Just one more bow!

[Badger]

   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!

[JW_Halverson]

You just go and tell yourself any lie that helps you sleep at night!

[Badly Bent]

    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

[Badger]

   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.

[vinemaplebows]

So what's the specs Badger?

[Badger]

  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.

[sleek]

Just one more cast before I pack up and go home..... < plenty of times. One more bow? Maybe on my death bed...

[Badger]

  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.

[sleek]

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....

[wizardgoat]

Nope! Not yet anyway.

[bradsmith2010]

perseverance is a good thing right???

[George Tsoukalas]

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

[blackhawk]

Nope...never done that  and I've never lied in my life either     

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

[Dakota Kid]

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.

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."

[bubbles]

I just want a long-lived, not-slow, durable, dependable bow of every style. Is that too much to ask!!