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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: tzolk on September 08, 2020, 07:57:16 PM
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Hats off to Dan and Jared, it's a real team effort over there. Some of you are already fans of this model. Over the past few or several years, one or the other, I frequently asked Dan if he would ever make a 60" Chinook. It wasn't too long ago him and Jared pulled the first ones off the presses, oh maybe 2016-ish I'm thinking. Anyways, I tried one out but never pulled the trigger. Frankly I was nervous stringing up the one he sent me to try out. Those limbs have a nice old-school hook to them when not strung and you just can't, or at least I couldn't, do the push pull method of stinging like you do with longbows. So recently this was added to the family and I can't believe I waited this long. I've included pics of the scale when the bow was drawn from 28-30. The bow is 51@30 and even a bit beyond that, I really do not feel it hitting a stack point. The riser is somewhat petite compared to the Whip and even the Whistler of the same length. This gives one the option of getting a nice small grip if you fancy that. They did get some really good looking Montana beaver tail on brown that gives any bow a classic look and I swear, even with an arrow side plate on the riser, the string seems to line up center on the limbs and the arrow. Here I thought my 60" Whistler was the smoothest bow in the family but now that is blown out of the water. If anyone is on the fence about one of these classic recurves, you really need to try one. Soooooo sexy looking at those curves!
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Scale shows 28,29,30 inch draw #. From 29-30 is 2.5 lbs for this 60" recurve. And hats off to GN for the awesome lasered quiver!
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I love my chinook as well and I've never shot a bow it's equal. Where in the world did you get that quiver? Very nice looking bow! However I cannot tell what your limb veneer is but looks very similar to mine which has curly Maple and a black grip.
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Beautiful bow! I emailed Dan about a 60" take down Chinook that he has listed on his page. If its still available, I may have to grab it.
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Dave, the veneers are Myrtle. Not fancy but some nice color with vertical striping. Great Northern can burn a logo into a quiver hood, that's what that is with the Toelke logo
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Todd, I had one of the first Chinooks Dan made, a 60" Cocobolo/Juniper bow that was a stunner in the looks department. If you get a chance chronograph yours, mine was very fast and did not bog down with heavy arrows even 12-13 to 1. And it was long bow quiet but then all of Dan's bows are quiet as I'm sure you know.
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Dave, the veneers are Myrtle. Not fancy but some nice color with vertical striping. Great Northern can burn a logo into a quiver hood, that's what that is with the Toelke logo
What a beauty!!!! How much extra for the logo?? I found a flaw with your bow btw...... seems to be right handed..
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Nice bow,that grip looks great.
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Wow that is elegance in a bow
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Dave, it's an extra $20. Jim, I'm shooting 11.3 gpp arrows and it zips very nicely and quiet like you said! Here's the veneers in a better pic. This is more fun to shoot than my longbows! Going to be using this, this deer season. The throat of the grip is about 4 3/8 . Slender!
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I'm with you. That classic grip is amazing and it's actually more filling than you would suspect.
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Beautiful bow! I emailed Dan about a 60" take down Chinook that he has listed on his page. If its still available, I may have to grab it.
Seth, which one are you looking at?
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tzolk, He has a 60" T/D 53# @28 with bocote accents and myrtle veneers (standard grip) still listed.
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Fine looking stick. I do like the smaller grip. Graceful lines and nice wood. Congratulations.
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Why did I look?!
Man, that is nice. I'm off to the website.
It doesn't seem possible for me with our low dollar, but that looks exactly like a bow I would like.
I like the smaller grip too.
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TZ I was wondering when youd join the club. IMO the Chinook is the best all around bow that Toelke makes. I love my 2pc. My 3rd Chinook to date. These bows do nothing wrong and everything right. My 60" and my 64" Mountain Monarch have a good rivalry going. The MM and the Chinook are very similar shooters. Glad youre enjoying yours. They are so damn quiet for a recurve its crazy.
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Dan and Jared make great bows !
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I wish I could shoot a Chinook. My 32" draw just won't allow it. So I'm left to "settle" for their SS recurve, which is all the things you just said about your Chinook, only longer. :biglaugh:
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Wow... nice looking bow. Smooth curves....good title!
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Awesome!!! If there just were not so-ooo many bows out there and so-ooo few coins in my pocket.
:coffee: :campfire: :thumbsup:
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Looks awesome! The Chinook is exactly the bow I want to get next! 58 or 60”. I recently got a big jim Thunderchild with a petite grip. I love it. I hardly ever see the chinook or Whistler for sale used though. I really seem to shoot those style bows best.
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Just got mine this summer. Didn't like the feel of the beaver tail so I took it off. Works just fine now and smooth to shoot.
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This could lead to stress on my checkbook! After a few Whips and my Pika, and some time with a Whistler, I may be developing a problem. Is the sight window on the Chinook a little bigger than the Whistler?
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I've been into Longbows for a few years now but that is one sweeeeet looking Recurve. If I ever go that direction again this will be the bow I believe. Very elegant looking. Thank you for sharing. :clapper:
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Joe, as you know those Toelkes have that smooth long transition from the shelf to the limb so it's hard to guage. I've had a 58" Whistler and a 66" Whip and I've never noticed a handicap from one sight window to another while shooting. Here's a pic of the difference between the riser widths between the Chinook and the Whistler
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Joe,
Here's a better pic. The Chinook does ramp up a hair sooner than the Whistler probably because the limbs are wider. Overall though, just a slim difference
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Thanks Todd!
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Love my Whistler, work of art. Smoothest bow I've ever pulled
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Love my Whistler, work of art. Smoothest bow I've ever pulled
Have you pulled back one of these Chinooks?