HH BUG GOT ME - Part Two!

[Brianlocal3]

Yeah Greg, white on white is very nice. That was my JD berry vixen. White on white with highly figured myrtle riser, black walnut limbs. Wonderful bow!!!!! An absolute dream to shoot

[Brianlocal3]

My good friend Mike Miller has a white back and belly with myrtle riser build one week before mine.  His is a misty dawn

[ron w]

Wow......that is nice!!  

[MikeNova]

Brian I still can't believe you let that bow go.

[Cavscout9753]

Lol, Brian is a hard man to win over with a bow! That Vixen is a looker!

[NBK]

Well I did a bit of a change up on my Newwood string follow wood choice!  Met with Chris at his place this afternoon and got to handle a few bows. He had two with brown glass and myrtle risers that really jumped out to me but he had one with a black glass back and belly with a killer cocobolo riser that won the show. The simplicity of the black really highlighted the elegance of the string follow lines and that's what I settled on.  Chris had a beautiful dark block of coco and that's all she wrote... Except now for the wait that we all must endure when placing an order.  Final specs will be 66" and 50@28.  Thanks for the input guys.

[two4hooking]

[WESTBROOK]

That's pretty slick Greg, Ol'Nate is handy with the leather!

 

[Green]

Very cool!

[Goshawkin]

Originally posted by NBK:
Well I did a bit of a change up on my Newwood string follow wood choice!  Met with Chris at his place this afternoon and got to handle a few bows. He had two with brown glass and myrtle risers that really jumped out to me but he had one with a black glass back and belly with a killer cocobolo riser that won the show. The simplicity of the black really highlighted the elegance of the string follow lines and that's what I settled on.  Chris had a beautiful dark block of coco and that's all she wrote... Except now for the wait that we all must endure when placing an order.  Final specs will be 66" and 50@28.  Thanks for the input guys.

It'll look great. I have 2 Timberlines with black glass back & belly,with cocobolo risers. One is dark coco and the other is orange coco. They both look awesome

for various reasons or excuses, my wife had left the Hill shooting years ago and preferred recurves and her NAT.  I went through all of the Hill shooting stuff with from scratch and she tried her Cheetah.  She had a mistaken idea in her head about what to expect.  Today she figured out that the slight hesitation at at anchor was not a hold, but rather a tightening into the follow through.  In short order she was keeping them in tight out to 24 yards.   She noted that the hand shock was gone and the bow shot way faster than she remembered.  i told her that is what happens when you treat a longbow like a longbow and not a recurve. Not bad for a 63 year old gramma.

[Possumjon]

My new wesley special from hha. Brown glass front and back. 66" and 46@26". Still learning to shoot it but I've gotten alot better and it throws an arrow with authority!

[Cavscout9753]

Thats a nice stick Possum. I have a 60# Wesley and now I'm shopping around for one around that weight too. I can handle 60#, but sometimes I wonder if I have to.

Pavan, I could not imagine having a better instructor than yourself. And I agree, I won't even shoot a recurve or hybrid lb anymore, my brain isn't quick enough to bounce between the shooting styles. I just keep it in ASL gear, haha

[Cavscout9753]

I already posted in the Powwow but I thought I'd share here as well:

I was able to score Brianlocal3's cedar limbed McBroom, 48# @ 26". It has a white belly, which I know a lot of folks seem to enjoy. If anyone has an ASL with white glass, what do you think of it? Does it show a lot of grime or dirt? The only glass I have ever had was black, brown, or clear, so this will be a first. I'm excited to get down in the weight a little. I agree 100% with the argument for heavier bows, I just also want something a bit lighter to cover the bases.

I made some heavy string follows the Union Jack way in 70s with white glass.  The kind with the pull off strip that covered a grid pattern so that Urac could be used on both wood and glass to wood contacts.  Over time the finish can yellow a bit and will show a slight yellowing.  Those bows were both back and belly white.   I could not tell if deer cared all that much, but it was easy to spot one of them from a distance, that white wand was quite easy to see moving around.

[Cavscout9753]

Yeah, I'm glad only the belly is white as far as hunting. We'll see when it arrives but im hopeful.

[two4hooking]

A black wand moving around is just as easy to see to a deer.  I think one day I will get an all white bow and kill many animals with it just to prove a point  

[Cavscout9753]

Haha, two4hooking, I don't doubt it's feasability one bit. In fact, for Christmas my wife got me a lined flannel jacket that I wore all late winter. Its so comfortable and warm I plan on picking another up for hunting this season and ditching the store bought camo. I think a lot of science is out in regards to the color/light spectrum of most game. Science of course that no one in previous generations cared to worry about as they wore all manner of plaid and denim afield and stacked critters high.

[jhk1]

I have a couple ASLs with white bellies, and love the look.  But I also like my ASLs with black backs and bellies, and brown backs and bellies.  I think you'll like having one with a white belly.  It's a nice change of pace.

[CHENRYIV]

Originally posted by Cavscout9753:
Yeah, I'm glad only the belly is white as far as hunting. We'll see when it arrives but im hopeful.

Cavscout9753,  I think the deer around here get hypnotized by my white belly JD Berry bows.