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Offline tippit

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Changing Gears
« on: July 03, 2020, 09:28:14 AM »
Changing gears as our heat indexes lately have been over 100% here in Aiken, SC...Switching from pounding hot steel to making yellow shavings.  Re-started re-ducing weight & re-tillering a few of my Osage selfbows in hopes that the Covid virus slows down so I can get back to my South Georgia 4 thousand acre Hog & Deer lease this coming fall.  This Osage bow is now at my hunting weight of 40# along with a couple River Cane arrows and my forged single bevel hunting heads.  Looking forward to flinging these in the fall.

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Re: Changing Gears
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2020, 09:33:54 AM »
Just awesome. I haven't shot self bows since I used to hunt with one when I was 17. Never made a trade point though. Chert and glass, yes. Brushed a deer's back with a glass point and that bow.
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Re: Changing Gears
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2020, 09:36:23 AM »
Anything interesting for the arrow shafts? Just curious
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Re: Changing Gears
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2020, 10:20:57 AM »
These sbafts are river cane.
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Re: Changing Gears
« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2020, 10:28:59 AM »
That's awesome.
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Re: Changing Gears
« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2020, 12:20:32 PM »
Beautiful bow!
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Re: Changing Gears
« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2020, 12:46:13 PM »
Amazing that those broadheads stay on the arrows after impact.  But....they've been used for hundreds or more years. 
Like your setup.
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Re: Changing Gears
« Reply #7 on: July 03, 2020, 01:53:00 PM »
Car 54,
If look closely you see the wraps are  pretty frayed from use. I torcher test my forged broadheads by shooting them into hardwood etc. Haven't had any that failed with broken points or shafts failing.
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Re: Changing Gears
« Reply #8 on: July 03, 2020, 02:26:10 PM »
Tippit,
I’ve always admired your work and god given talents . As usual, well done!
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Re: Changing Gears
« Reply #9 on: July 03, 2020, 03:37:38 PM »
Those are cool!!!! Good luck on the pigs!

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Re: Changing Gears
« Reply #10 on: July 04, 2020, 03:57:23 PM »
Nice looking setup there sir!
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Re: Changing Gears
« Reply #11 on: July 05, 2020, 08:57:31 AM »
Those heads look like they are meant for business.
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Re: Changing Gears
« Reply #12 on: July 05, 2020, 10:23:33 AM »
That really is a nice looking bow & arrows. In my next life I want to use that exact setup go hunt moose with Fred at lake Wabaskang Ontario. Preferably in 1946. ;)
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Re: Changing Gears
« Reply #13 on: July 06, 2020, 08:20:13 AM »
Great stuff jeff, like usual. Good luck this fall with the hogs
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Re: Changing Gears
« Reply #14 on: July 06, 2020, 08:56:31 AM »
So what is the frayed material you've mounted them with?  Are those hardwood plugs in the ends of the cane?
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Re: Changing Gears
« Reply #15 on: July 06, 2020, 09:10:05 AM »
Heads are super glued into slots on cane and then wrapped with artificial sinew mainly below the head to keep cane from splitting. The nocks are plastic with hardwood dowel coned/tapered to accept the the nock.
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Re: Changing Gears
« Reply #16 on: July 07, 2020, 11:02:55 PM »
Well done!
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