Today i was honored by the fact that Ruddy brought his Newly finished 2 Piece Osage Selfbow down for me to see and for us to shoot a little. We had a ball, both shooting the bow and shooting the bull about bows, arrows, etc. I tell you in all truth i was really impressed with Ruddy's bow - and I have some very nice all wood Primitive and selfbows in my collection.
I found the bow to look great (as we've seen in the pictures) but also to draw smooth, shoot with little or no noticeable hand shock, be very quiet (even with no silencers yet applied). The bow seems to require a pretty good cant - at least with both me and Ruddy shooting it (a little bit more with me). It is a sweet and accurate shooter as long as the archer does his part. I grabbed two each of some of my River cane arrows, Tonkin Cane arrows, Cedar Arrows by Bill Stroup, and some Ramin Dowel arrows That i made about 5 or 6 years back. The bow behaved very well with all of arrows (mostly in the 40-45 spine range and weighing close to 500 gr each). The bow really liked (as did Ruddy) the two river cane arrows (by Art B) and the two Tonkin canes (by StringStretcher). We shot at targets from about 8yds out to 41 yds both from the ground and from my tower. I think it is safe to say we were both impressed and enjoyed the afternoon of shooting - his was the only bow we shot today.
We did take a few pictures and I'll post a couple here but all of them will appear in Ruddy's thread in the Bowyer's Bench Forum. Wish you could have been there to soot this fine bow with us - but for now, enjoy the pics - LOL. Oh Ruddy draws about 28" I believe, I draw about 25".
This one Ruddy held it with a little less cant - just for viewing:
Check out the other thread for all the pics - Thanks for looking and thanks to Ruddy for the visit and shooting fun.
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