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Title: Can You Identify This Bow?
Post by: Omelet on July 22, 2014, 11:20:00 PM

My wife and I recently inherited some old bows from her grandfather who had an obscenely large collection (no complaints here!).  We got (2) Tim Meigs long bows and (1) Try-State Archery Jaguar recurve.  The long bows have all their info written on them, but the recurve is a bit lacking.  What I'm mostly curious about it the manufacture date, but if anyone has any further knowledge they can share I'd be greatly appreciated.  We are both fairly new to archery and are trying to pickup whatever we can!  

  (http://i595.photobucket.com/albums/tt35/omeletn/Random/20140721_174508_1.jpg) (http://s595.photobucket.com/user/omeletn/media/Random/20140721_174508_1.jpg.html)

  (http://i595.photobucket.com/albums/tt35/omeletn/Random/20140721_174536_1.jpg) (http://s595.photobucket.com/user/omeletn/media/Random/20140721_174536_1.jpg.html)

  (http://i595.photobucket.com/albums/tt35/omeletn/Random/20140721_174548_1.jpg) (http://s595.photobucket.com/user/omeletn/media/Random/20140721_174548_1.jpg.html)

  (http://i595.photobucket.com/albums/tt35/omeletn/Random/20140721_174521_1.jpg) (http://s595.photobucket.com/user/omeletn/media/Random/20140721_174521_1.jpg.html)


She sure is a beauty and shoots like a dream!  My uncle told us it was his Dad's go to bow for years and has downed countless bucks and now I see why.  Looks like it's 66" long and pulls 57# (pulled 61# on my scale @28").  Not sure what "JC 45" is?

Title: Re: Can You Identify This Bow?
Post by: wadde on July 23, 2014, 08:47:00 AM

I believe your bow was made in the mid to late 1950's. Can't give the exact year. In those days they simply called them Jaguar 68", Jaguar 66", etc. In the early 60's they started calling them models such as Lynx, wildcat, tomcat.

Title: Re: Can You Identify This Bow?
Post by: Bjorn on July 24, 2014, 12:54:00 PM

That bow is from the approximate time frame wadde describes. Jerry Owens owned the  glass company, and 2 bow companies as well, someplace in the northeast-all in the same plant. The bow company went under in early 70's when everybody bought compounds. I believe the glass company is still around today

Title: Re: Can You Identify This Bow?
Post by: wadde on July 25, 2014, 06:50:00 AM

I believe the other bow company was United States Archery CO. or USAC

Title: Re: Can You Identify This Bow?
Post by: Omelet on July 25, 2014, 01:22:00 PM

Excellent info thanks a lot guys!  My uncle did say he thought it was one of the original glass backed bows, but he didn't know the date either.  Any idea what "JC-45" is?

Title: Re: Can You Identify This Bow?
Post by: wadde on July 26, 2014, 07:41:00 AM

Just a guess but could be the 45th bow made by someone with the initials JC, The companies were in Danbury Connecticut.