Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Badger on March 27, 2015, 06:45:11 pm
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Has anyone ever told themselves they were just going to build one more bow. But it had to be perfect, take the best of everything you have ever learned and put it all into one great bow! I think I must have done this at least a dozen times by now but they never come out perfect so I can't quit. Maybe th next one!
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You just go and tell yourself any lie that helps you sleep at night!
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;D ;D yes, all the time!
Problem is I tell myself on occasion to take a break for awhile but I always have a couple bows in the works.
Well if they are already started they are just sitting there taunting you, begging to be finished. Of course I finish them and they are far from perfect but no problem because I already have a couple more started on and waiting their turn. And so it continues.
Signed,
Hopeless
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I built a bow about 5 or 6 years ago that really slowed me down. Not much to look at but seemed to do every thing I wanted from a self bow. Now I want to build a shorter one that behaves just like it.
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So what's the specs Badger?
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Osage bow, 66" long 50#@27". Same bow I have been using for broadhead competition at the flight shoots. Instead of wearing down it just keeps getting faster every year. I use the bow at 3 d shoots as well. Every year I have to scrape a couple of pound off of it to gain weight. Last year I had to shoot it at 27" instead of 28". Here is the distance it shot each year starting with the first 206 yds 211 yards 213, and last year 221 yards. This si the 500 grain broadhead shoot. I plan to take it back down to maybe 50# at 29" for next year and see if I can beat my own record again. The bow is not quite a recurve but has about 3 1/2" reflex.
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Just one more cast before I pack up and go home..... < plenty of times. One more bow? Maybe on my death bed...
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I think fishing contributed to my divorce. Sometimes one more cast would last 2 days. I just knew that one more cast would be the one.
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Yup.... I know what you mean... I have one more casted 3 solid days and nights before. Lived in florida, went out for the afternoon came back 3 days later. Wife wasnt happy but I smelled to bad, and was to tired to be yelled at. I couldnt even drive home. Had to have her come get me. Of course the next day I brought my rod and reel when I picked up my car.... got home 2 days later. If I lived in Florida still, id probably be divorced now too....
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Nope! Not yet anyway.
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perseverance is a good thing right??? :)
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The perfect bow, Badger? No.
But I've noticed that I shoot better if I don't shoot a new bow every year.
I build them for different reasons. I build them to win shoots and hunt with.
Easy to draw and shoots where I look. :)
More bows I do not need. More bow making I do need.
Jawge
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Nope...never done that ::) and I've never lied in my life either ::) :laugh:
Ain't it fun chasing the dragon 8 trying to make that perfect one is what drives some of us,even when we know it'll never ever happen. I'd like to think I'm getting closer tho. Just one or two more and maybe I'll get there ;)
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I have learned that perfection is always just out of range, which is precisely why I build the next bow. It might shoot just a little farther and finally put a solid kill shot on perfection once and for all. :laugh:
I've finally learned never to say, "That was the last time, and this time I mean it."
Now it's more like, "I'm definitely not doing that again for quite a while."
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I just want a long-lived, not-slow, durable, dependable bow of every style. Is that too much to ask!! :)
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I have a long range plan to make each one just wee bit better than the last and then right before I die, make the absolute best I ever could have.
I'm only 48 years old, so I procrastinate perfection. I don't want to peak too soon ;)
I was just out splitting some osage. I want to smell fresh-cut osage and shellac on my death bed. No better smell in the world!
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Haven't been there yet
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Mark, if I had one bow come out as good as your avergae bow I would consider my job done!
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It's got to be the wood that keeps me from building the prefect bow ::) sure it is ;) :) I just keep looking for that prefect piece, Haven't found it yet but have came close a few times. ;) :)
Guess I will just keep on looking. :) it's an addiction no doubt about that. :)
Pappy
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Im way too deep into this stuff to say that, unless my body says it first. Ill just switch to boards and power tools then.
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Im way too deep into this stuff to say that, unless my body says it first. Ill just switch to boards and power tools then.
You do that and we'll change your saying from Good Chris to Bad Chris
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Gary Davis tells folks that are interested in learning to build self bows " You can't just make one , or at least he has never seen it happen yet"
as for me I got over trying to make a perfect bow as a very young man building FG bows in a bow shop
" this one is gona blow the rest away"
walked away from archery for a spell then came back to the beginning ----- Selfbows
Just whittle away the time now no real intention of doing better
Just passing it on!!