Elk with selfbow

[trubltrubl]

John Strunk's bows are beauties....good luck

[BigArcher]

I hunt with the selfbows I make.  I have only taken one elk, a couple of blacktail and one mule deer.  It is not the bows fault that I haven't taken more.  Its more my  hunting.


That is a 93# osage with rattlesnake skin. No shelf.

The same bow is 2nd from the bottom.

BigArcher

[trubltrubl]

alot of weight there Big Archer...nice elk....
hope your shoulders hold up with that poundage....I.m 54 now.... going lighter..heaviest I ever shoot is about 65# but prefer about 55 now....try and keep it there for another 10 years....

[coaster500]

Maybe this year????????

[Russ Clagett]

BigArcher....LOVE THAT QUIVER!!!!

[Pat B]

This pic was taken at the head of Salt Creek Trail(about 10,000') in the San Joan Mountains of S W Colorado. The bow on the left is "Elkie" a sinew backed osage bow I made for my first elk hunting trip along Salt Creek. I gave this bow to Kenneth after our hunt. The other bow with the choke cherry bark backing is an osage static recurve selfbow I made for my last hunt.
 I had to remove the sinew from Elkie because of problems it was having and when I sent it back to Kenneth it was a selfbow with rawhide backing. These were out primary hunting bows last Sept when we went back to Salt Creek, both pulling 56#@26"(Kenneth pulls 29").
 

[ron w]

Cool Stuff.......      

[Sockrsblur]

Great thread! !!  Love the photos, thanks guys!

[Eric Krewson]

Steve Welch from MS has killed at least 5 elk with his bamboo backed osage bows.

Here is one from a couple years ago.

[Iowabowhunter]

I am loving this thread, keep it coming guys!

[coaster500]

ttt

[Chad Orde]

Come on this thread needs an update let's see some more pics guys!!!!

[cacciatore]

Cool stuff

[FITTER]

[YosemiteSam]

Very good thread!  Hoping to make a hunting weight bow one of these days.  Fantastic stuff!

[Warden609]

       

[longrifle]

Sorry I just can't see shooting anything other than woodies out of a self or BBO bow. But cool pics guys.

[newhouse114]

Carson Brown of Echo Archery took one last season. link below!

http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=234;t=000051;p=1

[kevsuperg]

this by definition is a selfbow. i made it myself from a single hickory stave ( from around penn yann NY) it is unbacked, 67" long drawing 56#@28.
Its the first one that i made that would actually shoot an arrow without becoming a two piece bow.. only took about ten tries.
I havent hunted with it yet but a longbow moose and a selfbow elk are on my short list.
after my escape from New York 2 years ago i've bought a home here in north idaho and i plan to begin building bows again but 1st a shaving horse to build.
anyone care to guess where the extremely difficult pic was taken. someone from back east might know.

[wingnut]

I've taken 3 elk with a selfbow.  All were under 60 pounds but were about 56-58 at my 30 inch draw.

Mike