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Offline Kris

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Re: Please show off your self bows!
« Reply #160 on: January 24, 2012, 10:57:00 AM »
Yes....what weight is the bow you used on the bison, arrow setup (i.e. weight, broadhead, wood type), distance, shot placement, story?

Outstanding!

Thanks for the excellent pics Walt.

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Offline coaster500

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Re: Please show off your self bows!
« Reply #161 on: January 24, 2012, 11:22:00 AM »
Great stuff Walt!!! ... nothing like seeing them in action   :)
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Re: Please show off your self bows!
« Reply #162 on: January 24, 2012, 05:05:00 PM »
Had to look at them again today,,, not the bows just Walts pictures!

INCREDIBLE!  :thumbsup:
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Offline leatherneck

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Re: Please show off your self bows!
« Reply #163 on: January 24, 2012, 05:25:00 PM »
Awesome photos Walt!
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Re: Please show off your self bows!
« Reply #164 on: January 24, 2012, 10:02:00 PM »
Thanks for the compliments.

The bison (a ranch harvest) was taken with Pigger, the bow I have hunted with for the past several years.  She is 57-58# @ my 29".  The arrow was a 30", footed hex pine shaft, tipped with a 190 grain grizzly, weighing 625 grain (I think).  15-18 yards shot, it penetrated almost to the fletching, and the bison was down in 15 yards and 30 seconds.
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Re: Please show off your self bows!
« Reply #165 on: January 24, 2012, 10:08:00 PM »
Simply Awesome.......   :thumbsup:
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Re: Please show off your self bows!
« Reply #166 on: January 24, 2012, 10:09:00 PM »
Great bows to All.
Walt, How heavy was that lion?
Great cat.
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Re: Please show off your self bows!
« Reply #167 on: January 25, 2012, 10:35:00 AM »
Walt, absolutely impressive
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Re: Please show off your self bows!
« Reply #168 on: January 25, 2012, 11:05:00 AM »
A few from awhile back,,haven't built any for a couple years but plan on getting back to it.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: Please show off your self bows!
« Reply #169 on: January 25, 2012, 11:08:00 AM »

 
 
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Offline PaPaFrank

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Re: Please show off your self bows!
« Reply #170 on: January 25, 2012, 11:14:00 AM »
Walt and Flatstick your bows are just awesome and obviously deadly!...Good Stuff
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Re: Please show off your self bows!
« Reply #171 on: January 25, 2012, 12:28:00 PM »

Here are some more that are going to Kalamazoo

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Re: Please show off your self bows!
« Reply #172 on: January 25, 2012, 12:55:00 PM »
Can't wait to see them Mike. I hope they don't sell until I have. I love the painted ones but I really want to see that one that looks like an elk antler. I may have to copy that one!

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Re: Please show off your self bows!
« Reply #173 on: January 25, 2012, 01:52:00 PM »
A woodworking buddy of mine is getting into selfbows.  If I show him this thread, I'm afraid he'll quit!

This is Super Trad!
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Re: Please show off your self bows!
« Reply #174 on: January 25, 2012, 02:33:00 PM »
You guys are inspirational....  wonderful bows guys, wonderful   :notworthy:  


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Offline Mark Baker

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Re: Please show off your self bows!
« Reply #175 on: January 25, 2012, 09:03:00 PM »
Some beauties there, Richard.   Mike, your just a "show-off"!  Awesome bows though!!!!  :notworthy:
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Re: Please show off your self bows!
« Reply #176 on: January 26, 2012, 09:50:00 AM »
Thanks Mark, you know someone once told me "it ain't bragg'n if you can back it up" LOL   :biglaugh:  

Your a mighty fine artist yourself in more ways then one!
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Re: Please show off your self bows!
« Reply #177 on: January 26, 2012, 10:57:00 AM »
Flatstick ....you should build some more...those are awesome looking bows....nice deer too!


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Re: Please show off your self bows!
« Reply #178 on: January 26, 2012, 11:44:00 AM »
This is an osage ELB I made a few years ago..
 

 

This is "Shere Kahn" an osage selfbow with tiger stripe tissue paper backing(decorative)..
 

 

This is a yew selfbow I made from a small yew tree that Don Berg cut in the wilderness of Mantana and brought out 8 miles strapped to his bicycle.
 

 
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Re: Please show off your self bows!
« Reply #179 on: January 26, 2012, 12:01:00 PM »
This is Elkie, sinew backed osage. I built her for my first elk hunt in Colorado in '06. Pictured with Kenneth, my host and I gave Elkie to Kenneth after our hunt.
   

   

This is a 60" osage static recurve I made quite a few years ago with a few of my crooked arrows. The one with the red fletching now belongs to Bernie Dunn.
   

This is "Herb's Bow", a bow I was asked to make by Herb Reynolds the founder of the Carolina Traditional Archers(CTA). Unfortunately Herb passed away before I could give him the bow so I donated it to CTA to be raffled off in Herb's name...
   


 
   
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