Originally posted by duncan idaho:
I am not familar with a Hawk Recurve. Who makes them and could you go into detail a little about the bow? Thanks
Made by a Colorado bowyer named Mike Beckwith. He makes them bombproof. For example, his tips are bigger than most, but that is because he claims he would rather have a more durable tip than a few fps, which I personally like because I abuse the heck out of my bows. He uses a lot of phenolic in his risers, and in testing he has dry fired his own bow over 20 times with no damage.
Beckwith has been making bows for an awfully long time and folks in Colorado are quite familiar with him. His bows would rate right up there with any of the fastest, more commonly known bows. He is a true bowyer with an incredible amount of knowledge, and he is a good hunter as well (first hunter to kill a moose in Colorado with a bow). He is not very well known nationally but his bows are most definitely worth a look.
One other thing about these bows, he does not use a CNC machine but he builds his risers and limbs off of a form that allows any limbs he has ever built to fit any riser he has ever built. Not a common thing for a custom bow.
He builds three different length risers and three different length limbs. My personal bow is his short riser and medium limbs, making a 56" bow. Mine has 59# yew limbs.
Sorry for the long write-up.
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