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Shooting Sports => Archery => Topic started by: Rancid Crabtree on October 24, 2007, 05:47:50 AM
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I would like to harvest a deer with all homemade archery equipment. I have harvested 37 deer with a bow but all have been with modern equipment. This year I will up the challenge a bit and try to do it with a
Homemade bow. I made an English longbow with a walnut riser, leather grip and a flemish string, I made string silencers from a tanned raccoon tail. It is tillered to be 45 pounds at 28 inches.
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c239/212007154/arrows/leathergrip9.jpg)
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c239/212007154/arrows/coon5.jpg)
The bow case I sewed from a piece of denim.
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c239/212007154/arrows/case5.jpg)
The arrows are cedar. I crested them and fletched them with the feather from a turkey I shot.
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c239/212007154/arrows/newcedars9996.jpg)
I made the broadheads from field points and band saw blade material.
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c239/212007154/broadheads91.jpg)
I used leather to make a finger tab, arm guard and field quiver. I decorated them with leather tooling and antler buttons and bear claws.
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c239/212007154/arrows/armguard93.jpg)
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c239/212007154/arrows/armguard94.jpg)
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c239/212007154/arrows/hquiver98.jpg)
My camo is homemade as I posted in the "homemade camo" thread.
I made my own portable climbing stand and ladder stand.
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c239/212007154/climber3.jpg)
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c239/212007154/climber96.jpg)
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c239/212007154/climber99.jpg)
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c239/212007154/jakeladder3.jpg)
I made the safety harness from seat belt material and metal buckles.
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c239/212007154/harness4.jpg)
The hunting knife is made from an old sawsall blade and a deer antler with deer rawhide.
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c239/212007154/boneknife2.jpg)
I get the rawhide from working the hides of the deer I shoot.
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c239/212007154/hide5.jpg)
I practice into a homemade target.
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c239/212007154/bag_target.jpg)
I would love to sleep in my homemade Tipi the night before the hunt.
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c239/212007154/tipi2.jpg)
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c239/212007154/tipiafterstorm.jpg)
If I am successful, I will turn my deer into homemade sausage and jerky.
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c239/212007154/arrows/fulldraw.jpg)