Liberal Jeade IRL shooting a real 140lb Medieval Warbow

[WITCHCRAFT]

35lbs is enough to legally hunt anything in the US.
45 is enough to legally hunt anything in Canada (like maple syrup trees).
40 is totally a good enough weight to start off on.

Bows in that range are amazing for accurate shots on the range and legal for hunting most critters, but I'd hate to try and down a deer (not to mention moose or bear) with a bow like that. The most unsavory part of bow hunting is putting down the thing you shot after you catch up to it. Smaller stuff isn't too harrowing, but I wouldn't want to hunt large game (as a leisure activity, not strict survival shit) with a bow unless it had crazy draw strength. Even with some really deep wounds, you'd have to track your target for a long-ass time then put it out of its misery by severing some arteries/veins in the neck.

On the topic of hunting/survival type stuff, have any of you tried spear or bow fishing? Check your local laws, as this can be more restricted than gun use depending on area. It's really easy to whittle a two or three pronged spear from a piece of wood (no need to make stone/metal heads and attach them), and catching bullhead/carp/catfish is quite easy if you toss some worms or frog parts into the right bit of shoreline.

I love me some clean tasting bullhead caught from a pristine little lake up in the boonies. Just like ocean fish take on the briny/seaweed taste of their ecosystem, freshwater bottom feeders can be really tasty from the right source.

If you live anywhere with unpolluted waters that have invasive asian carp species, eat the shit out of them. Cook 'em up like a catfish, or steam them whole with ginger/garlic/scallions. In addition to a tasty and practically free meal, you will be doing your local ecosystem a huge favor.

Fuckin' carp.

[AntiBlitz]

who the fuck eats carp?


bones everywhere, tastes crappy unless seasoned to death, might as well just eat the seasoning then.  Not to mention eating carp is like eating mice out of a landfill.  Fuckin' liberals, Fuckin' carp.

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maybe your carp is different from the ones we have, our carp are disgusting, nobody would bother eating them

[WITCHCRAFT]

It depends on where you catch it, stuff like carp and catfish can be delicious but they soak up nasty flavors and pollutants like a vacuum cleaner.

[Jeade]

It depends on where you catch it, stuff like carp and catfish can be delicious but they soak up nasty flavors and pollutants like a vacuum cleaner.

Absolutely. Carp tear the shit out of lake beds and ingest a bunch of stuff off the bottom.
I sure as hell wouldn't eat them out here in the Bay Area with all of our mercury-bottomed lakes.

Still, though, carp can be pretty tasty.
I've never had too much trouble catching some decent sized ones in Texas, but then again, everything is bigger there, so who knows.

[Sparvico]

Dat beard doe.

[WITCHCRAFT]

Dat beard doe.

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[ShinySpoons]

Perhaps try adding slight reflex to it. Either heat bending  in an oven with the end through the grates  (or a heat gun for the easier way lol )or water bending it if you rig up a jig to tie it against. Good for a bit of poundage. You'll need to do a bit of tillering after however.

I don't think you stated what wood you were using. I'm using hickory for mine. 70" 34 pound draw. My first, so I'm pretty sure I overdid the tillering hence the lower draw weight. I have 3 other bow blanks from the same board to experiment with for my others. Thinking of doing a much deeper recurve on a 58". That'll be a beast. I'll take that one out if I ever go bow hunting.

The longer bows are a bitch to carry around in the woods; hence my desire to try and make a shorter one. I'll leave that one for the last when I'm better at them and figured out the recurving process better.
 

Also, I can't tell if its because of the cant but it looks like  the top limb is simply longer than the bottom limb. And raise that back elbow more (unless you're just doing that for the photo)

[ShinySpoons]

On the topic of hunting/survival type stuff, have any of you tried spear or bow fishing? Check your local laws, as this can be more restricted than gun use depending on area. It's really easy to whittle a two or three pronged spear from a piece of wood (no need to make stone/metal heads and attach them), and catching bullhead/carp/catfish is quite easy if you toss some worms or frog parts into the right bit of shoreline.

Its illegal to do so in BC, but at night you can shine a flashlight into the water and just spear the carp out of anything that pops up. Some real cheap fish to be gotten from dudes selling on the roadside...

[ArysOakheart]

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Every summer when I've got not much else to do I typically spend my free time on some sort of crafting project. Two years back I decided to make my own bow, however I went the quick and easy route of making it out of PVC. I ended up making two. The first was simply made of two different-sized pipes cut down to size, stuffed inside one another, and then filled with a fiberglass rod to give it a little extra "oomph." This thing was roughly 4.5ft (1.5m) long, and had a draw weight of 55-60lb. That draw weight was pretty substantial imo, and the cheap arrows I bought were too flimsy to work with that amount of weight. So I learned from my mistakes and when I made my much fancier bow next, made by heating up and reshaping the PVC pipes, I went with a smaller version (modeled after a cavalry bow, it looks very similar to the horn bow in crpg) with a draw weight of only 25-30lb.

While I see that your bow is obviously much larger than either of the two I made, how is it that you find 55 lbs to be weak? My ~55lb bow could shoot arrows with enough force to snap them in half midair (as I said I was buying the cheap target shooting arrows that are rated for a max of ~20lbs of force), and when they didn't break they could go insanely far. Are you trying to make a historically accurate english longbow that you wouldn't ever be able to actually draw until you hulk out?

Anyways, to answer your question, I purposely made an easier model first, mainly to test whether or not you could make a "real" bow out of PVC. I rushed that one, and barely spent any extra time finely detailing it to make it look nice or anything. Then I used the information I gained from that one to craft my second bow, which was made in a completely different style. The second one was made by flattening a PVC pipe and then bending it around poles/bowls/round shit until it had a nice recurve to it. Then I cut a "V" in each end, bent them together and filled the gaps with epoxy. Finally I sanded the whole thing down, slapped a coat of black paint on it, threw some glued-together slices of leather onto it to make a little ledge for the arrow, and then used some black electrical tape to wrap around the grip and each end. It has a really cool kind of modern look to it, it almost looks like it is something SWAT would use if they ever ran around with bows. I'm happy with it, however after extensive use that summer It failed on my multiple times. The problem I had with it is I actually burnt the PVC in one little area when flattening it. The nice thing about using PVC though is when it fails it simply bends, the entire bow didn't splinter in my face like a fiberglass or wooden one would do. Then I just heated it up again and bent it back into place, again and again. Of course it gets progressively weaker over time with each failure, so right now I've just got it sitting in my garage, more or less just a display piece.

Even though my second bow was, well, my second attempt, I still view it as a learning experience more than any sort of final product. I started making bows out of PVC instead of wood because while I had plenty of free time, I didn't have THAT much free time. Also, I wanted to be able to spend as much time shooting targets as I was going to spend working on it, and if I had made a real bow out of wood it would have easily taken my entire summer to complete, and then I would be shipped off to school before I could have gotten around to shooting it at all. Now that I should hopefully have a lot more free time this summer, it might be time for me to put my previous bow-making experiences to good use and finally try my hand at making a bow out of wood. Long story short, I voted that you should learn from your experiences and move on to bigger and better things in the future. No reason you needed to make just one bow... if you enjoyed this process at all then you can easily turn this into a hobby, and that was merely your first attempt that you will laugh at 10 bows later.

You just typed up a two and a tenth paged paper (12 font, times new roman, double spaced). I'm sorry but that's my only response. 

[Bronto]

Perhaps try adding slight reflex to it. Either heat bending  in an oven with the end through the grates  (or a heat gun for the easier way lol )or water bending it.
 

Don't forget to try air bending it and earth bending it as well.

[njames89]

Found out some beautiful British Canadian convert donated a park to my city under the stipulation that they maintain a free archery range for the public. If they ever stop providing it as a free range it reverts to his estate.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Thompson_Seton

Can't wait to get my bow and hit the range!

Pew pew pew

[AwesomeHail]

btw, the best bow I've seen for the money is the Blackhawk from Buck Trail Bows.
If you can afford the shipping, get it.

Why get a recurve bow :O

Go traditional or go home

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fuck sights, shoot natural, plebs

[Bronto]

btw, the best bow I've seen for the money is the Blackhawk from Buck Trail Bows.

Weird, I really like blackhawks too. They are just so big. I had a girlfriend once who really liked blackhawks because of their size and girth. They say once you try a blackhawk you never go back. In a recent study though, it was found that blackhawks come in all shapes and sizes too. There are even websites dedicated to pictures and videos of nothing but blackhawks. Apparently they're pretty popular for their size and rigidity. Great, I'm going to be thinking about blackhawks all day now. Thanks Jeade. Glad that you love blackhawks too.

[AwesomeHail]

Weird, I really like blackhawks too. They are just so big. I had a girlfriend once who really liked blackhawks because of their size and girth. They say once you try a blackhawk you never go back. Glad that you love blackcocks too.

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I'm sorry. I shouldnt be lurkin while high

[Bronto]

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I'm sorry. I shouldnt be lurkin while high

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