Long time watcher first time participater, excited to join in this year!

- Draw length: 29"

- Desired draw weight within a 5-10 pound range: anything from 50ish lb - 60ish lb

- Right hander

- Whether you will be building a glass, wood, one piece, or takedown bow for the trade: I will be making a one piece glass longbow for my victim!

I'd prefer a glass bow if possible!

The Rainbow Bowmen of 1205 Baker Rd., Franklin, PA (NW PA) invite you to our annual Trad Shoot, Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-24, 2026. Once again we will have about 100 3D targets (mostly Rinehart) in 4 courses: Eastern Game, Western Game, Predator and the ever-popular  Broken Arrow round. Free on-site camping (beginning Thursday PM). Come for the day or the whole event. Door prizes and additional fun archery games. See our Face book page for more as the event nears. Our poster can be seen here.

Following this thread. Caribou is a bucket list hunt for me.

Quote from: evgb127 on January 08, 2026, 09:02:22 PMI always wanted to try one of your Follower Extreme bows Mike. It looked like a fine bow.  I have no doubt you could build a backset version that would be a shooter.  If I had the time I'd like to try to build one myself.  I've always been curious about building one with a riser in the center (not a traditional asl or a forward handle, but more of an English style).  I think Allen Boice built one like that, but it didn't get a lot of attention. There are a few pictures of Howard Hill shooting one though.

Here is a photo of one of Allen Boices English model. I liked it a lot but the poundage was too light for me.

Quote from: MnFn on Today at 08:44:20 AMNew bow day! It is a beauty; Bivouac Hill Jack. 50@27 66", got a little string follow to it and it is smooth in drawing. I havnt even shot it yet.

The only thing I asked for was Bamboo limbs with Myrtle veneers, and told Jim to use his discretion on the riser. I was going to go with gray colored glass, but my other two ASL's are  Northern Mists-a Sprague with brown glass and a Ramer with green glass so I thought why not splurge just a little.

Great looking bow- congrats!

New bow day! It is a beauty; Bivouac Hill Jack. 50@27 66", got a little string follow to it and it is smooth in drawing. I havnt even shot it yet.

The only thing I asked for was Bamboo limbs with Myrtle veneers, and told Jim to use his discretion on the riser. I was going to go with gray colored glass, but my other two ASL's are  Northern Mists-a Sprague with brown glass and a Ramer with green glass so I thought why not splurge just a little.

I started wearing glasses when I was in 4th grade. I am now 70 years old.
My eyes were really bad and I wore glasses most of my life. Funny things was into my 40's when a lot of my friends were getting glasses and some progressed to bifocal I heard a lot of complaints about the bifocals and how they would trip over things. It concerned me as I worked construction but when I did get them I had absolutely no issues. But no matter what glasses I changed to I never had any problems with my shooting.
Then in my late 50's I got cataract surgery and wow what a difference. I could see clearly at every distance except for very close where I use cheap readers for stuff inside of 2 ft.
Such a relief to not have glasses fogging up while hunting. No sunlight reflecting, etc.

Here's a few animals taken with a 62" mojo stick. This bow was built for Tom hackbart and traded back and forth between me and another buddy. Outstanding bow.

Just checking if we can still post on this thread.