Does your bow have a name?

[Tom Leemans]

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.

[hayslope]

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.

 

Kind of hard to make out the writing (lousy photo), but it's there........

 

[hayslope]

Sorry 'bout that....'puter problems this morning!

 

[Airborne]

My wife calls it "The Mistress" because I spend a lot of time with it and not her!

[Airborne]

I have also had a fondness for the name "Thunder Noodle"

[Mike Gerardi]

My Shrew is "Slice"

[kadbow]

My elk bow is "elk", super shrew TD.  Pretty creative, I know.
 

[BobW]

mine should be: "Uuuuuuuuugh!"  

[ThePushArchery]

Bob Lee TD Recurve - "Bob-bow"
Bob Lee TD Longbow - "Lee-bow"

Bob-bow and Lee-bow... Brother and sister...

[PAPA BEAR]

i had a bow i used to call "dammit" cause i missed about everything i shot at with it.

[Mojo Rising]

Ghostrider should be here in a few months!

[Ric O'Shay]

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.