-------------------- Bowhunting is a passion, not an obsession. Its just hard for my wife to tell the difference sometimes. Posts: 389 | From: Douglass, Kansas | Registered: Oct 2008
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Selfbows only. Anything less, would be uncivilized. I'm going in September. I'll have a 55-60 pounder, depending on what I make or take.
-------------------- "There is a natural mystic flowing through the air; if you listen carefully now you will hear." Bob Marley Posts: 2886 | From: O' Fallon, MO | Registered: Feb 2008
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Okay....I'll put a couple up. Just to elaborate...I hunt everything with selfbows or primitive style bows for the last two plus decades with few exceptions. So every year I craft new bows, picking out the ones I want to hunt with. I make them all in the 65 to 75 lb range at our draw....so I don't have to worry about new arrows each year! My boys have just recently taken to selfbows....though have shot them as well, most of their lives. This past year has seen them getting into making their own selfbows and shooting them. They like the same specs as I do. It works for us.
This elk was taken by my son Kory a few years ago with a 58 inch osage selfbow I made, he borrowed. It's a dandy bull.
This cow I took quite a while back with a hick-backed maple board bow....before I had good access to osage. Taken in January during a late hunt for bowhunters....that does'nt exist anymore since the wolves moved in.
Somewhere I have a pic of a bull Doug Campbell shot with a bamboo backed osage bow and a stone point, I believe.... but I'm not sure where.
-------------------- My head is full of wanderlust, my quiver's full of hope. I've got the urge to walk the prairie and chase the antelope! - Nimrod Neurosis Posts: 1901 | From: Livingston, Montana | Registered: Mar 2003
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got my strunk today love it 56 # a little light maybe , but I am going to use 600-650grn arrows and keep shot inside of 20yrds use a super sharp len fisher broadhead and hit em in the lungs.
-------------------- bezaleel bow works schafer howatt Posts: 405 | From: washington state | Registered: Sep 2007
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Shot a satellite bull 5x5 with a QUARTERMOON LONGBOW made by Bert Frelink all wood bamboo backed bow....( bamboo back osage belly ) in 2006... 57 # at my draw (58" bow) laminated birch arrow two blade 620 grain arrow...friend called him in to 13 yards.... not a selfbow but as close as it gets....being an all wood bow...
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I hunt with the selfbows I make. I have only taken one elk, a couple of blacktail and one mule deer. It is not the bows fault that I haven't taken more. Its more my hunting.
That is a 93# osage with rattlesnake skin. No shelf. The same bow is 2nd from the bottom.
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Posts: 150 | From: Blaine, Wa | Registered: Aug 2003
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alot of weight there Big Archer...nice elk.... hope your shoulders hold up with that poundage....I.m 54 now.... going lighter..heaviest I ever shoot is about 65# but prefer about 55 now....try and keep it there for another 10 years....
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-------------------- The American system of democracy will prevail until that moment when politicians discover that they can bribe the electorate with their own money Posts: 4497 | From: San Luis Obispo, California | Registered: Mar 2009
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This pic was taken at the head of Salt Creek Trail(about 10,000') in the San Joan Mountains of S W Colorado. The bow on the left is "Elkie" a sinew backed osage bow I made for my first elk hunting trip along Salt Creek. I gave this bow to Kenneth after our hunt. The other bow with the choke cherry bark backing is an osage static recurve selfbow I made for my last hunt. I had to remove the sinew from Elkie because of problems it was having and when I sent it back to Kenneth it was a selfbow with rawhide backing. These were out primary hunting bows last Sept when we went back to Salt Creek, both pulling 56#@26"(Kenneth pulls 29").
-------------------- Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes! TGMM Family of the Bow Posts: 10078 | From: Brevard, NC. | Registered: Apr 2003
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-------------------- In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's there are few...So the most difficult thing is always to keep your beginner's mind...This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner. Shunryu Suzuki Posts: 9313 | From: tribes hill , new york | Registered: Jan 2008
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