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Title: Bowyer's Bible Volume 2-- Choctaw Bow Picture
Post by: Mad Max on May 28, 2017, 05:49:15 pm
Page 52
56-1/4"long Osage
Handle is 1-7/16" wide, 7/8" thick
1/3rd up from handle is 1-5/8" wide, 3/4" thick
at nock 1" wide, 9/16" thick

3/4" thick doesn't seem right???

(http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/b593/osagemark/snakey%20osage/100_1064.jpg) (http://s1293.photobucket.com/user/osagemark/media/snakey%20osage/100_1064.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Bowyer's Bible Volume 2-- Choctaw Bow Picture
Post by: upstatenybowyer on May 28, 2017, 07:43:08 pm
They do say thicker is quicker with osage. Do they give the draw weight?
Title: Re: Bowyer's Bible Volume 2-- Choctaw Bow Picture
Post by: PatM on May 28, 2017, 08:36:48 pm
Matches the taper.
Title: Re: Bowyer's Bible Volume 2-- Choctaw Bow Picture
Post by: Mad Max on May 28, 2017, 09:07:47 pm
no draw weight
Title: Re: Bowyer's Bible Volume 2-- Choctaw Bow Picture
Post by: Dakota Kid on May 28, 2017, 10:13:11 pm
From the unstrung side view it looks heavily deflexed, which I would imagine comes into play in this scenario.
Title: Re: Bowyer's Bible Volume 2-- Choctaw Bow Picture
Post by: upstatenybowyer on May 28, 2017, 10:52:36 pm
Quote from: Dakota Kid on May 28, 2017, 10:13:11 pm
From the unstrung side view it looks heavily deflexed, which I would imagine comes into play in this scenario.

makes sense
Title: Re: Bowyer's Bible Volume 2-- Choctaw Bow Picture
Post by: Mad Max on May 28, 2017, 11:19:05 pm
I missed that
Thanks guy's
Title: Re: Bowyer's Bible Volume 2-- Choctaw Bow Picture
Post by: Eric Garza on May 29, 2017, 09:02:57 pm
Might have been carved from green wood, hence the deflex and the need to make it so thick in order to get a reasonable draw weight.
Title: Re: Bowyer's Bible Volume 2-- Choctaw Bow Picture
Post by: bradsmith2010 on May 30, 2017, 01:04:35 am
someone could have left it strung,, for 10 years or something,, :)
Title: Re: Bowyer's Bible Volume 2-- Choctaw Bow Picture
Post by: Dakota Kid on May 30, 2017, 03:05:45 am
It may have been intentionally built to withstand long periods of being strung. My current hunting bow was built with some deflex for that very reason.
Title: Re: Bowyer's Bible Volume 2-- Choctaw Bow Picture
Post by: PatM on May 30, 2017, 08:26:24 am
When are people going to stop imparting design techniques to bows of the past? lol  It really probably just has straight up set from either being shot in while a bit green, used in high humidity or left strung for years.