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Offline Del the cat

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Re: bighorn sheep horn bow
« Reply #15 on: September 16, 2012, 06:45:06 am »
Excellent, great bow, great pics.
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Re: bighorn sheep horn bow
« Reply #16 on: September 16, 2012, 09:39:09 am »
Nice job on that. From what I read about horn bows, it is quite a feat and that one turned out great. The arrows are cool, too!!
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Offline Will H

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Re: bighorn sheep horn bow
« Reply #17 on: September 16, 2012, 10:56:43 am »
Very cool bow!
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Re: bighorn sheep horn bow
« Reply #18 on: September 16, 2012, 11:08:05 am »
That was your first attempt at a horn bow?Very good job I'd say.You might be able to try to pull it to 25" on a tillering tree and I'm sure you thought of that.The speeds would probably get to 155 to 160 then.It should handle that.But it's your baby and I'd be very proud of it anyway.That bug damage was tough luck.It's a testament to patience and attention to detail.Sometime in the next couple of weeks I figure to show a bow I've been working on here with hickory,horn and sinew as its' components.Congradulations on your bow there.Look forward to seeing your next one.
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Re: bighorn sheep horn bow
« Reply #19 on: September 16, 2012, 11:33:57 am »
Very challenging project and it looks like you nailed it. The dogwoods are great as well.   Danny
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: bighorn sheep horn bow
« Reply #20 on: September 16, 2012, 05:36:17 pm »
I wouldn't even think about asking Chris how he got those horns because there hasn't been a season on bighorns in the Badlands National Park lately.  And I doubt any of the trophy's taken in the Black Hills (and very bloody few of those) didn't go to a taxidermist to get mounted. 

Those sheepeater bows are crazy.  Great work, Chuck, I love it!
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Re: bighorn sheep horn bow
« Reply #21 on: September 16, 2012, 05:41:22 pm »
wonderful set, you have made here. Very good tiller.
congrats!
please can you tell some specs about dimensions thickness /width of horn and sinew?

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Offline SLIMBOB

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Re: bighorn sheep horn bow
« Reply #22 on: September 16, 2012, 10:54:07 pm »
He lives with the Lakotas, so I suppose getting the horn might be easier.
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Offline Oglala Bowyer

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« Reply #23 on: September 16, 2012, 11:16:02 pm »
Sorry slim, we don't have the luxury of obtaining these horns that easily.  I've gone that route and gotten nowhere.  Unless...you buy them from the hunter who LEGALLY took the ram...like I did.  Love the bow chuck.  Soon i'll try my hand at it.
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Re: bighorn sheep horn bow
« Reply #24 on: September 17, 2012, 12:45:41 am »
Thanks again. These horns have been sitting around for a while. Like I say they had some weathering issues and bug dammage. I bought two sets of desert bighorn horns out here at a fish and game poaching auction. The bow is less than 1 1/4" at it's widest and 1/8" thick max. The sinew makes up a little more than half the thickness. I wouldn't call this a sheepeater bow. I tried to base it loosely on a Sioux bighorn bow miss labeled as cowhorn. These bows were quite popular with many plains, plateau and basin tribes. Not just the northern Shoshone
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Offline Josh B

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Re: bighorn sheep horn bow
« Reply #25 on: September 17, 2012, 12:50:51 am »
That is impressive!  I believe that i would be more than a little hesitant to cut into those horns as well.  Josh
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Offline Parnell

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Re: bighorn sheep horn bow
« Reply #26 on: September 17, 2012, 10:00:15 am »
Very cool Chuck.  I started one last spring and put it down.  I'm using Dall horn - One has a 22" curl and one 23".  Got'em cut out and kinda straightened.  Gotta get back on that project...
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Re: bighorn sheep horn bow
« Reply #27 on: September 17, 2012, 10:43:28 am »
Love it,great looking bow and arrows also,looks deadly.Very nice work. :) :)
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Offline SLIMBOB

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Re: bighorn sheep horn bow
« Reply #28 on: September 17, 2012, 10:49:44 am »
Oglala Bowyer....I would have guessed otherwise.  Thanks for the correction.
Chuck...Great looking bow and arrow shafts.  Friend of mine is friends with Chris.  I had heard that this bow was in the works.
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Offline Gordon

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Re: bighorn sheep horn bow
« Reply #29 on: September 17, 2012, 12:27:37 pm »
What a great set - your work is amazing!
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