Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: HoorayHorace on December 06, 2014, 05:43:44 pm
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What is your favourite bow to make and shoot? 8)
I cant really comment, as I've only done two, but I'm a big fan of the English Longbow.
Also like the Hill Style longbows too ;)
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Don't think I've made two the same,always playing around with design.will let you know when i'm done!lol!really though I like them all so far but I would lean towards a holmgaaurd / mollegebet. Design for their speed.
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All of them...after a 100 bows or so you really get the hang of it. ::)
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I think the mollegebet looks pretty damn cool. A hard build?
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I'm digging D/R's lately. Smooth and fast,fast,fast! 8)
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Short bendy handle recurves.
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I'm with you HoorayHorace, I've only made 2 successful bows but I like the ELB design, I like the way they shoot and the way they look. I'm hunting with a 72" long bow this year and it doesn't get in the way as much as I thought it would, I wouldn't hesitate to take a 74" bow hunting in my hardwood forest environment.
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Sinew backed static with spliced levers.
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Mollegabets, starting to like bendy R/D in them more than I like formed handles ;) not a particularly hard build, just don't go fast reducing the levers and make sure they're aligned.
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currently my favorite design is an R/D / Holmgaard
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Anything with character. The more the better (to a point). Like the challenge of finding a shooter in a twisted piece of wreckage. The design can be anything that fits the stave for me.
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An old school D bow is my favorite to make and shoot...simple but effective
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My latest! What ever it may be.
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Short and backed with sinew.
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Well, at this point, my favorite bow would have to be a walking stick. I brought home a branch from a downed Osage tree--a branch totally unsuitable for a bow--I have scraped off the bark and am seriously considering attacking the sapwood. 😊Meanwhile, I have temprarily laid aside the marked up a red oak board as too complex for my primitive brain.
But seriously, I THINK that when I attain some degree of proficiency, I am going to like building short, handy, unrecurved hunting bows.
Best regards,
Russ
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Simple bend in the handle bows, like eastern woodland bows are my favorite to build. I mostly build american longbows though.
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Any design that can stand up to the abuse from my tillering is fine. :o
My two favorites are hickory backed osage flat bows; a rigid handle longbow with 3" Perry reflex and a recurve.
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Bendy's are cool but I like a stiff handle flaty...around 64-68" I'm better with them...
Don
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After my little experience I`ve come to like the simple pyramid long-flatbow (66"-68"). Simple and effective design, easy to tiller. Can be either a selfbow or laminated.
My current shooter is a 40#@26" white oak backed ipe pyramid. Went out for a shoot in the woods last Friday...playing with a stick makes a grown man happy! :laugh:
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1.Mollegabet with very long skinny recurved tips(Inuit- style)!!!!
2.The old flightbow- shorties with strong and static recurves.
Michael
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Wooden bows ;D
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I'm with you, Matt.
Lately my favorites have been short, sinew backed recurves or with kicked tips but my all time favorite is simple, straight limbed selfbow, 60" to 66" at about 55#@26".
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I like my reflex deflex bows. I'm getting into recurves but having issues with execution.
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Yep what Matt said pretty much suites me also. :)
Pappy
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None....I hate making bows >:(
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You are on a roll today The Bad Chris :) :)
Pappy
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Only made 2 full sized ones so far. I really want to make a full sized Mollie. I also for some reason like the idea of short bows. I have so many I need to build. Good thing I'm young.
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I usually work on several bows the same time. I have no fav design. One day it is a static the other a sinew lined shorty. I do what come in my sense. Sometimes I work excessivly just on one like in a hurry, but the next day I have appetite on a complete different design. Meanwhile I have hundreds of well seasoned staves, so I can do what I want to do. That's great!
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Simon, it seems to me that you like making really nice bows. :laugh:
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I like Mollies, and I like making chin to nose-high whitewood flat bows and then flipping semi-recurves into the tips, until they just come out even with the handle.
For laminated bows, I like the standard hickory or bamboo paired with woods from as heavy as BL on up to ipe and bulletwood.
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Longbow/warbow, but mine are hedge not yew
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my all time favorite is the yew longbow build described in saxon popes "hunting with the bow and arrow"
best shooting bow ive made, was from that books directions
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My favorite right now is a short bendy handle recurve. Who knows what my favorite well be tomorrow... ::)