Harvest
The hours of practise, the many missed attempts at 'the ones that got away, the campfire stories... Here are some traditional bowhunters and their trophies. (To navigate, swipe on the main photo or use the arrows. Swipe and click on the thumbnails as well)
Curt Brisky - Unit 418 Washington - 7x6 Roosevelt Elk - 2025
Brisky Bows Osage Bamboo backed longbow, Cedar shafts, natural cut turkey feathers, Grizzly single bevel broadheads, purple heart footed FOC, Brisky Bows side quiver.
After 19 years of applying for the draw in this area, I finally won the lotto!
Read the full story here
Curt, I killed this fat doe with the (the Master Chief) Bamboo Backed Osage, 68" 60#@31", cedar shaft tipped with a 125 gr Wensel Woodsman. It was a quarted away shot at 20 yards and took her only 40 yards to expire.
Thanks for a great product. I’ll have to make my own some day.
Thanks again, Don Fabrao
Curt, the day after I sent the photo to you of the buck I shot earlier this year, I shot another. The picture is attached – the Brisky bow strikes again!
Attached is a photo of a small buck I got this year with the bow I got from you a few years ago. This is the bow I took moose hunting in Alberta this year. I sure get a lot of positive comments on it! A very Merry Christmas to you and your family. – Don
{This is a bow that was bought from me a couple of years ago. Don used his Brisky bow to harvest this whitetail buck this year - Curt}
At 80 yrs old he’s still living our dreams.
If you want to read a really good book, get “BAREBOW!” by Dennis Dunn. It’s full of his adventures as Dennis completes taking all 29 North American big game species with “Barebow”.
Visit barebows.com to order his book, which is now available as a series of eBooks as well.
A huge mountain Tom taken by the world famous Dennis Dunn. Dennis has taken all 29 North American big game species with a barebow. He has written about his adventures in his book “Barebow”, which is now for sell at his website
I met Dennis at a Archery shoot in 2008 only to find out I was beginning a relationship with a living legend. In 2008 Dennis bought from me an Osage longbow with a beautiful diamondback rattlesnake skin. In 2015 Dennis takes this big BC lion with a Brisky Bow! Way to go Dennis! At age 75 he keeps his passion alive continuing to do what he loves. He lives our dreams.
Thanks again Curt, this have been a exciting thing to do. I know I am in a upper class of hunters, taking a deer with a longbow.It is very gratifying to build something with your own hands and then harvest an animal!
Thanks again for your friendship and all your help, WOW, I can’t believe I got one!!!!
Dave Jatoba/bamboo long bow, 72#@27, wood arrow with turkey fletching/zewicky broadhead. 15 yard shot…trail was 40 yds
Roosevelt Bull Elk
Osage longbow 90@27" made by David Hoye Trail of 20 yds.
November 20, 2017
Montana whitetail @ 40yds with a Brisky Bow
- 65@28"
- Bamboo backed osage
- Reflexed and deflexed
- Rattlesnake skin covering
- Buffalo horn tip overlays
September 25, 2018 Montana Elk hunt
Camp clean up, Meat pole is full.
Better than tag soup!
October 2000, British Columbia
Curt Brisky and David Hoye, longbow selfbow hunting trip
Montana Mule Deer - 2021
Clean pass-through, went only 40 yards.
Sept 14, 2011. Montana 5x5 bull elk. Great size for a 5x5.
Dan called him in to me set up at 10 yds. The arrow went through both shoulders, he went 100 yds and laid down. Traditional custom longbow, Maple arrow with Magnus broadhead, Jack Bower chief quiver. What a team effort.
We hiked 12-15 miles a day for 14 days looking for bulls. Too hot for the bulls to rut. Up to 85 degrees some days and down to 20 degrees a couple of nights. Dan got a huge mule deer doe, bigger than any of the bucks we saw the two weeks.
Curt Brisky 2013, Montana 6x6 bull elk with a Brisky Bow - 63# @ 26"
Dec. 5, 2019, 250lb Hog
1 - 650 gr. arrow at 15 yds.
Taken with my “Old faithful” selfbow - 60lb Osage curvy longbow with rattlesnake skin covering
2006 4x4 Blacktail Deer taken by Curt Brisky.
Osage selfbow, 48" long, 57@27". Sinew backed with a rattlesnake skin covering. Wood arrow, natural Turkey feathers, Magnus broadhead.
Sept 2004. Osage longbow 73@27" at 20 yds. 625 grain cedar arrow with a Richardson sticker broadhead.
The trail was 40 yds.
Dec. 5, 2006 Buffalo Bowhunt - Washington State
After belly crawling in the open sage and snow I finally got an arrow into the Bull. The arrow was buried to the fletch in the kill zone. The Bull ran for 4 hrs.
Sept. 17, 2008, 6:30 pm - Twisp, Washington
8 point Whitetail taken with a Yew wood bow, 57" long, #70@26" of draw, sinew backed and covered with a snakeskin, buffalo horn overlays. Cedar arrow with a magnus II broadhead.
The shot was broadside at 35 yds and the buck went 100 yds.
Montana Whitetail - 2016
January 2009. Rabbit chase with Beagles Sofie and Lacey. Osage bow made by Chad, 65@26, 57" long.
Cedar arrow with Flu Flu’s.
Washington State Blacktail 2x2.
Osage bow built by Chad - 65@26" x 57" long.
Washington State Blacktail
Bamboo Backed Osage longbow - 65@27, cedar arrow, magnus II broadhead 25 yd shot with 100 yd trail
8/01/2010 - 350 lb Cinnamon bear, Washington State