There's been a few threads on here stone points and stuff like that, it got me thinking. I've been kicking around buying a self bow to shoot some stone tipped points that I have. Well, as luck would have it, I won a self bow in a St. Judes Raffle. Thank you Glenbo!!
Lets see your primitive set up!! Bows, arrows, quivers....lets see'em!
Can't do photo's but:
I made a self bow out of ash, made my arrows out of yellow burch, cherry and pine, tipped with a knapped points that I made and fletched with turkey feathers from birds that I killed in the past. I self nocked the arrows.
Sean, you will find Glen's bows perform incredibly well to boot!
Charlie, it shoots great! smooth and quiet. I'm just wondering if 45# is enough for a stone point? If not, I have some bear greenies that will shoot just fine out of it.
Here is what I shot this past season, Osage recurve 50#@27", cedar arrows w/ Bear razorheads.
Tommy
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Here is mine: Arrows by Rob Di Staffano that I was the lucky bidder on during the St. Jude auction in 2011, Eclipse broadhead, 60", 58# osage selfbow
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Right on Walt!That is cool.Doesnt get any better than that.
SeanB: I killed my firt deer with a 40# Northern Mist longbow. 45# is more than enough, good luck.
Nice guys, I've punched holes through both deer and bear with a bow in the mid 40's, but that was a steel head. How about stone??
Sorry, that 40# kill was with one of my stone points (flintridge material). The shot was 7 yards and she ran around 40 yards and piled up.
Don Gilson (pm me for info) makes really nice stone hunting heads.
Holy Crap Walt!!!!, I was so in love with your bow, that I didn't even see the moose!!!! :knothead: Impressive :notworthy:
Thanks Jon, I feel better about it now. My cousin is a pretty good knapper, but I can always use more.
here are some of my selfbow and stone point kills! I showed some on a another page recently so I'll show some different ones here! - Ryan (http://images.imagelinky.com/1361456620.jpg) (http://images.imagelinky.com/1361456659.jpg) (http://images.imagelinky.com/1361456679.jpg) (http://images.imagelinky.com/1361456714.jpg) (http://images.imagelinky.com/1361456773.jpg)
Nice Ryan!! Thanks for sharing. Nice heds, I saw them from your other post.
:campfire: I love these primitive threads
meee tooo!
That's it??? No one else has a primitive set up????
AWESOME pictures guy's! Walt, your picture is simply amazing! What an experience that must have been! I can only dream of being able to kill a huge moose like that with an all wood bow. Sorry for jumping in on your post Sean but I just couldn't resist saying something.
I'll try and put a few up....hope the photobucket will cooperate!
These are just some various pics over the years.
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And some more....
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Somewhere I have some better "equipment" pics....I'll search and see if I can locate a couple more.
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Most of my bows are in the 60's to mid 70's for poundage, and mostly osage, but I've used just about anything I can get my hands on that will make a bow. I have killed a couple deer with stone that I knapped, but really prefer steel. I've used cane, dogwood, chokecherry, ocean spray, and various wood shafting over the years. Kinda prefer pine right now, but I'm making up some new cane shafts this winter.
Great pictures Mark and some great animals!!!!
Love that Vine Maple bow :)
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All are welcome Dave!!! Awesome pictures Mark, can you get a close up of your steel heads? I saw the carnage that Jeff "Tippit" Springer did on a Spring Quebec Black Bear with one of his Tippit heads.
I have an 42 lbs osage that 4est trekker made in a bow swap a few years ago that I like to use this year for an antelope (if I draw the tag). I have a HBH I'm working on and a few staves I'm hoping to finish for the rest of the hunts this year.
By "steel" I mostly meant store-bought. I've always been a wood guy, so most of my creative energy is in building the bows and the arrowshafts. I did kill a doe once with a trade point I made from a spoon, to illustrate to my bow-ed students at the time, that "sharp" was more important than brand.
I also have some beauty trade points that Doug Campbell made and gave to me. And I've done some stone on my own.
As far as effectiveness I use a couple real rules of thumb for my hunting. Sharp is important....and always try and shoot a set-up that will get you two holes, for bloodtrails. Thats a pretty broad generalization, but if you do all you can to insure that those two things are covered, you will enjoy plenty of success.
Here's a pic of the "spooner" doe...as I like to call her.
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Here is hy herd of primitive bows at this time:
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Here are a few self nicked arrows with trade points and some wild turkey feathers given to me by Guru.
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The second from the left is your bow Sean, the next is now Izzys. The second to last is now Shawns
Thats awesome Mark, thanks for sharing!!
Glen, Been shooting that bow quite a bit. Nice and quiet, and smooth as silk. I'll be shooting some bear greenies out of it for sure, and maybe my stone points!