I always tiller a bow out before doing those.
(http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i411/rocketernally/Hunting%20bow/0829102134.jpg)

(http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i411/rocketernally/Hunting%20bow/0829102133.jpg)

And after working on the recurves,
(http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i411/rocketernally/Hunting%20bow/0902100004-1.jpg)

Then the way it is now

(http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i411/rocketernally/Hunting%20bow/IMG_0208.jpg)

I love this bow, and would run into a burning building to get it. It is like my best friend. I know I can count on this bow for the rest of my life.

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: Pappy on January 25, 2013, 07:50:10 am

Nice looking bunch of bows. I try and build most of mine to shoot about the same for me,don't really have a favorite,I love them all or I don't keep them around long.
Alot of my favorites I got talked out of also. ;) ;D
   Pappy

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: Del the cat on January 25, 2013, 07:57:37 am

(http://i411.photobucket.com/albums/pp195/Del_the_Cat/Website%20stills/HJfulldraw2.jpg)
This is one of the nicest I've made.
Self Yew ELB, made from English Yew which I harvested myself. 40# ladies bow with silver rivet in the top nock.
Particularly dark Yew, absolute pig to make as it needed a lot of heat straightening.
My shooting fave' is 'Twister' Self Yew primitive, tillered to be smooth and sweet despite the twist. Point and hit... well mosty O:)
Del

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: Squirrelslayer on January 25, 2013, 10:03:06 am

wow. really nice bows guys. i really like that one with the masive hole in the middle. i guess if you follow the grain and tiller carfully it will work really well. nice ELB Del

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: Will H on January 25, 2013, 11:02:48 am

Here's another one of my favorites ;)
(http://emob1320.photobucket.com/albums/u523/harrisonbows/photo_zpsf70099eb.jpg)
(http://emob1320.photobucket.com/albums/u523/harrisonbows/photo_zpsb2cd41a3.jpg)
(http://emob1320.photobucket.com/albums/u523/harrisonbows/photo_zps05af5bb8.jpg)

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: coaster500 on January 25, 2013, 11:11:39 am

You have to be more specific.....  favorite??? 

What day of the week???

Some sweet bows!!!

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: Badly Bent on January 25, 2013, 11:13:40 am

Do we have to pick just one? :(
I have 5 favorites. I think it was Pearl Drums who said in another tread, "from my cold dead hands". Heres my 5 but if I had to choose just one it would likely be the middle one an osage bow 57"ntn & 57# of hard hitting durable killing power. If I were a better shooter   
it would have easily taken down a big racked Illinois 10 point I missed right after it killed the doe in the last pic. ;D
I'll likely never part with any of these 5 though.
Greg

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: Badly Bent on January 25, 2013, 11:19:26 am

Will, your bows are amazing!
What about 'Hot Lips'? ... that is one of my all time favorite  bows ever posted on this site.

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: blackhawk on January 25, 2013, 11:27:51 am

Damn Greg.....that osage is textbook tiller...I can stare at her curve allllll day long.....or 5 seconds before my pants get wet ;)

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: Squirrelslayer on January 25, 2013, 11:39:52 am

Quote from: Dvshunter on January 24, 2013, 09:52:24 pm

This is gonna be good...

This one is tops right now. It was a very dependable bow this season and proved its worth a few times.

(http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss13/dvshunter/IMAG1323.jpg)

cool squirrel!

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: Squirrelslayer on January 25, 2013, 11:44:44 am

again some awsome bows! i really like the ones with the holes in the limbs! they could be used to sight ann animal before shooting i guess. think you could make me one?

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: Will H on January 25, 2013, 03:36:25 pm

Man Greg I'm with Blackhawk, that tiller is stunning as is your finish work! And since you mentioned her... Heres hot lips :) I really do have a soft spot for her as well ;)
(http://emob1320.photobucket.com/albums/u523/harrisonbows/photo_zps5009f8dd.jpg)
(http://emob1320.photobucket.com/albums/u523/harrisonbows/photo_zpse6638f51.jpg)
(http://emob1320.photobucket.com/albums/u523/harrisonbows/photo_zps3c5f948b.jpg)

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: blackhawk on January 25, 2013, 04:23:02 pm

Man will...id love to kiss those lips  :-*    I'm in love  ;D

Wish I had a favorite to post,but none of mine can compare to any of those beauties

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: sleek on January 25, 2013, 04:25:10 pm

Hahaha, somehow, I doubt that BH.....

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: Dictionary on January 25, 2013, 04:51:28 pm

Badly Bent i love your bow styles. Screams Eastern woodlands bow to me. Simple,beautiful, and functional. What more could you want

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: Badly Bent on January 25, 2013, 06:35:24 pm

Ah come on Blackhawk you got some super fine bows, probably too many great ones to pick a favorite. What about those one and
two eyed mollies? that d/r yew? all those character osages? Bet you can't pick just one can ya. :laugh:

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: Squirrelslayer on January 25, 2013, 06:58:32 pm

WOW! will h. did you heat bend the limbs like that?

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on January 25, 2013, 07:18:40 pm

Mine is probably the hackberry sinewed static I built for a friend of mine. I only shot it a handful of times, it was smooooooth....someday Ill make my own.

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: Cloudfeather on January 25, 2013, 09:25:32 pm

I've only made a handful of bows, but this is my favorite. Many ups and downs, painted, stripped, snake skinned. I think she's just how she belongs now. Shoots like a champ too.  :)

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: PrimitiveTim on January 25, 2013, 09:36:29 pm

Quote from: Sled Huskin on January 25, 2013, 09:25:32 pm

I've only made a handful of bows, but this is my favorite. Many ups and downs, painted, stripped, snake skinned. I think she's just how she belongs now. Shoots like a champ too.  :)

Did you pull the burmese python out of the everglades yourself or did someone's pet snake die?

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: seabass on January 25, 2013, 10:50:31 pm

sweet bows guys.i have seen quite a few of them first hand.i am tring to pick a fav right now.it might take me a minute.my bows are mediocre,but i have some really great ones from friends.i will try and get some pics up in the morn.

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: coaster500 on January 25, 2013, 11:05:09 pm

Shootin wise it's probably this Yew I made for another trade....  shot real good for me even though it was tillered for a 30" draw.........

(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c210/coaster500/Bow%20trade%202012%20TG%20and%20PA/P2212323.jpg)
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c210/coaster500/Bow%20trade%202012%20TG%20and%20PA/YewTradeBow2012014.jpg)
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c210/coaster500/Bow%20trade%202012%20TG%20and%20PA/YewTradeBow2012001.jpg)

Here's Ralph (my trade victum) at full draw...

(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c210/coaster500/Bow%20trade%202012%20TG%20and%20PA/P2212337.jpg)

Close second would have to go to my ERC ELB

(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c210/coaster500/ERC%20bow%20project%202/NewtonversionofanELB015.jpg)
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c210/coaster500/ERC%20bow%20project%202/NewtonversionofanELB013.jpg)
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c210/coaster500/ERC%20bow%20project%202/ELDfulldraw003.jpg)

http://s28.photobucket.com/albums/c210/coaster500/ERC%20bow%20project%202/?action=view&current=elb005.mp4

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: Ifrit617 on January 25, 2013, 11:49:30 pm

Wow coaster, that yew bow really shows that you don't need to bother chasing a ring on yew... Makes for a cool looking back, that's for sure. This Osage shorty was my favorite until it lifted a small splinter at a pin knot after 5,000 shots or so. It was fast as hell.

Jon

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: Will H on January 26, 2013, 12:04:11 am

Man great bunch of bows here! Love that one you posted pearly! Don't remember seein it before...
Squirrel- I did flip the tips with a heat gun but all the left to right was natural snakey grain ;)

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: coaster500 on January 26, 2013, 12:09:41 am

Sweet speedster Jon...  don't know about all yew but that staves rings were tissue thin and so many per inch I couldn't count them!!!! Did make for a very cool back .....

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: Cloudfeather on January 26, 2013, 12:42:41 am

PrimitiveTim - Bought it on eBay. I'm hoping that they weren't ill gotten.

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: steve b. on January 26, 2013, 06:04:09 am

My first priorities with bows is how they shoot and hunt; if they happen to look good or takedown or something else then all the better.
I have better looking bows then this but none that are as smooth and handy as this sinewed osage elk bow.

(http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss327/SteveBush1/stave3-1.jpg)

(http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss327/SteveBush1/P1120462.jpg)

(http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss327/SteveBush1/P1110432.jpg)

(http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss327/SteveBush1/rdrawn.jpg)

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: nathan elliot on January 26, 2013, 06:28:05 am

(http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt139/nathanelliot_bucket/2011%20bows/046.jpg)
(http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt139/nathanelliot_bucket/2011%20bows/IMG_9112.jpg)
(http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt139/nathanelliot_bucket/2011%20bows/IMG_9216.jpg)
(http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt139/nathanelliot_bucket/2011%20bows/040-1.jpg)
(http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt139/nathanelliot_bucket/2011%20bows/037.jpg)

Yew take down 65lb.

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: Hrothgar on January 26, 2013, 09:33:57 am

A lot of great looking bows!

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: Sidewinder on January 26, 2013, 09:46:22 am

My favorite bow up to this point probabley has to be copperhead. 60" 50@27.

I catch myself looking at this bow and it quickens my heart rate....is that wierd or what?

(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg233/KsDanny/Osage%20and%20copperheads%202012/023.jpg)

(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg233/KsDanny/Osage%20and%20copperheads%202012/019.jpg)

(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg233/KsDanny/Osage%20and%20copperheads%202012/058.jpg)

(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg233/KsDanny/Osage%20and%20copperheads%202012/029.jpg)

(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg233/KsDanny/Osage%20and%20copperheads%202012/017.jpg)

(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg233/KsDanny/Osage%20and%20copperheads%202012/051.jpg)

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: PatM on January 26, 2013, 11:49:12 am

Still the original wood and sinew horsebow, but i'm working on some that should knock it down to second place.
(http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/pp78/pat_05/IMG_0886.jpg)
(http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/pp78/pat_05/IMG_0887.jpg)

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: stringstretcher on January 26, 2013, 12:12:43 pm

I am in total awh of your guys work.  It just totally amazes me what some can do with a piece of wood.

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: sadiejane on January 26, 2013, 01:13:52 pm

fav bow ive made is this little sinew backed osage. my first and only, so far, sinew backed bow
just shoots so nice and gives me "that feeling" when i pick it up

(http://i878.photobucket.com/albums/ab346/sadiejane9/bowmaking/DSCN0471.jpg)

fav bow i live with
this little bow made for me by gun doc outta a hundred year old osage post

(http://i878.photobucket.com/albums/ab346/sadiejane9/bowmaking/DSCN1857.jpg)

tho i do have to say, the very first bow i made is still the one that gives me pause and keeps me building

(http://i878.photobucket.com/albums/ab346/sadiejane9/bowmaking/DSCN73077.jpg)

sure some fine bows on this thread.
that's the other thing that keeps me building,
totally inspired every time i come to pa by the bows you guys make

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: Zion on January 26, 2013, 03:04:59 pm

Wow, threads like this really show the talent on here.

My fav bow that i would take over any other bow would have to be my apple longbow. Its so fun to shoot and tho it may be symple it sure shoots well.

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: 4est Trekker on January 26, 2013, 03:36:56 pm

Del, I love that fantastic ELB!  Excellent and timeless.

Hard to pick a favorite, isn't it?  I would take bits and pieces from dozens of bows and combine them for the "favorite."  Often, however, my favorite bows end up being the ones I learned the most from, that demand my patience, and that I can't wait to put my maker's mark on.  This one ranks high on my list.  It's an osage static recurve with osage/rosewood brush nocks and rattler backing that came in at 50#28".

(http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae321/isaacscr/Trade%20Bow%20for%20Eric%20Thieman/HPIM5288.jpg)

(http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae321/isaacscr/Trade%20Bow%20for%20Eric%20Thieman/HPIM5291.jpg)

(http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae321/isaacscr/Trade%20Bow%20for%20Eric%20Thieman/HPIM5324.jpg)

(http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae321/isaacscr/Trade%20Bow%20for%20Eric%20Thieman/HPIM5318.jpg)

(http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae321/isaacscr/Trade%20Bow%20for%20Eric%20Thieman/HPIM5310.jpg)

(http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae321/isaacscr/Trade%20Bow%20for%20Eric%20Thieman/HPIM5309.jpg)

(http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae321/isaacscr/Trade%20Bow%20for%20Eric%20Thieman/HPIM5327-Version2.jpg)

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Post by: killir duck on January 26, 2013, 03:42:20 pm

4est those tips are amazing! perfect in every way!

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: coaster500 on January 30, 2013, 02:54:13 pm

Wow some beautiful work!!!!

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: dwardo on January 30, 2013, 03:19:54 pm

I think this is my favourite. Certainly one I dont intend to let go.
Yew but simple no overlays sapwood from just under the bark. Only ever so slightly flipped tips.

(http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o218/dwardo/P1010014-2.jpg)

(http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o218/dwardo/IMAG0895_BURST002.jpg)

(http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o218/dwardo/P1010019-2.jpg)

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: Squirrelslayer on January 30, 2013, 05:16:34 pm

wow nice bow, and very simple

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: toomanyknots on January 30, 2013, 06:38:10 pm

I love threads like these.

Title: Re: lets see your favouraite bow!
Post by: Squirrelslayer on January 30, 2013, 06:50:00 pm

good to hear