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That's nice work. What's the handle/blade length for those knives?

Mate, I'd suggest getting a samick sage with two sets of limbs, just like your idea with the bear. You could buy that for less than just a set of bear limbs. Then after you've been shooting a while you'll have had more exposure to different bows and ideas and will be more confident dropping some ser...

Sold pending funds.

To be honest, this conversation seems a little unhinged from reality. I've spent a fair bit of time in the US and my experience is that you won't find more passionate and interested bowhunters anywhere. Their base of 'traditionalists' support a healthy national trad organisation, a plethora of trad ...

great stuff Rod.

I don't know Mick, I suspect it may be a case of only getting a small view of what is naturally going to be a more diverse group (courtesy of more people being involved) that's lead you to thinking Americans have a very different view of trad archery.

Dennis La Varenne wrote:They are not an historical longbow by any definition.

I think that is a point that everyone would agree with.

there is no such thing as a three piece take down longbow The modern version is nothing more than a take-down recurved bow riser with straighter limbs LONGBOW: 1. Traditional type of English bow usually made from a single stave of wood, whose limb configuration is almost at thick as it is wide, and...

Mick I haven't taken anything with it. Pound for pound I reckon it's the slowest production bow I've shot. It's by no means terrible, I just reckon you could probably add 5 or 10 pounds to what you might think would be adequate and shoot 8-9gpp to get the most out of it. I bought mine as I had acces...

It is incredibly high Daryl, the recommendation from Bear is 8-9" and that is set at about 9. So for me that's about a 19" powerstroke. You won't be surprised to hear that I've never received any string slap from that bow

Hey guys, I was fiddling with some bows this morning and just happened to think these three looked neat lined up alongside one another, from shortest to longest, most recurved to least and most forward handle to straightest... http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r223/ausjim/BowComparison.jpg http://i...

Jim. The 'Law of Diminishing Returns' applies to everything ... however I would still to prefer to put my effort/money into performance rather than looks. I suppose that's true Grahame. To elaborate my point a little, I've never shot a bow and thought "If only this bow performed a little bette...

Am I the only one that is irked by crossbows being included in 'archery' statistics? I do feel bad for crossbow enthusiasts, but beyond discussions of ballistics, I'm sure their art has a lot more in common with rifle shooting than archery. Or am I being unreasonable?

I think if folks weren't willing to sacrifice performance for aesthetic or romantic reasons bowhunting wouldn't exist. So we all fall in that spectrum somewhere. After all, there is something very visually pleasing about a shaft arcing through the air to a target, regardless of whether it's getting ...

It doesn't please me Dennis. I can't really figure out why, beyond the handle looking big and bulbous. I think the handle colours/pattern look out of place against the natural colour of the bow. I can't help but think a bit of square wood wrapped with leather would be a lot nicer.

Jim

Arrived today! Very smooth shooter and a beautiful little bow...





The bow weighs 600grams. Unbelievably light in the hand. Can't wait to get out and about with it

If you don't know who Don Thomas is you can read a short bio here: http://donthomasbooks.com/index.html In this book Don Thomas recounts a bunch of hunts in Alaska and his very exciting expedition in Russia's eastern wilderness (apparently he was the first American to bowhunt there). Every chapter i...

I was a little disappointed with the mountain lion hunt where dogs were used to "tree" the animal and the unfortunate animal was basically executed at short range with an arrow, but apart from that, I found the DVD truly worth buying and viewing. 8) Mick, I thought the same thing the firs...

I just finished watching it too Jack. I don't think it's his best (he set that bar pretty high with the boars and barra series) but as he explains it's an extra challenge setting up a camera then stalking in the last bit for the shot, trying to keep it all in the frame when he doesn't have a hunting...

It's peculiar that it says 52". Is it possible that the '2' is a really badly written '8'? Anyway, they're a beautiful bow. Hope it sells soon

In 2000 or 2001, Darryl Reeks sold me my first bow and gave me my first archery lesson. He taught me to shoot 3 under. I've since switched to split, just because it feels a little more... I don't know.. maybe it's because that's what I saw in Robin Hood books when I was a kid. Two good arguments I'v...

Clint I was looking at kids arrows recently and the two at the top of the list I found in Australia were 25#, 5/16" Douglas Fir from tradbits, not weight matched for about $3 a shaft and 26" fibreglass arrows, fletched, nocked and field points, 10 pack was about $40 from apex archery. I en...

Rod, it should be good in the close stuff. I'm interested in how it feels compared to my 64" longbow, which is the longest bow I've ever shot and have a fair bit of confidence with. The take down system is some kind of bolt rather than a sleeve. I reckon that Big Jim's method looks pretty bulle...

That's awesome mate! I just made my 3 year old a similar sized longbow out of PVC. Yours looks much nicer

I don't think I've ever suffered from it. Although while shooting this afternoon, I had drawn the arrow about 3 inches off full draw when my son (3) who was standing right behind me, said "fire dad!". Without any thought at all I let go of the string. Blew my group right out. Little bugger...

so what do we call a bow with D/R limbs other than a D/R bow? Bjorn, You call it by its proper name depending on what type of bow it is. To save repeating myself have a read of my post down the page a bit in this thread which should help clear things up for you. http://www.ozbow.net/phpBB3/viewtopi...

Mick Smith wrote:Nice! What sort of timbers are in it Jim?

Mick, it's brown stained birch burl on the belly and the riser is walnut dymonwood. The belly looks very nice in the picture, although I don't actually know what 'birch burl' is

I'm not so keen on the Bearpaw, (Black Widow lookalike) though, with it's massive riser, but some people like that sort of thing. :smile: Mick, I've never liked them either, but after seeing some of ze Germans, which seem a little simpler and natural looking than the widows I've seen, they're growi...

But I am about to receive a sweet little d/r longbow from the states.. I'll let you know how it goes :wink: I meant short bow :wink: Another thought regarding the original post is the recommendation of one of the best instinctive archers I've ever seen, Jeff Kavanagh. He's often said the Bear Grizz...

That is such a horrible question to ask. Honestly the two recurves that have stood out to me recently have been pretty much any Flatliner ... Rob keeps putting up photos of the most ridiculously gorgeous recurves... and a Blackwidow-esque recurve that ze Germans at Bearpaw Archery have been producin...