My friend gave me this riser. It is cracked and useless, but he knows I shoot trad and like odd stuff, here it is. Not sure who made it, but it is interesting. Have y'all ever seen such a critter?
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Kinda like a rifle with a thumb hole stock. The grip feels good, but the balance feels top heavy.
God Bless,
Nathan
pretty awesome!
Wow that is wild. I wonder how it shot.
Looks like an attempt to make an overdraw bow.
ooohh....and with reverse limbs too. That should be really special....lol
With heavy emphasis on the fact that it is "in my humble personal opinion", that thing is uglier than a frozen overshoe!
Cool
Guess someone might like it. I don't get the point of it.
There were lots of odd bows made before compounds were ever thought of. I've seen several that are very similar to that in my day but can't tell you much more than that.
Wild riser,
That is very cool.
Looks like a flight bow to me as well. An over draw and some leather to protect your hand.
It looks like something Bill Stewart may have built. He experimented with "shoot-thru" risers, thumb holes, and multi-cam limbs.
yuk that thing is ugly
No offence to anyone, but that to me is ugly,just my view, to each his own. Interesting though.
Mr. drake did make odd shaped risers for his flight bows. But, I never saw a Drake bow with that riser.
The actionwood makes me think it is an 80's build of some sort.
I kinda like it. It would be heavy, though.
QuoteOriginally posted by TxAg:
I kinda like it. It would be heavy, though.
Not really. It is not much heavier than any other bow riser I have held.
I don't really have an opinion of like or dislike on the riser, it's just different. I like odd stuff.
God bless,
Nathan
I guess you're right. I'm just used to skinny featherweight longbows.
Yep, some kind of "over-draw" riser. A lot of guys were expeirmenting with them back in the late 60's. By the looks of it, especially the leather, it doesn't look that old however. What is stamped on the leather?
Those things scare me. Knew an accomplised target archer/dealer/range owner who shot a target arrow through the top of his bow hand,expeirmenting. :scared:
I can't imagine Harry Drake involved with that. He went from Rosewood to metal flight bow risers. That has 1980's "Futurewood" written all over it.
Looks like a prototype that never went beyond the trial stage.
That is totally cool...if it were mine I would have a trusted bowyer make limbs for it...I would just have to shoot it!
Might want to post that on the "trad/colecting History Forum" a lot of experts on that forum.
Can't make improvements if you don't experiment. Stuff in the box was once outside it.
Thompson Center?
QuoteOriginally posted by LITTLEBIGMAN:
yuk that thing is ugly
X2 :scared:
You got to admire the will to step go beyound the old to try something new. Cool looking - quite a imagination to dream that up. Thanks, Roy
Id get nervous with a broadhead that close to my hand!
to wild for me
I agree looks like a flight riser, I also agree its unique, not ugly, don't stop it from being an interesting piece of archery history. Be Nice to find out who built it.