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Re: Bighorn Bows
« Reply #120 on: October 09, 2019, 03:25:51 PM »
As we speak I am putting together my own version of a Ramhunter longbow, after looking for several years I’ve decided  to build my own. I’ve been building my own bows for many years now and have all the equipment to do it myself. It will have a black future wood ( ram wood )riser with maybe a white accent stripe , grey glass , red elk limb cores and elk tip overlays. I’m going to try and copy it as close as I can with a severely trapped belly like the originals. 
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Re: Bighorn Bows
« Reply #121 on: October 09, 2019, 04:05:07 PM »
Gerald, good luck with your build.  Back in the early 90's I ordered identical Ramhunter and Little Bighorns.  I outdid myself;  I decided to go with very dark gray ramwood and black glass with an osage flare.  When they arrived, I thought they were the most hideous bows I've ever seen.  The osage was so bright yellow against the dark gray.  Shame on me.  Sold them both within 2 months.  Plain Jane brown ramwood and brown glass for me. I didn't like the cut of the red elm under clear glass that Bighorn offered at the time.  Looked like butterscotch sticks.  Anyway, I'm going to try to construct a photo like you posted earlier.  Keep you posted.
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Re: Bighorn Bows
« Reply #122 on: October 09, 2019, 04:40:24 PM »
If you guys had let that Osage age to a mellow honey color it would have looked pretty good.
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Re: Bighorn Bows
« Reply #123 on: October 09, 2019, 07:34:11 PM »
Ron, I agree with you, but I think the dark gray was my downfall, I may have lived with the osage and brown riser.
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Re: Bighorn Bows
« Reply #124 on: October 10, 2019, 08:51:19 AM »
More history from BH
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Re: Bighorn Bows
« Reply #125 on: October 10, 2019, 08:54:15 AM »
First Ramhunter brochure
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Re: Bighorn Bows
« Reply #126 on: October 10, 2019, 08:55:53 AM »
What about theses guys, the old Bighorn crew turned Bowyer Fletcher
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Re: Bighorn Bows
« Reply #127 on: October 10, 2019, 08:56:52 AM »
More BF pics
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Re: Bighorn Bows
« Reply #128 on: October 10, 2019, 09:01:36 AM »
Some supplies for my own version of the Ramhunter, form,riser temp,futurewood, (ramwood),red elm limb cores. I think I should call it the “Bigstorm”. “Whamhunter” !!!!! What do you think lol
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Re: Bighorn Bows
« Reply #129 on: October 10, 2019, 08:54:55 PM »
I found a bunch of Bighorn bow kills from... hard to believe, over 30 years ago.  Dang I'm getting old....








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Re: Bighorn Bows
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Re: Bighorn Bows
« Reply #131 on: October 10, 2019, 09:00:17 PM »
A couple more.  Looking back over the photos, I had a couple pretty good years with the Bighorns back then. I didn't realize I have several dozen old photos from back then.








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Re: Bighorn Bows
« Reply #132 on: October 10, 2019, 10:53:57 PM »
R.V.T.B.- Great old photos and some history to boot! Thanks for posting and feel free to post up some more.
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Re: Bighorn Bows
« Reply #133 on: October 11, 2019, 06:23:28 AM »
pretty cool historic photos

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Re: Bighorn Bows
« Reply #134 on: October 11, 2019, 03:55:23 PM »
Wow, look at all that Tre-bark camo. We're all getting old !

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Re: Bighorn Bows
« Reply #135 on: October 11, 2019, 09:54:46 PM »
Love all the additional brochure photos, success photos and stories.  Keep them coming!

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Re: Bighorn Bows
« Reply #136 on: October 12, 2019, 10:03:25 PM »
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Re: Bighorn Bows
« Reply #137 on: October 12, 2019, 11:53:22 PM »
stagetek:
i was just thinking the same thing!!! ;)

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Re: Bighorn Bows
« Reply #138 on: October 13, 2019, 02:29:41 AM »
Good one Keith.
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Re: Bighorn Bows
« Reply #139 on: October 13, 2019, 09:45:47 AM »
Before I ordered my Bighorn I checked to see what all the high profile hunters like Gene and Barry Wensel were shooting, at the time it was mostly Bighorns so I ordered one.

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