HH BUG GOT ME - Part Two!

If patience is a problem, since I have never had that quality, I cannot tell anyone how to have their own, HHA has the fastest deliveries out there, only a couple days, if one picks from the in stock list.  The last bow I received, I called the delivery truck driver on his cell and asked him if he knew what the damn gas peddle was good for.

[jeffg]

Waiting isn't so bad if it reasonable amount of time, less than 6 months. Six month to a year is way to long to have to wait. But that is MOP. Pickens are usually slim for stock bows in L/H.

[neargeezer]

jeffg, I think Howard Hill Archery is your best option for less then six month wait. My last was just 5 weeks. None I've ordered from them has taken any longer.

[David Mitchell]

Originally posted by pavan:
  The last bow I received, I called the delivery truck driver on his cell and asked him if he knew what the damn gas peddle was good for.

OK that's funny right there!  

[mike g]

My last bow a Tembo from Craig was in my hands in 14 days....
    I would say that is fast.

David you laugh, but I was the first delivery he made that day.  I eat lunch with him most days and he did not want me riding his case in Taco Johns.

[deathwind]

I thought that I would tell you guys the story of a couple bows that I got about two months ago. I retired this fall and my wife and I took a trip out west. While on the trip we stopped at a souvenir store and above the door were two longbows.I recognized them as soon as I laid eyes on them. I asked the owner who made the bows and he told me Howard Hill.  The gentleman was the son of Don Carson .Don Carson wrote the book that Raptor archery sells about the early days of Howard Hill.  I asked him if he would mind getting the bows down and letting me look at them. He had to go and get a ladder to get them down and I couldn't believe my eyes. Howard Hill made the one for Don and it has the date 1936 written on it. The other bow was Howard Hill's personal bow that he won a tournament with and after winning the tournament he gave the bow to Don.  He told Don that he wanted him to have that bow. I talked to the man at the souvenir shop for quite a while and he told me that he didn't want to sell them because they were his dad's bows and  didn't want to part with them. I told him I understood and talked to him about different things that he knew about Howard Hill.  After arriving home I had thought about some other things that I wanted to ask him so after talking to him a few times on the phone  he told me that he wasn't wanting to sell the Bows and I told him that I realized that and I wasn't going to ask about them. Then he told me, I know that you are a taxidermist and if you're willing to part with an animal I'll let you have those bows. I couldn't believe my ears.  He said that he had talked to his son, and that his son didn't want anything to do with any of the items in his shop. He felt that when the day would come that he  was no longer around, that his son would throw the Bows in a dumpster. He said that he wanted to make sure that they went to somebody that would really appreciate them and after talking to me for a while he knew that I was really into longbows and Howard Hill longbows especially. I sent him a pope and young antelope that I killed several years ago  and he sent me the Bows. Along with the Bows he also sent a trophy that Howard Hill had won in 1935. It was for the national archery golf championship that he won first place.  It has the date and his name engraved on it. The bow that Howard had made for his father, Don, has the inscription on it that says "To my son Don " and then in parentheses (little goat ) from Howard Hill and then in parentheses (chief one shot). It has the date 1936 written on it by Howard.There is a picture in the book of both Howard and Don with these two bows.  I am truly a blessed man. I still cannot believe that I have those two bows.  The people reading this thread will know how excited I am to have these two bows and what they mean to Longbow archer. I feel like I won the lottery.

[centaur]

Pretty good trade (understatement!!). Now, if you could just use one of those bows to get another P and Y antelope, all the stars would have aligned! Congrats on a great find!

[deathwind]

Although there are strings on both bows, I will never string them

[Kopper1013]

Amazing...pics?

[deathwind]

I may have to text someone that can put them on here for me. I'm terrible at putting pictures on here

[Ray Lyon]

Nice find.

[Green]

You have definitely acquired two treasures.  Hoping you can get some help posting pictures of these bows!

[deathwind]

I just sent some pictures and the guy is going to put them on here shortly. They are not the best pictures and I may take some more today of those two bows and send them to him also

[dragonheart]

deathwind here are your photos...

 

 
 

 

[deathwind]

Thank you so much

[Sam McMichael]

deathwind, these are true archery treasures. If you have somebody to leave them to, hopefully they, like you, will realize the significance of the items. If not maybe they can be given to a museum of archery somewhere. These are a really nice acquisition. Thanks for sharing them with us.

[GregD]

wow, that is a lot of backset. Would that have been built specifically for shooting archery golf or would that have been how he preferred an every day shooter and hunting bow? Is there a draw weight written on the bow? Amazing find, you just never know.

[ron w]

Cool piece of history........  

[deathwind]

There are no weights written on either bow.  His book says that the one Don had was around 52 pounds. Howard's bow because of the width of the bamboo,I think is very heavy. I would only be guessing but I think that it would have to be over 70 pounds . Joel Templin that owns Jet Archery drove 6 hours to see these bows. I told my wife that if anything happens to me, that Joel is to get these bows. And hopefully he will pass them on down to his son Brian. He  has as much passion about Howard Hill bows as I do.