Cheers guys, my main aim with this little bloke is to facilitate a blending of kayaking and bowhunting, so I’m looking forward to getting it out on the water.

In the meantime here’s a still I got this morning… Such a tiny bow (it’s about 46″ nock-nock when strung) and look at how much work those limbs are doing!

sinawalli wrote: Nice bow Jim! Ever since your thread on short recurves came up, I’ve been looking around. Damn you, I thought guns and tattoos were the only thing I couldn’t have one of!

Well, you’re in the right place to buy them, they’re rare as hens teeth down here!

I asked a fella named George Stout for his recommendations, as I’ve seen a couple of youtube videos of him shooting some short bows quite accurately. He said there were lots of good bows in the 52″ realm: Cascade Golden Hawk, Kodiak Mag, Wing Thunderbird, Ben Pearson BPH 52

He also recommended these in 54″: The Brownings…Nomad I and Safari I, The Shakespeare Super Necedah 54″.

From the moment I first saw one years ago, I’ve thought the Bear Kodiak Magnum was about the most beautiful bow I’d ever seen. Just a bit too long to fit in the kayak 😉

Ben M. wrote: I like the limb protectors.

Haha, I thought they looked kinda cool too, but I just peeled them off! I figure it was a lot of wool hanging out on the end of the limbs and the bow needs every bit of help it can get to go fast 😉 And along the same lines I figure it’s not in much danger of slapping the string terribly hard against itself 😆

David,

I don’t know exactly. It’s a Gainsville bow. I’ve shown it to a couple of guys that might know and they reckoned only a couple years old. It’s actual the dymondwood riser like the last series, just a very dark one. I thought it was a very old one when I first saw photos as well 😉

The other side of the bow this morning..

Off to the shop this morning for some shafts and bits and tuning will begin 😀

sinawalli wrote: Does it stack?

To be honest, I’ve never drawn a bow that stacks at my draw length so I’m not 100% sure what I’m feeling for, but I haven’t noticed anything out to just short of 29″. (edited this sentence)Jeff Cavanagh said on his youtube vid that he didn’t notice any at his draw of 29.5″.

I do suspect finger pinch would become a problem though. If I don’t get good deep hooks and keep my hand strong and flat I get finger pinch at my draw length. So basically the string wants to pinch my fingers together but my hand is strong enough to resist that force and keep my fingers apart. I’m not sure how much that would change going up in weight of bow.

Steve Graf wrote: I’m surprised you say it’s slow though… Is it slower than you thought it should be?

I expected it to be slow, but it was notably slower than my 64″ longbow or 62″ recurve shooting a 10gpp arrow. That being said I was shooting pretty wildly out of tune arrows that I just happened to have laying about, so maybe having some shafts that fly true will go a bit quicker.

It’s not so slow I’m concerned about hunting with it, just slow enough to be noteworthy 😉

Grumpy, keep your eye out online too, in the weeks I spent looking around I found a couple in the US under 200 bucks.

I’ve got to say the more I shoot this bow the more I’m loving it. The handle feels a little weird to me and would obviously suit a slightly lower wrist than I like to shoot with, but I think I seem to have settle on a happy hand position and am shooting ok with it. Just finished tuning some arrows (.500 with 200 gn heads) so will take it up a river this week.