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On the left. A 45 pound Deerseeker raptor longbow. That's in reference to the grip and D-flex limbs, at 54 inches it's not exactly long.
On the right. A 40 pound takedown recurve at 62 inches from sinoarts.
I bought the Raptor after the recurve because I wanted something smaller, more maneuverable.
No matter how much I practice, I'm simply more accurate with a recurve. Both grip and subsequent posture/style just seem to add up to consistent accuracy with a recurve.
As a result I've been eyeing another sinoarts model. A Black hunter clone, but at 58 inches instead of the usual 60. However, they use the same 15 inch riser for their 60 inch longbow version and their limb attachment looks bog standard, so I have the option to run it at 60 inches and at various draw weights with either recurve or D-limbs.
I'm not necessarily sold on the utility/value of multiple limbs for the same bow, but having the option certainly doesn't hurt.
Cheers Jim
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Bargain on eBay for £28/$30 included shipping light poundage that keeps me stretching at home while my elbow recovers I slapped on a spare string 66" 30# at 28" Just bought a new pair of limbs at Merlin to give it a few more pounds and make it look a little bit more "Woodsman" inspired by Zunga's post (scroll up 3 and there it is)

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Back in the early 70's a bow was hanging from a nail on the shed wall at our farm house. Hanging next to it was a quiver with white and blue cedar arrows from the One Stop Sport Shop. The wooden arrows were tipped with Hilbre broadheads.

The bow was a Shakespeare Wonderbow Super Necedah. Hilbre head did not require glur to attach to the wood shaft, the plastic had internal threads that matched the arrow taper so you could securely attach them with a few twists.

When one of my older brothers and I were old enough to we would take turns. He would climb a tree and sit on a branch, I would hand up the bow and then an arrow. The next time, it was my turn to hunt. Once I handed up the bow and while handing up the arrow, the broadhead hit the string and we were finished hunting until we could make a trip to the One Stop Sport shop for a new one.

I never killed a deer with that bow. We eventually lost all the arrows and I went on to another bow and many more bows since then. I dont know whatever happened to that old Shakespeare Wonderbow.

As a broadhead collector, I was sure to gather up all the Hilbre heads I could find and I always kept a lookout for somebody selling that exact bow. Recently I found one. Today the brown truck brought it to me. At some point Im going to take this bow out and hunt with it.

Ive taken deer and bear with all homemade tread gear including homemade broadheads but I really want to take a WI whitetail with this bow. Im still waiting on the string I ordered. I wont cut this one.

FYI, this one was made between 68 and 73

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nanmanman said:
Where did you get the mounting bracket for the quiver? Been searching for something like that.
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Spent ages on and off trying to find such a thing I got nothing unfortunately, in the end had to make it,
see link if it helps.

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Thread 'Cant find it? Costs to much? Perhaps I can make it?'

A long time tinkerer, fixer, maker, often find myself needing something fixed, wanting something & cant find it or they dont make what
I'm looking for, its either poorly made, to expensive, its made elsewhere and the shiping is just daft,
wrong material, size, colour or I'm just to fussy for it to work for me. So, over the years Ive evolved to think,
can I do it myself ? this has led me to accumulate various tools, bits, materials etc over time and many hours online
researching ways, ideas to try and do it myself, not always succssesful mind.
Forums have played a big part for me in this...
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yeoldoak said:
Spent ages on and off trying to find such a thing I got nothing unfortunately, in the end had to make it,
see link if it helps.

Y

Thread 'Cant find it? Costs to much? Perhaps I can make it?'

A long time tinkerer, fixer, maker, often find myself needing something fixed, wanting something & cant find it or they dont make what
I'm looking for, its either poorly made, to expensive, its made elsewhere and the shiping is just daft,
wrong material, size, colour or I'm just to fussy for it to work for me. So, over the years Ive evolved to think,
can I do it myself ? this has led me to accumulate various tools, bits, materials etc over time and many hours online
researching ways, ideas to try and do it myself, not always succssesful mind.
Forums have played a big part for me in this...
  • Like
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Do you have a sketch of the dimensions, or a CAD drawing of the bracket? I know of some local machine shops. I shoot a Samick Discovery ILF bow, and I'm having a hell of a time mounting a sight AND a quiver on it. That quiver bracket you have on there looks like a good solution.
 
nanmanman said:
Do you have a sketch of the dimensions, or a CAD drawing of the bracket? I know of some local machine shops. I shoot a Samick Discovery ILF bow, and I'm having a hell of a time mounting a sight AND a quiver on it. That quiver bracket you have on there looks like a good solution.
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The bracket was done pretty much on the fly, used a piece of paper to lay on the bow riser to work out bolt hole
position and distance along with position and mounting holes on the Trophy Ridge Convoy Arrow Quiver,
then transferred this to a piece of cereal box cardboard, once all looked in good alignment went from there.

Not sure what quiver you want to use but the Trophy Ridge Convoy Quiver uses a supplied quick detatch mounting plate
which had to be matched to my aluminium bracket along with a piece of kydex I had to cut out to give a flat fit.27.jpg38.jpg
 
So with that you may have to make changes also your bow riser may be different with regards to length
and curve from my riser etc. The plate is 6mm thick, length is approx 100mm x height of 50mm,
the riser fixing bolt holes are standard bow sight mounting on olympic style recurve bow and the
Trophy Ridge Convoy Quiver holes are what they are for that so not sure if thats a standard or not,
hope it helps.
 
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