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Title: Looking for some info on Bear Cub
Post by: trx63 on April 30, 2015, 01:15:00 PM

I have a Bear Cub that I am having a hard time dating. It has a dual shelf and no coin, I got the bow from an estate sale with a Kodiak hunter and an aluminum bow. Any info would be great.   (http:// [url=http://imgur.com/A7Nck7e] [img]http://i.imgur.com/A7Nck7e.jpg)[/url] [/IMG]  (http:// [url=http://imgur.com/5tnyk5L] [img]http://i.imgur.com/5tnyk5L.jpg)[/url] [/IMG]  (http:// [url=http://imgur.com/d9HEdHy] [img]http://i.imgur.com/d9HEdHy.jpg)[/url] [/IMG]  (http:// [url=http://imgur.com/1mOXqb6] [img]http://i.imgur.com/1mOXqb6.jpg)[/url] [/IMG]  (http:// [url=http://imgur.com/zNAwkpr] [img]http://i.imgur.com/zNAwkpr.jpg)[/url] [/IMG]

Title: Re: Looking for some info on Bear Cub
Post by: Blackhawk on April 30, 2015, 01:33:00 PM

Not real sure, but believe your bow is a '57.

Title: Re: Looking for some info on Bear Cub
Post by: wadde on April 30, 2015, 04:53:00 PM

55-57, I would say 56. But that is my guess not positive.

Title: Re: Looking for some info on Bear Cub
Post by: Blackhawk on April 30, 2015, 08:52:00 PM

Did the '56 have the double shelf?

At any rate, we are close.

Title: Re: Looking for some info on Bear Cub
Post by: wadde on April 30, 2015, 09:07:00 PM

I believe 55-57 all had double shelf. All the 57's I have seen had black glass.

Title: Re: Looking for some info on Bear Cub
Post by: zepnut on May 01, 2015, 08:17:00 AM

My guess would be 56-57. I believe 55 would have decals instead of silk screens.

Title: Re: Looking for some info on Bear Cub
Post by: wadde on May 01, 2015, 08:54:00 AM

Good point Norm, I am going with 56 because of the gray glass.

Title: Re: Looking for some info on Bear Cub
Post by: Wade Phillips on May 03, 2015, 02:43:00 PM

trx63 -

Looks like a pretty clean bow.

When compared to your VS135, the 1955 Cub had a fatter riser, with leather shelf under the leather grip rather than a shelf cut into the wood of the riser.

The three 1955 Clubs, that I have all have different colored glass combinations...
Brown/Gray
Red/Gray
Black/Gray

The 1956, 1957, & 1958 Cubs all had a double shelf cut into the riser like your VS135

Those three years, I have arranged in order by serial number and dated as follows...

1956 Black/Black TB802
1957 Black/Black VG219
1958 Black/Black VN 615
1958 Black/Gray VS501

I would not be surprised to learn that other glass color combinations are in existence for these three years.

Given the above, your VS315 would be dated as a 1958.

I really haven't done any extensive research on the 1956-1958 Cubs, their serial numbers or their glass colors, so do not know if my tentative guesstimation is actually correct.

Hopefully, someone who knows a lot more about this subject than I do, will chime in.