The Osage Bow Part 6 (Draw Wt and Shooting)

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morning guys Dave Canterbury the Pathfinder school

go back out here J my shoulder feels a heck of a lot better what we're going to do today is first off we've got a lot of rough hash marks in here from the foreign one that we've been using and we want to get rid of all of those to start finishing this bow so I'm going to take a smooth file side of this foreign one I've got it round smooth and I've got a flat smooth here I'm going to get rid of all of those heavy hash marks that are in this bow would remember that doing this is going to take material off of this boat so in essence it's going to reduce the poundage of this bow as I do this that's why I filled it out as heavy as I did because I know I'm going to lose some of the tiller or some of the draw weight as I go through here to try to smooth this up sunder and once I get done with that then we'll use a sanding sponge type block a combination of those to clean this up a little bit more and hopefully here before the end of the day we're going to be shooting this boat so stay with me I'll get back with you okay now I've got a rough sanding pad here and I have no intention of trying to get every single file mark out of the slope I don't even really want to get every file mark out of stuff because I want to keep that handmade rustic look to this bow but I do want to smooth it out so there's no rough edges anywhere so I'm going to go ahead and sand this down real smooth everywhere as I go here especially in the areas where my string knocks and things like that are at to make sure that I get a good nice smooth finish on there so that when I seal it there won't be any splintering or anything I catch on from where that rasp break the cross and left something sticking up but like I said I want some of these file marks left in it because I think they give it a more rustic look anyway so I'll go ahead and do this whole bow I'm working on the lower limb now I'll go ahead and work on the handle in the upper lemon get back to you when I get finished with that part okay now I've taken this limb his first limb here and I've sanded it down like I said I'm not trying to get all the file marks out anyway I don't care and then I've rubbed it down to get the dust off of it but also to give it a little bit of a seal to begin with the oil rag that I use for my sharpening stone and I just rub this limb down real good with that rag and part of the handle area too and you can see that it's a darker yellow color than the part we haven't finished sanding yet so it's already getting that dark orange yellow color to it now as it ages it will turn this real dark color this whole bow will blend in and turn this real dark orange color it's on the back of this bone right now where the wood is aged that's why they call it Osage orange that's part of the reason it was called Osage orange because it was an orange colored wood so I want to show you guys that real fast let you see that before I do the other limb okay guys I'm pretty satisfied with what I got right now you can see I've got it one limits reflex D flex the other limb is just straight reflex that's not a big deal I've got it seeing it down to where I'm happy with the sanding of it it's got some farm auction it's still and that's okay like I sound like that rustic look I've made a string for it that's actually got a little bit of yellow in it and some black to match the bow I've got it served out down just ready to string it up again now that it's actually been sanded down and I would say that probably it's lost a couple of pounds in the sanding process which is okay that's not gonna hurt me either my shoulder feels pretty good today so let's gonna see what we got now in our draw here oh yeah nice okay I'm pretty happy with that it's going to see if we can throw a few arrows through this bad boy see what she looks like shooting at a target okay guys tell em one two I'm going to shoot two or three arrows out of this bow real quick into this target from right behind this Cameron I got the camera zoomed in I was leaving back out it's not zoomed in very far I'm probably I'm guessing eight nine yards on this target all right so there you go let's look at what we got for penetration from that different we got over 12 inches of penetration almost every one of these arrows so let's back up now that we see how the bow shooting and what speed of it is what you guys actually see how fast both you're shooting and how well it's drawing as well okay I backed up now to about 15 yards see what we get for arrow flight here Merilee flying out there I can't

all right I got the camera sitting at the target now okay let's take this thing back oh I don't know probably eight or nine yards let's chase a few knocks if you don't know what that means means I'm going to shoot one arrow the next arrow shoots going to be at that last arrow so I'm actually shooting for precision in a group and I've got five arrows here to shoot

okay it's not horrible bad I didn't break any arrows so not great it's not terrible either okay one more thing I want to do is these guys real quick I want to kind of get this camera a side angle so you can see the draw this bow and stuff as I shoot this target and we'll see if we can slow it down some to see what kind of flight we get out of these arrows coming out of this bow cuz I'm telling you right now this thing is super fast okay we don't go down my mind about that

watching these arrows I've shot so far see if I can get somewhere here where you guys can see this boat drawn shoot get a couple from this angle and then I'll get a couple from the other side as well

now turn this camera over and show you that group of arrows I just shot there's the group of arrows I just shot right there

now I'm gonna back us up again phase it out and come over to the other side of me and shoot five more okay did you do a little different angle this time maybe

okay now I'll show you that group of arrows

okay what I want to do now is I want to come back here to about 25 yards and shoot five arrows and just kind of see how bad they spread out this far away out of this bow and we'll say the center of that target is basically the center of an animal or a heart/lung shot on a large game and I'll try to zoom into it best I can doesn't zoom in real well once you get beyond a certain distance don't see what we can do for you here that was a little high there sure which tells me it's bow shooting really really fast because I'm not really aiming any higher at all I'm aiming for a flat shot and this bow shooting dead flat at 25 yards it's actually shooting high I need to aim low with this bow which means that this bow is really really fast there's a good one right there I was almost dead nuts right there you can't see these very well from back here but there's probably a from that last arrow I shot that one of the arrows that I shot in the first place it was way high probably about a 10 inch spread in those arrows which isn't real good because you have to have an eight inch circle to kill big-game animals really but considering I've only shot about 15 or 20 arrows out of this bow I'm not sure how it shoots yet that's pretty good but it definitely shoots flat at 25 yards so let's give myself one more chance and one more group here now realizing how this bow aims and we'll see what happens okay well we walk back out here you get it I believe it this thing shooting dead flat at 25 yards so I need aim right on the freaking money where I'm point that arrow to hit and that was just a little bit left but it's pretty much on the line as far as up and down nothing was right beside it okay walk these over into where I want them here

that was just above it that was close right there that would have been a double longshot and that would have been another probably double longshot if you can see those very well they're all just above Center or off just to the right a very few inches okay I moved just 25 yard camera up to about six yards so you see a little better where those arrows are at the center of the hay bales right there so they're just off to the writer above it easily in an eight inch circle all of those shots would have killed an animal at 25 yards a big-game animal like a deer and elk okay guys I have somebody asked me on the par 5 of this video to put this bow on a scale for you guys the way I could find to bring out here in the woods very easy was a Backus scale fish scale it only goes up to 50 pounds it does have a tape measure on it so that we can measure draw length as we go what you need to remember with a bow is once this thing bottoms out at 50 pounds we'll see what the draw weight is or where we're at on draw weight on the bow and how far we've how many inches we've drawn the bow because once you get beyond if let's say this thing bottoms out at 24 inches every inch that you get of draw up to 28 inches beyond gives you about 3 pounds of draw same ways if you have less draw than 20 inches because if you have a 55-pound bow at 28 inches in your draw length is only 26 inches you're going to lose about 6 pounds off that you're only about 49 pound bow but it works the opposite way as well if you have more draw length then you have more weight so we'll put this scale on here we'll talk about that I'll try to zoom in on it for you to let me string this bow up real quick then we can kind of talk about as we go here what we'll do is I've got in there well we will use that arrow I've got an arrow here that's about 30 inches long I was going to lay in front of it but I think I can just do it with the tape measures on here let me see how this is going to work out and then we'll try to get it on film for you as well what I'll do is I'll put this right in the center of the bow we draw it up we'll see how that how that works out if I can get this hung on something maybe down here then they get close up on it for you oK we've already maxed this out at 22 inches I'm going to show you that up close if I can here now that I know how that's going to work but 22 inches it was already 50 pounds of draw okay here's 50 pounds of draw 50 pounds of draw at 21 and a half inches so now it's going over when I go beyond 21 inches so at 21 inches we've got 51 pounds or 50 pounds of draw now you can figure that I'm going to draw this bow about 28 inches so that's six more inches times three pounds that's another 18 pounds that's 68 pounds right there and I'm figuring it's about 70 pound bow we put it on scale at the house I'm gonna read our house scale on top of the tillering tree and pull it down to 20 inches and we came up with 76 pounds and that was before we sanded it so I'm looking at this scale I'm thinking it's probably about a 70 pound bow real close to us so I hope you guys have enjoyed this series on making myself both from Osage orange I have definitely enjoyed shooting this video for you I've enjoyed shooting all the videos I've shot for you guys I appreciate your support

I appreciate your views and I appreciate everything that you guys have done for me i'm dave cameron pathfinder school thank you very much bye