Whitetail Antler — Bows

Bows

I have been building bows since 1998. Like most archers, I started out using compound bows, but I found traditional archery much more of a challenge. Since I am left-handed, I had difficulty finding bows that suited me, so I began to build bows. I started with fiberglass kits, and I made two or three very nice bows, but I felt that almost anything that I sandwiched between two pieces of fiberglass would shoot well. I wanted to experience the thrill of using actual trees and bamboo and animal sinew and horn to make bows the old fashioned way. I do use modern glues, strings and machines to make these bows, and many of them are perhaps too fancy for mere survival. Nonetheless, they are effective weapons that shoot fast. They are also quiet and easy to shoot. I hope you enjoy looking at them, and if you would like to know more about them, send me an email.

Yew is a traditional bow wood that was used widely by the English longbowmen. It is a conifer, but it has unusual strength and flexibility that made it a fine material for crafting long-casting arrow launchers. In North America, the yew forests are mostly located in the west coast rain forests of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. This bow is made from British Columbia yew. It pulls 47 pounds at 28 inch draw. The tips are carved from whitetail antler.

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