Per Loghouse’s request I showing off my Penobscot. 52” 40#@28. Fun little bow to shoot. Very quiet, seems like the 2 limbs cancel out each other’s noise. Wish it was a little longer but it throws a heavy arrow with authority! . Picked it up at the Coon Rapids MN Trad shoot, from Long Pond Bows, a bower from southern MN or IOWA, can’t remember. Only paid $100 or $125 brand new. I’ll find some more pics. Arrowchucker

MacGyver, Very interesting. John

Neat.

Gotta ask the question. What keeps the "pony" limbs attached to the main bow? More than just the wrap?

-Bones

A great looking modern take on the original Penobscot. Very cool!

Pony limbs are glued and screwed. Tape is just for looks!

So, how do you go about stringing one of those bows?

String the longbow first, I use a regular stringer. The pony limbs can be done by hand. These bows have adjustable poundage. Tighten the short strings and the weight goes up. Take them off completely and you have a funny looking longbow.

Interesting!

I always wondered about a Penobscot set up. Thanks for the post.

I thought penobscot was the col. on Mash that married hot lips.

oz

Just FYI.

Penobscot Indigenous People

The Penobscot are an indigenous peoples in North America from the Northeastern Woodlands region. They are organized as a federally recognized tribe in Maine and as a First Nations band government in the Atlantic provinces and Quebec.

so do you experience a crazy amount of stacking?

I don't know the physics of it all but I think it would stack like a beast.

I really like the creativity and the concept, things our minds can come up with are amazing.

oz

That super glue all the guys fix their bow with on here??

Penobscot are of the Wabenaki Confederation: M'kmaq, penobscot, abenaki, passamaquoddy, maliseet). The original bows have shorter, straight secondary limbs.

after about 27” it stacks like a wall!!!! Thankfully that’s my draw. If it were longer I think it would be much better. Arrowchucker

"Tighten the short strings and the weight goes up."

Seems to me that not only the poundage would be affected, but the tiller also. If those short strings were easily adjustable, experimentation could produce interesting results.

Here are adjustable loop directions that could be put on one end of both short strings.

White Wolf Archery makes bows of this type as well.

Did that to a Ben Pearson Rogue once.gave it to a young lady . She loves it.

If I carried that through the brush here I'd have to spend half my hunting time getting it unstuck...

White Wolf make 2 different types, one based on a recurve, the other a longbow. I would love one but they start at about $1400. I paid $100 pr $125 , can’t remember for sure. Adjust the strings on the pony limbs is very easy. Unstrung them by hand and just twist or untwist like a regular string. It does effect both weight and till. Arrowchucker

I read somewhere, I think in Instinctive Archer, that the Penobscot tribe first designed these to get greater cast so they could shoot arrows far enough out to hit European ships passing by the coast of Maine.

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