Who hunt elk with selfbow. what the weight you uses

Me hunt bear with one...check ure mail!

You are the reason I am asking this Question  ,got me thinking about selfbows

I've been elk hunting twice in Colorado with a sinew backed osage the first time and the second one was an osage static recurve. Both about 56#@26". Hunted with hill cane arrows with WWs or trade points up front.

My boys and I all hunt elk w/ selfbows.   Doug Campbell, and Walt Francis, both do it as well.

 This thread is gonna get good...

looking forward to this thread taking on a life of it's own.

My wife bought me a selfbow class at Raptor one year, so over two weekends I built one out of Osage, it finished about 55lbs@28.  The arrows I built for it are Douglas fir with 160grn. STOS broadheads and the bow flings them with authority.  Hunted elk the next season with it and had a small 5 pt. bull walk up to within 5 yds. but I couldn't shoot as the area was spike or cow only!        :mad:   The bow has since developed a fair bit of string follow in the lower limb so I don't shoot it much.

I hunt everything with a selfbow!  Osage, 55#, River Cane Arrows, 4 fletch, "old" Simmons Interceptors.

This thread is useless without pictures!!!!

I do.... I made 4 bows before I settled on the one I liked. With the help of Ted Fry at RaptorArchery I was able to make a 40's style static recurve.  It was a bit light before last elk season--which forced me to glue up senue until it reached 56lbs at my draw.

took the bow out for the opener in Washington and managed to convince a huge Cow to fall into my arrow that had elk written all over it.  

What I have learned the most important factor is a sharp well placed arrow shot from the bow you are satisfied with.  

Good luck

cool thread, yesterday John Strunk put in the mail a osage bow I bought from him and will be hunting elk with it this sept. 58Lb @28

YOU CANT HUNT ELK WITH A SELF BOW

     

we need pictures to prove it          

Yep, love to see some pics!      

I've got two Osage staves waiting to fulling cure. Shouldn't be long       :cool:      

Someday!!

Selfbows only.  Anything less, would be uncivilized.  I'm going in September.  I'll have a 55-60 pounder, depending on what I make or take.

Okay....I'll put a couple up.   Just to elaborate...I hunt everything with selfbows or primitive style bows for the last two plus decades with few exceptions.  So every year I craft new bows, picking out the ones I want to hunt with.   I make them all in the 65 to 75 lb range at our draw....so I don't have to worry about new arrows each year!   My boys have just recently taken to selfbows....though have shot them as well, most of their lives.   This past year has seen them getting into making their own selfbows and shooting them.   They like the same specs as I do.   It works for us.  

This elk was taken by my son Kory a few years ago with a 58 inch osage selfbow I made, he borrowed.   It's a dandy bull.  





This cow I took quite a while back with a hick-backed maple board bow....before I had good access to osage.   Taken in January during a late hunt for bowhunters....that does'nt exist anymore since the wolves moved in.  



Somewhere I have a pic of a bull Doug Campbell shot with a bamboo backed osage bow and a stone point, I believe.... but I'm not sure where.

got my strunk today love it 56 # a little light maybe , but I am going to use 600-650grn arrows and keep shot inside of 20yrds use a super sharp len fisher broadhead and hit em in the lungs.

Shot a satellite bull  5x5 with a  QUARTERMOON LONGBOW made by Bert Frelink all wood bamboo backed bow....( bamboo back osage belly )
in 2006... 57 # at my draw (58" bow) laminated birch arrow two blade 620 grain arrow...friend called him in to 13 yards.... not a selfbow but as close as it gets....being an all wood bow...