That’s a real beauty Patrick. Lucky boy you’ve got there 😉

That is a sweet bow!

Patrick–another Coffey work of art. Don’t fret, the jealousy will fade away the first time you shoot your ElkHeart.

Trust your son has an appropriate Fedora coming for x-mas to complete the picture:D.

Sometimes, life treats us GOOD! 😀

Patrick,

That’s one great looking bow! I really like the limbs a bunch. Have to keep that in mind for my next elkheart. Can’t wait to see your elkheart Patrick. That is a great picture of him sleeping with the bow and pup!

Pat that photo is an instant classic! A boy with his bow and his dog, what more could he want?

Beautiful!!

Beautiful bow!

Your son is a lucky man to own such a sweet work of art!

Wow – that is a stunning work of functional art! The limb veneers are incredible. Gregg really outdid himself on this one!!

That is really beautiful. To have the antler tips really brings it home. Fortunate family you have. I wish you good luck and safe hunts with your new bows! best, dwc

I knew those were some wild veneers, but under glass they are nothing short of outstanding!!! 😀

So… The description of the bow on Greg’s website says it’s a static tip’d bow. Looks like the shrew or elkheart type bow to me.

Are the tips static? Does your boy outshoot you? How’s it do?

You’ve a good looking boy and dog there. Something to be really proud of.

Patrick — He doesn’t like hats because he doesn’t need a hat! That’s more hair right there than I managed to grow, cumulatively, in a lifetime! Of course, growing up mid-century, my father insisted I keep a “burr” cut, then came the Marines for whom a burr was way too long, then came baldness, revealing the true magnificence of the fully revealed human male skull! 😳

Is that a yeller lab pup … or a runted adult? It appears the latter. Man, if I could find a seriously runted black lab that has all the qualities of the breed, I’d be a happy man. Big dogs increasingly complicate travel. Much as I love ’em, I’m done with ’em after the current models go south.

Two new magnificent bows, a great son with great hair, and a small big dog! You must be living right. 😀

Beautiful bow!

Like everyone says “Beautiful Bow”

Curious about the string silencers ?

Looks like formed leather ?

Bruce

They look like string slugs. I put them on my longbow and they work well. I forget where i got them but somebody on here recommended them. What the static tip? Dwc

Two Tracks makes a felted wool silencer that looks a lot like that:

http://www.twotracksbow.com/store/index.php?dispatch=categories.view&category_id=181

I’ve heard they work quite well.

And I just have to say – “Helm’s Deep” is a great name for a bow.

David Petersen wrote:

Two new magnificent bows, a great son with great hair, and a small big dog! You must be living right. 😀

:lol::lol::lol:

Absolutely gorgeous bow. I know he is proud of that one!

The silencers are indeed from Two Tracks. I really like the ease of use, simplicity, durability, and oh yeah they make your bow quieter too.

Gregg

I learned about Two Tracks silencers from Java Man while at Kzoo a few years ago, where both had booths. While I absolutely feel they are radically overpriced for little pieces of felt (but what isn’t radically overpriced in today’s world?), I’ve used them ever since, for the reasons Gregg summarizes above: the most silencing performance for the least mass on the string. But hey, big rubber bands also work (until the shoot off) and cost nothing. All choices boil down to personal priorities, eh?

Helms Deep was the location of a MAJOR battle in LOTR, no Arwen wasn’t there, but there were Men, Elves, a Dwarf, Orks, Ents, and I am willing to bet the Aussie knows where they filmed it. 🙂