| From: Pdiddly
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| Date: 21-Jun-17 |
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Out shooting a couple of classic recurves tonight, getting dialed in and in shape for Colorado elk hunting this fall with crookedstix and knifeguy.
First up was a 60" Dick Green recurve from San Diego. 50# draw and it is smooth and puts them where you're looking.
Kerry owned it before and nicknamed it "Maple Sugar"...it's a great name!
I just replaced the rest with ringed seal codjigger generously shared with me. I wanted to see how it worked with a thin leather side plate. Bow is barely cut to centre so figured it would be ok and it was.
Those are 1816's 28" long with 110 grain points and I draw a tad over 27". 1916's with 125 grains worked well too. Distance was around 20 metres.
This bow has tips smaller than a mouse's ear, is beautifully out together and light as a feather.
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| From: Pdiddly
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| Date: 21-Jun-17 |
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Better look at the belly of the riser. Lams are over the glass, a common feather for SoCal bows of that era.
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| From: Pdiddly
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| Date: 21-Jun-17 |
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Last one of the tiny tip with a substantial overlay...it works.
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| From: aromakr
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| Date: 21-Jun-17 |
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Killed my first deer with a Dick Green in 1957, great bow.
Bob
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| From: Backcountry
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| Date: 21-Jun-17 |
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Nice bow, good shooting!
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| From: Pdiddly
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| Date: 21-Jun-17 |
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Was your Dick Green longer Bob? There is not much information on them.
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| From: longbowguy
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| Date: 21-Jun-17 |
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Dick Green liked his bows long and lean. I bought and sold one in hunting weight last year that shot well and smoothly. I have another now awaiting refinishing. It looks much like the one pictured above but is 70 inches long and the draw weight is 30 pounds or less. A very pleasant bow for a fellow with a long draw. I love the slender limb tips of some vintage bows. Surely they must help arrow speed.
In the 1950s Southern California led the world in bow design, except for some good work going on in Washington state.
I have also had English type longbows, one of which I made myself from Cascade yew, with very very slim tips. The tips held up fine even without fiberglas or other synthetic materials. Modern limb tips look very overbuilt to me.
I wonder whether modern bowyers are overlooking potential performance where light weight would do the most good. - lbg
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| From: mgerard
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| Date: 21-Jun-17 |
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With that title I thought this was going to be a sailor's story! (Nice bow, great lines)
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| From: Pdiddly
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| Date: 22-Jun-17 |
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Longbowguy...agree with your observations...the slim lines of all of those bows delivered performance in spades.
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| From: neuse
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| Date: 22-Jun-17 |
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Sugar Maple is a good looking bow.
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| From: mangonboat
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| Date: 22-Jun-17 |
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What a great to-do list: try out all the best bows of a generation to see which ones go elk hunting. ;-)
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| From: aromakr
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| Date: 22-Jun-17 |
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Pdiddly:
Boy that was a long time ago, but I think it was 64 or 66". I'll try to do some checking, I believe the model was a "Morfi"
Bob
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| From: fdp
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| Date: 22-Jun-17 |
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That's a beautiful elegant looking bow. Very nice. Simple graceful lines with no hard corners or curves.
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| From: Pdiddly
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| Date: 22-Jun-17 |
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Morfi is correct Bob...that is the only model name I saw for a Dick Green when doing research.
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