Today the tradbow hunting recurves fit into a narrow definition of what a traditional recurve was.  Go to a recurve bowyer today and want to talk about sights, stabilizer, and pluner bosses and you get a look like you just stepped off a spaceship.  Lucky for me the Mike (wingnut) from Dryad bows shot West Coast 3D competition with a compound before he came to his senses and started shooting traditional.   What this did for me was give me a bowyer to talk to that had a real knowledge of how to use sights, stabilizers, plunges, all those things that were very common in the 1970's recurve but that are gone now    .

I wanted a tradbow recurve that could go either way.  If I want to shoot instinctive, twist of the hex head wrench and I am good to go.  If I want to go play the the 3D guys and thus gapping like a big dog, few twist of the hex head wrench and I am ready to.  If I want to go pig hunting at night with a lighted sight and Hawglite, just get the hex wrench out    .

Thus here is my Orion.  Great arrow speed, up with my hottest reurves.  I will let the 20 yds groups speach for how smooth the bow is.  there is no amount of rhetoric about a bow that group size will not say    

 http://sites.google.com/site/stringwalkerbowhunter/dryadorion  

rusty

My Dryad Orion - 16" riser with stablizer boss, sight attachment boss, shoot off the shelf.  60" 47#@28" recurve and 64" 45#@28" longbow limbs.

Jason and Mike did a great job installing bosses.  the sight attachment bosses have a rim on them so that you do not bolt the sight bracket up against the wood of the riser.  Same is true of the stabilizer boss.  

I forget who does their camo dip but it is flawless and very handsome (kinda like me    ).

OH MAN - I feel like I just dropped back into the 70's It just don't get no better

rusty

Yesssssssssssssssssssss!

Cool set-up Rusty. I sent you a PM.    

whats the cost on a bow like this? If you dont mind me asking. I think its really cool I think I need to get me one.  Can you use a plunger or just shoot off the shelf

Rusty,

It's actually a 17" riser, but ya got the rest of it correct.  LOL  

Babs,

It's set to shoot off of the shelf.  Check our website.  The bow starts at $500 and you add the options to make it what you want.

Mike

Geeze Wingnut is this going to be called the

RustyOrion version  :D

Hormoan - na, then he'd have to call the bow the "half-wit old geezer".  Don't think the name will ever catch on    

I do know the Jason put extra re-enforcment in the riser.  Which is real good for me.  I have the nastiest habit of stringwalking the bows when I am up in the stand.  Un-balances the limbs and puts extra stress on the riser.  Stringwalking a bow is another real good reason to have  stablizer boss on my bow.  One of those Doinkers really smooths out the stringwalking shot.

rusty

Well Rusty we know calling it the Trashwood won't do  

Of course you can get the bow like that without the hardware too.

It's not just for sights, stringwalking, light holding ol' geezers.

LOL

MIke

Awesome bow Rusty!  I like that setup with the singlepin, I'm just suprised you got enough horizontal travel from it, I had to move mine way over to get my pins inline.

Really like that camo, I'd be afraid to set that down in the woods - I'd loose it for sure!

Wihill - using the Apex sight on the Orion I still had bar left on both sides on the sight.  I really like the sight.  It is a Apex.

rusty

QuoteOriginally posted by wihill:
[QB] Awesome bow Rusty!  I like that setup with the singlepin, I'm just suprised you got enough horizontal travel from it, I had to move mine way over to get my pins inline.


Pins,  :confused:  
What pins Chris??

QuoteOriginally posted by frassettor:

QuoteOriginally posted by wihill:
[QB] Awesome bow Rusty!  I like that setup with the singlepin, I'm just suprised you got enough horizontal travel from it, I had to move mine way over to get my pins inline.


Pins,   :confused:  
What pins Chris?? [/b]

You know what pins - and not the one on my shoulders either -   :D    You remember the sight on my GM, AKA Chris' "safety blanket".  

You're just pokin' fun because my instinctive shooting is getting slightly better (I CAN hit the broadside of the barn now!)

 

Ah well a pin - never having to put up a "I missed" thread   .

Rusty

Awesome looking bow guys!

Rusty, when I was 15 year old or so I first begin shooting a recurve. The method I used was string walking. It works very well although I have not picked it back up since starting back to shooting several year ago now. I shot field archery tourney's then in the bare bow class. You don't see it "string walking" used much anymore.

Great looking bow Mike and Jason do great work. I have several Dryad bows myself. My Orion long bow is a the best.

I add a pic at the bottom of the string.  it is the orion at work oover a night time stand.  It was a new stand and pigs are hitting just now and them........last night was one of the other time they didn't.  I well get ya a pic of the pigs in the sight and hawglight pretty soon.  Wingnnut and I have been hunting the boggy bottoms a bit when it is not too wet.

http://sites.google.com/site/stringwalkerbowhunter/dryadorion

60" orion is a nice balace of lenght vs tree stand usability.

rusty

the feeder is an old car tire.  cut a 3 - 4 sampling off, fill the tire up with cron and put it over the sampling.  pigs come in and play kick the tire to get the corn out.  very good distraction for a tree stand hunter.

rusty