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Title: "Bullet" bow
Post by: scrub-buster on May 30, 2012, 07:35:00 PM

Here is my newest bow, "Bullet" I posted it on PA a while back. Some of you guys might have seen it at the Tenn. Classic.

It is 45# @26" and 65" or 66" long. I can't remember right now. I over built it a little because the wood was very low quality. It had thick early rings and the late wood was crumbly. I had to put horn overlays on it because the string was denting the nocks while tillering it. This was the first time I've tried tip overlays and it won't be my last. The lower limb has a nice whoop de doo coming out of the fade. When I roughed out the bow on the bandsaw, I found a bullet in the back of the knot in the upper limb. The tree grew around it and caused the open knot hole. When I finished the bow, I drilled a hole in the lower fade and glued the bullet back into it. It kind of felt right keeping the bullet with it. Drilling a hole into a finished bow was a little different

Here is how I found the bullet

(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/SDC11422.jpg)

(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/SDC14719.jpg)

(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/SDC14716.jpg)

(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/SDC14718.jpg)

(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/SDC14720.jpg)

(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/SDC14721.jpg)

(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/SDC14722.jpg)

Title: Re: "Bullet" bow
Post by: scrub-buster on May 30, 2012, 07:36:00 PM

(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/SDC14725.jpg)

(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/SDC14724.jpg)

(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/SDC14728.jpg)

Title: Re: "Bullet" bow
Post by: JJB on May 30, 2012, 09:23:00 PM

Nice looking bow, finding that bullet makes for a cool story.
-Jay

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Post by: coaster500 on May 30, 2012, 09:32:00 PM

Very nice shooter.... got to love character !!!

Tiller looks spot on :)

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Post by: Colorado Joe on May 30, 2012, 11:42:00 PM

So what caliber and age is the bullet?
You should do some forensics.

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Post by: PEARL DRUMS on May 31, 2012, 09:17:00 AM

Sweet bow Clint, very sweet.

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Post by: DVSHUNTER on May 31, 2012, 10:13:00 AM

Cool stick man!

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Post by: Troy D. Breeding on May 31, 2012, 11:03:00 AM

Foul, foul!!! no peep sights allowed!!! :bigsmyl:

Title: Re: "Bullet" bow
Post by: scrub-buster on May 31, 2012, 01:15:00 PM

No clue what size the bullet is. The tree was growing next to a country road so that is probably where it came from.

The hole is way to high for a peep site. :D

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Post by: red hill on May 31, 2012, 03:04:00 PM

That is a very cool bow, Scrub!

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Post by: Igor on June 01, 2012, 06:05:00 PM

Totally Awesome bow!

Thanks for sharing...

><>>
Glenn

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Post by: Roy from Pa on June 01, 2012, 07:02:00 PM

Real sweet..

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Post by: LittleBen on June 07, 2012, 10:19:00 PM

So freakin awsome I don't have thd words. "bullet" ... Very cool

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