Show us your bows

[Stuart69]

Wasn't sure where to put this thread could a mod please move it if it's the wrong place.

I've recently, thanks to Grooveski, got into field archery and having seen the show us your guns threads had a search for bow threads and couldn't find one.

Get you bows out and show us a pic

I ordered a Samick Lightning take-down bow yesterday so here's hoping the post is quick.

 

[dwardo]

Great idea but you will be sorry you asked

Favourite shortie is a birch bow.

Favourite shooter

some others.

 

[Stuart69]

Great idea but you will be sorry you asked

I think my bank balance will be sorrier

Lovely looking bows you have there, are they all self-made? I'd love to be able to make my own sometime but that's a long way off.

 

[dwardo]

I am too tight to buy them so i make my own

 

[Stuart69]

You've definitely got a talent there, they all look superb

My carving extends to spoons, cups and lots of shavings at the moment.

 

[Cromm]

Nice work. Now I will show the bows I have just as soon as I work out how to post photos on here.

 

[Stuart69]

have a look at this Link shows you how to post pics

HTH,
Stuart

 

[al21]

From a while a go, but shows the bow quite well.

It's a Quicks 58" take down Hunter with 45# limbs.

 

[al21]

Would this thread be better in 'Kit Chatter'?

 

[JohnL]

I have got one of these

70lbs pull.
very bushcrafty I know.

 

[pwb]

Here's mine , wish I could actually hit anything with it though .

It's made from sycamore stained to look like yew.

 

[Klenchblaize]

Would this thread be better in 'Kit Chatter'?

If only in "Fair Game".

 

[Nonsuch]

My self-made ash self flatbow, about 35lbs, with self-made arrows to match

My Millenium flatbow, 45lbs, which I shoot with most of the time

 

[gowersponger]

nonsuch ,,very well made. bet your ferret could get more rabbits than you

 

[Nonsuch]

If I had a ferret, undoubtedly !

 

[Grooveski]

OK guys, go easy on me. I know it's gotton out of hand and fully intend to sell a few someday.
From the top.

Robertson Stykbow - Don't have that one any more, that's an old pic.
Border Griffon GL
Border Black Reiver
Bear Kodiak Magnum

Home made laminate longbow. My only attempt at making one that didn't blow up in my face.
A wee Howard Hill longbow.
Internature glass horsebow affair
Samick Lightning(Doc should be on commission)
Hoyt Gold Medalist
...and a PSE compound in the background.

Oh, and there's an old compound in a case that I forgot about.

 

[dwardo]

Grooveski that some collection of bows you have there! not to mention arrows and quivers

Planning an invastion at some point?

 

[Biker]

Mine's a PSE leaf cammoflaged compound bow 26lbs - 45lb draw weight. I traded it with a neighbour who wanted me to paint a logo on the back of his Ford XR3i car back in the mid 90's. Good deal I thought.

It's similar to this:

No, it's not mine, it's just an image I found.

I made a bow mounted quiver for 12 arrows, like you see in the picture, it works well enough. But when fired it sounds like two dustbin lids banging together. If I ever went hunting with it the sheer noise it creates would scare my prey to death. The upside would be that the skins wouldn't be unpunctured.

Having lost a few arrows, I ended up painting them all day-glo orange. Haven't lost one since. (Upstairs for thinking, downstairs for dancing)

Really nice bows you fellas have, I mean really nice.

 

[Stuart69]

My new Samick Lightning arrived, happy days

 

[Everything Mac]

haven't got any good pictures of mine.

but its a bow I made last summer - a Yew longbow.

far from perfect but it does a good job.
not sure of the exact pull weight as I didn't to strain it when testing but it pulls 40lb at 22" - so in the region of 55-60 at the full 30"

cheers