I just sent a PayPal payment for a used Crow Creek Black Feather. It'll be shipped today. This one looks a bit different than the other four I've owned. The bow is 62", 45#@28", Bocote, Birdseye Maple and Phenolic riser and Actionboo limbs with Bocote wedges.
(http://usera.imagecave.com/wlamb1647/CC_BF_DD/00small10682340.JPG)
Bill
It will still shoot......just like the other Blackfeather's do.
Winterhawk1960
Don,
I know, that's why I bought it. All of my others were in the 48# to 50#@28" draw range. This 45#@28" bow will be much better for my joints. And it'll still shoot great! :)
Bill
Really nice Bill. I thought you were a Stahl shooter. How will you have time to shoot ALL your bows?
I'm with ya Bill.......I try to stay in the mid 40's myself. I'm not having any joint problems and don't want to later either.......and besides, I think 45# will do just fine with today's bows.
Winterhawk1960
Very nice Bill, sure is a looker!! I am paying now for shooting 70 and 80#ers year ago. I now stick to 52-55#s and that is good for now!! Best of luck with her!! Shawn
Nice bow Bill , I really love the way a Blackfeather looks and very smooth on the draw . The guy you got from ( Paul ) is a heck of a good guy also .
"S.W.E.E.T" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bill, just how many bows have you owned, my friend?
Nice looking bow Bill! :thumbsup:
QuoteOriginally posted by Tom Anderson:
Bill, just how many bows have you owned, my friend?
Somewhere around 150. I'm a farm clubber compared to some! :)
I forgot to add that it's been 150 bows over the past 10 years.
Bill
QuoteOriginally posted by Shawn Leonard:
Very nice Bill, sure is a looker!! I am paying now for shooting 70 and 80#ers year ago. I now stick to 52-55#s and that is good for now!! Best of luck with her!! Shawn
Shawn,
Thanks! I suspect I have a few years on you. I turned 63 this past January. Every year I find myself having to drop a pound or two in draw weight thanks to a high school football injury to my right shoulder. :(
Bill
Very Nice!!!!
Gorgeous bow. Enjoy it.
I shoot 55 lbs to save the shoulders for my older years. I am still fairly young at 42. I can shoot 70 lbs but know I would regret it later.
QuoteOriginally posted by Shawn Leonard:
Very nice Bill, sure is a looker!! I am paying now for shooting 70 and 80#ers year ago. I now stick to 52-55#s and that is good for now!! Best of luck with her!! Shawn
Shawn,
Didn't I buy the rights to a Marriah Thermal slot from you about 5 or 6 years ago? I owned that bow twice and finally sold it again. It came out too heavy for me at 53#@28". I have a nice one now that is 46#@28". Below is a pic of it:
(http://usera.imagecave.com/wlamb1647/Marriah_Thermal/100_1295.JPG)
The riser is Ziricote and Bocote with Yew accents and the limbs are Yew. What's hard to believe is I paid the same price for this bow as I did for the one I bought 5 or 6 years ago.
Bill
:thumbsup: Can't go wrong with a Crow Creek bow!
Make that "It Ships Today!!!" DD had to go out of town on travel a couple of days unexpectedly and wasn't able to get the bow shipped on Tuesday. He's going to ship it overnight for delivery tomorrow! That's service!! :) :)
Bill
Be sure and post some more pics when you get it.
David,
I will. This is one of the prettier Black Feathers that I have seen. Elmer builds a very high quality and sweet shooting bow.
Bill
Bill, the "black" in the bow is Gabon Ebony.
Regards!
David
David,
Thanks! was you a surface skimmer, a submariner, an airdale or a supply side sailor?
I retired in January 1992 and was a surface skimmer.
Bill
Black shoe. In the beginning... carriers, and subtenders, and then... other places.
My rate was "GMT" and then ... with the nice, gentler world we now live in.. we moved to a nicer term "WT". Same job, but different title.
Honestly, I don't miss the Navy; however, I do appreciate what the Navy taught me about me... and, or course, the retirement check.
Best wishes on the bow.... it's a shooter.
I picked the Black Feather up Saturday and shot it for about 45 minutes. It shoots very accurately, very smoothly and very quietly like all of the Black Feathers I have owned and/or shot. And it id definitely the best looking Black Feather I've had the privilege of holding in my hands to boot!
Then I shot a Hill style longbow for a bowyer friend of mine. He had built the bow for someone in the area. The fella brought it back to him and the upper limb was delaminated. He took the bow apart and then glued it back together again. He told me he wasn't strong enough to shoot, he's 85 now, to shoot it himself so he asked me to shoot it for him.
I shot the bow 6 times. I was at or near full draw for the 7th shot when the bow delaminated again on the upper limb on the belly side of the limb. I dropped the bow when I felt it bite my bow hand. I didn't realize it had delaminated until I looked down at it laying on the floor. It bloodied up the web of my hand between my thumb and my index finger on my left hand. There wasn't nearly as much damage as all of the blood led me to believe. Needless to say, I didn't shoot my bow anymore. When my bowyer friend told me he was going to take the bow home and get it glued up again, I said "That's fine, just don't ask me to blewed it up again!!" :)
Bill
Dang, i had to go back and re-read your last post 3 times, not enough coffee in me yet.... I had thought your BF delaminated and was a bit bummed out, for you and for me.
Post some pics of your Crow Creek when you get time, I was about 1/2 second from buying that bow myself.
Matt,
I'll take some pics of the Black Feather and post them after I receive it back from Elmer. I like the rough finish he applies to some of his bows and he's going to refinish this bow for me using that style finish.
Sorry about the confusion over the BF and the Hill style longbow. I really would have been bummed had it delaminated on me. But at least it would have been a 3 piece and I would know who to have build another set for me! :)
Bill
Below is another pic of my Black Feather longbow.
(http://usera.imagecave.com/wlamb1647/CC_BF_DD/100_1265.jpg)
Bill
Bill,
That is one sweet looking bow, if it shoots half as good as it looks you will surley have a keeper......