Eat your Wheeties and check this out

[Larry m]

Johnny
Nice clean up. Always appreciate your interesting informative posts.

[johnnyrazorhead]

Thanks Larry,always fun to share this stuff with anyone that might be interested.
 Interesting story I heard from another tradganger about these heavy bows was that one he had that was even heavier than this one was ordered for someone to use as a muscle-building workout for rowing.I suppose anything is possible.Sort of an early version of the Bowflex.

[Bjorn]

How does she look at full draw?

[johnnyrazorhead]

Bjorn, Are you trying to make me break my bow?Or worse yet,myself.

[Hobow]

That is an awesome bow John!  What choices would the original owner have had for arrows at that time?  It seems to me that the early Easton charts didn't list arrows stiff enough, did Micro-flite or do you go 23/64" or 3/8" wood?

Thank you for sharing!

[johnnyrazorhead]

Brad(Hobow)- That's a good question on arrow choice.I'm not sure what arrow would have been available at the time.Someone more knowledgeable on arrow spine than myself would be better to answer that one.I have an old arrow that belonged to Saxton Pope that he used back in the 1920's and I know he shot pretty heavy bows.It appears to be made of 3/8" birch and looks like a small log.Maybe reading up on Bill Negley's story of preparing to hunt Africa with his 102# Kodiak would help.That was later in the 1950's so arrow choices may have been better by then.
 I have an old microflite spine chart I can check but I don't think microflites were available in 1950.