My new recurve

[BearGuy.]

Hello everyone, I am new here to the traditional fourm. I have been a bowhunter for many years and always have used a compound. I have a good friend of mine that got me into traditional archery here a couple of years ago and I had the good fourtune of taking deer with it last season. Wow was that a thrill, it was just like shooting my very first deer with my compound,,,,maybe even more so. Any whoo, my first recurve was a Wes Wallace "Partner" bow that was given to me as a tip, I am an outfitter and guidein Northwestern Ontario for bear and moose, and I promised him when I got good enough with it I would try for a deer. Well, he was to camp here last week with another gift. The bow is in the picture below, he made it! The riser is a real Elk antler and he made the limbs, arrows, and the string. Thought you might all enjoy a picture of my new baby. I about fell over when he gave it to me, and also he had made bows for my other 2 guidesas well. Now I promised him after a while of practice that I will have to go and get me a deer with it this fall. I've got a little practice ahead of me.
Anyway, thought you all might enjoy the bow, and appricate it more than in the regular fourm.

[BearGuy.]

Thought I would throw in a picture of the deer I got with my recurve last winter. Got to love them snowy evenings.
Thanks,

[Arthur P]

Congratulations on your bow kill!

That bow though.[:-] I've been shooting bows for 50 years and have never seen an antler used for a riser before. That is way cool!

[BearGuy.]

Thanks Arthur,
Here is a picture of the fella that made me that bow, and his first elk antler bow, and a 385# blackie he took withit last year. And let me tell ya', this guy can shoot that thing, his bear only went 25yards.
Thanks again

[dkbs]

Hello
That bow does look pretty neat. I've also never seen a bow riser made from an antler. Good luck hunting with it.

Dan