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Offline trubltrubl

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Re: Elk with selfbow
« Reply #20 on: March 30, 2012, 01:27:00 AM »
John Strunk's bows are beauties....good luck
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Re: Elk with selfbow
« Reply #21 on: March 30, 2012, 12:17:00 PM »
I hunt with the selfbows I make.  I have only taken one elk, a couple of blacktail and one mule deer.  It is not the bows fault that I haven't taken more.  Its more my  hunting.
 

That is a 93# osage with rattlesnake skin. No shelf.
 
The same bow is 2nd from the bottom.

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Re: Elk with selfbow
« Reply #22 on: March 30, 2012, 01:16:00 PM »
alot of weight there Big Archer...nice elk....
hope your shoulders hold up with that poundage....I.m 54 now.... going lighter..heaviest I ever shoot is about 65# but prefer about 55 now....try and keep it there for another 10 years....
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Re: Elk with selfbow
« Reply #23 on: June 16, 2012, 09:21:00 PM »
Maybe this year????????
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Re: Elk with selfbow
« Reply #24 on: June 17, 2012, 12:55:00 PM »
BigArcher....LOVE THAT QUIVER!!!!
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Re: Elk with selfbow
« Reply #25 on: June 17, 2012, 01:06:00 PM »
This pic was taken at the head of Salt Creek Trail(about 10,000') in the San Joan Mountains of S W Colorado. The bow on the left is "Elkie" a sinew backed osage bow I made for my first elk hunting trip along Salt Creek. I gave this bow to Kenneth after our hunt. The other bow with the choke cherry bark backing is an osage static recurve selfbow I made for my last hunt.
  I had to remove the sinew from Elkie because of problems it was having and when I sent it back to Kenneth it was a selfbow with rawhide backing. These were out primary hunting bows last Sept when we went back to Salt Creek, both pulling 56#@26"(Kenneth pulls 29").
 
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Re: Elk with selfbow
« Reply #26 on: June 17, 2012, 07:40:00 PM »
Cool Stuff.......   :thumbsup:    :notworthy:
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Re: Elk with selfbow
« Reply #27 on: June 17, 2012, 08:20:00 PM »
Great thread! !!  Love the photos, thanks guys!
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Re: Elk with selfbow
« Reply #28 on: June 17, 2012, 11:27:00 PM »
Steve Welch from MS has killed at least 5 elk with his bamboo backed osage bows.

Here is one from a couple years ago.

 
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Re: Elk with selfbow
« Reply #29 on: June 18, 2012, 09:08:00 AM »
I am loving this thread, keep it coming guys!
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Re: Elk with selfbow
« Reply #30 on: August 19, 2012, 02:53:00 PM »
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Re: Elk with selfbow
« Reply #31 on: March 09, 2017, 04:53:00 PM »
Come on this thread needs an update let's see some more pics guys!!!!
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Re: Elk with selfbow
« Reply #32 on: March 09, 2017, 05:08:00 PM »
Cool stuff
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Re: Elk with selfbow
« Reply #33 on: March 09, 2017, 05:12:00 PM »
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Offline YosemiteSam

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Re: Elk with selfbow
« Reply #34 on: March 09, 2017, 05:12:00 PM »
Very good thread!  Hoping to make a hunting weight bow one of these days.  Fantastic stuff!
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Re: Elk with selfbow
« Reply #35 on: March 09, 2017, 05:26:00 PM »
:thumbsup:    :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:
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Re: Elk with selfbow
« Reply #36 on: March 09, 2017, 06:46:00 PM »
Sorry I just can't see shooting anything other than woodies out of a self or BBO bow. But cool pics guys.
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Re: Elk with selfbow
« Reply #37 on: March 09, 2017, 07:31:00 PM »
Carson Brown of Echo Archery took one last season. link below!

 http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=234;t=000051;p=1
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Re: Elk with selfbow
« Reply #38 on: March 09, 2017, 07:37:00 PM »

 
 
 this by definition is a selfbow. i made it myself from a single hickory stave ( from around penn yann NY) it is unbacked, 67" long drawing 56#@28.
 Its the first one that i made that would actually shoot an arrow without becoming a two piece bow.. only took about ten tries.
 I havent hunted with it yet but a longbow moose and a selfbow elk are on my short list.
 after my escape from New York 2 years ago i've bought a home here in north idaho and i plan to begin building bows again but 1st a shaving horse to build.
 anyone care to guess where the extremely difficult pic was taken. someone from back east might know.
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Re: Elk with selfbow
« Reply #39 on: March 09, 2017, 08:34:00 PM »
I've taken 3 elk with a selfbow.  All were under 60 pounds but were about 56-58 at my 30 inch draw.

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