Trad Gang
Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: trashwood on January 06, 2009, 01:03:00 PM
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Today the tradbow hunting recurves fit into a narrow definition of what a traditional recurve was. Go to a recurve bowyer today and want to talk about sights, stabilizer, and pluner bosses and you get a look like you just stepped off a spaceship. Lucky for me the Mike (wingnut) from Dryad bows shot West Coast 3D competition with a compound before he came to his senses and started shooting traditional. What this did for me was give me a bowyer to talk to that had a real knowledge of how to use sights, stabilizers, plunges, all those things that were very common in the 1970's recurve but that are gone now :) .
I wanted a tradbow recurve that could go either way. If I want to shoot instinctive, twist of the hex head wrench and I am good to go. If I want to go play the the 3D guys and thus gapping like a big dog, few twist of the hex head wrench and I am ready to. If I want to go pig hunting at night with a lighted sight and Hawglite, just get the hex wrench out :) .
Thus here is my Orion. Great arrow speed, up with my hottest reurves. I will let the 20 yds groups speach for how smooth the bow is. there is no amount of rhetoric about a bow that group size will not say :)
http://sites.google.com/site/stringwalkerbowhunter/dryadorion
rusty
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My Dryad Orion - 16" riser with stablizer boss, sight attachment boss, shoot off the shelf. 60" 47#@28" recurve and 64" 45#@28" longbow limbs.
Jason and Mike did a great job installing bosses. the sight attachment bosses have a rim on them so that you do not bolt the sight bracket up against the wood of the riser. Same is true of the stabilizer boss.
I forget who does their camo dip but it is flawless and very handsome (kinda like me :) ).
OH MAN - I feel like I just dropped back into the 70's It just don't get no better
rusty
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Yesssssssssssssssssssss!
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Cool set-up Rusty. I sent you a PM. ;)
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whats the cost on a bow like this? If you dont mind me asking. I think its really cool I think I need to get me one. Can you use a plunger or just shoot off the shelf
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Rusty,
It's actually a 17" riser, but ya got the rest of it correct. LOL
Babs,
It's set to shoot off of the shelf. Check our website. The bow starts at $500 and you add the options to make it what you want.
Mike
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Geeze Wingnut is this going to be called the
RustyOrion version :D
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Hormoan - na, then he'd have to call the bow the "half-wit old geezer". Don't think the name will ever catch on :)
I do know the Jason put extra re-enforcment in the riser. Which is real good for me. I have the nastiest habit of stringwalking the bows when I am up in the stand. Un-balances the limbs and puts extra stress on the riser. Stringwalking a bow is another real good reason to have stablizer boss on my bow. One of those Doinkers really smooths out the stringwalking shot.
rusty
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Well Rusty we know calling it the Trashwood won't do :biglaugh:
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:bigsmyl:
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Of course you can get the bow like that without the hardware too.
It's not just for sights, stringwalking, light holding ol' geezers.
LOL
MIke
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Awesome bow Rusty! I like that setup with the singlepin, I'm just suprised you got enough horizontal travel from it, I had to move mine way over to get my pins inline.
Really like that camo, I'd be afraid to set that down in the woods - I'd loose it for sure!
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Wihill - using the Apex sight on the Orion I still had bar left on both sides on the sight. I really like the sight. It is a Apex.
rusty
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Originally posted by wihill:
[QB] Awesome bow Rusty! I like that setup with the singlepin, I'm just suprised you got enough horizontal travel from it, I had to move mine way over to get my pins inline.
Pins, :confused:
What pins Chris??
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Originally posted by frassettor:
Originally posted by wihill:
[QB] Awesome bow Rusty! I like that setup with the singlepin, I'm just suprised you got enough horizontal travel from it, I had to move mine way over to get my pins inline.
Pins, :confused:
What pins Chris?? [/b]
You know what pins - and not the one on my shoulders either - :D You remember the sight on my GM, AKA Chris' "safety blanket".
You're just pokin' fun because my instinctive shooting is getting slightly better (I CAN hit the broadside of the barn now!)
:thumbsup:
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Ah well a pin - never having to put up a "I missed" thread :) .
Rusty
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Awesome looking bow guys!
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Rusty, when I was 15 year old or so I first begin shooting a recurve. The method I used was string walking. It works very well although I have not picked it back up since starting back to shooting several year ago now. I shot field archery tourney's then in the bare bow class. You don't see it "string walking" used much anymore.
Great looking bow Mike and Jason do great work. I have several Dryad bows myself. My Orion long bow is a the best.
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I add a pic at the bottom of the string. it is the orion at work oover a night time stand. It was a new stand and pigs are hitting just now and them........last night was one of the other time they didn't. I well get ya a pic of the pigs in the sight and hawglight pretty soon. Wingnnut and I have been hunting the boggy bottoms a bit when it is not too wet.
http://sites.google.com/site/stringwalkerbowhunter/dryadorion
60" orion is a nice balace of lenght vs tree stand usability.
rusty
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the feeder is an old car tire. cut a 3 - 4 sampling off, fill the tire up with cron and put it over the sampling. pigs come in and play kick the tire to get the corn out. very good distraction for a tree stand hunter.
rusty
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one thing the picture illustrates that we as traditional shooters that cant our bows don't worry about is string placement. when shooting a sight you have two options. 1) wink the sight with the string. that is pass the string between you and the pin. thus you will know ya have got the shoot on line. 2) locate the string with relation to the riser and out it in that relationship every time. the latter is what I use. since the orion has a radiused sight window face it is very easy to visualize the sight picture of the string on the radius window. picuteing the string on the riser gives me a much more natural draw and release.
you can see and imagine the string sgiht picture from the last photo. that is where I line it up for the orion
rusty
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I would like to see one without that ugly camo dip on it. :saywhat:
That bow is probably beautiful be we can't tell. Good Grief Rusty!!!!
Mike....do you have a photo of one similar in it's natural clothes?
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George,
Don't have any with the 17" riser but here are a few of the 15".
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v79/mwestvang/tradgang%20pics/curve_1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v79/mwestvang/dano2.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v79/mwestvang/Orion/orionswoop_3.jpg)
Mike
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this morning I had a little time. I bent a light spring steel wire so I could use it as temp clicker. I had 1916 arrow that were 28&3/4" long to end of tip. weighed in a 430grs. I put the Arrowspeed Radarchron in the stabilizer boss. I mount the 64" longbow limbs and took some warm up shots.
I set my temp wire clicker that I had duct taped on. ten shoot with the clicker gave me 183fps average. Hey Wingnut that is very good. 183fps at 9.55gpp, 45# and my release :) exellent speed.
riser ergonomics are spot in the mark for me. gonna make a dandy 3D bow.
George - oh man that is handsome camo. kinda gotta a pinkish orange tinge to it :)
rusty
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Yebbbbut....look at those sweethearts above. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
That is ultra-nice Mike.
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as an aside - if you have a bad bow arm shoulder from oldage, motorcycle accidents, or mis-spent youth activities the Doinker stablizer units can make all the difference. the rubber coupling asborbs some the bow movement when released. the is one of the biggest reasons I ask Wingnut to put a stablizer boss on the bow.....well it didn't hurt that you also get to use a Hawglite :)
rusty
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Trashwood,those fletchings....they show up real good in low light or no?
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Originally posted by wingnut:
George,
Don't have any with the 17" riser but here are a few of the 15".
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v79/mwestvang/tradgang%20pics/curve_1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v79/mwestvang/dano2.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v79/mwestvang/Orion/orionswoop_3.jpg)
Mike
Hey I know that bow real well. :thumbsup:
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vtmtman - the pink show up well in dim lihgt but not in dark, fkash ligh picks the up good at night.
rusty
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Yep the one on top is Jason's, middle is Dano's and the bottom is Shawn's. I think.
Mike
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Originally posted by trashwood:
vtmtman - the pink show up well in dim lihgt but not in dark, fkash ligh picks the up good at night.
rusty
:thumbsup:
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Rusty....here's what real wood looks like. :readit: :saywhat: :D
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/oldearcher46/DentonHill008.jpg)