Lets see your homemade longbows you hunt with...

[JamesKerr]

Those are some beautiful bows guys!

[Cmane07]

I clicked on here expecting to see some sticks with strings but you guys are some excellent craftsmen! Hats off to ya

[beachbowhunter]

Double carbon, 57@27

   

   


   


   

   

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[PV]

Here's a few
Thanks for this thread RC.
Going through my Photobucket brought back some great memories

[jsweka]

Originally posted by RC:
Jsweka, That bow laying on top of the doe is a fine looking bow.

Thanks RC.  Here's a couple better pics of it.  It is one of my favorites, but is due for a refinish job after getting banged around for a couple seasons.

[Friend]

Fine thread!

[Brian Halbleib]

 

 

 

-Brian

[Ray Hammond]

brian you made a mess with that whitetail....hope you brought some paper towels in your backpack!!!!  

[wandering monk]

great thread...some nice looking animals...this is a pick of a bow I just put together...its a riser I made up almost 25 years ago...

I just got a set of 50# limbs for it...the 70's I used to shoot were just too much for me now...maybe it has something to do with my gray hair?? LOL...



I think the deltas shoot a lot better now with the lighter limbs too...

[Rudy Cariello]

Almost a "longbow", the tips are bent a little.

[razorsharptokill]

50 @ 28" Osage. Rivercane arrow with obsidian arrowhead.

[Charlie Lamb]

       
   
   

[Blaino]

Charlie - the riser in the first pic looks really small. How long is it?

Oh, and great topic RC!

[Charlie Lamb]

     
     

[Josh Perdue]

That bottom right photo is one of my favorites.

[jsweka]

Great bows everyone!! This is an awesome thread.

Homemade bows just have something special to them.  If I'm not hunting with one of my own, I'll be hunting with one I received in the bow swap over on the Bowyer's Bench.  I just can't see myself ever buying a bow again.

[ishoot4thrills]

Here's my first osage selfbow I made back in the mid '90s. Never killed anything with it but never hunted with it a whole lot either 'cause it's a little too much for me to handle:

[Charlie Lamb]

Blaino... That riser piece isn't more than 8" long. But that's deceptive.
The belly lam was pretty thick to start so that I could scrape it down to make weight and tiller. The riser piece was blended into the belly lam. The stiff "riser section" was longer than just the dark wood.

It's an all bamboo modeled after John Shulz's "Naturals" using Howard Hill's bamboo. It's a shooter.

[treehermit]

Originally posted by Cmane07:
I clicked on here expecting to see some sticks with strings but you guys are some excellent craftsmen! Hats off to ya

Me too.  Some amazing craftsmanship and these pics are awesome.

[Hatrick]

Hey, RC. Haven't spoke to you for a while but here's a couple pictures I had of some deer with bows I've made. Shot a bunch more, just don't have the pictures. Included better pics of the bows on thosew hunts as well.