Now this is a cool bow
 

finally got me an osage selfbow with rattlesnake skin on the limbs, and elk hoof tips. Has some decent zip to it. But man, I am not used to the handshock.

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Another of the tips

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Here is the belly. Looks like it has 4 coats of poly.

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Send it to me and I'll shoot the handshock out of it for ya. ;)

You're throwing gas on the fire, you know that? I'm getting the urge to make another bow and I just might finally throw down the cash for a snakey stave. Nice bow you got there! :)

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Thanks Arthur. I have always wanted one like this. A guy on these forums promised to make one for me, and then never came thru. So I found someone else on tradgang.

The BH is set to 5.75". Does that sound reasonable? I have an email in to the original buyer. I figured I might raise it to 6" to 6.5" to see if an knock down that handshock. If your not careful, she will fly out of your hands.

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I think I'd raise it up if it's jumping that bad. If you have to go to 6 1/2", I don't think it'll hurt, but naturally the lower you can go and still get acceptable shooting the better.

How does the tiller look? Sometimes a bow will thump the hand a little too hard if the tiller isn't quite right. You might need to to a little additional sanding to one limb or the other.

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Cool, real cool! Is that the one I saw on tradgang for sale?

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Tiller is within 1/4" not drawn, and gets better half drawn. I see he left some tiller marks on it. Little black dots up the limb. Thas where I measured. I thought that might be reasonable, but I am not a bow builder.

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Looks nice. Id raise that BH too. and see. Twist that string up untill it gets better and see anyway.

My hunting bow is a snakey osage with copperheads. I love that there isn't another in the world like it.

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Very nice :) Looks like someone did you proud with that one. Bump the brace up to 6". It won't hurt it at all.

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Thats craftmanship and artwork at it's finest.Good luck with it.

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Well, just went out and flung a few dozen arrows. Bad news is 2016's with 250 pt still shows stiff reaction. Trying to decide what POC or spuce to buy. I think I am going to have to buy 40-45#. But bareshaft, its definately hitting to the left hard. But with 5.5" sheilds I am hitting within 5" of bull out to 18 yards but do notice alot of fishtailing. Todays shooting was so fun, its freaky.

I am using a homemade bow sling, and that helps the shock a lot.

Yep, bob, thats the one for sale on tradgang. Jerry Adams is awesome to do business with. He wanted 400 for it shipped, but I told him, all I could scrape up was 300 shipped after buying the zipper. He didn't seem to pleased but agreed. I have been waiting a long time for a bow like this, so I am pleased.

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I find an arrow 5-10# underdraw weight in spine is generally the ticket with the selfbows I shoot. I've got a hickory selfbow that shoots 29.5", 45/50 cedars nicely. It pulls 51#@29".

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now that is a nice bow.

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that is sweet

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Very Nice BigC....

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Very nice! You may not want to do this with yours, but for handshock.........

I can't handle much myself--or my bow arm elbow can't at least. My selfbow is braced at about 7 1/4" and I have a 10 strand Dynaflight '97 string (18 strands in the loops) on it--really calmed it down. I couldn't shoot it with a dacron string--it just flat hurt.

As for arrows......that can vary a bunch. I'm pulling around 65#, and mine shoots full-length 45/50 (with 125 grain points) the best. I can get away with 75/80# spine if I do everything just right, but usually the arrows look like an olympic gymnast on the way to the target.

I'm no great shot, especially with a selfbow, but so far with this bow:

2006 Jerry Pierce Memorial--2nd
2006 Howard Hill--1st
2007 ATAR--3rd
2007 Tennessee Classic--2nd
2007 Jerry Pierce Memorial--1st
2007 Howard Hill--1st

Only killed a couple criters with it so far--still very much prefer my longbow, and I'm a better shot with my longbow--but it's a lot of fun. Seriously considering making one myself this summer.

Chad

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Wholey Crap!!! I'm jealous.

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Yep. D-97 or such does great at cutting down shock and doesn't hurt selfbowsat all-not that I've ever noticed anyway. It'll make the bow need arrows spined about 5 pounds stiffer too, soit might help you out a bit in that way also.

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I figured with the elk horn tips, a D97 string wouldn't hurt. Thankf

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I figured with the elkhorn tips, D97 wouldn't hurt too much. Might have to give you an order Chad. Thanks for the advise.