Toughest Bow You Have Owned?

[Manitoba Stickflinger]

Tall Tines phenolic riser. Have had 2 and was really hard on the 1st one....still looks and shoots great!

[vintage-bears]

Fred bear take down.
Bulletproof!

[dragon rider]

It wasn't mine, but Billy Shipp ran over a Big Foot bow that Kirkll made for him with a Polaris on one of the rockiest roads I've ever been on.  When all was said and done it needed only cosmetic repair.

[ksbowman]

Wing,Takes a lickin'. Broke a string and twisted a limb. Twisted it back and shot it a few times. Memory of limb came right back.

[Bowwild]

Strickland "Stick"

[Wapiti Chaser]

I have a Morrison Dakota that I dry fired twice in row ! (only two shots I have tried a tab) and dropped 20 plus feet out of a tree and it still shoots like new.

[KentuckyTJ]

Black widow PSA bar none. I slipped walking through a creek once and unintentionally used the bow to break my fall. I feel right on the rocks on it in my hand. I couldn't find any marks on it whatsoever! I know it's hard to believe. If I didn't see it I wouldn't have believed it either.

And I have seen the video where they step on the tip of a recurve limb and bend it backwards like a pretzel and it was unhurt.

Tough bow!

[bayoulongbowman]

Used , but new to me acadian woods treestick , Tim is a class act of a bowyer and my friend...mark

[JAG]

Self made Osage Selfbow!
It has been used for just about anything and everything, from a staff to cross a flodded creek, to being used to warp an ugly talking slob!
Keeps on shooting!

[TSP]

Have grown partial to simple Hill-style longbows now but over the years the toughest brand/style of bow that I've spent alot of time with has been the Widow MAIII recurve (owned four of them).  That thing is a tank!  Still, the thought of adding a cutting tip to the upper limb of one of my Hills has crossed my mind...I've no doubt it could be a reliable back-up spear.     :eek:

[Arkansaslongbow]

Bear Montana bar none;

[cleopatra]

HH big 5.

[LongStick64]

Howatt Mamba, one of my first true traditional bows, got it on a whim,didn't know how to shoot it or take care of it. I was exposed to the elements, hung on a peg in the garage. It took everything I did to it with a smile, as if it was saying "Just Bring It" One tough bow !!!

[Archie]

I was hunting with my Black Widow PMA and had just returned to my Jeep, and was packing up to go home.  I jumped into the Jeep and must have left it out of gear, and when I shut the door caught a ratchet strap in it, that was tangled in the bow stringer I had just put on the tips of the recurve.  The Jeep rolled away and fell into a river, but the bow caught between a couple of trees and stopped it dead.  Had to use the ratchet strap to winch the Jeep out of the river, but the tips held.  I think the working recurve tips actually helped with the winching.

     

Seriously, the Widow PMA has been a very tough bow for me, though, and has taken a lot of abuse.

[ChuckC]

My 61# Big River R/D one piece longbow.  It has clubbed skwerls, moved grass and shrubs aside, messed with snakes, got tossed up the mountain ahead of me so I could pull myself up, and on and on.

I think longbows in general are pretty tough critters, just because of how they are built.

ChuckC

[Chaz]

So many but I bought a 20 yr.old pronghorn thinking it was newer, I called herb meland and he remembered it and dated it as such. Still in excellent shape, tough and quick!

[GRINCH]

My first bow all fiberglass,that bow went on every adventure with me took a beating but always sprang back for more,for a kid no nbetter bow.

[falconview]

My Robertson/Harrison longbow.

[joe skipp]

My new Fedora...fell off a log crossing a small stream. Bow bounced/slammed off the bottom, became unstrung. Strung "Lefty" up, checked limb tips and limbs, took a few shots and it's fine.

Next, my original Bill Stewart Multi Cam take down.
Tumbled down a large coulie in Wyoming, bow went flying among the rocks, absolutely no damage to the limbs or tips.

[highPlains]

On the ride out of a long elk hunt we had two big horse blow-ups.

My Hawk recurve was in the same case with my Rampart long bow. My longbow was broken in to five pieces. The Hawk recurve was fine. When I took off the limbs for some reason I found out that the pins and limb bolts were completely bent! To this day that bow shoots like a dream, though it looks pretty rough! That is a tough bow!!!