2013 Annual Bow Swap

[dinorocks]

I received an awesome bow from Monterey over the weekend!  Unfortunately I am on an extended out of town field assignment and cannot see it in person :-(

My brother (my mail checker) informed me that a tube arrived...I told him to open it as I was also expecting a fishing pole...it was a bow!  He sent me a bunch of picts...looks great!!!  Even better, he told me about it yesterday...on my Birthday!  Well worth the wait!  I'll post photos when I get home.

Dino

PS. pict of the bow from the bowyer are on page 181 of this thread (second post).

[canopyboy]

Originally posted by SportHunter:
Been busting tail with work, should still be on track to finish this week.

I've decided I need to just quit my job.  It keeps getting in the way of important things like hunting, practicing for the hunt, and building bows for the hunt.

Think a fruitless hunter/mediocre bowyer could get his own reality show to pay the bills with?

[goobersan]

Probably not liberal enough for mainstream, Dave.
Better go for a cable channel.      

[KellyG]

Well the good news we are at 86% complete. I know of only one in the mail but of others who are very close and on waiting on me to get them some info. So we are coming together.

[LittleBen]

No Dave, but they will give you a show about your wife getting mad with you building bows and hunting ....

[red hill]

I've tillered my trade bow out to 21" pulling 50 lbs. Now it's just a matter of finishing the tiller, shooting in, finishing, and shipping.

******, your bow won't be much longer in coming home!

(I still can't post pics. This new web set up for my e-mail is a pain. Ya'll don't reckon it could just be me, do you?)

[KellyG]

Red you can email me them and I can put them up for you.

[canopyboy]

Originally posted by LittleBen:
No Dave, but they will give you a show about your wife getting mad with you building bows and hunting ....

I don't know Ben...she likes to play nice in public.  But if they used hidden cameras to catch her ripping me two new ones when she thought they had gone...

   

[kevin_h]

I honestly had the chance to be a part of new Alaskan based reality show..no joke..based on the lives of river/fishing guides...it was going to be filmed on the yukon river, told the lady producer that I, as a sane human being, was not interested...besides as I also explained, the rivers that I guided on were only about 400-600 miles south of where they were going to film..I thanked her for the opportunity..hung up..then I started laughing..

[LittleBen]

People will watch anything ... personally I don't have cable (that **** is like $50 a month!), but most people will watch anything ... and I mean anything ...

[jsweka]

I'd watch a reality show that follows Roy through retirement.  That should be good for a few laughs.

Episode #1: Papa smurf treating the pond
Episode #2: Tractor dies
Episode #3: The new tractor
Episode #4: Bow shoot and lost arrows
Episode #5: Coor's Light Tri-lams

[KellyG]

Holy smokes about choked laughing at that one John.

[jsweka]

Episode #6: Roy goes a thumpin'    

[SportHunter]

Episode #7: nature boy hunts in his loincloth
Episode #8: the old man tries some real beer
Episode #9: Roy gets busted ordering complete bows and posting them as his own.
Episode #10: the final chapter in the Roy saga where he puts his dentures back in and actually gets out hunting rather than gabbing online.
Episode #11: Roy adds Sport and jsweka to his thumping list    

[goobersan]

       

[talkingcabbage]

I'd order the dvd set!
Papa Smurf! Bahaha!      

[bigbob2]

               

[canopyboy]

Yeah, the papa smurf has me lmao.

What about the final 2 episodes?  
"Papa Smurf arrested and tried for assault after his thumpin' run"

"Papa Smurf declared innocent by the jury when they realized he was as threatening as a guard chihuahua..."

[SportHunter]

I have some good news and some bad news...the good news is I got it shooting...

   


   
 

the bad news ....a crack opened up at a knot then proceeded to get weaker with shooting. I glued the gap but it the compression fractures kept getting worse.

       

     

[LittleBen]

Unfortunately I think that may be fatal. You could try the Torges style patch. I have never tried it but others have said it works well.

Is that ipe!? never seen ipe with a knot like that, kinda interesting