I've seen the youtube videos by "The Backyard Bowyer" and purchased one of his books. Anyone out there hunt with one?
never tried one, but have seen lots of folks use them successfully for bowfishing.
Nope
But I may make one next year to bowfish with
I think it would be cool and you wouldnt worry about scratching it.
i have a friend that built a couple after watching those videos, and they will FLING an arrow! i estimated one of them to be at least 40-45# draw weight. plenty enough to kill a small deer. he really wants to try to get a deer with one.
A friend of mine tried to build one that would shoot good enough to hunt with. He found a nice chunk of shag bark hickory spent a couple of hours with his belt sander and files and came up with a bow that outshot the pvc by a wide margin. He wanted to compare his with my pignut, with a little bit of tweeking he declared it to be a hunting bow and tossed the pvc onto his junk pile.
I have.... I am the scout leader in our area and we built PVC with the scouts and then took them with us on a wilderness survival camp out. We mostly hunted squirrels, lots of shots fired. No squirrels were harmed. They are a blast. Mine was pulling around 40lbs. I would hunt small game all day long with the bows that we built, very simple design. We used paracord for the strings.
The cast on those PVC bows is so low, you would need to shoot a 60 pound or better just to equal a decent 40 pound wood bow. It certainly can be done, but draw weight alone is not enough to determine effectiveness for big game.
I have to disagree with you there Wallis. I've personally seen a 50 pound PVC bow shooting a 500 grain arrow shoot 160 fps. You're going to tell me that that is too slow to take a deer? Like any other bow it all depends on design.
Jon
I have to disagree with you there Wallis. I've personally seen a 50 pound PVC bow shooting a 500 grain arrow shoot 160 fps. You're going to tell me that that is too slow to take a deer? Like any other bow it all depends on design.
Jon
Just way too hokey looking for me. :dunno: :)
Advantage of the PVC bow is that what you got is what you got and it will last forever. With a wood bow, it starts to fail as soon as you put a string on it.
In hard times I think PVC bows can help fellas have a weapon.
Most of the deer Ive killed (8 in the last 12 years)
have been at a 15 yard range.
I am surprised that someone does not make a hunt able model for 50 bucks and put them on a website?
We talk a lot about getting kids into trad hunting and this would help get that started.
QuoteOriginally posted by JamesV:
Advantage of the PVC bow is that what you got is what you got and it will last forever. With a wood bow, it starts to fail as soon as you put a string on it.
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PVC develops a memory faster than any wood I ever saw.
QuoteOriginally posted by Legolas:
I am surprised that someone does not make a hunt able model for 50 bucks and put them on a website?
We talk a lot about getting kids into trad hunting and this would help get that started.
That would be a little cheaper but you could get a brand new youth recurve/longbow for around $100 from Mike at mad dog bows and probably other makers as well. You could find a used one even cheaper and it'd offer more performance than the PVC bow so I don't think they'd sell very well. Now letting the kids help build them at camps and such is a great way to get them into traditional archery. :thumbsup: