all of us have our favorite bow that we go to each hunting season; what nickname do you have for that bow? mine is "serious business"...because when the meat locker is gettin' low then it's time to get serious; please share that bow here at the..... :campfire: ....thanks
I have two.
A Horne longbow called 'Texas Memories' & my Morrison Shawnee, 'Nailbomb'
My widow i have ordered will be called "Jovana Grace" my daughters name
Screamin' Shee-ra and she's for sale on the classifieds!
I have a Marriah Thermal named "Good Medicine", a 56" Morrison Cheyenne named "The Mighty", and a Brackenbury Non-Typical called "The Rock".
"The Rock" is named for the chunk of turquois I asked Bill to inlay into the riser.
"The Mighty" is an ebony and osage bow and given the same nic name as my first old black and tan dachshund.
"Good Medicine" is named for all of the good karma and priceless lille extras that Ric added when he built the bow.
:campfire:
My Kwik Styk is "Arol Fling" -
My new Firefly TD Longbow is "Plain Jane". Just a gray action wood Riser with gray black bamboo limbs. Nothing fancy. Bow are mostly a tool for me.
Currently shooting "Wormy" my Kajika Longbow.
Josh
My shrew is simply "my longbow". If I was talking about another of my longbows I would specify but the shrew is my go to bow.
I just picked up a Hoyt Gamemaster2 that is going to be called the "meat grinder" It's kinda ugly and made of metal but there is no doubt it will put meat on the table....hence the name
my robert painter (aka towtimer) longbow called wolf spirit as it is slient as a wolf stalking its prey
I have an osage selfbow named "Turkey's Bad Dream".
I have a PMA named "EMILIE ANN"
I have a rattlesnake skinned Sarrels TD Recurve that I named "The Venom Stick". I also have a Sarrels TD longbow with black glass limbs that I named "The Black Plague".
Bisch
My latest bow, and current absolute favorite, is "Out of the Closet". Aw, c'mon, guys... I know what you're thinking :^) It was made with closet lining cedar. All I said was that the name should have something to do with closets and my wife popped out with that. I'm currently working on another cedar bow for hiking and stumping. It'll be called "Walkin Closet".
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Around Christmas time I recieved my 2008 St. Jude auction Sunbear. I have yet to shoot at an animal and miss. It's a 62# @ 30" that is quiet as could be. It's name is "Strict Nine".
I have a 60" Bear hunter Take down that is 70# @ 30" that I can target shoot great with all day long. When it comes to hunting, we have a hard time. It's name started out as "Flinger", but ended up as "Clutch popper". That story is a thread in it's self.....
Good luck,
Todd
I don't name my bows - weird ! But I named one special arrow - it was accurate from the start , flew perfectly , just could not break survived many impacts with tree's and rocks so it got called "Lucky" , she was hand planed Douglas Fir with a purple heart footin.
We have an advert on TV for an insurance company with a jinngle that sings - Your Lucky to be with Amy . So this arrow morphed from "Lucky" to "Aimee"
"Aimee" , won me plenty of places in tournaments then after 6 years I broke her clean in half - so I fitted a short section of 2117 alloy shaft and she became number one in a batch of 6 take down arrows .
She won me a few more places in tournaments and then I lost her too the bush arrow god . Figured Aimee deserved a rest and let her be .
regards Jacko
Named my Treadway Sweet Memories hopefully when I pass on my grandsons will have Sweet Memories of Pop
My longbow is " Billy Berrue" after Ted Knight's wooden putter on the movie Caddy Shack. Knight pulls his wooden putter out of his bag and hugs it saying, Billy, Billy ,Billy don't let me down now.
My son will even say to me on the way to our stands, Huntin with Billy tonight!
This thread made me name my bow.It's a Habu triple carbon Vyperkahn now named """STACK"",because I paid one hell of a stack of money for it.
I made a selfbow from an osage stave given to me by Hackbow at Mojam in 2003. It's name is "Twisted Sister".
Here are the name's of my five bows.
St. Joe River Bow 'curve 60" 50lbs she is named "Honey" b/c she is so sweet
St. Joe River Bow, longbow, 62" 58lbs, his name is "Fred". Orginally the bow was named "Big Red" b/c the wood is all dyed red, however the named evovled into "Fred"
Robertson Styckbow, 62" 58lb 'curve, named "Lessons Learned" I have learned many lessons on shooting, hunting, and life while hunting with this bow.
Martin Super Diablo 60" 55lbs, named "Ol Two Shots". Seemed like I always missed the first deer of the season, with this bow, but always nailed the second hence "two shots"
Selfbow 68" 55lbs. This bow was made by a friend of mine. Its name is "SlowBow" It's sweet shooting, but boy is it slow.
chris <><
Howard hill cheeta --Howy when i am shooting good--sob when I'm not.
"RATIRONTAK" Mohawk word for "people who eat bark" or Adirondacks. If I don't shoot my first deer soon, I might have to eat bark soon with this economy!
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Not real entertaining, but my Kanati's knicknamed "Thud" - becuase that's all I hear when the arrow smacks home.
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I'm in hopes to name my new kajika stik from JD Lund old smokey for the recurve and old smokey II for the longbow limbs as this is an action grey bow(smoke color) and I quit smoking to buy this bow! My wife came up with it on one of our hikes!!
Two of Chad Francis' Lost Creek longbows...
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Hey Spence, I remember that stave. I hope she still shoots for you. :thumbsup:
I have only named one bow. John Scifres made a selfbow for an elk hunt we went on in '02. I eventually called it Ittai after one of King David's "mighty men" chronicled in 2 Samuel, 15:18-22. Ittai's devotion to David also describes my friendship and brotherhood with John.
My wife named my Widow "Angelina" because I said it was sexy.
Currently shooting a zipper standard riser (aka widow maker).
my t/d hill is call "Gut Pile" because if i do my part the bow does his part there will be a gut pile.
I call my GN fireball, Invictus. The poem with the same name became my platoons battle cry in Iraq. It means unconquerable ,or invincible in latin and since every time I think I've got my shooting figured out, I find something to improve, I figured it fit.
1. Beautiful 68" Big 5 is my favorite at 82# I call "SSWya" for Smokin Skunk Whistle.
I named mine O'snapp
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"Twilight and Mist" From the song title, plus it's when and where I do most of my hunting in these eastern VA swamps...
Widow Osage Longbow name.
THE QUICK AN THE DEAD
:jumper:
DH Mamba named "The Teacher"
Someone once told me that a bow has to earn its name. The ones I have right now, currently have no names.
However, I am having one built that will be marked "Wood Runner" on the limbs because, it will be the bow that I do most of my running around in the woods with when I receive it. The others will just have to bide there time and find there personality.
Heres Running Dog my old AMF wing 58" 60@28"
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And heres thumper dunker my old howitt 58"55@28"
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Thumpers my to go bow. Nothing fancy.
I have a 60" Pronghorn that's been owned by at least two folks before me.
The name on the bow is "Jim Johns", so that's what I call him.
The Black Widow that has killed 2 deer for me is 'Widow Claw'
Hummingbird Longbow with spalted Maple limbs that have Ambrosia Beetle holes in wood is 'Wormwood'
Roy
Got the "Bug" to build a selfbow a few years back. Worked on it for months and finally finished in June. Call her "June Bug"
"Black Magic" was my first trad bow, a carbon backed bow by Acadian woods. That one put me in its spell thus the name.
"LTS" short for Long Tall Sally, is my longest bow, a 68" 21st Century Lonbow. Like the song says "Long Tall Sally, she built for speed, she got everything that uncle john need."
My Zipper lb is "Hillbilly Deluxe",Zipper curve is "Nasty Pretty" and my Griffin is "Exotica".I dont usually call them by their names.Its strange because I rarely speak to them yet they know just what Daddy wants. :bigsmyl:
QuoteOriginally posted by longbowray:
my t/d hill is called "Gut Pile" because if i do my part the bow does his part there will be a gut pile.
My selfbow is called "Gut Fudge" because if I'd done my part, the bow wouldn't have turned out to be a pile of s*@t
QuoteMy selfbow is called "Gut Fudge" because if I'd done my part, the bow wouldn't have turned out to be a pile of s*@t
Thanks! I just spit a fresh pinch of grizzly all over my computer. LOL :jumper:
I don't name all of them, but the my 55 # Martin Savannah hunting bow I call "Big Dog".
The person I bought it from had a huge Mastiff that they used as a therapy dog. It was the most friendly and the biggest dog I've ever seen.
RonP
QuoteSomeone once told me that a bow has to earn its name. The ones I have right now, currently have no names.
ME too,
Rob, I hadnt thought about Nailbomb in a while. I need to dig that out of the collection for a listen.
The only one that I have given a name so far is my Mosshorn that Missouri Sherpa let me buy from him at Texas Sweat in 2008 I named it Old Yellar. (http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z105/robertwholloway/oldyellar.jpg)
My old Black Widow HS is "Coyote Ugly". It's all black, nothing to look at, but it killed two coyotes in one morning. That's good enough for me.
I have made a lot of bows and only four of them never received a name. All of them provided some memorable experiences before being retired; anyone of them might become "unretired" if the mood hits me, but that is highly unlikely. They are:
"Vlad the Impaler", an Osage selfbow I used to take my selfbow first deer with.
"Budster", an Osage selfbow that took six whitetails a few seasons back is named after my black lab that is no longer with me.
"Max", an Osage selfbow that took several whitetails and a bison a few seasons back is named after my yellow lab that is no longer with me.
"Pigger", an Osage selfbow that took several whitetails and the kitty in my Avatar a few seasons back is named after my choclate lab that is no longer with me.
The last three bows were made and named because something in the stave specifically told me that "this stave" was for either Pigger, Max, or Budster (Saxton).
That should be ever, not never, received a name.
A Few named "Arrow Express"
"Copperhead Carnivor"
"Diamondback Death Stick"
"Bruin Buster"
"Medicine Stick"
I think the last name I pick will be.
"I'm Broke" !!
Oh oh...
I guess a great name for my bow would be: "Magic Stick"!
All of my bows shoot better for other people than they do for me so I just refer to them collectively as Shameless Floosies.
"Xanadu" is the name of my bow...
I have an older Palmer single carbon that is faded and worn and a bit beat up. I call it "D.U.B.", Darned Ugly Bow. I have had several Palmers and this one is the best of them.
A few in retirement are "Star", "Drac", and "Ace".
I lost half of "Rose Red" on a goat hunt.
I also have "Exotica" cause she is dirty-sexy (tulipwood/ziricote). She has done in a LOT of animals.
A new one is "The Plague" cause she is black death! (recent muskox and brown bear)
"Yellow Raven" is an osage selfbow (70's Scorpians song)
Also have two that have earned names but haven't received them yet. One has laid low a few dozen critters and one has just started but was triple blooded on Kauai' (see recent thread).
MY BOWS NAME IS FIREWOOD.
if yoy miss again your firewood bow
I made my first longbow this year. I have made quite a few recurves but this is my first attempt at a longbow.
I made it from leftover scraps of bacote, osage red elm and Bamboo.
I re-ground some action bamboo packing strips from bingham projects shipments.
I ground some osage veneers from junk osage wood strips. I had to throw in a red elm lam to get the thickness about right.
I did buy a piece of carbon lamination "just to raise the price".
I made my own design of form and found out after glue up that it was a bit too long for my oven!
My youngest daughter was helping me lay up the bow and howled with laughter at my scrambling during the oven crisis.
I even forgot the pressure strips!! Anything that could go wrong.........did.
Nevertheless..............The bow was born.......Way too heavy...Denny Sturgis might have drawn it but not me.
Well I grinded and sanded and tillered and sanded some more.....I gave up on it for about a week.....Then went back at it. Finaly after several attempts to get the finnish applied the way I wanted it.............It was done. 70LBS @31".
I never had so much trouble with any bow!
The darn thing has grown on me and I'm taking it ELk hunting this year.
I call it "OLD YELLER" because it's a mutt of a bow born of love and hate. It looks funny but it gets the job done in great fashion.
Most of all.......It just kind of hangs around and as much as I try to resist..........I end up having to shoot the S.O.B.
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My Marriah Thermal is named "Big Medicine" as it is SOOOOOOOOOOO Beautiful 73@29" I robin hooded the first arrow I shot out of it with the second arrow I shot out of it at 20 yards. It has killed every animal I have ever loosed an arrow from it at with one well placed shot, including a 300 plus pound wild boar hit as it ran past at 9 yards right through the heart.
I got this one earlier this year. When I take my first trad deer with it I will call the bow "Red Death".
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I bought my Brakenbury at the Western Traditional Bowhunter Expo a few years back. I called my wife that night to tell her the news. She told me our daughter took her first steps while I was off buying my new bow. I wrote "first steps" on the riser the next day. It's still there six years later.
41 lb Chek mate kings pawn Deluxe -
MON AMI (my friend)
My Fow longbow is "Sheaweke", which is "the time has come" in the Miami lanquage. I started kill'n stuff with this bow. My old BBO bow that blew up a few years ago was "Nihka" which is "friend" in Miami.
Bona
My son got me a hat about 8-10 years ago for fathers day.It said "BIG DADDY" So last year I had a bow made.I asked my son what I should name it. He said big daddy.And thats what was put on it.
I have an Acadian Woods 3pc. Treestick that is named " Cooter" for the friends that gave it to me.
My Zipper Standard is Hillbilly Deluxe.
My Caddo longbow earned a name. Emma is 54#@ 28" and 62" long or 5 foot 2. whoo whee she was an ugly baby. She had red hair and jaundice real bad!
She's made of Osage and Redheart so she has red hair and now she's got a golden brown tan. Her curvy grip feels perfect in my hand. When she whispers, usually nothing sweet happens! PERFECT!
If the new Martin Jaguar steps up and gets the job done in Texas in January, it's name will be "Javi Hammer", if it doesn't then it's gonna be "Vegetarian".
My old longbow is named "Snake", not because of the wood or the grain, but because that thing is as quiet as a snake.
If im havin a bad day shootin its "You Piece of Firewood!!" Osage,bacote,and bamboo wood.
'Blacky' my titan riser and what ever limbs I have on it. Its black and kinda ugly but It shoots great. It has 6 kills and no misses. It the only stick bow I own now that see's any hunting time.
I have a;
Cupid; a 58" morrison dakota with curly koa riser
51 Pegasus; a 51@28 3 piece pronghorn
Niobe; morrison ILF zebrawood (fast)
banana bow; another 3 piece pronghorn, all Zebra
bessy ; another 3 piece pronghorn 65lb with bob limbs
Hammer of the Gods; BW SAIII, several sets of limbs and risers, all mid to late "90s" vintage.
apple brown betty; apple self bow that I still need to finish up.
Pinchy; "76" supermag "48"
superK; "76" superK
old timer; my bear takedown that I've had since the seventies, which is not too bad cause I'm only 49 now.
I've got a longbow "Dreamseeker" It's never missed a buck with it. Doe is a different story.
Hybrid longbow "Autumn Wind"
Got a new TimberHawk t/d recurve on order going to have to give it some thought for it
thats what I called it until a buddy of mine started making fun of it, the name stuck lol.
Have an old recurve I added Gar Bow to, for my bowfishing bow. Had Craig Ekin make me a Howard Hill Redman, with "T&J 12" to commemorate me and wife's 12 great years of marriage.
My Northern Reverse Handle Whisper Longbow I call "Blondie" - long, lean and all Bamboo Limbs.
My Howard Hill Halfbreed - is named "Autumn's Whisper".
I had Sipsey dip a Bear Montana in Predator Grey. I call it "bride of frankenstein". LOL
All my bows have what I've been told are odd names:
- made one from cedar closet lining... "Out of the Closet"
_ made one from a layup that went sour and had to be cut in half lengthwise... "Lemonade"... made from a "lemon"
- made one from a situation where I had to make up a reverse form and grind the back off, then put on new glass... "Flapjack"
- made one for the Howard Hill Longbowmen... mamed "Arrowl Flynn" after the star of "Adventures of Robin Hood"
- last one I made I planed to use opage glass, but the elm wood kept telling me its grain would be pretty under clear, so it ended up as "Look at Me!"
I have a Dryad hunter bowblank that I finished that is 43#@28" and 64" that I named "Fair Chase" Bocote with osage riser and cocobolo tips ....Keefer's <")))><
Dick, I love your bow names! They remind me of Alfred Vanderbilt's whimsical names for his race horses. (Polynesian~Geisha = Native Dancer, Sword Dancer~Tea and Toast = Dundee Marmalade, Majestic Prince~Prime Time = Regency Period).
I have a name for my new Centaur, but that keeps mum until it is time. I had an arrow that I named Squiggy. Like in Laverne and Shirley. The arrow never seemed to be entirely straight, but it always shot true. I shot it at the wrong thing one day while stumping with my husband, and broke poor true-blue Squiggy. He now resides in the pocket of my quiver, ready to assess brace height with the calibrations that I have added to his cresting. Squiggy is dead (laid low by a flight of fancy of his lady-love :readit: ). Long live Squiggy!!
Killdeer :thumbsup:
Trusty...cause he is!
"When Pigs Fly..." Because that's what the guys at my club said when I showed up with my old recurve
I shot a black bear with one of my own Osage selfbows and a Woody knapped flint head. Shot the bear off the Deli stand. Thus my only named bow...Deli. Doc
Have a Titan named {Trailer Leaf Spring} because that is what it looks like . Shoots great though.
I don't name my bows but this reminded me of when I still lived at home, we used to name our cars. Over the years we had a Bonnie, George, Skipper, Rocky, my VW Herbie, and my Renault named Pierre.
The only one that has a name is a G.N. bush bow that I had refinished.I had "Adirondack Magic" on it; hope that I can make some with it.I do have a Dieters BBO that I won at JLMBH last spring,That bow really should have a name.....
My first longbow I named Kyrie Trenen, combination of my four children's names. Now I need to get a bow with a mix of my grand kids names:)
My 88 model Brackenbury Drifter I just call "Jim" after the signature on th side
70 Grizzly Double Lung
RER Arroyo Smoke
Bear T/D Black Death
Bear Super Mag Midget
Bear A Mag Greenie
Kohannah Kurve is the Chilimaker
Bear K-Mag is Envy... cause she's green of course
Buffalo bow TBD
My 58" Tim Meigs I bought off this site for $250 is now known as "Sugaree". I'm a GD fan and boy is she sweet with a 2018.