Here's a bow I made for a trade with Calvin "Madpigslayer" Peters from Alberta, Canada
Specs are:
Osage Selfbow in a deep-cored longbow stlye
68" NTN
A touch over 1" wide
50# at 28"
It's got copperhead skins on the back and a wrapped handle. Floppy arrow rest.
Here she is at full draw. She gives just a touch in the handle. Tips are pretty stiff so she draws ultra-schmoove.
Nice mannered bow after the release too. Almost no follow right off the string.
Calvin killed a pig or two down in Florida last year, hence his name.
I named this bow "Cha-yah-jus Sho-ke" which according to a Seminole language website approximates "I want pig".
Of course, that could be complete pig-crap and I could be cussing him out in Swahili for all I know :)
Here's Pigboy's sight window.
My 4 year old Lainey saying "Hi Hailey" which is Calvin's daughter.
Since it's unlawful to kill squirrels in Alberta, I thought I'd try to get Calvin in trouble with this squirrel tail Windicator.
As an extra bonus, I made Calvin this snaky arrow.
It's osage with a few kinks added with a heatgun.
Got a snake head tradepoint.
I wrapped the crown with some of the snakeskin trimmings from the bow before adding the turkey secondaries reinforced with sinew wraps.
She's self-nocked but I'm pretty sure she wouldn't shoot really well unless you were going around a couple corners.