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Looks like I’ll be the first to post pics.
Bow is a recurve of my design. 62″ 55#@29″, I stippled the grip to help prevent slipping when I sweat or while wearing cotton gloves
Arrows are Victory VMaxx HV 300 with brass inserts and 3″ of 2117 aluminium footing.
Broadhead is 190 grizzly with 125gr steel adpt.
Total arrow weight is 680gr, UEFOC 32.46%
Fletching will be switched from the 3″ parabolic to 2-1/2″ A&A
I use a Cavalier Tab
Quiver is a Selway softkot 5 arrow
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I got a Super Shrew 50# @ 28″ last year but I don’t like the arrows I have made up for it. Too light. Turned out to be 450 gr total weight. I’ll wait and make up something better than those for hunting.
So in the mean time I’m shooting my Volcano 45# @ 28″ Hickory shafts with 110 gr Zwickeys, 500 gr total weight.
Should be OK inside 20 yards. Schrade 152 and Schrade 171UH
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Hi everyone, new to site!
Great Plains “Long-curve” bamboo limbs
53# @ 28″
60″amo
Selway rawhide slide on 5 arrow quiver
Bearpaw gloveGT traditional 5575 28.5″ 5″ shield cut feathers
125gr MAGNUS 2 blades (Best Broadheads for the $ EVER!)This will be my first season using traditional equiptment, have been practicing for almost 2 years off and on but the last few months i’ve really gotten into it. Gonna be hunting east Texas on state land. People always talk about how Texas has no public land, when in fact there is over 1 million acres open to the public. If your gun hunting you might as well forget it tough, WAY WAY TOO MANY PEOPLE! But there’s lots of archery only areas that have good numbers and quality Deer and TONS of hogs, with very low numbers of bowhunters. Just thought id end the public land/Texas myth… Happy Hunting!
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Got a couple setups, one still being tweaked.
1) Bear Kodiak Hunter, 45# with GT 5575, 31″ long with 2″ 2219 aluminium footing and 125 gn Eclipse and 75 grain adapters.2) Rawhide backed ERC D bow I just finished. 53 @ 28 with full length tapered Sitka Spruce shafts and 145 gn Eclipse heads. This is still getting tweaked a bit, to include work on a set of rivercane shafts for it. I really like it. I believe that is might, due to the higher draw weight and light physical weight of the cedar, shoot a bit harder than my recurve does.
Finished arrow weights between both setups are similar. The carbon shafts have much higher FOC, though the woodies aren’t bad by any means. Both will work just fine on Arkansas deer and squirrell as long as I put them in the right spot.
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I have two main set ups one for stand sitting and one for stalking and still hunting, this is my heavy duty stand sitting set up. Bear Kodiak Super K, 60in bow – 63lbs – shooting Easton Axsis 400’s tipped with 220 grain Grizzly El Grande’s. These 3 arrows where shot at distance from 20, 30 & 40 yards.
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56″, 55# Shrew Classic Hunter “carbon”, SBD string, Thunderhorn quiver, homemade 655gr Beman MFX arrows footed with 1″ 2018 pieces, tipped with 50gr brass inserts, 75gr adapters, and tipped with 175gr Abowyer Brown Bear heads. I use a dura-glove from 3 Rivers
60″ 60# Osage selfbow, Plains quiver ( I only let skin, leather and wood touch my selfbow!! 😀 ), 650-670gr lodgepole arrows crafted by Milton Beens tipped with 145gr Eclipse broadheads
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My mismash of hunters.
Left to right
1966 64 inch, 42lb Kodiak
1952 62 inch, 46lb Bear Cub longbow
1952 64 inch, 50lb Kodiak static recurveState of the art..(I dont have a clue what it is) canvas side quiver that has “brushes” inside to center the arrows and metal “ribs” to hold the shape, full length zipper.
My crossover “Big Jim” glove, goretex cap, reg cap…..and “old lucky” hat. (See camo type? OLD Lucky, lol)
Under the hats is my haversack for “necessities” (flashlight, food, rope, knife, drinks, TPaper, book sometimes and yes…..my CAMERA, Doc!)
Arrows are tonkin cane, standard cedars (the two grey barred and white are 25 years old, bought new from Kelly Peterson) and some sweetland forgewoods, weights 600-710, FOC around 20 percent, give or take.
and Tuffheads of course with a Goshawk thrown in for nostalgia’s sake..
Camo dohickey in the top right of the photo is my 5 foot collapsible umbrella…..go ahead, laugh. 😀 I can stay out and NOT get wet OR use it for a partial blind, shade when none is available…etc.
and NOT working Saturday, opening day.
God Bless
Steve Sr.
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Well, I included two of my favorite knives in my setup pic so I think questions about them are as relevant as questions about bows. Not trying to hi-jack the thread, to answer Dave’s question, the knife is a Schrade Uncle Henry 171UH. They never were as popular as some of the lighter weight Schrade knives but I like it with its own honing stone it is somewhat utilitarian but is a nice looking knife with some heft to it. Sadly, the new ones available are made in China now but USA made models can be found on e-bay and some knife forums. I found mine in a vintage jewelry shop in Virginia.
The gut hook was added by the previous owner which diminishes the collectability of the knife but I wanted it to use so I don’t mind it.
Duncan
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The osage selfbow is 50# at 27 inches. I made it Jan 2011. It’s been interesting watching it change color these past months. I’d say the color is perfect for hunting. It shoots very well. There is no shelf. The arrow rest is my hand. The handle is narrowed but tillered to bend slightly. The blunt tipped arrow on the left is made from a hazlenut shoot. It is my squirrel arrow. The blunt is actually a shell casing with a small piece of metal epoxied in a groove cut with a hack saw. The wild rose hunting arrow is tipped with a trade point I made from metal left by my Dad…Lord rest him. The point is put on with pine pitch and tied on with sinew coated with hide glue. One of the feathers is hand ground from a wild turkey feather while the hens are cut from store bought feathers. The feathers are cut in my style. The fletching was put on with a jig using hide glue but reinforced with sinew set in hide glue. The self nocked arrow is waterproofed with deer fat from a deer I killed a few years ago. Note the plains quiver which has a couple of pouches storing first aid kit, snacks and a flashlight. There are 2 hand planed white pine arrows in my quiver. One is tipped with a blunt and the other is tipped with a Zwicky. I made the neck knife a few years ago from the same metal as the trade point. It’s handy. Jawge
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