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Title: Strange bow on the Bay
Post by: ckruse on September 01, 2008, 10:19:00 AM
I saw this on E8ay. It seems maybe Rich told me he'd been working on a new way of stringing this type of bow. It's a variant of the "step through method" and it "only hurts for a little while"!   :knothead:  CKruse

(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b120/cdkruse/strangebow.jpg)
Title: Re: Strange bow on the Bay
Post by: PAPALAPIN on September 01, 2008, 10:57:00 AM
Long overdraw.  Shoots 12" arrows.
Title: Re: Strange bow on the Bay
Post by: TonyW on September 01, 2008, 01:26:00 PM
This bow must be from Wisconsin - it looks like a giant cheese slicer.
Title: Re: Strange bow on the Bay
Post by: Bjorn on September 01, 2008, 10:32:00 PM
That bow has had too much Viagra!  :bigsmyl:
Title: Re: Strange bow on the Bay
Post by: kurtbel5 on September 02, 2008, 01:51:00 PM
The 1st time it was listed, he wanted 300 for openers.
Anybody with what the theory was?? looks like a cable holder for a wheelie bow.
Title: Re: Strange bow on the Bay
Post by: wadde on September 02, 2008, 10:07:00 PM
I am just guessing but it may have been to hold the bow at full draw while waiting for a shot. There were other devices years ago that did the same thing. I have not seen one like this before  that was permanently attached to the bow.
Title: Re: Strange bow on the Bay
Post by: Rick P on September 04, 2008, 02:51:00 AM
Hope your all kidding, it's a stabilizer same as the metal ones sticking out of the front of every olympic shooters bow.
Title: Re: Strange bow on the Bay
Post by: ckruse on September 04, 2008, 07:09:00 AM
Yep, just a variation of a stabilizer. It actually was threaded and screwed on and off of the bow. If you looked at the other pictures, it was crafted quite nicely. CKruse
Title: Re: Strange bow on the Bay
Post by: PAPALAPIN on September 04, 2008, 08:07:00 AM
If you shoot it like it is strung, it is a right handed bow withe the stabaliser out front.

What's so unusual about that?  Other than the stabalizer is wood to match the riser