Meeting a archery Icon

[jpd]

#3371

Today I had the honor of meeting Tim Meigs at his archery shop. I found out that his shop is only 8 miles from my house and decided to stop by. Tim was at the shop and took the time to show me through his shop and show me a duo-flex bow that he was building. He also told me about his building of bows for 60 plus years and a couple of stories of his hunting adventures. Needless to say that it was a honor and a privilage to meet this pioneer of Trad. archery. I will be going by his shop more and am thinking of having a bow built. —-jim d

[handirifle]

#19230

Wow, he’s still at it, amazing. Glad to hear it. About 15 years ago, I bought a Martin recurve, at 60lbs. Mistake. The salvation was that it was a 66″ bow. I sent it to Tim, and he ground down the limb width almost 1/2″ on both limbs, and brought the weight to 55lbs.

The unexpected benefit, was limb recovery speed was much faster, thus the bow actually “picked up speed” by about 10 FPS. I added a fast flight string and picked up another 5fps, so a 15 FPS gain for a 5lb loss. Not a bad deal.

Tims work was fantastic. Thee was no indication the bow didn’t leave the factory that way, except that the limbs still said 60lb.

[jpd]

#19825

Tim told me that he is now 84 years old and he only works at the shop on part time basis. When I asked if he still built longbows he told me not very much anymore he mostly builds the duo-flex recurves.

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