Making up for lost time

[Horseman308]

There hasn't been enough archery posting here, so I'm gonna fix that for a second!

I took almost 2 years off from shooting bows, and nearly forgot how much fun it is. I recently picked it back up and ended up compensating for the missed time. In the space of 2 weeks I bought 2 new sets of limbs for my Bear Takedown and a Bear Cheyenne.

The Takedown limbs are a pair of 37# longs for target shooting and a pair of 47# short limbs (with Bubinga wedges!) for hunting. Both go on a short 15" riser, making a 60" bow with long limbs and a 56" bow with short ones. This makes 3 sets of limbss for this riser. I friggin LOVE this bow.

The Cheyenne is more of a plaything than anything I'll shoot real seriously, but it's pretty and fun. It's a short 55" one-piece at 42#. Lots of arrows shot in the last couple of weeks, too.

 

[paperwork351]

Nice looking bows. Not familiar with takedown limbs. I remember recurves as a kid (50s/60s). Don't know if a back mounted quiver exists anymore.

 

[Horseman308]

Nice looking bows. Not familiar with takedown limbs. I remember recurves as a kid (50s/60s). Don't know if a back mounted quiver exists anymore.

That leather quiver in the first pic is my back quiver. I prefer a bow quiver for adding some dampening, but the back quiver is fun.

 

[eruby]

Robin of Locksley approves

 

[Scottysan]

beautiful setups! I'm doing the same, going back to recurve from the machine bows

 

[TwinTurbskis]

Very cool. I've always wanted to get into traditional archery. I suck too much though and need the accuracy of a compound lol

 

[Gordon]

I'm in full archery mode,making custom arrows,pocket quivers,string silencers, making new strings and tuning my bows. I recently purchased a 45# Black Hunter longbow on the recommendation from a fellow archer and was very pleased with. Also picked up additional set of limbs in 50#. ETAR is scheduled the last weekend of July in Morris PA.