Just wondering who has a bow (or bows) that were given their own name? I think Howard Hill and John Schultz did this - "Grandpa", "Grandma" ,etc. I have a Robertson Primal Styk that I bought used from a trad shop, and it's named "Washi", which seems to mean "Eagle" in Japanese. I have no idea who the original owner was, but I think it's kind of cool. :archer:
My KB X is "Big Bear", my PSR is "Denny", my Talk Tines is the "Stickly Stick", and my Silvertip is "Shafe"
Washi is also Japanese paper. Maybe it was made from Japanese bamboo? Lol
My Lil' Grizzly longbow by Jack Kempf is " Bear Necessity ".
Could be Shawn! I could ask Dick Robertson.. :bigsmyl:
not really my "own" name but, I'm naming my future jd berry morning star "the drying pole", which is the long katana that legenday swordsman sasaki kojiro used in history. because to me, 68" is a very long amo.
I read that Howard Hill had a bow named grandma and one grandpa so when I bought my first Hill I named it "Joyce" after my late grandma. I then bought a Black Widow PSA that I named "Boanerge" meaning Son of Thunder which is what Jesus called James and John. Mark 3:17
I call mine Leah... So at least I get to play with my wife ever once in a while
sweet"66" by Dave Johnson
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I've named a few of mine. "JEDI" "BELLA" and "Lynx Rufus"
Mine is Murphy,Gary,Randy
I've named a lot of my bows, usually when there's a reason to give them a name. One bow I have is named "Sleeping Beauty". Some years ago I bought an old osage stave from a man in Illinois. He said he had cut it FIFTY years before and stored the stave in his attic never finishing it.
When the stave became a bow I gave it it's name and wrote this poem on the belly of the bottom limb.
"Fifty years as a stave I slept
my fate uncertain my promise un'kept
for love of beauty and days of old
a bowyer came forth with hands so bold
he finished the task, he set me free
to be the bow I was meant to be."
Sleeping Beauty on Shrew Hill in Michigan's U P
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That's pretty cool Ron!
Very cool, Ron.
I've thought of a few names I like, but I haven't actually decided to name one yet. I'm still looking for my first kill and I figure it might be bad form to name a bow if I've never killed anything with one. Or maybe it's bad luck to hunt with an unnamed bow? :knothead: On a related note, Preston Pittman of Pittman Game Calls named his shotgun "feed the children". :D
One of the Biblical names for a deer is a hind. My bow's named "hinds 57"
Thought about having "currahee" put on the lower limb of my buffalo. Currahee is Cherokee for "stand alone" and named after the mountain in Georgia...also the motto of the 101st airborne division during WWII.
I have only had two named bows in my life. The both earned their name. I won't make up a name for one; it just has to happen.
My first Sarrels Blueridge is named The Black Plague. I was at Bob's shop testing the grip while he was building it when another customer came up. Bob introduced him to me saying something to the tune of "This is Bisch. He has killed more critters with a Sarrels bow than the black plague!" Right then I knew what the name of that bow was!
Bisch
I have more than a few with names.
Holy Smoke-sold
Ace of Spades-loaned to a relative
Autumn Hunter-bought that way
MadChad-still own
Seven Year Itch- Selfbow that took 7 years to complete.
Bubbles-has laminations that look like bubbles in it.
1st Kempf Trophy Hunter - "Sweetbaby"
2nd Kempf Trophy Hunter - "Sugar Mama"
kempf kwyk styk - "Texas Twin"
I call my Thunderstick MOAB "Two Beards", for the first kill made with it. It was a double bearded turkey taken at the Solana Ranch. My PSE Kingfisher is named "Head Shot", from it's first bowfishing trip to Louisiana.
I have two Pronghorn longbows one is called Red and the second is called LG.
My newest PLX is named "Ole Man". We were in an auto accident that jacked my back up so I dropped poundage for a while.
I have a Schafer TD that I bought here on trad gang that my buddy named " Arnold " , I said what and he said ARNOLD as in the terminator . I had to laugh .
Another is name after my old friend who passed on . OLE CHARLIE
I have two bows, one I call recurve and the other one is called longbow!
I have 4 bows which I named. Both came from the people who influenced me to get them and are special people in my life. The other 2 I appointed names at certain points in their life.
1st bow is named Dad
other bow is named Friend
I have a G&L Mantis, I call Preyer, kind a play on words.
And a Black bow named Ravenous.
Named my Elkheart "Screaming Indian" for obvious reasons.
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I usually wait a while and a name will come, or they earn it.. my PSA recurve is "mojo" because it has plenty... I have a longbow named "flat line" due to a defect in the limb lamination plus it fits it as a killer.. I have a PLV longbow that hasn't earned a name yet..
Some years ago I hunted with a heavy osage flat bow, 82#@ 26" it was a hard shooting bow that shot as good or better than any laminated bow so I named it "Bodacious". When I hunt out of state I like to have a back up bow just in case so when I was planning an elk hunt in Colorado I had another osage flat bow made that came out at 81#@ 26". It had a knothole in the lower limb just below the handle big enough to drop a pencil through, so I name it "Bo-Derick" On a scale of 1 to 10, it was a 10 ;)
I ended up selling Bo-Derick and I still have Bodacious but it's too heavy for me now.
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I have named a few couple of bows out of many I have owned. My first Hill bow became Purty Girl as soon as I opened the shipping carton. My Cheetah became Kitty Cat.
I named this snake backed osage bow made by John Strunk "Sidewinder" for obvious reasons.
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My Shrew Hill bow I named "Red Wolf"
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Bows I've named have all told me what their name was. My Treadway long bow is called "First Blood" because I took my first trad deer with it in 1999. As I was recovering that deer the name popped into my head.
I name All my bows- My Morrison recurve I'm hunting with right now is named "Brown Eyes" - it was my mothers CB handle !!
My Pronghorn longbow is the "widow maker"
And I had a shrew I called "red bow" :archer2:
The only bow I've name is my Bob Lee Classic T/D after my dog, Beau.......so I named it Beau Bow.
My friend John Lee made a bow for me and named it "Maggie" after my beagle that passed away.
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All my custom bows have names...all" Blues " related
have : Double Trouble , Muddy , King , Willie , Ten Years After, Little Walter , Buddy , Albert....
Don't have a name for all my BEAR bows but they have there own "Mojo "
I have a John Wayne thing going with my bows
I sold a bow named DUDE a DALE DYE I would kill to have back
I love that people do that gives the bow a little life to to it!!
Here is DUDE anyone know who has this bow I would love to find out how DUDE is doing and if he wants to come home!!
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I had Craig Ekin name this Halfbreed for me after my heart attack.
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My first longbow came with the name "Beginnings." It is a Wes Wallace "Royal" that I found used on the internet. A serendipitous name for my first longbow.
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I have a Howatt Hunter that I bought used years ago. This Hunter had/has a slight twist, likely from its being strung without a stringer. I named it "twisted companion."
I have two red wings one 58" and other 52" big red and little red, My self bow was being finished while watching avatar so its called Neytri after that blue girl. That's why it has all those colors on it after those dragon like things they flew around on. One of my rainyday recurves is Thore ,It spits arrows out like lightning. Another rainy day recurve that has carp skins on her is named Matsuba after a Japanese koi with the same scale pattern .
Gonna name my next bow "GROUND SHRINKAGE" for the bucks I saw on an all day hunt yesterday. Four bucks that still had milk dripping from their lips. Rattled a buck in at last light that I could have made toothpicks out of his antlers. They sure come in close and personal on the ground but I think I will just hunt for a while. The 68 in. longbow I have hunted with for 20 years is called "THE MOON OF MADNESS" when everything comes together and the buckrut goes bezerk.
all my new bows get named "Us vs Them"
I have a Leon Stewart r/d longbow that was made in 2002. It's 70#@28, 65" long. The first time I shot it I said to myself "That'll thump something." So I named it Thumper. :archer:
Name I call it depends upon if I just missed or not !
ChuckC
I just bought a Black Widow longbow that has a name written on it...now I need to google that word to see if I can determine what it means...I have an RER LXR that has a couple of different names according to which set of limbs I have on it...all of the bocote veneers on those limbs include an image of a lemur or bushbaby face...with the recurve limbs it is called Zoboomafu and with the longbow limbs I call it the Bushbaby Bow...that bow is a huge tribute to the care Kevin took in cutting his veneers
DDave
My Thunder Child 54 inch is " Ursa" the pig killer.
An anticipated Thunderchild, also known as 'Kapitikow' has already been blessed with that name,...Plains Cree Chief... meaning... "the one who makes the sound"...The sound of silence.
I only name my selfbows if they inspire me while being crafted and shooting them in. I have named four of them, all Osage:
Vlad (my wife named that one) the first selfbow I took an animal with.
Max, a sweet shooting bow that reminded me of my old yellow lab. Neither were much for hunting but you just had to love the old love pigs.
Budster (the bow I took my kitty with), named after my black lab that was nine years old, but acted like he was still six months old, neither ever learned to take/make it easy.
Last is Pigger, named after my chocolate lab. A little slower on the hunt, but steady, true, and reliable; she always got the job done until time took its toll.
I only have one custom and I am pretty traditional so I let the bowyer Nate name my Sunset Hill. He came up with "Bright Eyes II" named after John Schulz's exhibition Bow.
Has some good mojo as I broke it in with 4 deer so far this year.
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