Hi! My little sister would love it! She's a 13 year old who loves archery! She started, like I did, with pvc bows, we live in a mountain range in yhe west of Mexico in a city called Xalapa (the Jalapeño peppers? They started here, Jalapeño means from Xalapa, lol). She is a great student who loves going to the woods with her lovely golden retriever called Kiara, she loves archery and everything fantasu related, she's a great kid with a shatterproof spirit and she would put that bow to great use!
My son is 10 years old and I'm 36 and we are both just beginning our journey into archery. After the first time I took him to the archery range he was hooked and wanted a bow. He loves the outdoors and this would make a great gift for him.
My niece, oh my niece would love this. She is a little girl 11 years old. When she was born, she had a condition called ductus which was a little opening inside her heart... many times we did cry thinking she wouldn't survive... she did survive it :) she has had many illnesses through her short life but she has never moaned about it, she has been strong and I remember 7 year old her grabbing my sister's hand and saying "Don't worry mom, I'll be ok"... nearly one year ago she turned vegetarian on her on volition and maybe with a little bit of my influence (I have been a vegetarian for 10 years and vegan for nearly 1). When asked, she just answered, "it's my way to help the world". She has taught me what to be SHATTERPROOF means. I might never get to be a father myself but she is indeed a reason for me to be a better person. She loves an archer character by the big mouse and her mom even got a tattoo reading "Valiente" on her forearm. She truely makes me a better person.
I would like to give that bow to my son, so far in his 8ys he has to put up with his parents splitting up, finding out that his teenage sis has bi-polar and dealing with that, his mum going through numerous boyfriends and their problems and me his dad spending 4 months in a mental hosp because my depression got to bad for me to handle, and after all this he is still one of the most loving and patient people i have ever had the pleasure to know, I do archery, i have my own bow, i want him to have a bow because he wants to do archery with me but im facing the sack because of the amount of time Ive had to take off over the years due to my depression. Tbh my boy Cathan probably deserves a better dad than me, he's not needy or whingy or even self entitled like a lot of other kids, he's just a very loving son who deserves better. Thankyou for reading this.
My friend is the one who manages our archery range. Our range is pretty new and he puts a lot of work in helping younger people into archery. The only problem we have is that traditional bows are very expensive to buy for just beginners. A modern bow is way more cheaper and u can change the poundage on those. I would love to get this bow as it has a low enough poundage for beginners. With this bow me and my club can interest more young people and help them with their journey into the world of archery! It would really mean the world to us and to our younger members if you would help us with this. Greetings from the netherlands!
My friend Bill deserves this bow! He is an amazing person. He has been shatterproof through many hard obstacles in his life. An Air Force veteran, he has overcome several difficulties including depression by relying on his relationship with Christ. He has taught himself so many things and is a go-getter in general. He has been the driving force to motivate me to try making a bow for my son (which I completed thanks to your tutorials). We are currently working together to build our own board bows. It would be so special for him to get a bow from you all. Keep up the great work!
I'd love this for my partner, she has been through a lot in the last few years and has really struggled. She is an artist too and is amazingly talented like yourself. A beautiful handmade bow is on her forever wishlist. Love your vids, entertaining and educational. :) Keep up the good work. Stay Shatterproof!
Love that people still love making bows the original way. My dad just passed a year and a half ago and I still have his longbow made by one of our Delaware tribe from when he was a kid!!!
I used to make my own primative bows in Africa. I lived near a village and we would hunt birds with our bows. I really got to learn my limits and break through some of them. Now I live in the States and would love to show my son how to shoot. He loves being outdoors with me and it would be something I could share about growing up in Africa. Big dream. Also big fan of the show and working on getting into woodworking so this channel has helped me find other uses for those skills. Thanks for doing what you do.
Hey Kramer, I want to tell you about the little girl my wife nannies. She and her twin sister were born prematurely and she is, to this day, very small for her age. However, she has never let that slow her down. Her resilience surprises me all the time. She is incredibly intelligent and reads all the time. I introduced her to archery last summer and she took to it with that shatterproof passion of hers. When she sets her mind to something, she goes after that goal with lazerbeam focus. The bow I have for her to use is too heavy a draw weight for her to shoot properly. It would be awesome to win this Osage bow for her so that I could enable her to pursue her passion for archery. Thanks in advance for the chance and thank you for your videos and the positivity that you put out through them. Take care!
Thank you for giving the chance to get this bow. My son is 10 years old. He would be very happy to get this bow. For his age he is such a hard worker for his age. His birthday is the 9th. He asked me for a rake for his birthday so he could keep his shooting area clean. I am not getting him this but I was very impressed with the work ethic. I am an arrow maker and watch your videos all the time. He is always asking his friends to come over and shoot with him. None of them shoot but he does not let that stop him. His love for archery is shatterproof. Thanks for all you do my friend.
Shatterproof!!! I want this bow for my daughter in law. She’s in school to be a veterinarian right now. She is half Native American, but was adopted so she didn’t grow up with her tribal culture. We recently found her grandmother back in KS and we are trying to get her onto her tribal roster. She began to learn archery several years ago when she started dating my son. We all shoot archery, and we taught her. She shoots more arrows with me than my son does now!! This bow would make a fine gift for her.
Nicely done, this wood is is called etolane in the Muskogee Creek language ‘ee-do-la-nee’ which means yellow wood. It is the preferred tree for bow making. Go into the woods in the month of Frost and find the trees, go back in March when the sap is at its lowest and cut them. Return in May and gather them and prepare them for making
Love your videos. I am a woodworker, artist, craftsman as well. I saw you are giving away this “shatterproof” bow to a deserving person. Well, my daughter has got to be considered deserving. This girl turns 6 on Sunday and already she is quite the horse woman, loves on and CARES for her pets. She is a super sister to her twin toddler brothers who themselves are nearing a birthday. She is a super smart, creative, responsible, adventurous, wonder filled little girl, and she told me the other day she would like to learn archery. And I would love to become proficient as well. So maybe with a nice bow to start with for her, I can get a decent one and we can learn together. Either way, thank you for putting your processes out there, eventually I would like to find the time to make a bow for myself. Anyway, thank you again!
This would be an excellent bow for my twin girls in the years to come. Getting them to be one with nature and traditional archery along with having to share would be epic. They are my little angels. Thanks for sharing the shatterproof bow build.
My girlfriend surely would both love and deserve that beauty. I introduced her to archery last year and she's into it ever since. We both works as paramedics, but she really is having tough shifts both day and night lately, working 12 hours per shift. When she is off duty, there is me, a childish chubby dude with his own issues and attitudes. But she does everything for and with me, I'm struggeling every day to give her all the love back, but damn she gives me a hard time doing so by just being ahead of everyone regarding kindness. I'd love to gift her such a special bow just to show her once more how much she means to me. I guess she is one you can call SHATTERPROOF! Good luck to everyone, cheers Kramer, you are doing awesome!
my nephew just turned nine years old and has been getting into hunting this past year. Any time that my parent have him and my father goes out to the property he always goes out to help with whatever is needed done in order to prep for the upcoming season. He has even in the past been out sitting with my father and get so excited to be out there with his grandpa hunting. This year we will be taking him out in hopes of him harvesting his first deer or turkey. He is growing into a fine young man and learning from the best person I know (my father) on how to be shatter proof. I can not wait until fall to get him back out into the woods.
Hello Kramer, my Father and brothers have always had bows. My older brother passed away a few years ago, and my Father hasn't been the same since. My Father adopted my younger brother and myself in 1981. He is 87 years old now dealing with health issues, but this man is the epitimy of "SHATTER PROOF ". I would love for my Dad to have one of your bows. Thank you, George.
Just wanted to say thank you my friend. I just finished making my first longbow. Not sure the weight, haven't checked it. Shot it about 50 times and would guess in the mid to high 40s. Was punching through plywood easily at 30 and 40 yards with really dull target points and light arrows. Finished forming the handle and have it stained and clear coat drying now. Anyway the point was to thank you for inspiring me to get into this hobby. Also made my first endless loop bow string. Definitely jumping into archery head first lol.
My son who is 11 loves to shoot bows with me. He currently has a #20 longbow. He would absolutely love this bow. A perfect poundage for his size. What a great opportunity and gift. Thank you for the opportunity. Shatterproof
My little sister is one of the greatest people I know. She is 14 and going into 9th grade. She is constantly worrying about others and always trying to help. She was telling me how on her first week of school she was late to classes because she was trying to help others find their own. She always tries very hard to be kind to people and be their friend. She is one of the most creative and nicest people I know. She helps make masks for our local nursing home. She decorated for every birthday in the house, and calls for everyone that doesn’t live in the house to sing them happy birthday. She has a horse that she absolutely loves, and always tries to find time to spend with it. We are mountain (wo)men and attend rendezvous frequently. She has learned to shoot compound bow but has grown out of the one she has, and has tried learning on a primitive bow. I think she could really use the bow so she can win the rendezvous archery tournaments. We also just got a new local range and she just got contacts so she has a big itching to try and get shooting again.s She is strong, smart, brave, kind, and shatterproof!
My daughter, Kyla, would love this bow! She has been interested in archery for a long time, can't wait to get her own bow. Kyla is 12 years old and going into 7th grade. She is taking riding lessons and wants to get involved in mounted archery. Her riding instructor has told us several times that Kyla has a lot of natural talent. Kyla shows her shatterproof spirit and determination in everything she puts her mind to. ever since I showed her the first video of you making a bow, we have been fans and subscribers. A custom bow from you would be one of the best things to happen to her!
Another awesome video. I can't wait to see the future vids to the end of this build. My Grandpa and I built a bow when I was just a young tyke. He was a missionary on a Navajo reservation and was taught how to build bows. Unfortunately, his design (or my young hands) were not as shatterproof as yours are and it snapped on me. I very recently got back into archery after watching your review on the Black Hunter bow. I bought it immediately and love it. As a matter of fact, I enjoy this sport so much that I just placed an order for your flemish strings, bow stringer and split finger tab . Keep up the fantastic work!!
Kramer, I have a great idea for a video! Do a comparison between a flemish twist string and an endless loop string! Same amount of strands, same brace height on same bow and arrows, test sound, speed and the feel of shooting! That would be really interesting! Also my son would love that bow!
My son and I would love that bow so much! It would be more than a bow to us. I use archery as a way to deal with stress after suffering from fatigue syndrome, panic attacks, extreme sleep loss, my beard falling off, etc etc. I also have 4 herniated discs in my back, spinal stenosis and sciatica in both legs (which makes it almost impossible for me to sleep). My stress-related problems started as a result of not getting to see my son for about a year. I almost took my life but managed to win him back in court. But right after I got him back, my back broke and I could barely walk. I have been fighting to get better so I could play with my kids, and managed to lose about 100 pounds of weight and got a lot better. But I still feel constant pain and I probably always will. And I still haven't been able to work for about 2 years now. All this makes it very important to have a mindfulness activity that I can exercise daily to centre myself, be in the moment as well as thinking about my posture and body awareness as well as strengthening my back. This makes archery perfect because it combines so much of what I need and is something that I need to do daily to get better. I am also a carpenter as well as an artist in a lot of ways so I really appreciate the fine craftsmanship and the art of woodworking. So for me, the bow would be so much more than just a bow. It would be a tool to get healthier as well as a beautiful piece of art and something I could pass on to my son when he gets old enough to handle it. He also loves archery and I see it as a way for us to bond while teaching him patience and that practice makes perfect (he usually wants everything to work as he wanted right away, so it is important for me to teach him that he can succeed in anything as long as he doesn't quit and give up.) But he might be a little too young to handle that bow just yet (5 and a half) unfortunately (otherwise I would give it to him right away). But if I got the bow I would treasure it until he can overtake it and I would make sure to keep it in the best possible condition for generations to come. It would be our treasure in so many ways. I really don´t expect to win because I usually don´t win anything so I couldn't even hope for this. I mean I got 30 scratch cards once on my birthday and I didn't win anything on any of them. Haha. Honestly, I don´t even expect you to read this even though you have a contest going on. But if you do thanks for a great channel! I watch all your videos (has become a habit when I can´t sleep at night) and I really want to get into bow building when I get well enough. Unfortunately, It seems to be really hard to get Osage Orange where I live (Sweden) so I probably have to go with Ash if that day ever comes. But Osage Orange seems like an amazing kind of wood, Shatterproof!. Keep the videos coming. I sleep a lot better after watching you work. Haha. Edit: I hope to see the continued work on this. The natural look after chasing the growth rings like that is amazing. It looks soo cool, natural and pure to me! :D
Going threw the comments and seeing everyone showing their love and support of their loved ones. You sir have a tuff decision to make as they are all deserving of this fantastic bow. Myself I would like to introduce my nephew. Talk about being shatter-proof. This young man cant wait to use a bow and arrow, learning from his dad, grand dad and his uncle (my self) the art, the skill, safety and respect of using a bow. I my self have been showing how to make arrows from flint knapping arrowheads to selecting the shafts and straighting them to respecting the turkeys whom we harvested for food and feathers for the flechings. All he needs is a bow of his own, so he may start his own journey on being fully shatter proof. Thank you
I have inherited a niece and nephew due to circumstances out of their control. I was looking at archery videos for my nephew. Saw your videos and have been watching for a couple of hours. I shoot a higher end compound but was more interested in traditional. I think my nephew would thoroughly enjoy this. Keep doing what your doing. This is good stuff.
My father and I love archery. We started with pvc bows, today we have made 8 of them lol. Great time together. He would love to have this bow, good present for his birthday that is coming soon, love him.
My older brother is the most impressive person I think I know. He's graduating this December with a master's degree in industrial engineering. He minored in Japanese, he has been an honour roll student all his life and he's just a genuinely fantastic and hilarious guy. Him and I have talked about archery and he has been wanting to get a bow and go shooting. Remember everybody, stay Shatterproof 💜
My niece's daughter is a bright young lady that loves the outdoors. She goes trapping with her Dad and this how would be a great way for them to do more together....though they already have a shatterproof relationship. Jersey is a great kid who would love having this bow. Love your work.
There is no need to brag, because my wife is shatterproof. 5,5 years ago she got pregnant with our first child, at the same time we where getting evicted out of our rental home without cause. So we had one month to find ourselves a new home. When we found one we could afford, it was a fixerupper. We got the keys, painted all the rooms and replaced the flooring in 3 days, all just in time, because on day 5 our daughter was born. Since then our daughter has had many operations due to earproblems. In the following 2 years, between the operations, we had problems with work and lots of sleepless nights. Our son was born, with even worse earploblems. So even more visits to the hospital and operations. My wife got major problems with her uterus, not being able to stand up, walk let alone run for more than a minute. Having to find a new job, money problems and a husband with a burnout (yes me), she’s still going strong. She is the most shatterproof person I know and I’m proud of her. Hoping she wins this bow, so she can finally restart her archery passion with a bow as beautiful as she is to me.
I live in Pontotoc, MS and the Osage Orange is locally known as "Bodock". We even have a town festival called the Bodock Festival. The Chickasaws used this wood for bows, arrows, building etc. In modern day, we use this super dense and insect repellent wood primarily for fence posts (I've personally used Bodock for fence posts). When an F5 tornado ripped through the town in 2001, it took down the oldest and largest Bodock tree in Mississippi. The landowner had a casket and furniture made from the wood. Absolutely gorgeous! Local crafters use the "useless" fruit. The fruit is thinly sliced, dried and used as display/decor elements. When I was a kid, we would use the fruit as substitute baseballs. My adoptive Chickasaw grandfather made a Bodock bow for me and taught me instinctive archery. My 14 year old Shatterproof daughter would absolutely LOVE to be handed a Bodock bow, very similar to the one I was taught to shoot at a young age. Really enjoyed the vid and would LOVE to see more Osage Orange in use!
My son has been passionate about bow hunting and archery since he was 10 years old. Now he’s a father too to a baby boy! He would love one of your bows to gift to his son (my grandson).
I would love to give that bow to my girl, she started playing a ranger in d&d and since then has been constantly asking me about archery and would love to try it. I only have an Olympic bow but she'd lose her mind if I gave her a traditional one, she'd surely go... Shatterproof ;-)
my cousin LOVES archery but he doesn't have money and no job. he is 15 and his favorite book series is Rangers apprentice which is all about archery. I think this would be a very special gift for his Birthday! thanks Kramer, ur vids have taught me soooo much!
Hello Kramer, Trying to stay shatterproof here as in Argentina we are still quarantined (longest in the world BTW); I'm back in my home town at my parent's with my wife and my baby as the day care are closed due to the pandemic and we were struggling too much working from home while taking care of him all day in our flat. Since we still have to stay at home here, I put a target in my parent's yard and I got back to shooting regularly after 3 years of not even touching my bows. I only have two compounds, 55-75 lb and 60-70 lb, so I been thinking of making a bow for my wife so we can share this as a recreational activity while we are still locked. (She could not draw neither of my bows at the lightest setting, and she's also left handed and left-eye dominant). I've started to watch some of your videos like a month ago, my only try so far was with a pink lapacho branch (very hard wood) but I broke it while shaping it. I'm not properly equiped here, but i have a callistemon log [also very hard wood] that have been dead for a couple of years in my parent's pavment and I chopped last weekend. So I'm very interested in making a bow with no backing as you do in this video. If you can recomend any of your bow-making videos in particular for making my first bow with this log i would appreciate. Any place you colud recommend for starting is very welcome. Thank you for all your content!
I am the only one who is into archery in my family. My 7 year old daughter has started to show a lot of interest in archery. She goes outside with me every time I shoot my bow. She so badly wants to have a bow of her own to shoot with me. My daughter is the most kind and caring kid I know. I’m not just saying that because she is my child. She truly is very caring and kind. I am a police officer and in these hard times I need to be shatter proof for myself, my community and my family. My daughter sees that in me and is doing all she can to be shatter proof like me. When asked what she wants to be when she grows up, she claims I want to be like my daddy. Thank you for the opportunity to put in for this chance to win this bow. It truly is a beautiful bow. Good luck to anyone and everyone putting in for it.
I would like this bow for my son, he used a nerf sticky dart bow for now when I am shooting my pvc bows. He is old enough to start shooting a real bow and a bow made with materials from many generations of hunters would be awesome. Stay shatterproof !
I'd like it for my son. There was a point in time where I was so into traditional archery it consumed my mind. My mom bought me two recurve bows at a garage sale when I was ten. From there I got really into learning how to build them. In the beforefor time before Google, we had to hunt down a copy of Primitive Archer magazine. I specifically remember an issue explaining in detail how to make a Mongolian bow complete with sinew backing and horn in the belly. I even special ordered a draw knife from the local feed and seed to get me started. Recently my son asked me to make him a bow, which is how I found this channel. My ultimate goal is to make one at some point or help him make one if he so chooses. But this bow would serve as an inspiration for his budding young mind and learn his local history as well. We live in an area where Osage grows and was part Plains life. I we dont get it (obviously I'd like it too and in a kinda sorta way maybe trying to imprint my childhood on my son but he does have an interest in it) I do hope it goes to the right person. Regardless thanks for the content and rekindling an obsession I had over 20 years ago Ahem...shatter proof
It's really funny that my wife started asking me all of these questions about Osage Orange last night. I love to work with it, making different wood projects. Then today I find this video and most of the information you gave about the wood is the exact same as what she was quizzing me on. I think she may have stumbled across your channel which is awesome. I don't really have anyone that would love to have the bow as most of my kids are grown and my grandsons are so into golf that they really don't spend time on anything else. But keep up the awesome work on the videos.
I have this nerdy history friend that knows almost anything about medieval weapons, and we always talk about crafting our own bows, but we cant really do it in the city. His birthday day is in the first half of December, a bow would be the best gift, starting his journey in archery. Just wanted to add that you make really useful videos, keep up the good work
Hi Kramer and thanks for sharing your beautiful bow. My dad is an archery guy from way back. He is 78. He is a southern boy and a huge fan of Osage Orange wood. He collects it for me from his brothers down south for making knife handles and other things. But I don't make bows. My dad is loosely connected to the invention of the compound bow. He worked for Clay Adams in his sporting goods store in Missouri in the late 50's. They collaborated before my dad went off to the Navy to become an American hero. He would love your bow and actually use it. I grew up bowfishing with him on the Fox River. Dad has had several broken arms, so he's not shatterproof, but he is the toughest man I've ever known, and the kindest. Please consider him for your giveaway. Thanks.
Fantastic video! My 5 year old neice is adventureous, she plays outside in the dirt and loves "her cow" (different one from the herd of cattle). She is amazing and very much shatterproof, always moving and never staying still for too long (she falls and jumps right back up) this bow would be the right size for her in a few years. These are so awesome to watch- and inspire me in my own bowyer journey :)
Hi, my younger cousin would love to have that bow. Thanks to your videos I was able to complete my first bow (after many failed attempts), and when my cousin saw what I did he was astonished. He would love to have a bow but he is not very handy with tools, so we could do shooting competitions PS: I hope you understood, English is not my native language hahaha Greetings from Chile
My wife. She deals with me and is a great mother to my children. I'd share my passion for archery with her using it. Her personality is resilient and she is absolutely shatterproof.
Very inspiring videos Kramer Ammons! I look forward to every new video you make. I plan to dive in and make my own bow soon! Oh! and your Shatterproof website rocks!
Ok, I'll brag and share a little hardship about my niece who I'd love to have the bow. My niece has a huge heart of gold, but battles depression and autism. She's lost a lot of friends from having to move and then switching schools shortly after she started making new friends. She is my little buddy and follows me around whenever I can visit. But lately, she's been shutting herself away in doors. And I'd love to invite her to start shooting archery with me and her dad if she got this bow. She's SHATTER PROOF!
4 years ago, my family and I moved from Florida to an Alaskan Bush Village. My son turned 10 this year, and would love a bow to do subsistence activities to help feed the family ammunition is expensive out here because all freight is flown in, so we don't always have .22 ammo to shoot ptarmigan and rabbits. He's a hard worker, shooting his first waterfowl and ptarmigan this year, trapping his first fox last year. Proud of him.
My son Austin would love this bow he's on the spectrum and this is the only thing I can bond with him doing we shoot bows everyday when I get off work stay shatterproof
I can’t say I wouldn’t love to receive that great bow for my daughter. She’s just started learning archery, first bow made by me after watching your board bow video. I made some mistakes along the way but she loved the end results nonetheless. She’s definitely a shatterproof kid and I hope some really deserving kids gets and appreciates that bow you making. I’m currently working on a 20# bow for her ,minus the mistakes I made and learned from, out of Osage with reflexed tips too 😁
My wife would love this bow. I’ve hunted my entire life and she has scene how much I enjoy it. We are both going on our first antelope hunt together in a few months and we are both excited to spend time together in the field. She dosnt have a bow yet but having one hand crafted would be something special she could enjoy and in a few years our son could shoot too. Love the videos and the care you put into your work. Keep up the great content.
My girlfriend would love this bow. She loves archery, and is the most loving kind person I know. Stay shatterproof my friends. Edit: I’m currently in the process of converting her from compound to traditional archery.
Grab her a bow in the 25-30# range to help her transition, if you haven't already. Going from compound to traditional can be a pain, and a lighter bow makes the process both easier on her back/shoulders, but more fun as well.
This is Far Out Man ! 👨 I'm a wildland firefighter , just getting into Archery, purchased compound bow but I always wanted to make my Own bow since I was a kid . Made 1 Oak bow 4ft long
Hey I have a step daughter that is 12 she is the funniest and most optimistic and creative person in my life. She is by far shatterproof. She makes dance videos on tic tok that are so good. DIY slime reviews and chops up her old clothes to make something new. We shoot bows together the one she uses is her brothers 54" 30 lb is a bit to much. She would love it. I would get cool points for sure. She is shatterproof and so are your videos. Stay shatterproof!
I would love to have this bow for my oldest son. I think would make a great first bow for him, and for me to teach him with. For him to learn, as I learned, on a simple but beautiful bow. We usually watch your videos together and he is super excited to learn how to shoot a bow. Our family has been through a lot of hardship over the last 5 years, but in the last year things have started to turn around for us. He has taken all of it in stride and has truly been shatterproof, nothing has broken his spirit or dampened his out look on life. Weather we win this bow or not I will be getting him his first bow in the next year or so. Thank you for giving your fans the chance to win this beautiful bow! Keep up the great work and we will always be shatterproof.
Hi! I’ve been into archery for a few years now but I was only able to practice over the summer at camp. That all changed when my friends and I started a high school archery & fencing club (I’ve also always wanted to try fencing and one of my friends has done that for years, but sadly due to COVID we didn’t get to). Unfortunately, when COVID ended the school year and clubs, my camp was also cancelled. Thankfully one day a homemade bow video popped up in my feed and I was determined to make one. So far I have made a pvc (fiber glass core) long bow that pulled somewhere between 30 and 40 (it was hard to tell from the scale I was using) and I attempted to use a heat gun to make my second pvc bow a recurve bow, but alas it broke. Thanks in part to your videos and to my persistent nature I am determined to try again and with other materials like wood that would be more shatterproof. Once again thank you so so much for your inspiring videos!
First of all thank you for all of your hard work and time you spend to make such excellent content. I started watching your videos about a month ago and I bought a bow the same day. I have not shot a bow in over 20 years, needless to say the first six arrows I shot every one of them ended up in the dirt I had a good laugh. I’ve been shooting now for about three weeks and keep getting better every day.I find shooting a bow very therapeutic I truly enjoy the silence of the sport. I have a three-year-old son whom I’m excited to get into the sport once he’s old enough and the bow would be perfect for him. Regardless of the outcome of this giveaway I once again want to truly thank you for the time you spend making this content and reigniting my excitement for a sport. Stay shatterproof.
My sister deserves it, She isn't great but works really hard to be at my skill level I Hunt with recurve and she tries but it is hard because she has no bow She is 9 years old and her birthday Was this week I would love to give it to her as a Belated birthday gift She loves osage bows as well Even more the my Regular recurve It would mean the world to her So please consider her when choosing She stays shatterproof
Archery has been an interest of mine, always tried to craft bows out of sticks I found in the forest as little. I've also for a few years been very interested in all kinds of special wood with different beautiful colors. Thanks for doing great stuff for the archery community. You're a great teacher and have taught me well for my next bow projects that are yet to come!
Recently found your videos and love them I'm a maker myself a bladesmith. Love the shatterproof name and message. My daughter would absolutely love that now and appreciates hand crafting she shot a bow for the first time at a renaissance fair last year and pulled a Robin hood her first time holding a bow. Best wishes to you and have an awesome day.
My sister would really love this bow because it looks so great and her birthday just passed and this would be a great present and she is very shatterproof
My daughters name is emery she just turned 7 not to long ago and she is an absolute beast in her traditional archery skills, she shoot better then I do. Any ways she is stuck with a bear 1st shot and I want to up grade her. She is such a sweet child and incredibly smart, and she wants nothing more then to make people happy and feel safe. Ill never forget when she was very little she looked up at me and said daddy your my super hero, and I'm a pretty big comic nerd so that hit me hard. If I could present her with any hand crafted bow from you (cause she watches you as well) then maybe she would understand that im not a super hero but I will do everything I can to help her reach her endless potential in what ever she does, cause she is the super hero and she is shatterproof. Thanks
Hey Krammer, I appreciate the opportunity to brag and my son in this forum! He is a good kid, very athletic, does well in school, but most importantly he loves God. I actually just baptized him two weeks ago in the Gulf of Mexico. I’m so excited for his future. Keep posting videos, staying SHATTERPROOF!!
I'm actually in the process of making my first board bow with only hand tools, because of you. It's been... interesting. I don't have a lot of power tools, but the few I do have, have been greatly missed at times. Electric sander sits at the number 1 spot, for most-missed power tool.
Hi, I know a lot of people are asking for the bow, and I know I am just one of 184 (at the time), but, my sister which will be 11 next February. She has been watching all of your videos ever since she watched the Hunger Games. She always wants o make a bow, but every time we try, something goes wrong, so, after all these times, she's gotten a bit frustrated, I say a bit because her desire to make a bow is Shatterproof, no matter how many times she fails, she always tries one more time, so I think that just holding a bow made by someone as experienced as you would boost her confidence by a million percent ( : This last part is going to sound a bit creepy, I have been counting the days when she doesn't mention archery, last day was 23 days ago (She might have mentioned it when I wasn't around...).
My Grandson Sidney is only 4 years old. He does have older sisters 6 and almost 8. I got my first bow when I was 7 in the rural upper Wisconsin. I would love to share my love of the outdoors, respect for wildlife, responsibility for safety with the kids. It is never too early to start this education in order that children have a balanced hunting education. Osage is a wood I would love to get my hands on and bow making as you have demonstrated so many times is fun, funny and creative. I want in on the drawing for Sidney please!
I have two young sons that are just getting into archery because of me - I just finished my first selfbow two weeks ago. Next up, at least two more for the kids and then maybe a bit heavier one for me. Your channel is great, keep up the good work!
Hey Kramer, the bow looks amazing. I would love to have this bow for my Girlfriends birthday, which is coming up in November. We have met during archery practice at our university and it has been our passion ever since, for almost two years now. We have been shooting olympic recurve bows, and she has been wanting to switch over to using traditional bows for a long time. We have been going to medieval markets and LARP events, where people were showing off their archery skills, sometimes using selfmade bows. It would be amazing if I could see her shoot this bow (using safety arrows of course) while I stand somewhere in front of her with a big (shatterproof) shield. It would mean a lot to me, and I hope you'll consider us when deciding whom to send it to. Stay healthy! Best regards, Nick
Good Day All, Been fascinated with the Osage Orange tree since I discovered the tree and fruit years ago,, finally did my research,, One Osage tree I know of in my area, Two years ago, I collected fruit and pulled the seeds after wintering over outside .. next spring planted a flat of seeds and have today 18,,, 1 year old seedings. Did the same last fall and have a great amount of seeds and planted another flat with about 30 sprouts,, , Figure 6 years til . . .. .
My wife has gotten into traditional bows pretty hardcore, but our old fiberglass recurve was NOT shatterproof... This would be an awesome replacement for her
Kramer My son would love to get this bow. He loves everything about the outdoors and spends all of his free time playing with pretend bows and swords. This would make him extremely happy.
My son is 4and a half and took up archery during our lockdown here from march til may. Now he is shooting a little bearpaw and his form looks really nice. He even took up aiming on a wool ball all by himself. Now he started using a 48“ snake bow from time to time as well. But for a kid a all natural self bow would be soooooooo much more beneficiary as it‘s as much in touch with nature as you can get in archery. Of course we‘d be shooting it in the woods and on fields 😉
I do not know anybody who is shatterproof in my life. Still I do not deny that I will like wery much to have this bow. Anyway... good job and good luck!
My wife Sam, she and her friends were interested in archery, but it was put to the side when she found out she was pregnant. Now my son is 8months old, and my wife will and determination is absolutely shatterproof to the care of our child. I would like to gift this to her so she can concentrate on herself from time to time and one day show our son!
My little brother would love a bow. He's 15 and just getting into archery, especially since we've been in quarantine. I've tried going into the woods and making a bow from scratch for him but I cant seem to get it right and he'd love a bow to practice with. I've been watching your videos for a few months now and I know that your bows definitely are shatterproof, a lot like my brother because he's been going on for months now about how he wants a bow!
Hi, I would LOVE to have the bow as I have loved archery every time I have picked up a bow, I can not afford a bow that is worth having. I would love to get a bow before my 16th birthday and join an archery community officiously. I have gone and done archery at places for birthday parties and ever since I was young I have been told that I have a natural talent, I have even had someone give me there 40 pound bow to try at an archery range (I was 12 at the time). Also... shatterproof
Great video! Love the history. I am new to archery but have always been a woodworker. I’m hoping to make a bow with my kids as they get older and I make a place to do it home. They’ve been shooting an old Pearson bow we got from a neighbor but to use the shatterproof Osage orange bow to shoot use as a pattern for a future bow!
Yes sir this would make a great bow for my grandsons they would really like something like that keeping in line of more like the native American Indians bow that has the look of a primitive style bow unlike a futuristic bow. Thank you sir for the opportunity to win this for them. Take care my friend and God bless. 👍🏼🏹🇺🇸
My best friend would love this bow. Right now I share my bow with him and we take turns. He wants a bow but his parents don't want to buy him one. He is kinds of small so this bow might be a good fit for him. You probably won't want to pick sending it to him though, as we live in Alaska and it will cost quite a bit to send it to us. Love from Alaska❤️🏹
What a sweet offer ... I hope some wonderful kid truly enjoys it ... mine are all grown, and show little interest in my bow build (just completed my first bow (out of a piece of furniture oak) which I built based on your video of a poplar bow (with drywall fiberglass tape backing). it shoots very well and so far hasn't shattered.
Hi! My little sister would love it! She's a 13 year old who loves archery! She started, like I did, with pvc bows, we live in a mountain range in yhe west of Mexico in a city called Xalapa (the Jalapeño peppers? They started here, Jalapeño means from Xalapa, lol). She is a great student who loves going to the woods with her lovely golden retriever called Kiara, she loves archery and everything fantasu related, she's a great kid with a shatterproof spirit and she would put that bow to great use!
Hope you win good luck!
My son is 10 years old and I'm 36 and we are both just beginning our journey into archery. After the first time I took him to the archery range he was hooked and wanted a bow. He loves the outdoors and this would make a great gift for him.
My niece, oh my niece would love this. She is a little girl 11 years old. When she was born, she had a condition called ductus which was a little opening inside her heart... many times we did cry thinking she wouldn't survive... she did survive it :) she has had many illnesses through her short life but she has never moaned about it, she has been strong and I remember 7 year old her grabbing my sister's hand and saying "Don't worry mom, I'll be ok"... nearly one year ago she turned vegetarian on her on volition and maybe with a little bit of my influence (I have been a vegetarian for 10 years and vegan for nearly 1). When asked, she just answered, "it's my way to help the world". She has taught me what to be SHATTERPROOF means. I might never get to be a father myself but she is indeed a reason for me to be a better person. She loves an archer character by the big mouse and her mom even got a tattoo reading "Valiente" on her forearm. She truely makes me a better person.
I would like to give that bow to my son, so far in his 8ys he has to put up with his parents splitting up, finding out that his teenage sis has bi-polar and dealing with that, his mum going through numerous boyfriends and their problems and me his dad spending 4 months in a mental hosp because my depression got to bad for me to handle, and after all this he is still one of the most loving and patient people i have ever had the pleasure to know, I do archery, i have my own bow, i want him to have a bow because he wants to do archery with me but im facing the sack because of the amount of time Ive had to take off over the years due to my depression. Tbh my boy Cathan probably deserves a better dad than me, he's not needy or whingy or even self entitled like a lot of other kids, he's just a very loving son who deserves better. Thankyou for reading this.
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My friend is the one who manages our archery range. Our range is pretty new and he puts a lot of work in helping younger people into archery. The only problem we have is that traditional bows are very expensive to buy for just beginners. A modern bow is way more cheaper and u can change the poundage on those. I would love to get this bow as it has a low enough poundage for beginners. With this bow me and my club can interest more young people and help them with their journey into the world of archery! It would really mean the world to us and to our younger members if you would help us with this. Greetings from the netherlands!
Was there, can confirm mammoths loved to eat those.
Boomers these days
I am in the same position as you I really feel for you!
My friend Bill deserves this bow! He is an amazing person. He has been shatterproof through many hard obstacles in his life. An Air Force veteran, he has overcome several difficulties including depression by relying on his relationship with Christ. He has taught himself so many things and is a go-getter in general. He has been the driving force to motivate me to try making a bow for my son (which I completed thanks to your tutorials). We are currently working together to build our own board bows. It would be so special for him to get a bow from you all. Keep up the great work!
I'd love this for my partner, she has been through a lot in the last few years and has really struggled. She is an artist too and is amazingly talented like yourself. A beautiful handmade bow is on her forever wishlist. Love your vids, entertaining and educational. :) Keep up the good work. Stay Shatterproof!
Love that people still love making bows the original way. My dad just passed a year and a half ago and I still have his longbow made by one of our Delaware tribe from when he was a kid!!!
I used to make my own primative bows in Africa. I lived near a village and we would hunt birds with our bows. I really got to learn my limits and break through some of them.
Now I live in the States and would love to show my son how to shoot. He loves being outdoors with me and it would be something I could share about growing up in Africa. Big dream. Also big fan of the show and working on getting into woodworking so this channel has helped me find other uses for those skills. Thanks for doing what you do.
Hey Kramer,
I want to tell you about the little girl my wife nannies. She and her twin sister were born prematurely and she is, to this day, very small for her age. However, she has never let that slow her down. Her resilience surprises me all the time. She is incredibly intelligent and reads all the time. I introduced her to archery last summer and she took to it with that shatterproof passion of hers. When she sets her mind to something, she goes after that goal with lazerbeam focus. The bow I have for her to use is too heavy a draw weight for her to shoot properly. It would be awesome to win this Osage bow for her so that I could enable her to pursue her passion for archery. Thanks in advance for the chance and thank you for your videos and the positivity that you put out through them. Take care!
Thank you for giving the chance to get this bow. My son is 10 years old. He would be very happy to get this bow. For his age he is such a hard worker for his age. His birthday is the 9th. He asked me for a rake for his birthday so he could keep his shooting area clean. I am not getting him this but I was very impressed with the work ethic. I am an arrow maker and watch your videos all the time. He is always asking his friends to come over and shoot with him. None of them shoot but he does not let that stop him. His love for archery is shatterproof. Thanks for all you do my friend.
Shatterproof!!! I want this bow for my daughter in law. She’s in school to be a veterinarian right now. She is half Native American, but was adopted so she didn’t grow up with her tribal culture. We recently found her grandmother back in KS and we are trying to get her onto her tribal roster. She began to learn archery several years ago when she started dating my son. We all shoot archery, and we taught her. She shoots more arrows with me than my son does now!!
This bow would make a fine gift for her.
Nicely done, this wood is is called etolane in the Muskogee Creek language ‘ee-do-la-nee’ which means yellow wood. It is the preferred tree for bow making. Go into the woods in the month of Frost and find the trees, go back in March when the sap is at its lowest and cut them. Return in May and gather them and prepare them for making
Love your videos. I am a woodworker, artist, craftsman as well. I saw you are giving away this “shatterproof” bow to a deserving person. Well, my daughter has got to be considered deserving. This girl turns 6 on Sunday and already she is quite the horse woman, loves on and CARES for her pets. She is a super sister to her twin toddler brothers who themselves are nearing a birthday. She is a super smart, creative, responsible, adventurous, wonder filled little girl, and she told me the other day she would like to learn archery. And I would love to become proficient as well. So maybe with a nice bow to start with for her, I can get a decent one and we can learn together. Either way, thank you for putting your processes out there, eventually I would like to find the time to make a bow for myself. Anyway, thank you again!
This would be an excellent bow for my twin girls in the years to come. Getting them to be one with nature and traditional archery along with having to share would be epic. They are my little angels. Thanks for sharing the shatterproof bow build.
My girlfriend surely would both love and deserve that beauty. I introduced her to archery last year and she's into it ever since. We both works as paramedics, but she really is having tough shifts both day and night lately, working 12 hours per shift. When she is off duty, there is me, a childish chubby dude with his own issues and attitudes. But she does everything for and with me, I'm struggeling every day to give her all the love back, but damn she gives me a hard time doing so by just being ahead of everyone regarding kindness. I'd love to gift her such a special bow just to show her once more how much she means to me. I guess she is one you can call SHATTERPROOF!
Good luck to everyone, cheers Kramer, you are doing awesome!
my nephew just turned nine years old and has been getting into hunting this past year. Any time that my parent have him and my father goes out to the property he always goes out to help with whatever is needed done in order to prep for the upcoming season. He has even in the past been out sitting with my father and get so excited to be out there with his grandpa hunting. This year we will be taking him out in hopes of him harvesting his first deer or turkey. He is growing into a fine young man and learning from the best person I know (my father) on how to be shatter proof. I can not wait until fall to get him back out into the woods.
Hello Kramer, my Father and brothers have always had bows. My older brother passed away a few years ago, and my Father hasn't been the same since. My Father adopted my younger brother and myself in 1981. He is 87 years old now dealing with health issues, but this man is the epitimy of "SHATTER PROOF ". I would love for my Dad to have one of your bows. Thank you, George.
Just wanted to say thank you my friend. I just finished making my first longbow. Not sure the weight, haven't checked it. Shot it about 50 times and would guess in the mid to high 40s. Was punching through plywood easily at 30 and 40 yards with really dull target points and light arrows. Finished forming the handle and have it stained and clear coat drying now. Anyway the point was to thank you for inspiring me to get into this hobby. Also made my first endless loop bow string. Definitely jumping into archery head first lol.
My son who is 11 loves to shoot bows with me. He currently has a #20 longbow. He would absolutely love this bow. A perfect poundage for his size. What a great opportunity and gift. Thank you for the opportunity. Shatterproof
My little sister is one of the greatest people I know. She is 14 and going into 9th grade. She is constantly worrying about others and always trying to help. She was telling me how on her first week of school she was late to classes because she was trying to help others find their own. She always tries very hard to be kind to people and be their friend. She is one of the most creative and nicest people I know. She helps make masks for our local nursing home. She decorated for every birthday in the house, and calls for everyone that doesn’t live in the house to sing them happy birthday. She has a horse that she absolutely loves, and always tries to find time to spend with it.
We are mountain (wo)men and attend rendezvous frequently. She has learned to shoot compound bow but has grown out of the one she has, and has tried learning on a primitive bow. I think she could really use the bow so she can win the rendezvous archery tournaments. We also just got a new local range and she just got contacts so she has a big itching to try and get shooting again.s
She is strong, smart, brave, kind, and shatterproof!
My daughter, Kyla, would love this bow! She has been interested in archery for a long time, can't wait to get her own bow. Kyla is 12 years old and going into 7th grade. She is taking riding lessons and wants to get involved in mounted archery. Her riding instructor has told us several times that Kyla has a lot of natural talent. Kyla shows her shatterproof spirit and determination in everything she puts her mind to. ever since I showed her the first video of you making a bow, we have been fans and subscribers. A custom bow from you would be one of the best things to happen to her!
Another awesome video. I can't wait to see the future vids to the end of this build.
My Grandpa and I built a bow when I was just a young tyke. He was a missionary on a Navajo reservation and was taught how to build bows. Unfortunately, his design (or my young hands) were not as shatterproof as yours are and it snapped on me.
I very recently got back into archery after watching your review on the Black Hunter bow. I bought it immediately and love it. As a matter of fact, I enjoy this sport so much that I just placed an order for your flemish strings, bow stringer and split finger tab .
Keep up the fantastic work!!
Kramer, I have a great idea for a video! Do a comparison between a flemish twist string and an endless loop string! Same amount of strands, same brace height on same bow and arrows, test sound, speed and the feel of shooting! That would be really interesting!
Also my son would love that bow!
My son and I would love that bow so much! It would be more than a bow to us. I use archery as a way to deal with stress after suffering from fatigue syndrome, panic attacks, extreme sleep loss, my beard falling off, etc etc. I also have 4 herniated discs in my back,
spinal stenosis and sciatica in both legs (which makes it almost impossible for me to sleep). My stress-related problems started as a result of not getting to see my son for about a year. I almost took my life but managed to win him back in court. But right after I got him back, my back broke and I could barely walk. I have been fighting to get better so I could play with my kids, and managed to lose about 100 pounds of weight and got a lot better. But I still feel constant pain and I probably always will. And I still haven't been able to work for about 2 years now. All this makes it very important to have a mindfulness activity that I can exercise daily to centre myself, be in the moment as well as thinking about my posture and body awareness as well as strengthening my back. This makes archery perfect because it combines so much of what I need and is something that I need to do daily to get better.
I am also a carpenter as well as an artist in a lot of ways so I really appreciate the fine craftsmanship and the art of woodworking. So for me, the bow would be so much more than just a bow. It would be a tool to get healthier as well as a beautiful piece of art and something I could pass on to my son when he gets old enough to handle it. He also loves archery and I see it as a way for us to bond while teaching him patience and that practice makes perfect (he usually wants everything to work as he wanted right away, so it is important for me to teach him that he can succeed in anything as long as he doesn't quit and give up.) But he might be a little too young to handle that bow just yet (5 and a half) unfortunately (otherwise I would give it to him right away). But if I got the bow I would treasure it until he can overtake it and I would make sure to keep it in the best possible condition for generations to come. It would be our treasure in so many ways.
I really don´t expect to win because I usually don´t win anything so I couldn't even hope for this. I mean I got 30 scratch cards once on my birthday and I didn't win anything on any of them. Haha.
Honestly, I don´t even expect you to read this even though you have a contest going on.
But if you do thanks for a great channel! I watch all your videos (has become a habit when I can´t sleep at night) and I really want to get into bow building when I get well enough.
Unfortunately, It seems to be really hard to get Osage Orange where I live (Sweden) so I probably have to go with Ash if that day ever comes. But Osage Orange seems like an amazing kind of wood, Shatterproof!.
Keep the videos coming. I sleep a lot better after watching you work. Haha.
Edit: I hope to see the continued work on this. The natural look after chasing the growth rings like that is amazing. It looks soo cool, natural and pure to me! :D
Going threw the comments and seeing everyone showing their love and support of their loved ones. You sir have a tuff decision to make as they are all deserving of this fantastic bow. Myself I would like to introduce my nephew. Talk about being shatter-proof. This young man cant wait to use a bow and arrow, learning from his dad, grand dad and his uncle (my self) the art, the skill, safety and respect of using a bow. I my self have been showing how to make arrows from flint knapping arrowheads to selecting the shafts and straighting them to respecting the turkeys whom we harvested for food and feathers for the flechings. All he needs is a bow of his own, so he may start his own journey on being fully shatter proof. Thank you
I have inherited a niece and nephew due to circumstances out of their control. I was looking at archery videos for my nephew. Saw your videos and have been watching for a couple of hours. I shoot a higher end compound but was more interested in traditional. I think my nephew would thoroughly enjoy this. Keep doing what your doing. This is good stuff.
My father and I love archery. We started with pvc bows, today we have made 8 of them lol. Great time together. He would love to have this bow, good present for his birthday that is coming soon, love him.
My older brother is the most impressive person I think I know. He's graduating this December with a master's degree in industrial engineering. He minored in Japanese, he has been an honour roll student all his life and he's just a genuinely fantastic and hilarious guy. Him and I have talked about archery and he has been wanting to get a bow and go shooting. Remember everybody, stay Shatterproof 💜
My niece's daughter is a bright young lady that loves the outdoors. She goes trapping with her Dad and this how would be a great way for them to do more together....though they already have a shatterproof relationship. Jersey is a great kid who would love having this bow. Love your work.
There is no need to brag, because my wife is shatterproof. 5,5 years ago she got pregnant with our first child, at the same time we where getting evicted out of our rental home without cause. So we had one month to find ourselves a new home. When we found one we could afford, it was a fixerupper. We got the keys, painted all the rooms and replaced the flooring in 3 days, all just in time, because on day 5 our daughter was born. Since then our daughter has had many operations due to earproblems. In the following 2 years, between the operations, we had problems with work and lots of sleepless nights. Our son was born, with even worse earploblems. So even more visits to the hospital and operations. My wife got major problems with her uterus, not being able to stand up, walk let alone run for more than a minute. Having to find a new job, money problems and a husband with a burnout (yes me), she’s still going strong. She is the most shatterproof person I know and I’m proud of her. Hoping she wins this bow, so she can finally restart her archery passion with a bow as beautiful as she is to me.
I live in Pontotoc, MS and the Osage Orange is locally known as "Bodock". We even have a town festival called the Bodock Festival. The Chickasaws used this wood for bows, arrows, building etc. In modern day, we use this super dense and insect repellent wood primarily for fence posts (I've personally used Bodock for fence posts). When an F5 tornado ripped through the town in 2001, it took down the oldest and largest Bodock tree in Mississippi. The landowner had a casket and furniture made from the wood. Absolutely gorgeous! Local crafters use the "useless" fruit. The fruit is thinly sliced, dried and used as display/decor elements. When I was a kid, we would use the fruit as substitute baseballs. My adoptive Chickasaw grandfather made a Bodock bow for me and taught me instinctive archery. My 14 year old Shatterproof daughter would absolutely LOVE to be handed a Bodock bow, very similar to the one I was taught to shoot at a young age. Really enjoyed the vid and would LOVE to see more Osage Orange in use!
My son has been passionate about bow hunting and archery since he was 10 years old. Now he’s a father too to a baby boy! He would love one of your bows to gift to his son (my grandson).
I would love to give that bow to my girl, she started playing a ranger in d&d and since then has been constantly asking me about archery and would love to try it. I only have an Olympic bow but she'd lose her mind if I gave her a traditional one, she'd surely go... Shatterproof ;-)
I remember asking you if you can make a bow using only hand tools :)... Good job! One of the best bow building video I've seen!
my cousin LOVES archery but he doesn't have money and no job. he is 15 and his favorite book series is Rangers apprentice which is all about archery. I think this would be a very special gift for his Birthday! thanks Kramer, ur vids have taught me soooo much!
Hello Kramer,
Trying to stay shatterproof here as in Argentina we are still quarantined (longest in the world BTW); I'm back in my home town at my parent's with my wife and my baby as the day care are closed due to the pandemic and we were struggling too much working from home while taking care of him all day in our flat.
Since we still have to stay at home here, I put a target in my parent's yard and I got back to shooting regularly after 3 years of not even touching my bows. I only have two compounds, 55-75 lb and 60-70 lb, so I been thinking of making a bow for my wife so we can share this as a recreational activity while we are still locked. (She could not draw neither of my bows at the lightest setting, and she's also left handed and left-eye dominant).
I've started to watch some of your videos like a month ago, my only try so far was with a pink lapacho branch (very hard wood) but I broke it while shaping it. I'm not properly equiped here, but i have a callistemon log [also very hard wood] that have been dead for a couple of years in my parent's pavment and I chopped last weekend. So I'm very interested in making a bow with no backing as you do in this video.
If you can recomend any of your bow-making videos in particular for making my first bow with this log i would appreciate. Any place you colud recommend for starting is very welcome.
Thank you for all your content!
This is the vidio. I've have a 74 inch Orange Osage stave for years I've watched many videos. I'm ready now
I got a 56 inch long I split 4 ways 2 years ago. I got one bow, and more planned.
I am the only one who is into archery in my family. My 7 year old daughter has started to show a lot of interest in archery. She goes outside with me every time I shoot my bow. She so badly wants to have a bow of her own to shoot with me. My daughter is the most kind and caring kid I know. I’m not just saying that because she is my child. She truly is very caring and kind. I am a police officer and in these hard times I need to be shatter proof for myself, my community and my family. My daughter sees that in me and is doing all she can to be shatter proof like me. When asked what she wants to be when she grows up, she claims I want to be like my daddy. Thank you for the opportunity to put in for this chance to win this bow. It truly is a beautiful bow. Good luck to anyone and everyone putting in for it.
I would like this bow for my son, he used a nerf sticky dart bow for now when I am shooting my pvc bows. He is old enough to start shooting a real bow and a bow made with materials from many generations of hunters would be awesome. Stay shatterproof !
I'd like it for my son. There was a point in time where I was so into traditional archery it consumed my mind. My mom bought me two recurve bows at a garage sale when I was ten. From there I got really into learning how to build them. In the beforefor time before Google, we had to hunt down a copy of Primitive Archer magazine. I specifically remember an issue explaining in detail how to make a Mongolian bow complete with sinew backing and horn in the belly. I even special ordered a draw knife from the local feed and seed to get me started. Recently my son asked me to make him a bow, which is how I found this channel. My ultimate goal is to make one at some point or help him make one if he so chooses. But this bow would serve as an inspiration for his budding young mind and learn his local history as well. We live in an area where Osage grows and was part Plains life. I we dont get it (obviously I'd like it too and in a kinda sorta way maybe trying to imprint my childhood on my son but he does have an interest in it) I do hope it goes to the right person. Regardless thanks for the content and rekindling an obsession I had over 20 years ago
Ahem...shatter proof
I used to be a bow hunted as a kid, and we used hand made bows to hunt our deer. Great job, Be shatterproof!
My 11 year old is turning 12 on Sept. 24th and this would be a great gift that he would treasure for the rest of his life.
It's really funny that my wife started asking me all of these questions about Osage Orange last night. I love to work with it, making different wood projects. Then today I find this video and most of the information you gave about the wood is the exact same as what she was quizzing me on. I think she may have stumbled across your channel which is awesome. I don't really have anyone that would love to have the bow as most of my kids are grown and my grandsons are so into golf that they really don't spend time on anything else. But keep up the awesome work on the videos.
I have this nerdy history friend that knows almost anything about medieval weapons, and we always talk about crafting our own bows, but we cant really do it in the city. His birthday day is in the first half of December, a bow would be the best gift, starting his journey in archery.
Just wanted to add that you make really useful videos, keep up the good work
Hi Kramer and thanks for sharing your beautiful bow. My dad is an archery guy from way back. He is 78. He is a southern boy and a huge fan of Osage Orange wood. He collects it for me from his brothers down south for making knife handles and other things. But I don't make bows. My dad is loosely connected to the invention of the compound bow. He worked for Clay Adams in his sporting goods store in Missouri in the late 50's. They collaborated before my dad went off to the Navy to become an American hero. He would love your bow and actually use it. I grew up bowfishing with him on the Fox River. Dad has had several broken arms, so he's not shatterproof, but he is the toughest man I've ever known, and the kindest. Please consider him for your giveaway. Thanks.
Thanks for making archery videos of this quality. I tried to search other channels but you're the better (and the funnier).
Fantastic video!
My 5 year old neice is adventureous, she plays outside in the dirt and loves "her cow" (different one from the herd of cattle).
She is amazing and very much shatterproof, always moving and never staying still for too long (she falls and jumps right back up) this bow would be the right size for her in a few years.
These are so awesome to watch- and inspire me in my own bowyer journey :)
Hi, my younger cousin would love to have that bow. Thanks to your videos I was able to complete my first bow (after many failed attempts), and when my cousin saw what I did he was astonished. He would love to have a bow but he is not very handy with tools, so we could do shooting competitions
PS: I hope you understood, English is not my native language hahaha
Greetings from Chile
My wife. She deals with me and is a great mother to my children. I'd share my passion for archery with her using it. Her personality is resilient and she is absolutely shatterproof.
Very inspiring videos Kramer Ammons! I look forward to every new video you make. I plan to dive in and make my own bow soon! Oh! and your Shatterproof website rocks!
Ok, I'll brag and share a little hardship about my niece who I'd love to have the bow. My niece has a huge heart of gold, but battles depression and autism. She's lost a lot of friends from having to move and then switching schools shortly after she started making new friends. She is my little buddy and follows me around whenever I can visit. But lately, she's been shutting herself away in doors. And I'd love to invite her to start shooting archery with me and her dad if she got this bow. She's SHATTER PROOF!
4 years ago, my family and I moved from Florida to an Alaskan Bush Village. My son turned 10 this year, and would love a bow to do subsistence activities to help feed the family ammunition is expensive out here because all freight is flown in, so we don't always have .22 ammo to shoot ptarmigan and rabbits. He's a hard worker, shooting his first waterfowl and ptarmigan this year, trapping his first fox last year. Proud of him.
My son Austin would love this bow he's on the spectrum and this is the only thing I can bond with him doing we shoot bows everyday when I get off work stay shatterproof
I can’t say I wouldn’t love to receive that great bow for my daughter. She’s just started learning archery, first bow made by me after watching your board bow video. I made some mistakes along the way but she loved the end results nonetheless. She’s definitely a shatterproof kid and I hope some really deserving kids gets and appreciates that bow you making. I’m currently working on a 20# bow for her ,minus the mistakes I made and learned from, out of Osage with reflexed tips too 😁
My wife would love this bow. I’ve hunted my entire life and she has scene how much I enjoy it. We are both going on our first antelope hunt together in a few months and we are both excited to spend time together in the field. She dosnt have a bow yet but having one hand crafted would be something special she could enjoy and in a few years our son could shoot too. Love the videos and the care you put into your work. Keep up the great content.
My girlfriend would love this bow. She loves archery, and is the most loving kind person I know. Stay shatterproof my friends.
Edit: I’m currently in the process of converting her from compound to traditional archery.
Grab her a bow in the 25-30# range to help her transition, if you haven't already. Going from compound to traditional can be a pain, and a lighter bow makes the process both easier on her back/shoulders, but more fun as well.
This is Far Out Man ! 👨 I'm a wildland firefighter , just getting into Archery, purchased compound bow but I always wanted to make my Own bow since I was a kid . Made 1 Oak bow 4ft long
Hey I have a step daughter that is 12 she is the funniest and most optimistic and creative person in my life. She is by far shatterproof. She makes dance videos on tic tok that are so good. DIY slime reviews and chops up her old clothes to make something new. We shoot bows together the one she uses is her brothers 54" 30 lb is a bit to much. She would love it. I would get cool points for sure. She is shatterproof and so are your videos. Stay shatterproof!
This bow look amazing, i don't know anyone else that love archery (anxiety) but i will say that my love of wooden bow is shatterproof.
I would love to have this bow for my oldest son. I think would make a great first bow for him, and for me to teach him with. For him to learn, as I learned, on a simple but beautiful bow. We usually watch your videos together and he is super excited to learn how to shoot a bow. Our family has been through a lot of hardship over the last 5 years, but in the last year things have started to turn around for us. He has taken all of it in stride and has truly been shatterproof, nothing has broken his spirit or dampened his out look on life. Weather we win this bow or not I will be getting him his first bow in the next year or so. Thank you for giving your fans the chance to win this beautiful bow! Keep up the great work and we will always be shatterproof.
Hi! I’ve been into archery for a few years now but I was only able to practice over the summer at camp. That all changed when my friends and I started a high school archery & fencing club (I’ve also always wanted to try fencing and one of my friends has done that for years, but sadly due to COVID we didn’t get to). Unfortunately, when COVID ended the school year and clubs, my camp was also cancelled. Thankfully one day a homemade bow video popped up in my feed and I was determined to make one. So far I have made a pvc (fiber glass core) long bow that pulled somewhere between 30 and 40 (it was hard to tell from the scale I was using) and I attempted to use a heat gun to make my second pvc bow a recurve bow, but alas it broke. Thanks in part to your videos and to my persistent nature I am determined to try again and with other materials like wood that would be more shatterproof. Once again thank you so so much for your inspiring videos!
First of all thank you for all of your hard work and time you spend to make such excellent content. I started watching your videos about a month ago and I bought a bow the same day. I have not shot a bow in over 20 years, needless to say the first six arrows I shot every one of them ended up in the dirt I had a good laugh. I’ve been shooting now for about three weeks and keep getting better every day.I find shooting a bow very therapeutic I truly enjoy the silence of the sport. I have a three-year-old son whom I’m excited to get into the sport once he’s old enough and the bow would be perfect for him. Regardless of the outcome of this giveaway I once again want to truly thank you for the time you spend making this content and reigniting my excitement for a sport. Stay shatterproof.
My sister deserves it, She isn't great but works really hard to be at my skill level I Hunt with recurve and she tries but it is hard because she has no bow She is 9 years old and her birthday Was this week I would love to give it to her as a Belated birthday gift She loves osage bows as well Even more the my Regular recurve It would mean the world to her So please consider her when choosing She stays shatterproof
Archery has been an interest of mine, always tried to craft bows out of sticks I found in the forest as little. I've also for a few years been very interested in all kinds of special wood with different beautiful colors. Thanks for doing great stuff for the archery community. You're a great teacher and have taught me well for my next bow projects that are yet to come!
Recently found your videos and love them I'm a maker myself a bladesmith. Love the shatterproof name and message. My daughter would absolutely love that now and appreciates hand crafting she shot a bow for the first time at a renaissance fair last year and pulled a Robin hood her first time holding a bow. Best wishes to you and have an awesome day.
My sister would really love this bow because it looks so great and her birthday just passed and this would be a great present and she is very shatterproof
My daughters name is emery she just turned 7 not to long ago and she is an absolute beast in her traditional archery skills, she shoot better then I do. Any ways she is stuck with a bear 1st shot and I want to up grade her. She is such a sweet child and incredibly smart, and she wants nothing more then to make people happy and feel safe. Ill never forget when she was very little she looked up at me and said daddy your my super hero, and I'm a pretty big comic nerd so that hit me hard. If I could present her with any hand crafted bow from you (cause she watches you as well) then maybe she would understand that im not a super hero but I will do everything I can to help her reach her endless potential in what ever she does, cause she is the super hero and she is shatterproof. Thanks
Hey Krammer, I appreciate the opportunity to brag and my son in this forum! He is a good kid, very athletic, does well in school, but most importantly he loves God. I actually just baptized him two weeks ago in the Gulf of Mexico. I’m so excited for his future. Keep posting videos, staying SHATTERPROOF!!
I'm actually in the process of making my first board bow with only hand tools, because of you. It's been... interesting. I don't have a lot of power tools, but the few I do have, have been greatly missed at times. Electric sander sits at the number 1 spot, for most-missed power tool.
Hi, I know a lot of people are asking for the bow, and I know I am just one of 184 (at the time), but, my sister which will be 11 next February. She has been watching all of your videos ever since she watched the Hunger Games. She always wants o make a bow, but every time we try, something goes wrong, so, after all these times, she's gotten a bit frustrated, I say a bit because her desire to make a bow is Shatterproof, no matter how many times she fails, she always tries one more time, so I think that just holding a bow made by someone as experienced as you would boost her confidence by a million percent ( :
This last part is going to sound a bit creepy, I have been counting the days when she doesn't mention archery, last day was 23 days ago (She might have mentioned it when I wasn't around...).
My Grandson Sidney is only 4 years old. He does have older sisters 6 and almost 8. I got my first bow when I was 7 in the rural upper Wisconsin. I would love to share my love of the outdoors, respect for wildlife, responsibility for safety with the kids. It is never too early to start this education in order that children have a balanced hunting education. Osage is a wood I would love to get my hands on and bow making as you have demonstrated so many times is fun, funny and creative. I want in on the drawing for Sidney please!
I have two young sons that are just getting into archery because of me - I just finished my first selfbow two weeks ago. Next up, at least two more for the kids and then maybe a bit heavier one for me.
Your channel is great, keep up the good work!
I don't know why I was recommended this video, but you deserved my subscription.
Hey Kramer, the bow looks amazing. I would love to have this bow for my Girlfriends birthday, which is coming up in November. We have met during archery practice at our university and it has been our passion ever since, for almost two years now. We have been shooting olympic recurve bows, and she has been wanting to switch over to using traditional bows for a long time. We have been going to medieval markets and LARP events, where people were showing off their archery skills, sometimes using selfmade bows. It would be amazing if I could see her shoot this bow (using safety arrows of course) while I stand somewhere in front of her with a big (shatterproof) shield. It would mean a lot to me, and I hope you'll consider us when deciding whom to send it to. Stay healthy!
Best regards,
Nick
Omg my niece would love this bow. It would be cool to get her into traditional archery! Shatterproof all the way!
Good Day All,
Been fascinated with the Osage Orange tree since I discovered the tree and fruit years ago,, finally did my research,,
One Osage tree I know of in my area, Two years ago, I collected fruit and pulled the seeds after wintering over outside .. next spring planted a flat of seeds and have today 18,,, 1 year old seedings. Did the same last fall and have a great amount of seeds and planted another flat with about 30 sprouts,, , Figure 6 years til . . .. .
My wife has gotten into traditional bows pretty hardcore, but our old fiberglass recurve was NOT shatterproof... This would be an awesome replacement for her
Kramer
My son would love to get this bow. He loves everything about the outdoors and spends all of his free time playing with pretend bows and swords. This would make him extremely happy.
My son is 4and a half and took up archery during our lockdown here from march til may. Now he is shooting a little bearpaw and his form looks really nice. He even took up aiming on a wool ball all by himself. Now he started using a 48“ snake bow from time to time as well. But for a kid a all natural self bow would be soooooooo much more beneficiary as it‘s as much in touch with nature as you can get in archery. Of course we‘d be shooting it in the woods and on fields 😉
Hey Kramer, you should try a ratchet strap bow backing for will it bow!
I would give this to my sons. They both love and need more things to get them outdoors and what better way than archery.
I do not know anybody who is shatterproof in my life. Still I do not deny that I will like wery much to have this bow. Anyway... good job and good luck!
My wife Sam, she and her friends were interested in archery, but it was put to the side when she found out she was pregnant. Now my son is 8months old, and my wife will and determination is absolutely shatterproof to the care of our child. I would like to gift this to her so she can concentrate on herself from time to time and one day show our son!
My little brother would love a bow. He's 15 and just getting into archery, especially since we've been in quarantine. I've tried going into the woods and making a bow from scratch for him but I cant seem to get it right and he'd love a bow to practice with. I've been watching your videos for a few months now and I know that your bows definitely are shatterproof, a lot like my brother because he's been going on for months now about how he wants a bow!
Awesome, I look forward to seeing it shoot.
Hi, I would LOVE to have the bow as I have loved archery every time I have picked up a bow, I can not afford a bow that is worth having. I would love to get a bow before my 16th birthday and join an archery community officiously. I have gone and done archery at places for birthday parties and ever since I was young I have been told that I have a natural talent, I have even had someone give me there 40 pound bow to try at an archery range (I was 12 at the time). Also... shatterproof
Great video! Love the history. I am new to archery but have always been a woodworker. I’m hoping to make a bow with my kids as they get older and I make a place to do it home. They’ve been shooting an old Pearson bow we got from a neighbor but to use the shatterproof Osage orange bow to shoot use as a pattern for a future bow!
Yes sir this would make a great bow for my grandsons they would really like something like that keeping in line of more like the native American Indians bow that has the look of a primitive style bow unlike a futuristic bow. Thank you sir for the opportunity to win this for them. Take care my friend and God bless. 👍🏼🏹🇺🇸
My best friend would love this bow. Right now I share my bow with him and we take turns. He wants a bow but his parents don't want to buy him one. He is kinds of small so this bow might be a good fit for him. You probably won't want to pick sending it to him though, as we live in Alaska and it will cost quite a bit to send it to us. Love from Alaska❤️🏹
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Joe Nelson, my son, has been a wood bow user for several years. Great son, father and husband.
My bows are definitely not shatterproof but damn they’re fun to make and shoot, thanks to you and the other bowyers for the knowledge and confidence.
What a sweet offer ... I hope some wonderful kid truly enjoys it ... mine are all grown, and show little interest in my bow build (just completed my first bow (out of a piece of furniture oak) which I built based on your video of a poplar bow (with drywall fiberglass tape backing). it shoots very well and so far hasn't shattered.
Just enjoying you teach some of us who love to work with our hands another form of art !
I’ve got a nephew who’s had a tough life growing up. Would love to give this to him as a gift so we could shoot together!
Found a new hobby I want to get into! Thank you! Shatterproof!
I love it! This is the kind of stuff my wife walks in on all the time
Would love this shatterproof Osage Orange bow for my granddaughter who is just getting into archery, thanks for all the videos Kramer 🤘