Hill bows and High DW?

[Frank V]

Mine is only 60lb, but very smooth.
Frank

[Raging Water]

Just had to post pictures of my new-to-me Howard Hill Wesley Special "Standing Bear".

It has it all. It is 68" 80# at 28". Checkered Grip and Two Silver Inlays, a Standing Bear and the other is a Bear Paw. A previous owner put on the snake skins. I love the looks and feel of this bow.

If you had to put a price tag on this bow, to have it made now, it would be lots of $$$$.

             
       

Next to the "Standing Bear" are its Brothers. 66" 85# at 28" Half Breed and 62" 66# at 28" Black Badger.

       

[Mudd]

My "new-to-me" Howard Hill Big 5 68" and 50@28 could be here today.

I am pumped about the prospect of getting "my heavy weight" in my hands.

This handle shape on this one is a little different, it's kind of like a wedge. I hope to get along with it without any modifications.

The 1st one I owned that had this same grip bothered me to the point that I ended up skiving a piece of leather and installing it over the the back of the handle then re-gripping it with some nice elk skin, it worked like a dream.

We old folks can call any bow we want heavy...lol

God bless,Mudd

[straitera]

Would love to argue w/Dick about HH bows. But, I can;t. He's forgot more than I'll ever know & I've shot heavy Hills for 33 years straight. Much admire & respect him. Let's hear from Marlon & Leo & we'll just about have a Hill heavyweight consensus. There's Matt & Justin too. Good to have you mixed in Longstick. CR shoots a mean Hill too. I love these threads!

[Dick in Seattle]

thanks, Straightera  8^)   Not sure I'm really that knowledgeable.  I've just thought about it a lot.  Of course, those thoughts are really just opinions...

Just to show I'm not above doing doing a heavier Hill style, I recently built a 57# forward riser Hill style (monstrous heavy for me) that came out real well.  I can't shoot it of course, but the guy that got it loves it.  I think he's chasing deer with it right now in Oregon.


 

 

[Raging Water]

It'd be great to hear from Leo on this. But, he rarely posts on TG POW WOW.

Marlon? You out there?

Matt

[Mudd]

It arrived today and.. can you say "Sweet!"

I'm getting along with the wedge handle this time.

I put some snake skin pull-on's or pull ups on it. The black glass on front and back were just too shiny for me to take to the woods.

This coming week I'll pick up a can of Plasti-dip in the spray can and fix it.

God bless,Mudd

[Irish Archer]

Hey Matt,

What's the riser wood in that Half Breed? Nice lookin' bows.

[Raging Water]

Cocobolo.

It has a rust colored leather grip underneath the Prince Tennis Racket grip.

I put the tennis racket grip on there because it was hotter than hell this summer and that worked pretty well with the sweaty hands.

[Mudd]