This story involves bow making, 3D shooting, and being a trad shooter in a compound environment. Unfortunately, it involves a lot of pictures, which I needed to share with the Hill Longbowmen, so I put a new web page up on my personal bulletin board. I don't feel up to reposting them all pic by pic through Photoshop, but you can reach the page through the link I'm providing.
Basically, yesterday I had a bow disaster... took one off the form and found a little more than half the width of one limb failed to laminate. Ouch! What can a guy do? Well, he can cut a narrow slice off the good side and make a bow out of it! I did it, mostly just to keep busy and work off the disappointment. Surprise! The silly looking little sliver of a bow that resulted turns out to be an extremely pleasant and good shooting bow!
I went out to a new shoot today... a compound event where they promised a trad course and trad stakes on the regular targets. This would be a first for me. I've always avoided "open shoots", but man, I needed a shoot fix. On a wild hair, I decided to take the new bow with me, unfinished, just to maybe try... Here's how events transpired:
http://dickwightman.com/bulletinboard/ibo-shoot/ibo-shoot.html
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