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I’ve been looking for a new bow with a reduced draw weight. While in my “youth” I commonly shot bows in the upper 60’s to even 70+, in my “middle” years I was very comfortable around 60. For this one I was looking for low 50’s. A little bursitis in my drawing elbow and a few back issues demand a lower weight now.
This last week I paid a visit to Dave Dwyer’s shop. Fortunately for me, he’s only 40 miles away. I had never met Dave before, but I found the internet chocked full of good reviews of his bows. In addition, my multiple emails with questions were answered very promptly by Sue Dwyer. The whole experience was exceptional. And Dave’s bows are fairly priced too.
He had several to look at, but his new Endeavor model really caught my eye. I have a “longer” draw at about 30″, so I wasn’t so sure a bow that is 58″ would even be a possibility. The bow I looked at was 48# at 28″. We put it on the scale and that short little bow came up just 2# per inch over 28″! Now, that’s a smooth bow! I shot a couple of Dave’s bows, but kept coming back to this little Endeavor and when I left a couple of hours later, it was on it’s way home with me.
The handle is Cocobolo. The limb cores are bamboo and the veneers are Osage.
It shoots incredibly fast and is feather light. Should be a real pleasure to carry in the deer woods next fall.
Here’s a few pictures. Thanks for taking a look.
Did I mention it shoots well? This was only from 15 yards, but I’ll take it. Well, er….at $10 a pop, maybe Robin Hoods aren’t such a good thing! 😀
Dave does beautiful work:
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Great looking bow – congrats!
There seem to be a lot of misconceptions floating around these days about the supposed shortcomings/limitations of short bows – that they stack, they don’t accommodate longer draw lengths, etc. Yet there are plenty of short hybrid bows being made today that contradict those assumptions.
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eidsvolling wrote: Wonderful looking bow. Needs a turkey on the ground alongside it, though. 😉
(For those who aren’t aware, that wonderfully hilly country in the background is called the Driftless Area, so named because it missed out on a visit by the last glacier that came through and dropped a load on the Upper Midwest. It’s a unique and beautiful landscape – just don’t be camping in those river bottoms during a big thunderstorm …)
Yes it is a beautiful area! My other hobby is building and shooting flintlocks and this is one of my favorite pictures. In the mid-1800’s this was my great great grandfather’s farm. Whether wandering around stumpshooting or hunting with bow or flintlock, I always marvel at the beauty of this land.
And…I have been caught on the mighty Mississippi, which is very wide near my home, in thunderstorms. 😯 But I assume you mean don’t be caught in some of the narrow valleys or you might end up in the mighty Mississippi!
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