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Offline Judson

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Any of you shoot a Penobscot bow?
« on: May 24, 2004, 01:12:10 PM »
The Penobscot bow is in reality a primitive compound bow with its ancestry dating back around 1000 years.    It is a double limbed bow which was used by the Abinacki confederacy.    If you look at a force draw curve of any of it's six variations you can see that it is by far the hardest hitting all wood bow ever created.    One of the more interesting variations of this bow is the MicMac war bow which has a very highly recurved back bow and during the draw gains 3 pounds of weight per inch of draw on a 65 pound bow.    No stack or anything, just 3 pounds of increase per inch from brace height to full draw.
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Any of you shoot a Penobscot bow?
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2004, 02:08:39 PM »
Hi Judson,

I've never had the pleasure of shooting one of these bows, but I've heard that they cast heavy arrows very well. That in itself got me interested because of my interest in using primitive archery equipment for whitetails, not to mention the unique design of the bow. I've always wanted to add one to my bow rack.

It seems that I remember reading a story about a fellow named Judson who made a very fine Penobscot bow. That wouldn't happen to be you would it? :D

I would like to buy one of these bows eventually. Seems like I remember a company named Krackow or something like that selling a nice quality looking Penobscot bow. Can't remember for certain.
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Yes I am the one.
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2004, 03:10:49 PM »
Yes You probably read one of the several articles I have written on these bows.    I have had a lot of enjoyment, shall we say reintroducing them.    They deserve to live on as they are a part of archery history and really a unique bow design.    If you give me some time I will post some pictures of these bows.   You are right krakow does have info on the bows I build but since then I have built the Mic Mac war bow which I had no done at the time of the krakow catalog.    This bow is rather different from the other Penobscot bows as the back bow strings do not connect to the nocks of the back bow but to antler nocks near the grip.
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« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2004, 10:43:06 AM »
I'd also like to say that Penobobscot bows are a cool and unique design. I would never guess a 1000 year old native American design. Thats one (the only) compound bow I'd love to have. Now I have to go back and find that article.
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Offline Kurt Heckman

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« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2004, 03:50:10 PM »
I was talking with a few people about these bows last weekend at the Compton get togeather at Barrien Springs Michiagan anybody have any info online about these bows? Kurt
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« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2004, 01:54:25 PM »
Yep!!! go to stickbow.com or bowsite    go to the leatherwall section and type in Penobscot
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