Trad Gang
Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Cyclic-Rivers on October 28, 2010, 08:47:00 PM
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I was curious,
I have a heard of a few good names for bows.
I was hoping to hear some of your choices for names and why you have chosen it for the bow.
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All American woods, walnut riser, osage lams with maple cores.
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Originally posted by Spectre:
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All American woods, walnut riser, osage lams with maple cores.
Edited---pic totwotoo big.
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I call mine names all the time! I'm constantly shooting perfect arrows and the bow manages to steer the arrow off target.
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Mohawk Classic is Vango, Mohawk longbow is lil Bro.
HH Cheetah is Keeper Kat, Jess Stuart take-down longbow is Flower Power, Mudd's Sweetness.
God bless,Mudd
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No names for my bows. But it really is something that I should do.
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Nicknames??
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the long bow i built last winter .
my hunting pal gave it the name of the bearhill krippler. although it has killed the only deer i have shot at . so ha ha to him lol.
Scott
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My 72# Black Douglas is called "the beast" for rather obvious reasons :D
My 41# Black Widow has "The Gonghunter" on the bottom limb in honour of my dead friend who always called me a "gonghunter" coz I was always after the medals at 3D shoots... It gave me some mojo that's for sure, took all the indoor FITA records in Norway in the trad class last winter and won the indoor champs... :)
"My precious" is my Black Douglas ILF....
My 52" Red Wing is called "Little Wing"
My DAS master with Border Hex 5s is called Svart Magi... Norwegian for Black Magic...
.. but they are all called "b1tch" when I miss! :biglaugh:
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My Jeffery Royal Hunter is MEDUSA...for snakeskins I keep on her limbs.
no name for habu or robertson yet.
Joe Mattingly named the last bow he made ONE HOLER before sending to me...
I have a John Strunk also without a name....maybe in turkey season she will get one. :D
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yup nicknames, lol
I call my Shakespeare bow "shakey"
my Martin hunter I call "hunter" :biglaugh:
my first bow doesn't have a nickname
But my go to take down I call "tree" (greatree deermaster)
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Sometimes "Baby" sometimes #$%^&, LOL.
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"Dusty" ;)
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hollenbeck is the "widow maker"
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Well, there's the classic "Supertramp", my Bear Montana. Named him after a lost soul who trekked through America for 2 years before succumbing to the wilds of Alaska. My boyhood hero.
My Chaperral Kaibab carries the name "Wasiah", after the kind-hearted man who first placed it in my hands. Then, there's the Hill Halfbreed that I got from Vermonster13. It's proving harder than I thought to name; perhaps something will dawn on me this winter...
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my Martin is "Misu"
Kanati is "Bark Eater"
Ron W built bow is "Ressuerection"
my Keith Deiters bow IS NOT "Booger!!!!"
Joe Weed osage is "War Dog"
Mark Baker osage is "Simplicity"
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I don't name bows.... just like I don't name hammers.
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I used to have "Mountain Dew" put on a lot of my bows!! If anybody has one with it on, let me know!! Looking for a Robertson in particular!! Shawn
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yeah but Keith those tools you make do have real personality and should earn a name when the time comes!
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My bow is named 'Precious'.
It took me quite some time to find one that still loves me no matter how poorly I shoot her.
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My Pronghorn is "Silent but Deadly"
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Brock I had a Joe Mattingly bow he made for me called "The Two-Holer".
I ended up donating it for a fund raiser.
God bless, Mudd
PS: I don't know if Joe ever had a member number or not but I sure hope he did so he can be remembered in the new forum.
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"Ghoul Friend"
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my psa is "mojo" i had em put it on the top limb, it has proven to have plenty of it..
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Not very original, but my CM Thunderbird is "Osage under glass"
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I do have a bow called "noname"
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I named my Bob Lee Classic "Beau Bow" after my late pet Sheltie, Beau. He was 18 when we had to put him down.
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Well my go to bow is refered to as sl*t. She does it all.
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i named my Liberty Chief "Panthera tigris" after the scientific name for a tiger. it has beautiful tiger stripe myrtle lams on the limbs.
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Every one I've built has told me it's name. Latest one was red and orange cedar, named "Tequila Sunrise". Better than my first cedar bow, which was named "Out of the Closet"... you can guess where the wood came from!
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Just "Buff"
Have not named the twins yet ?
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My personal recurve is named "MILLIE" named after my grandmother.As a bowyer i really never got attached to any bow, for to long.Someone would always talk me out of it.Last year i went on a Oregon elk hunt.The day after i arrived, i found out, by a call home, that my grandmother, 90 yrs.old, had a stroke.I was devastated! There were no airports, near where we were, in eastern Oregon.The next day i made a call and was able to talk to her, in the hospital.She told me to stay,she would be fine and use that bow and bring her home a elk.While on that trip i named that recurve after her and now i have my own personal bow.She recoverd well and im happy to say we just celebrated her 91st.birthday.Very few 50yr.olds can say they still have there grandmothers.Im happy to say i do.Here is a picture of my SAFARI ELITE "MILLIE" RECURVE.
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I had Chad put the name "One Shot" on my Lost Creek NAT he made me in May. It is a tribute to my dad who passed away 2/4/05 at the age of 61. His nickname was one shot Bobby. Miss him the most when hunting- they were are closest times together.
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Althrough I have a deep love for my bows I don't name them,also because it is difficult to remember 90plus names!!
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My Van Normand longbow is "Corsair".
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My new to me Great Northern Bush Bow has earned the name "thumper".When there is a stump that needs to thumped, it gets the call.
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My new Bear A riser is called LAST ONE.
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My Zipper is "Hillbilly Deluxe", my Shrew is "Five-0h" and my Griffins are "Sweet Heart" and a long one "Death In The Long Grass".
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Great names guys.
I have "Dad" written on my bow.
Even though I am a 1000 miles away, this way I am always hunting with the one who has showed me the way of the woods. He and I traveled together to the bowyer's shop and with its building, rekindled his love for traditional archery and created another way for us to stay close.
I thought that someday I may give that bow to my son so having Dad on the limb will have a dual meaning.
I was thinking of calling it "Hoosier" for "Hoosier daddy" but I think its somewhat funny yet somewhat disrespectful.
Good names guys :thumbsup:
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I've taken to calling my Buff "Spot". She's pictured here with her most recent "Litter". :laughing:
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Well, there's "Nightmare" (nightmare to tiller but turned out to be my favorite bow), "Focal Point" (inside story of bamboo given to me by Dean Torges and osage given to me by Will Steffen), "Indiana Jones" (a trade stave with John Scifres), and "Physical Therapy" (a gift from Mickey Lotz for my dad to shoot after rehabing from a mild stroke) in the house right now. "Purple Haze" (purple fade dye job) lives up in the Northwest, last I heard. My first selfbow was called "Fancy Firewood". My daughter shoots a Dano selfbow that has yet to name itself. I still have a tollhouse stave from Timo that has yet to be whittled on. That bow should have an interesting name.
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I only have one that has a name.....in fact, Dale Dale wrote the name on it for the guy the bow was made for. It's called "Wet Dream".....I thought it could be for that shiny finish which makes it look wet......but then, I spoke with the original owner.....it had more to do with his "dream" combinations of woods (highly figured Macassar Ebony riser with Cocobolo stripe and Pacific Yew limb lams) that he requested from Dale.
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Kind of hard to make out the writing (lousy photo), but it's there........
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Sorry 'bout that....'puter problems this morning!
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My wife calls it "The Mistress" because I spend a lot of time with it and not her!
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I have also had a fondness for the name "Thunder Noodle"
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My Shrew is "Slice"
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My elk bow is "elk", super shrew TD. Pretty creative, I know.
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mine should be: "Uuuuuuuuugh!" :banghead:
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Bob Lee TD Recurve - "Bob-bow"
Bob Lee TD Longbow - "Lee-bow"
Bob-bow and Lee-bow... Brother and sister...
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i had a bow i used to call "dammit" cause i missed about everything i shot at with it.
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Ghostrider should be here in a few months!
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I've only named a couple of my bows. The others have not "earned" their names as yet. IMHO, things or inanimate objects must earn their names, not like you would name a child or a dog. For example, my Harley Davidson is named after a long time informant before I retired from law enforcement. Her name was Pearl. While her "private life" was filled with questionable morals, as a informant she never once gave wrong or misleading information and was totally reliable. The same is true for my 2002 H-D. Besides, I could NEVER throw my leg over something named Bruce and ride off into the sunset. :D
The first bow I named was a Jeff Massie forward handle longbow made from black walnut and hickory. It was and still is a sweet shooting bow. My wife's middle name is Sue, hence the bow's name became "Sweet Sue".
The next bow I named was also a Massie bow. It was one of Jeff's first few Longhorn models. It is all osage (riser and limbs with a strip of carbon). I've made more double lung shots with it than any other bow I have. It's "earned" name is "Hemothorax" or bloody chest.
I had another longbow that quickly earned the name "Thumper". I won't say who made it and for obvious reasons I no longer have "Thumper".
Several more of my bows are in the process of earning their names. But as yet, they haven't quite achieved that level.