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Author Topic: the best "nicknames" for bows  (Read 1658 times)

Offline Paul the Viking

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Re: the best "nicknames" for bows
« Reply #60 on: June 16, 2009, 08:00:00 AM »
I bought my Brakenbury at the Western Traditional Bowhunter Expo a few years back.  I called my wife that night to tell her the news.  She told me our daughter took her first steps while I was off buying my new bow.  I wrote "first steps" on the riser the next day.  It's still there six years later.

Offline acadian archer

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Re: the best "nicknames" for bows
« Reply #61 on: July 26, 2009, 11:26:00 AM »
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Re: the best "nicknames" for bows
« Reply #62 on: July 26, 2009, 06:32:00 PM »
My Fow longbow is "Sheaweke", which is "the time has come" in the Miami lanquage. I started kill'n stuff with this bow. My old BBO bow that blew up a few years ago was "Nihka" which is "friend" in Miami.

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Re: the best "nicknames" for bows
« Reply #63 on: July 26, 2009, 07:43:00 PM »
My son got me a hat about 8-10 years ago for fathers day.It said "BIG DADDY" So last year I had a bow made.I asked my son what I should name it. He said big daddy.And thats what was put on it.

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Re: the best "nicknames" for bows
« Reply #64 on: July 26, 2009, 08:28:00 PM »
I have an Acadian Woods 3pc. Treestick that is named " Cooter" for the friends that gave it to me.
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Offline Izzy

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Re: the best "nicknames" for bows
« Reply #65 on: July 26, 2009, 09:03:00 PM »
My Zipper Standard is Hillbilly Deluxe.

Offline bgremill

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Re: the best "nicknames" for bows
« Reply #66 on: July 27, 2009, 10:04:00 AM »
My Caddo longbow earned a name.  Emma is 54#@ 28" and 62" long or 5 foot 2. whoo whee she was an ugly baby.  She had red hair and jaundice real bad!
She's made of Osage and Redheart so she has red hair and now she's got a golden brown tan.  Her curvy grip feels perfect in my hand. When she whispers, usually nothing sweet happens!  PERFECT!

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Re: the best "nicknames" for bows
« Reply #67 on: July 27, 2009, 10:16:00 AM »
If the new Martin Jaguar steps up and gets the job done in Texas in January, it's name will be "Javi Hammer", if it doesn't then it's gonna be "Vegetarian".

My old longbow is named "Snake", not because of the wood or the grain, but because that thing is as quiet as a snake.
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Offline moose eye levi

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Re: the best "nicknames" for bows
« Reply #68 on: July 27, 2009, 11:51:00 AM »
If im havin a bad day shootin its "You Piece of Firewood!!" Osage,bacote,and bamboo wood.
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Re: the best "nicknames" for bows
« Reply #69 on: July 27, 2009, 03:23:00 PM »
'Blacky' my titan riser and what ever limbs I have on it.  Its black and kinda ugly but It shoots great.  It has 6 kills and no misses.  It the only stick bow I own now that see's any hunting time.

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Re: the best "nicknames" for bows
« Reply #70 on: July 27, 2009, 10:20:00 PM »
I have a;
Cupid; a 58" morrison dakota with curly koa riser
51 Pegasus; a 51@28 3 piece pronghorn
Niobe; morrison ILF zebrawood (fast)
banana bow; another 3 piece pronghorn, all Zebra
bessy ; another 3 piece pronghorn 65lb with bob limbs
Hammer of the Gods; BW SAIII, several sets of limbs and risers, all mid to late "90s" vintage.
apple brown betty; apple self bow that I still need to finish up.
Pinchy; "76" supermag "48"
superK; "76" superK
old timer; my bear takedown that I've had since the seventies, which is not too bad cause I'm only 49 now.
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Offline Weekend Warrior

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Re: the best "nicknames" for bows
« Reply #71 on: July 27, 2009, 10:40:00 PM »
I've got a longbow "Dreamseeker" It's never missed a buck with it. Doe is a different story.

Hybrid longbow "Autumn Wind"

Got a new TimberHawk t/d recurve on order going to have to give it some thought for it

Offline Gehrke145

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Re: the best "nicknames" for bows
« Reply #72 on: July 28, 2009, 03:51:00 AM »
thats what I called it until a buddy of mine started making fun of it, the name stuck lol.

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Re: the best "nicknames" for bows
« Reply #73 on: July 28, 2009, 07:38:00 AM »
Have an old recurve I added Gar Bow to, for my bowfishing bow.  Had Craig Ekin make me a Howard Hill Redman, with "T&J 12" to commemorate me and wife's 12 great years of marriage.

Offline SteveMcD

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Re: the best "nicknames" for bows
« Reply #74 on: July 28, 2009, 07:46:00 AM »
My Northern Reverse Handle Whisper Longbow I call "Blondie" - long, lean and all Bamboo Limbs.
 
My Howard Hill Halfbreed - is named "Autumn's Whisper".
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Offline Mojostick

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Re: the best "nicknames" for bows
« Reply #75 on: July 28, 2009, 09:13:00 AM »
I had Sipsey dip a Bear Montana in Predator Grey. I call it "bride of frankenstein". LOL

Offline Dick in Seattle

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Re: the best "nicknames" for bows
« Reply #76 on: July 28, 2009, 05:15:00 PM »
All my bows have what I've been told are odd names:

- made one from cedar closet lining... "Out of the Closet"

_ made one from a layup that went sour and had to be cut in half lengthwise... "Lemonade"... made from a "lemon"

- made one from a situation where I had to make up a reverse form and grind the back off, then put on new glass... "Flapjack"

 - made one for the Howard Hill Longbowmen... mamed "Arrowl Flynn" after the star of "Adventures of Robin Hood"

- last one I made I planed to use opage glass, but the elm wood kept telling me its grain would be pretty under clear, so it ended up as "Look at Me!"
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Re: the best "nicknames" for bows
« Reply #77 on: July 28, 2009, 09:23:00 PM »
I have a Dryad hunter bowblank that I finished that is 43#@28"  and 64" that I named "Fair Chase" Bocote with osage riser and cocobolo tips ....Keefer's <")))><

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Re: the best "nicknames" for bows
« Reply #78 on: July 28, 2009, 10:49:00 PM »
Dick, I love your bow names! They remind me of Alfred Vanderbilt's whimsical names for his race horses. (Polynesian~Geisha = Native Dancer, Sword Dancer~Tea and Toast = Dundee Marmalade, Majestic Prince~Prime Time = Regency Period).

I have a name for my new Centaur, but that keeps mum until it is time. I had an arrow that I named Squiggy. Like in Laverne and Shirley. The arrow never seemed to be entirely straight, but it always shot true. I shot it at the wrong thing one day while stumping with my husband, and broke poor true-blue Squiggy. He now resides in the pocket of my quiver, ready to assess brace height with the calibrations that I have added to his cresting. Squiggy is dead (laid low by a flight of fancy of his lady-love   :readit:   ). Long live Squiggy!!

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Offline Horne Shooter

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Re: the best "nicknames" for bows
« Reply #79 on: July 28, 2009, 10:54:00 PM »
Trusty...cause he is!
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