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Title: Bow Of the Month entries January 2026
Post by: sleek on January 07, 2026, 03:31:15 pm
Place your entries for this month below :)
Title: Re: Bow Of the Month entries January 2026
Post by: WhistlingBadger on January 08, 2026, 12:11:32 am
Can we just declare simk the winner and get on to February?   ;D
Title: Re: Bow Of the Month entries January 2026
Post by: Selfbowman on January 08, 2026, 09:08:00 am
REALLY!!!! That’s going to be a tough one to beat!!🤠🤠🤠
Title: Re: Bow Of the Month entries January 2026
Post by: bjrogg on January 08, 2026, 09:45:07 am
Yeah it is a beauty. Good to have some stiff competition. I hope we can give him a little stiff competition to.

I hope to finish another one to enter, I don’t mind losing to a bow like that. Be even happier to lose to one better than that

Don’t give up before we start.

Bjrogg
Title: Re: Bow Of the Month entries January 2026
Post by: sleek on January 08, 2026, 03:54:28 pm
Well, its a tie right now among everyone who hasnt submitted a bow. So.... its neck and neck,, and anyone's game!
Title: Re: Bow Of the Month entries January 2026
Post by: WhistlingBadger on January 09, 2026, 12:33:28 am
Well, its a tie right now among everyone who hasnt submitted a bow. So.... its neck and neck,, and anyone's game!

 ;D  I'm still finishing my latest frankenbow, so it might be a February entry.  Or March, at the speed I get these things done.
Title: Re: Bow Of the Month entries January 2026
Post by: Robert Pougnier on January 09, 2026, 12:20:32 pm
I have a couple of bows I'm finishing this month hopefully. I'll post my favorite one! Other peoples beautiful bows  are great fuel to keep submitting them and putting in better work!
Title: Re: Bow Of the Month entries January 2026
Post by: superdav95 on January 09, 2026, 02:23:02 pm
I’m not seeing Simk,s bow anywhere here.  What am I missing?
Title: Re: Bow Of the Month entries January 2026
Post by: bjrogg on January 09, 2026, 02:26:14 pm
I’m not seeing Simk,s bow anywhere here.  What am I missing?




I don’t think he entered it yet but he recently posted ECHO 2.

Bjrogg
Title: Re: Bow Of the Month entries January 2026
Post by: jameswoodmot on January 09, 2026, 02:52:54 pm
My first bow of the month submission

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,73463.0.html
Title: Re: Bow Of the Month entries January 2026
Post by: sleek on January 15, 2026, 03:07:39 pm
Awesome James, thanks for joining in!
Title: Re: Bow Of the Month entries January 2026
Post by: bjrogg on January 15, 2026, 08:11:36 pm
I’ve been working on one, but I’m tillering it really slow. I have two inches to get it perfect. It’s been holding its profile amazingly well so far. It’s a wiggly stave I got from Arvin. I’ll see if I can get it finished, but I’m not going to rush it.

Bjrogg
Title: Re: Bow Of the Month entries January 2026
Post by: superdav95 on January 15, 2026, 11:58:17 pm
is the bow of the month category specific like it used to be or is it open?  if so i may have a bow ready soon.
Title: Re: Bow Of the Month entries January 2026
Post by: sleek on January 16, 2026, 12:55:47 am
Its open for anything primitive, including laminated as long as its natural materials. As soon as we start getting enough to justify it, I will split the categories like they used to be.
Title: Re: Bow Of the Month entries January 2026
Post by: superdav95 on January 17, 2026, 07:03:56 pm
Ive got this bow done now.  Its a korean horn bow hybrid.  the link below details the build process and some early videos of me doing some shooting and testing. 


http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,73074.0.html
Title: Re: Bow Of the Month entries January 2026
Post by: bjrogg on January 17, 2026, 09:16:09 pm
Now there’s some serious competition there Dave. Really, really nice bow. Thanks for entering it.

Bjrogg
Title: Re: Bow Of the Month entries January 2026
Post by: bentstick54 on January 18, 2026, 11:47:13 am
Wow. I had skipped over Dave’s build in the past as it was not my “style”. I sat down last night and started at the beginning and read through the whole thread. What a time and labor intense build. Very interesting. My attention span would never see a build like that to the end. Definitely stiff competition for BOM.
Title: Re: Bow Of the Month entries January 2026
Post by: superdav95 on January 18, 2026, 10:11:04 pm
Thanks gents!  Appreciate your comments.  This kind of build is not for everyone for sure.  I had a long pause after getting it braced and shot a little before I could get back to it after the move out west.  Thanks again for watching and your comments. 
Title: Re: Bow Of the Month entries January 2026
Post by: Doug509 on January 19, 2026, 01:30:13 am
Dave i second your amazing work.  Ive been watching your horn bow progress and just so impressed with how this one came together. 
Title: Re: Bow Of the Month entries January 2026
Post by: superdav95 on January 19, 2026, 02:37:21 am
Dave i second your amazing work.  Ive been watching your horn bow progress and just so impressed with how this one came together.

Thanks Doug.  Very kind.  Thanks for following along. 
Title: Re: Bow Of the Month entries January 2026
Post by: sleek on January 26, 2026, 01:18:27 pm
Im bumping this, we dont have many entries yet and the month is almost over.
Title: Re: Bow Of the Month entries January 2026
Post by: Robert Pougnier on January 26, 2026, 01:49:42 pm
There's a bow I'm just about to finish today or tomorrow (waiting for varnish to harden) that I plan on posting here.
Title: Re: Bow Of the Month entries January 2026
Post by: Tuomo on January 26, 2026, 02:19:46 pm
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,73499.0.html
Title: Re: Bow Of the Month entries January 2026
Post by: bentstick54 on January 26, 2026, 07:02:31 pm
Jog an old man’s memory on how to copy and paste my thread to this one.
Title: Re: Bow Of the Month entries January 2026
Post by: superdav95 on January 27, 2026, 04:12:35 am
Jog an old man’s memory on how to copy and paste my thread to this one.

If you copy and paste the link from the title of your post it should work. Make sure to copy the link not just copy. 
Title: Re: Bow Of the Month entries January 2026
Post by: Robert Pougnier on January 27, 2026, 03:10:17 pm
Here is my entry for january BOM

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,73497.0.html
Title: Re: Bow Of the Month entries January 2026
Post by: Selfbowman on February 02, 2026, 11:25:06 am
So when do we vote!!!!!

Oh man, im slacking! Let me set that up right now!