Way to go Doug! Remember, carbon is just VERY old wood. Nice bow and shooting.

Congrats Doug! Great job on the bow.

I had to laugh cause  I didn't know that I had  hundreds of potential bows growing next to the house!  A Big Thumbs Up on a fine animal.

Aloha,

            Mark

Congrats!! I have a mulberry tree in the back yard that has a nice straight trunk just crying to be made into a bow.

Wow, thanks alot everybody, most of the credit for the deer has to go to Walt. Heck he did all the work and his generosity in sharing his spots and helping folks out it unmatched! Thanks again Walt!

Got one big correction to make, I didn't think it felt near as cold as my truck said... turns out it got changed to Celsius so that -3 was really like 20something in Fahrenheit. Boy do I feel dumb...  
 

Doug - it is good to here from ya and about.  think about what your upto everytime I use my knife  

rusty

Cool!!  Nothing like a selfbow hunt and success.  Now we got work on your arrow selection but if it flys right shoot it.

Congrats!!

Mike

Will try to confirm the type of Guava, Pat. All I know is they taste good.

Doug being a native of SoCal, is there really any deference between -3 & 20 degrees LOL

Way to go, that is too cool ( no pun intended )

By the way, it's 78 right now

I don't know anything about strawberry guava as a bow wood. But I do know that if I'm hiking up the mountains in Molokai after axis deer and the guavas are ripe,they have kept me going when I would have run out of gas without them. (Pigs love 'em too.) Don

Glad to see Doug back on here. Congrats!  

Glad that knife is still working for you Rusty, does it still reach the bottom of the peanut butter jar  

Yea Dave, I called my buddy Jerry in HI on the way home and he allowed as it was 74º over there...

Yep Don, all those pigs can't be wrong    Wish I was back on Molokai myself bout now.

Thanks Sky, great job in TX!

I spent six months backpacking the Hawaiian islands, and if there was one thing you could count on if you were hungry and in the jungle, and that was finding a strawberry guava tree bursting with ripe fruit!    :D  
They were fantastic, but you'd soon be "bursting" yourself for their highly laxative quality!        :eek:  

Nice to know there's OTHER uses for that pesky (it's non-native and quite taking over) tree!
     
Great job on the does too! Meat in the freezer!!!

Congrats Doug! Now you got to bring it back over her and try it on pigs    
I called Manny and told him the good news.....he said to tell you     and then told me he's  finishing up a 90# guava English Longbow. Says he will be using the trade points you gave him on the arrows he makes for it.  
Hope to visit when that funny white stuff on the ground is gone.

Looking at that snow one can appreciate how far away from home that guava stick has wandered. Congratulations to you, Dave, and Manny for a really special hunt.

Just heard about this from Manny, Doug - He is really pumped about one of his "Baby" Guava staves making meat in the hi snow country for a friend - and I don't blame him. Good going on the bow and great job for you and your friend on the two doe.