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    • Alexandre Bugnon
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        March 6, 2015 at 1:26 pm
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        #7321

        Courtesy of Bruce Smithhammer! Thanks, bro! Right now, I’ve just put it on my Shrew for show, but it will find a permanent home on my self bow by Paul Brunner pictured below!

      • Fallguy
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          March 6, 2015 at 1:31 pm
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          #60510

          Very Nice Alex, I have not heard Paul’s name mentioned in a long time. He used to post on Trad Gang but I do not spend as much time there anymore. Do you have more pictures of that self bow? The teasers look great.

        • Bruce Smithhammer
            March 6, 2015 at 1:35 pm
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            #60514

            Glad to see you’re getting good use out of it, brother! And yeah – I’d like to see more pics of that Brunner bow when you get a chance as well!

          • Alexandre Bugnon
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              March 6, 2015 at 1:35 pm
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              #60515

              Fallguy wrote: Very Nice Alex, I have not heard Paul’s name mentioned in a long time. He used to post on Trad Gang but I do not spend as much time there anymore. Do you have more pictures of that self bow? The teasers look great.

              Yes I do!

            • David Coulter
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                March 7, 2015 at 1:14 am
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                #61183

                That is a real beauty. I love the handle wrap. Looks like ankle skin. Thanks for posting. Dc

              • Bruce Smithhammer
                  March 7, 2015 at 4:23 am
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                  #61312

                  Alex – that is a very cool bow, to put it mildly. How does it shoot?

                • Alexandre Bugnon
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                    March 7, 2015 at 4:55 pm
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                    #61916

                    Thanks guys! the grip is beaver fur, the tips and arrow shelf are from kudu horn and the back is prairie rattler from around Paul’s Montana home. It shoots great although I need to bring it to a self bow connaisseur to figure out if my top limb has warped a little and needs fixing. It is 60#@28 and I don’t let anything but wood or cane arrows touch my self bow!! 😀

                    It was a great day when I killed this doe with it, minutes before sunset on the last day of the ’05 season!! My first and only kill with the bow! I was shooting compressed and tapered cedar shafts with my favorite Zwickey eskimo b’head!

                  • David Coulter
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                      March 7, 2015 at 6:05 pm
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                      #61965

                      Alex, congratulations on the doe with that beautiful self bow. I’m Sure that’s part the your permanent collection. Best, dwc

                    • wojo14
                        March 24, 2015 at 10:23 am
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                        #24160

                        Alex, very cool bow. I have been wanting a self bow. I wish I had more time to learn how to make one…

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