While I was at it I chronied a Hickory self bow that I just finished up.45 lbs at just shy of 27 inch draw 62 inches long nock to nock with a 450 gr. carbon arrow. it shot 149 fps average.Getting a little harder for me to pull, but shot nice.

it looks great...I always liked the looks of a hickory selfbow.

Nice looking bow, Bob. I like the unbraced profile. Never shot one of my selfbows through a chrono so I have no idea what they shoot. I'm sure that hickory bow would be plenty for the local whitetails.

That's not bad at all for a self bow and in fact is comparable to some laminated glass bows I've seen at similar specs..

Thanks guys, sorry for the double post.I was just messing with a Chrony, and recurves today . This Hickory bow is freshly made, so I shot it out of curiosity. It has a 10 strand B55 string on it.I can feel "Father Time" sneaking up on me, so I shot it a total of 15 shots, and put it away.

That is a nice looking bow! Jawge

Thanks George,your thumbs up means a lot to me.

That's a very good speed for a self bow. Nice looking bow.

Thanks Will, I have built many bows over the years that were not as fast at the same specs, and would come in 5 to 10 fps slower than what I was shooting for.They are all still fun to shoot.In the end that is what is should be, fun.

My pignut hickory flat limb according my friends chrono shoots about the same speed as his longbow, it said 160 something. However, the bow was shooting 480 grain arrows and it is about 60 pounds at my draw, about 8GPP. It use to be over 70 pounds, I gave it a hair cut and was just curious. It has less shock than most ASLs with an endless B50 string. In its 72 pound draw condition, shooting 540 grain grain arrows, it gave numbers in the 150s on the same chrono, a bit over 7 GPP. So shooting slightly higher GPP it actually sped up after its shave or that was just what his chrono felt like saying that day. Not trying to prove anything with 10 GPP, those were the simply arrows that I had that flew best. I tried another with shag bark hickory, it was aged for a long time before i got it and I even let it spend a month in my furnace duct to dry it out, before i turned it into a bow. It looked much like my pignut, but it did not shoot anything like it and was noticeably slower. So it must not be my tillering, it must have been the difference in the wood. It ended up being 58" long and whittled down to about 30 pound at 26". The kid i gave it to thought that was pure gold. He killed a rabbit with it and his dad skillfully cooked it on a open fire for him. Okay, cannot get closer to pure gold than that. I worry about speed to much sometimes.

I would say that was pure gold. Some thing the young fellow will never forget. Good on you.I don,t worry about speed,but like to play with chronies.

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