First bow, 8 year makeover. I bought the stave for this hickory bow in 1994 at Marshall. I hunted bear that year with it  and later turkey and deer. No success. These are pics of how it looked early this spring:



As you can see the Brown Bear was a beast and quite crude.

So this year my buddy KHALVERSON and I decided to visit Marshall, where this began 8 years ago. With the help of Pearl Drums, blackmockingbird, Chuck Deshler, and Kevin I was able to transform this into a sweet shooter. The Grey Owl:
 
 
 
 

The bow is 3/8" narrower, 2" shorter, and has a hickory slat glued to the bottom belly to strengthen it. Around 50#@28". I saved the shelf leather from the original to use on the makeover. Thanks to the guys for all their help, and thanks for looking.
owlbait Mike Gerard

good lookin bow
for an ol grey barn owl  

Tastey!

Looking good OB.
Looking good.

Great looking bow.

Nice makeover!

The end results:  

Very nice.

Great job on the bow makeover.

Great story and a good bow made great.

What a feel good story.

I gotta say... I actually gasped when I saw the original tiller!

Nice make over.
Turned that sucker into a tried and true weapon!

Nice work.

Nice!!  Another plan comes together for the guys on the bench.  

Nice looking bow.
Rob

Quite the transformation, great job.  congrats on the deer also.....Dan

Sweet I hope you get many more with it.

Who is the big ox on the left?

In which picture?  :D