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45# Paul Bunyan custom recurve. I was 12 at the time and couldn't string it so my mother did for me.
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1956 Green Bear, 22# and I was darned lucky to get that with my own money from a paper route. We could not have afforded a Kodiak in our dreams!
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My dad bought me a brand new green Parabow (25#) solid fiberglass bow in '58 or '59. That was my first real new bow. Later, I began using his Ben Pearson solid fiberglass bow (35#). I saved up and finally was able to buy a laminated bow - a Pearson Cougar (42#)in 1962. Made my first archery deer kill with that bow a couple of years later. I don't have any of those bows now.
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my first bow was a used solid glass model I traded a pellet gun for it along with 3 Bear arrows of which I just happen to run across the bow a couple days ago while looking for something else...my ? to you is how many still have that first bow ? bd
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My first bow was a Pearson hickory straight bow that I got for Christmas in 1960. Got a Pearson all fiberglass Jet in '64. The first decent brand new bow I bought as an adult was a first year green-striper in '80 or '81. I felt like I had really indulged, lol. Discovered I liked my '71 T/D that I'd bought used better. I still own the '71.(and several others)GY
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Green glass 20-25#(pearson or p.bunyan?)with rubber suction cups on wood arrows Mom won at bingo,maybe '55-'56. After a few weeks,it disappeared after I harvested a rabbit out of the side yard and proudly showed it to my folks. (good thing "we" didn't get caught when I shot the neighbor kid in the forehead(he dared me & I was maybe 8)earlier, (just)before I realized how lethal the thing was. I still cringe every time I think about it.
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A 1965 52" Herters Perfection and I still have it. Just as pretty today as it was when I bought it.
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My first bow was a 68 super kodiak bought out of Jack witts bow shop in little rock ,Arkansas. We called Fred Bear at his shop and I talked to him personally and told him I wanted a bow identical to what he was shooting. Mine was a 60 inch at 50 lbs.(he shot a 64 in.bow) I shot the bow for a few years ,and shot it well but decided I needed a mans bow bow so sold it and bought a 60 lb. super k from Bobby Murray (won first bass masters classic). It was so strong I could hardly pull it. It delaminated on me one day and broke my nose and cracked some teeth.That cooled my ardor for bowhunting for many years. (1972) I retired in 1995 at 53 years old and was talked into getting back into shooting. I bought a new 46lb black widow and as they say, the rest is history! I love traditional archery.
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Washed dishes at the local Diner....bought a new Browning Nomad 52" 37# @ 28",cost $37. I think it was 67' or 68' wish I still had it, sold it in 1980 for $30
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I tell you BD I still have my first bow 35# Blackhawk Scorpion. It's real beat up as that bow was never out of my hands when I got it. I was about 12 in 1967 and my buddies and me roamed the woods every day with our bows
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1965 Herter's Perfection, 52"/55#. Still have that bow and it looks and shoots great, the same as the day I bought it.
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