OK Rik!

You can do it!

Inquiring minds want to know which longbow you will holdin' when that ArrowMaster is hangin' by your side?

I mean if you pull the slide-on bowquivers off your old longbows they might - might, I say - just delaminate....

:~)

Shoot straight, Shinken

 

tembo and friends ...

Rob just want you to know that once I sell some bows I am getting a bow just like yours, I believe it is the best looking hill I have ever seen.  BTW what is that riser wood?

Rik.....

you...a bare Hill bow....photo of elk.....priceless  

My 85# Big Five that I got in 1977. Time hasn't changed the classic Hill bows much but time sure does change us...      :D      

     

     

QuoteOriginally posted by ChrisM:
Rob just want you to know that once I sell some bows I am getting a bow just like yours, I believe it is the best looking hill I have ever seen.  BTW what is that riser wood?

the riser is paduak.  i just swapped out the leather plate/rest for one of teflon tape - don't like the tan color but it works slicker'n snot.  :D

The quiver in this picture was one I made from a tanned Jersey cowhide. A fella ask me at a shoot one time what kind of quiver it was and I told him it was Loin skin from the Lion I killed with a bow when I went to Africa with Howard Hill. The guy actually believed me for awhile but I couldn't keep a straight face...     :rolleyes:    


   

Ron,

back in the 80's,  I would look eagerly for your photos of you and longbows with game,  always thinking you were a class act....you still are.

I especially remember an ad for Andersen's or the early GLLI which showed a close-up face-on photo of you drawing a heavy bow and shield cut fletching on your arrows...I think it was a Maulding longbow.....the photo depicted alot of power and simplicity.....

always look forward to your stuff...  

Rob,  "slicker than snot"  lol lol
is that the bow you were going to make into a take down?

Thank you Nathan. I'm not sure but is this the picture you're talking about,..I'm shooting a Ron Maulding bow. Tim Cosgrove put this picture on the cover of his Kustom King catalog a couple years ago. Inside the catalog it said it was a picture of me when I was younger..   :confused:  you mean I don't look like that anymore?..         ....   :D  

 

no, the photo I'm remembering is one of you in a white t-shirt (maulding logo)....I think you were photographed in a big tent

I look at that photo and realize that if Ron had posed in the exact same way with a compound, it would have had zero magic. However, with a longbow, that is one great photo! If I was a compound shooter, one look at a photo like that would instantly tell me I need to start shooting a longbow!

On a slightly different topic, I posted this last night on a different web site, but I think some of you might enjoy this DVD as well. Here's the post (the guys were discussing whether to get yew or bamboo limbs in a Hill bow).

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. . . we are discussing the relative merits of Tonkin Cane, or as we call it, Tonkin Bamboo.

If you are interested, there is no finer presentation of the growing, gathering, and use of Tonkin Cane than is shown in the video "Trout Grass."

The video will take you take you to southern China, where our beloved bow grass is grown and selected. The video deals primarily with Tonkin Cane selected for the creation of fine, and I do mean FINE, Bamboo Fly Rods, but it is the same Tonkin Cane Howard Hill Archery uses.

I warn you though—do not order the DVD if you do not enjoy beautifully artistic videography, spectacular scenery, and soulful solo banjo music. For those of you who enjoy these things and order the video, I warn you, if you watch this DVD, you are doomed to a life of bamboo-cored bows, and will never again love a fishing rod not made of Toknin Cane.

You have been warned. I did my best.

— TROUT GRASS—

That is one memorable photo.  It speaks right to the purity of shooting a bow and arrow. Thank you for sharing your photos.

I love bamboo...in my bows, in my flyrods...

Rob D.....you make very pretty arrows....do you always use Sharpies?  I've been tinkering with the Sharpies and finding them handy.

QuoteOriginally posted by Ron LaClair:
The quiver in this picture was one I made from a tanned Jersey cowhide. A fella ask me at a shoot one time what kind of quiver it was and I told him it was Loin skin from the Lion I killed with a bow when I went to Africa with Howard Hill. The guy actually believed me for awhile but I couldn't keep a straight face...      :rolleyes:  

Ahhh, the palaver of a mountainy man!  Ron, that just cracks me up.  It has a similarity to the story that Swineheart relates in Saggittarius where Howard was enjoying a cool beverage at an establishment.  The keeper was saying how he knew Howard and all.  As they were leaving, the keeper asks Howard his name and the truth was revealed.

Great to see the "vintage" photos and read your descriptions.  As a gray bearded, later in life lover of the long bow, I am studying and enjoying what I can find about the subject.

Well Nathan there's this photo that was taken in the tent at Andersons Clinic by Robert Combs and printed in Bow and Arrow magazine. I was shooting my 105# Maulding bow through the chronograph. I remember I got 220FPS which in those days was more that the average compound bow. It left em scratching their heads...    

 

Ron,

that's the 2nd half photo...lol.  the same scenario, at full draw was the one I remember. You probably had several photos taken and Andersen's used the other one.... No wonder the image  of power..105#  wow.

Ron I believe you were born a 100 years to late you are a moutain man in heart and soul besides being a gentleman thanks for your contribution to this thread and others.Nate Steen is also a class act a damn good bowyer, Thanks to all who keep this thread going. Ron Roehrick.

Years ago I was made a Life member of the original Howard Hill Club that was formed when Howard lived in California. Some will recognize the name of Hugh Rich. Hugh was a friend of Howards and a great arrow maker. He made all of Howards arrows that he took to Africa to film the movie Tembo.

Hugh was a great letter writer and I have many letters that he wrote to me. I also talked many hours on the phone with Hugh. I treasure the memory of those conversations.

 

Number 105, was that a coincidence?

Patrick