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Offline JamesKerr

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Re: Lets see your homemade longbows you hunt with...
« Reply #20 on: August 21, 2013, 12:06:00 PM »
Those are some beautiful bows guys!
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Re: Lets see your homemade longbows you hunt with...
« Reply #21 on: August 21, 2013, 12:21:00 PM »
I clicked on here expecting to see some sticks with strings but you guys are some excellent craftsmen! Hats off to ya
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Re: Lets see your homemade longbows you hunt with...
« Reply #22 on: August 21, 2013, 01:56:00 PM »
Double carbon, 57@27

     

     


     


     

     

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Re: Lets see your homemade longbows you hunt with...
« Reply #23 on: August 21, 2013, 04:31:00 PM »

 
 
 
Here's a few
Thanks for this thread RC.
Going through my Photobucket brought back some great memories

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Re: Lets see your homemade longbows you hunt with...
« Reply #24 on: August 22, 2013, 11:26:00 PM »
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Jsweka, That bow laying on top of the doe is a fine looking bow.
Thanks RC.  Here's a couple better pics of it.  It is one of my favorites, but is due for a refinish job after getting banged around for a couple seasons.

 

 
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Re: Lets see your homemade longbows you hunt with...
« Reply #25 on: August 23, 2013, 02:51:00 PM »
Fine thread!
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Re: Lets see your homemade longbows you hunt with...
« Reply #26 on: August 23, 2013, 05:30:00 PM »


   

   

   

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Re: Lets see your homemade longbows you hunt with...
« Reply #27 on: August 23, 2013, 07:01:00 PM »
brian you made a mess with that whitetail....hope you brought some paper towels in your backpack!!!!   :bigsmyl:
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Re: Lets see your homemade longbows you hunt with...
« Reply #28 on: August 23, 2013, 07:23:00 PM »
great thread...some nice looking animals...this is a pick of a bow I just put together...its a riser I made up almost 25 years ago...

I just got a set of 50# limbs for it...the 70's I used to shoot were just too much for me now...maybe it has something to do with my gray hair?? LOL...

 

I think the deltas shoot a lot better now with the lighter limbs too...
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Re: Lets see your homemade longbows you hunt with...
« Reply #29 on: August 23, 2013, 07:31:00 PM »
Almost a "longbow", the tips are bent a little.

 

 
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Re: Lets see your homemade longbows you hunt with...
« Reply #30 on: August 23, 2013, 07:51:00 PM »

50 @ 28" Osage. Rivercane arrow with obsidian arrowhead.
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Re: Lets see your homemade longbows you hunt with...
« Reply #31 on: August 23, 2013, 07:56:00 PM »
       
     
     
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Re: Lets see your homemade longbows you hunt with...
« Reply #32 on: August 23, 2013, 08:06:00 PM »
Charlie - the riser in the first pic looks really small. How long is it?

Oh, and great topic RC!
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Re: Lets see your homemade longbows you hunt with...
« Reply #33 on: August 23, 2013, 08:08:00 PM »
     
       
Hunt Sharp

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Offline Josh Perdue

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Re: Lets see your homemade longbows you hunt with...
« Reply #34 on: August 23, 2013, 08:09:00 PM »
That bottom right photo is one of my favorites.

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Re: Lets see your homemade longbows you hunt with...
« Reply #35 on: August 23, 2013, 08:16:00 PM »
Great bows everyone!! This is an awesome thread.

Homemade bows just have something special to them.  If I'm not hunting with one of my own, I'll be hunting with one I received in the bow swap over on the Bowyer's Bench.  I just can't see myself ever buying a bow again.
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Re: Lets see your homemade longbows you hunt with...
« Reply #36 on: August 23, 2013, 08:50:00 PM »
Here's my first osage selfbow I made back in the mid '90s. Never killed anything with it but never hunted with it a whole lot either 'cause it's a little too much for me to handle:

 

 

 

 

 
58" JK Traditions Kanati Longbow
Ten Strand D10 String
Kanati Bow Quiver
35/55 Gold Tip Pink Nugents @ 30"
3 X 5" Feathers
19.9% FOC
49# @ 26.75"
165 FPS @ 10.4 GPP (510 gr. hunting arrow)
171 FPS @ 9.7 GPP (475 gr. 3D arrow)
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Re: Lets see your homemade longbows you hunt with...
« Reply #37 on: August 24, 2013, 12:41:00 AM »
Blaino... That riser piece isn't more than 8" long. But that's deceptive.
The belly lam was pretty thick to start so that I could scrape it down to make weight and tiller. The riser piece was blended into the belly lam. The stiff "riser section" was longer than just the dark wood.

It's an all bamboo modeled after John Shulz's "Naturals" using Howard Hill's bamboo. It's a shooter.
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Re: Lets see your homemade longbows you hunt with...
« Reply #38 on: August 24, 2013, 04:15:00 AM »
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I clicked on here expecting to see some sticks with strings but you guys are some excellent craftsmen! Hats off to ya
Me too.  Some amazing craftsmanship and these pics are awesome.

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Re: Lets see your homemade longbows you hunt with...
« Reply #39 on: August 24, 2013, 09:08:00 AM »
Hey, RC. Haven't spoke to you for a while but here's a couple pictures I had of some deer with bows I've made. Shot a bunch more, just don't have the pictures. Included better pics of the bows on thosew hunts as well.

 

 

 

 

 
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