Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: blackhawk on December 17, 2013, 05:33:54 pm
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Here she is all finished up...76" ntn...44@28",and 46+@29"....26.8 ounces mass weight....4 1/2" resting reflex(tempered in 5 1/2")...jicarillo tip overlays....and its a FIIIIIINE shooting machine 8) I know ill be shooting this one lots,and that's saying something if ya know me ;) im actually drawing this one 29" most the time as I am in the full draw pic...nuff said here she is :) n thanks for looking
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Plain and simple. how long did it take to make?
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Yet another great bow hawkster. I love the front profile, and the unbraced. :) :)
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Beautiful graceful profiles, specially nice bow there...
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thanks bowslayer...no clue...no more than ten hours for sure...its a simple straightforward build for me
thanks matt :)
thanks Donald ;)
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I bet that would make a kick ass broadhead flight bow. Have you shot it for flight yet?
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Boy that's a long one..........bet it's got some long skinny tips.
What is the max. width?..... my guess would be at about 1 1/4"
DBar
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thats one big mutha lol
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thats one big mutha lol
bigger the better ;) ;D
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Nice bow. You have made some big ones lately. :)
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I like them tall skinny ones. ;D I'd bet she's sweet to shoot. 8)
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Nice looking bow Chris.
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Nice longbow bh! That handle design looks very similar to the way I do my stiff handle bows, looks very comfy. :)
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Nice one Chris! I bet I could handle that one just fine :)
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I thought the one I just finished was long at 67 inches. Bet it's smooth and effortless to draw, and almost silent when released! Nice BH!
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you could call her sarah plain and tall and dead nuts on the ten ring
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Badger...haven't been able to let her rip yet...our weather trend here has been really crappy as of late...might be a bit before I can,n more snow coming tonight again...weather n holidays
Thanks Bill..good eye...she's 1 1/4" at the fades ;)
Will if you could draw it far enough you could ;) ...you should be able to draw as far as me,heck ya got a couple inches even on me :laugh:
Lol bub....good one :laugh:
And thanks to everyone else....she does have a nice comfy grip and is sweet to draw n shoot,and quiet too ;)
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Nice as always, Your going to dress her up now right?
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Real nice tiller, must be smooth to shoot. Now, tell me how you keep outer limbs from twisting on you with that much reflex, those skinny tips and those long limbs. I'd have issues with tip alignment and/or twist if I tried that.
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I like her better undressed Cody >:D ..thanks buddy....bout time we see a bow from you ? ??? We need a misslemaster bow fix ;)
Thanks Greg....the key is perfect string tracking thru out the whole bow from tip to tip,and good straight wood to start with ;) I wouldn't do this with character,snaky,or twisty wood...
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Oh I see, I haven't had any straight wood for a while. That red elm you gave me this summer though, now thats a clean straight piece and probably a good one for me to have my first attempt at real skinny blackhawk style tips.
I need more shop time brother.
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very cool
chuck
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Nice one! I don't think I'll ask to shoot that one. I'm not sure I would get the bottom limb tip off the ground.
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Uh oh! The handle looks like mine but why is there that huge gash in the side of the handle??? Doesn't that make it unsafe??? ???You an pearly messing up bows like that lately... Get in control of that drawknife! :o ;) >:D
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That handle looks beefy :o Looks sweet at fd
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Another great bow Chris. Like Pat said. I bet it's a joy to let that string slip out of your hands.
Cipriano
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I would like to try busting some nocks with that one.
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Well, I figure that one is not gonna fit in the turkey blind huh? Great bow as always. I've never made a loooong bow but I bet it shoots like a dream. suppose a guy could really give em run at the target butts with it. Danny
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Uh oh! The handle looks like mine but why is there that huge gash in the side of the handle??? Doesn't that make it unsafe??? ???You an pearly messing up bows like that lately... Get in control of that drawknife! :o ;) >:D
My sentiments exactly!!!
What's with that big gash out of the handle.....when you look at the rest of it you wouldn't believe you could slip up like that :o :o >:D >:D
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Long and lean,very nice work Chris. Looks cold up there. ;) :)
Pappy
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I don't care what the others say about that handle Chris, I love it! Nice job man. A lot of folks miss that "perfect string alignment" thingy. A few, I think, miss the understanding of how critical it is for any bow........Art
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Don't we all Greg ;)
Thanks chuck....I miss ya brother and your sense of humor :laugh:
O.O....I wanna see you n Steve try to shoot it...for my amusement and entertainment of course :laugh:
Haha bandit....I didn't use a drawknife to cut that gash...its called a band saw!!! >:D
Thanks soy,cippy,bob ,and danny ;)
Ya know mike that gash helps promote greater accuracy in a human error element world...and thats a fact ;)
Thanks pappy...been like this since early November here ;)
Thanks art....you got that right...its an important piece of the puzzle in making "great" bows ;)
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Such a waste of osage.............osage bows don't need to be over 62-64" long and you wasted 10" of good handle material.....not to mention gashed the side of it, or was that in the stave already?
Sweet bow man! That 44-45# stuff is fun to shoot.
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There is a bow that will last forever:-). Those limbs sure are elegant:-)
Although I dont agree with the shelf, I do see the point of having one.
I would love to know how it compares with one of your lever-bows?
Cheers
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Man oh man, I bet you could push some serious points with that bow at a shoot. That has to be SMOOTH. Gotta be the longest Osage bow I've seen to date, also.
I pulled down a thin piece of 'sage last night. It's wanting to be 1.25" max width. I think I'm going to give my self some room this time, the stave is 72". Hmmm, how long to go?
It's a super cool bow Chris. You'll be passing that one on to your grandkids, maybe!
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Uh oh! The handle looks like mine but why is there that huge gash in the side of the handle??? Doesn't that make it unsafe??? ???You an pearly messing up bows like that lately... Get in control of that drawknife! :o ;) >:D
My sentiments exactly!!!
What's with that big gash out of the handle.....when you look at the rest of it you wouldn't believe you could slip up like that :o :o >:D >:D
Oh come on!!!!!
That bow is alittle long for my taste but turned out gorgeous
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That is an awesome tiller! Nicely done, blackhawk. Jawge
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That is a sweet bow, but just imagine how it would shoot if it were yew >:D I love that unbraced profile. 8)
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Well done. Slick looking bow.
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Thats one heck of a targetbow! Me likes...including the "gash" ;D
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You know you could make it even longer but you'd have to get a wider garage door!
That's a beautiful bow!
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Nice looking Bow. I like the grip contour. I am a big fan of long bows, as I have a 30" draw..Nice work
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Amazing
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Thanks guys ;)
Holten this is a lever bow ;) just a loooong stretched out version
Joe i wouldve said the same thing not too long ago...I think the modern era bows(glass n wheels)has warped European descent/western culture views on bow lengths...my opinion is a longer bow is better period(to a degree of course),and to make a bow as long as possible for its intended uses for your draw length and weight...the pros of such belief far outweigh the cons of them AND the pros of a short bow both by a milestone IMHO ...I hunt exclusively from the ground in thick eastern woodland hill country,and my go to is 69" ttt overall length..I prob won't hunt with this bow(altho I bet I could manage it),and its made more for target shooting as I attend a lot of bow shoots and enjoy shooting for the pure joy of shooting ;) and in that sense the length for my draw makes perfect sense ;)
Carson I did make the same exact bow in yew last december if you can remember back that far....and I think I like the osage better ;)
And thanks again everyone else...always appreciate the replies...good and bad ;)
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Chris if you could please post one more picture/s of the area where the lever fades into the mid limb. Side view and and if you don't mind the belly of the same area. Thanks Chris.
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I like it! I like the handle. The tiller is excellent. Love the front fiew profile too. Long bows ARE cool! And THAT one is awesome!
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wow I bet that bow draws and shoots smoooooth
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Thanks arrowind and livefortheoutdoors ;)
John if the weather cooperates n gives me some lighting tomorrow i will...I can email em to ya if that's OK(easier for me to do that)
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Really nice. The Osage around my corner of IL doesn't ever seem to produce staves that long! ha
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Man I like that! Real nice. Is the myth busted?
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Thanks Marco...in my small book it is ;) and it shoots better than my "short" bows....lol :laugh:
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i'll get on Clints shoulders and shoot that sucker.lol
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See ya in may lil Stevie wonder ;) or maybe sooner? I'd like to see that,n u bet your rear I'm gonna snap some pics of that....both of ya together might be just as tall as the bow :laugh:
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come on now Blackhawk .....Really ...................
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consider it done Chris.if I can talk Clint into it lol.
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Outstanding. Shame that we dont have osage in central Europe >:(
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I made a comment on one of "Arrowind's" bows about how narrow he got his tips and he directed me to look at your bows to see a good example. I am in awe. How do you do it??
Beautiful bow by the way.