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What bow do you shoot?
- Thread starter Rymanco
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The cherry is flat cut. Light aquafortis on the maple. Buffalo horn tips. Bought it as a blank and did the final shaping, added tips from a dog chew toy from petco and finished it. Very rewarding although I didn’t actually do the glue up or rough shape.
Cheery and maple is probably my favorite combination. Very new england, and tons of character. Nice job, gorgeous bow. Thanks for sharing!
Mike is a great guy to work with also. I had him add the crescent cherry accent stripe to the riser and the maple was from the highly figured instrument grade he had in stock. Kinda wishing I hadn’t added the buffalo hide grip to it. Covered up a lot of the wood. Thinking of removing it and sanding most of the aqua off and try to leave it in the curls but get the flats back to creamy maple.
It does create some nice contrast with the tip overlays though. You could always do the grip area with some semi gloss wipe on poly with a little silica hard wood floor anti slip powder added in after removing grip as well.
He has the North American hardwoods longbow blank that he uses only woods from the good ol USA. Maple,cherry,black walnut,hickory and ash. You can get exotics if you want but I wanted American wood and I know from experience that the older and more sun cherry and maple they go through a fantastic color change that is unlike any other woods combos. I’ve watched it start to age since I got it last March.
I still shoot my 2011 bowtech invasion. I think the time is getting close for a new bow. I shot a bunch of bows this spring including Prime Centergy/logic, mathews halon32/triax, hoyt rx-1, pse carbon air stealth/expedite, elite ritual, and bowtech reign 6/realm x. Loved both the bowtechs and the elite. Probably will end up buying this year's model next spring for some added savings and still get a new bow unless somebody comes out with something I have to have this upcoming year.
2011 elite pure..... I feel like I've been shooting elite since before shooting elite was cool!..... I have trad bow ambitions will probably make the dive after this fall.
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2016 Bear Wild at 60#. Pretty tight groups up to 50 yards then either the bow or I start to loosen up. Trying to figure out if new strings and better stabalizer/Bee Sting will tighten me up at 60 yards or if Ive outgrown the bow? Spot Hogg Fast Eddie XL double pin sure helped me get gain confidence at 50 yards. Reality is I dont need to shoot greater than 35 but its just too much fun launching arrows corner to corner in the back yard.
Got a 1960 something Bear Kodiak Magnum at 45# Friday and shot it all weekend. Sewwt little bow. Easier to shoot than I thought it would be. Think I’ll be killing critters with it this season.
Had one for a while, nice bow! Changes it up to a little browning cobra for my shorty. I was surprised at the kmag as well.
one of these days Im going to upgrade to a light carbon bow of some type. my bow seems like carrying a bag of rocks with you lol
I have a 14 Carbon Spyder 30 nice bow light as a feather. I also have a Synergy and a Bowtech Captain. They are both heavy. While home this time took all three to the range almost every day. While I love the weight of the Hoyt I can’t hold it nearly as still on target as the other two heavy bows. A lot of real good shooters at this range 250 members. Anyhow I have asked around about my problem with holding steady and they say that’s why the tournament shooters have the long stabilizers. They add weight to steady their hold.
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Yes sir I’m familiar with the heavy bow stabilizer. I shot a Hoyt target recurve growing up. I think it came in about 8 lbs. for no longer than it takes me to decide if I’m going to shoot to shooting I’m not really concerned. I’m shooting a softball not a quarter.
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If I didn't live in the suburbs I would already have a long bow, would love to make one someday!
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