RE: new bow?
The only way you' re going to find something like that is in a custom bow, and you' re going to have to expect to spend 400-500 bucks for one.
You know... I don' t think I' d spend money on a bow if I were you, as long as you' re handy with tools and have an eye for shape and form. When I was a kid my bows were nothing more than ones I made by splitting out elm limbs and saplings, letting them dry out and season a month or two and whittling them into bows. The heaviest ones pulled maybe 40 pounds and I used clothesline cord for a string. And I shot the old Indian pinch draw style, which is what I assume you' re talking about.
For arrows, I got some hardwood dowel rod at the hardware store, cut ' em about 26" long, split the front end to take small broadheads I' d made from either old handsaw blades or banding steel. For a nock, I just cut a half-moon divot in the end of the shaft. With the edge of a file, I filed some side to side grooves on each side of the nock from the end to a half inch down the shaft, just deep enough to give me something to grab. I stripped the quills off some turkey or goose feathers (you can buy ' em at craft stores, if your grampa doesn' t raise turkeys or geese) and tied them on with linen thread, then smeared some Elmers Glue over the thread to keep it from unraveling.
I took all kinds of rabbits, jackrabbits, squirrels, game birds, raccoons, possums, coyotes, bobcats and even a couple of small wild pigs with my homemade stuff.
If you can find the book ' Bows and Arrows of the Native Americans' by Jim Hamm, it' s got some excellent instructions in it on how to make that kind of bow, and it' s got some good info on how to shoot them. Indian style.
Another option would be to try and find one of the older solid fiberglass semi-recurve bows that Bear and Pearson used to sell. Most of ' em you find now are kiddie bows, but some years back they made them in serious hunting poundages. You see them on Ebay all the time.
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