longbow tough

[BowHuntingFool]

Yeah I was shooting a 620 grain arrow and pulling 50#, the arrow hit where I was looking, a real shooter. I killed my first buck with it last year, its in my Avatar. I put a Bobby Graham string on it, hush puppies and a leather lace up grip and will never sell this bow!

[trashwood]

apex - lol the guy that uses his longbow to kill a snake is the guy that needs more short yardage practice.  

rusty

[Ceb]

My go to bow is a 64" 64@27" longbow I built in 1992. All Osage. At the time I used materials I would not use in anyone elses bow. Glass had some cracks I could hide under the tip overlays, and the lams had some bad spots. It has spent most of its life strung and much of it standing in a corner if I wasn't huntin or shooting. I have dropped it out of trees and it once slid down a good bit of mountain side. Its been dry fired a couple of times and I'll even admit to throwing it once when I took out my lack of shooting skills on it. Its a great bow, I start my eighteenth season with her on Thursday.

[Wapitidung]

Hill style, straight grip.  Sure hard to beat.

[Doug S]

I too have a special longbow I made yrs ago. It's been all over the world with me. I have probably thrown it out of 30+ tree's over the years. Usually after I killed something and was anxious to get down. I always look for a bush or softer spot if I can when I make the toss. Its been refinished 4-5 times and is mostly retired now. Maybe 60 or so big critters to it's credit.
Great tools, longbows.

Doug

[bmb]

all great stories guys....seems like these longbows have long lives.

[Dave Bulla]

bmb asked, "hey mr. bulla, the bow your speaking of...is it a montana?"

No, it isn't.  It's a Lonetree Ocelot made by a Mr. Castoe out of Oklahoma who has gone on to the happy hunting grounds.  Looking at it, you'd not think it was such a tough bow.  It's got slim tips and lots of reflex/deflex (kinda hybrid style).  Like the other guy who had his come off the truck and get run over, it's got a couple dings in the edges of the limbs but that's about it.

I tell ya, between modern glues and the longbow's inherently simple design, it's no wonder these bows are so rugged.

[David Lewis]

I left my Ferguson Patriot leaning against my truck after a shoot, loaded everything else in and left... backing over the bow in the process (gravel parking lot). Luckly a buddy saw what happend a picked it up for me.
 No worse for wear other then a small ding in the riser.

[marlon]

I was flightshooting 125#. shooting 400 grain arrows and had nocks busted nothing happens to the bow.

[Dave Bulla]

Just had to add the latest chapter to the saga of my "tough" longbow....

Yesterday, after my hunt, I leaned my bow against the side of my truck and unpacked all my stuff.  Then I drove off and went home.

Turns out, I left the bow leaning against the truck and when I backed out, I cut the wheels to the left to turn and drove over my bow with a '98 Expedition.  Didn't know it and went on home.  Figured it out this morning when I was getting ready to walk away from the truck to go hunt and realized my bow wasn't there!  Panic mode all day for sure.  Finally got a call this evening from the guy who found it and got it back.  It was still strung but I drove over the top limb for about half it's length in a hard packed gravel parking lot.  There are a couple dings and two small splintered spots on the edges about 1/8" by 1/4" and a good ding in the wood of one limb edge.  Lots of white marks in the upper limb but I don't THINK they go into the glass.  I'll have to check by sanding the finish off.  I pulled the bow to my full draw of 32" and it pulled normal but I don't intend to shoot it until I get some super glue in the splinters and clamp them down.  I expect I've got a lot more arrows to fling with her.

THAT'S TOUGH!!!

[high mountain]

I dropped my recurve out of my stand the other day.
I watched as it fell 15 feet...did a complete flip, and landed perfectly upright on a large flat rock.
This obviously caused the bottom limb to load up..and shot it off like a spring several feet away.

Climbed down, picked her up, checked her over, pulled her a few times...and climbed back up and continued hunting.

Im sure my curve is tough enough...but it could NEVER withstand the abuse you guys have put your longbows through!