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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: JINKSTER on March 15, 2014, 04:35:00 PM
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Bought it used for $200...60"/44#s...the rosewood riser is massive and dead in the hand...the limbs are seriously loaded with gobs of curve to them and the tips are spooky thin and light...and spits out an arrow like nobodies business...
(http://www.fz1gear.com/herters6s.jpg)
(http://www.fz1gear.com/herters7s.jpg)
(http://www.fz1gear.com/herters8s.jpg)
(http://www.fz1gear.com/herters9s.jpg)
It's a 1975 model and I would suspect that a modern day bowyer would try to get 2-3 risers out of the chunk of rosewood that was dedicated to making this (1) amazing bow and I feel honored and blessed to own and shoot it.
If you ever get a shot at owning an old herters in pristine condition I'd highly recommend you do.
I'm thrilled with mine and L8R, Bill. :)
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That is really cool! Congratulations! I bet it shoots amazingly well!
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Love them old Herters :thumbsup:
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Nice. My kind of bow. :thumbsup:
As you mentioned: the days of that much exotic wood in a single block are gone.
Good catch!
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Enjoy that beauty, it's a real looker!
:thumbsup:
-Jay
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Very nice... :thumbsup:
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That's a great looking bow! I bought a Herter's Sitka model at the plant way back when. They're really nice bows! I wish I knew what happened to that old bow! Enjoy it!
Bernie
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That is a beautiful bow
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Very nice
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What does it physically weigh? When I was first getting into archery back in the early '60s, I would look through Herters catalog and say "Man , those are UGLY bows" But I've developed a taste for them in the last couple of years, and if I ever get a chance (when I have the money) at a NICE one, I'm buying it.
Congratulations!
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sweet I have been looking for one myself well done thats a looker.
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NICE! Herter's brings back a lot of nostalgia for me.
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Did it come with a trailer to tow it?
Ha Ha that is one huge riser, but that wood is beautiful that's for sure.
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I am certainly no expert, but that looks like a dandy. All the herters bows I have ever seen haven't been in nearly that kind of shape. Congrats.
Jake
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Wow!...Lots of nice responses here!...thanks everyone!...and for a better perspective of the riser mass on the Herters Perfection Magnum?...here's a pic of it parked next to my 1965 Bear Polar and it absolutely dwarfs the polar...
(http://www.fz1gear.com/herters11s.jpg)
and while I can't tell you exactly how much it physically weighs?...I can tell you all this...behind the sight cover plate of that 66" Bear Polar?...I have 4 ounces worth of (13) .45cal lead balls suspended in clear silicone to add mass and the 60" Herters bow?...feels like it weighs 1 1/3rd of what the Polar does...and comparing the limb contours between the two?...the herters are absolutely sick and refused to be strung with a standard sliding block stringer...I had to run to Bass Pro and get a dual cup stringer to brace and unbrace this herters as the limbs are just to swept to get a decent leverage point with the sliding block style stringer...as in ain't happening...
(http://www.fz1gear.com/herters12s.jpg)
here's a link of me shooting it....hope this works...
web page (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRxXX4VA-_g&list=UUHQrCyC4WQwqcjwyFq7RtGQ)
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Sweet. :thumbsup:
:cool:
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Wow what a nice chunk of wood. That one looks exceptionally nice. I always liked the ones that kicked out on the front and back. There's a reason I own 5 of the Herters myself. They are very unique and are very much under rated.
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Nice find, that is a beauty of a recurve.
Whoever the bow designers were at Herters, they sure came up with some cool designs back in the 60's and 70's.
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That is some beautiful wood. I'd like to have a chunk just to put on the mantle. Sweet bow. :thumbsup:
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Great looking bow,congrats on your finding.
I hope to buy a lefty sometimes
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Thanks everyone! and?...
Originally posted by Paul/KS:
Nice find, that is a beauty of a recurve.
Whoever the bow designers were at Herters, they sure came up with some cool designs back in the 60's and 70's.
This is who designed and built this bow...Bob Barrie...head of Herters Archery Division from 1961 to 1979 and inducted into the bowhunters hall of fame...very interesting throw-back link about him here...
Addington Interviews Bob Barrie (http://bowhunting.net/2011/08/straight-talk-interview-bob-barrie/)
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A take down in the 60.s. in the mail started my sickness getting bows man that bow was sweet with the farbenglass arrows I was all set for hunting rats in the dumps! Herters was great !
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Interesting interview. Thanks JINKSTER. :thumbsup:
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Always liked the looks of the old Herters. I have one, but it is not anywhere close to that kind of condition. Congrats!
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That is a great looking Bow! congrats on the find!
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MASS weight makes a shooter. Nice bow.
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Thanks everybody!....and a little update here...I put about 100 shots across my new-to-me 60"/44# 1975 Herters Perfection Magnum stretching out a new B50 string this past Saturday so I took Sunday off from shooting as yes...the 100rd session put a thumping on me...but this evening?...in my mind?...I had a few tuning questions that needed answering and the answers needed to come from this new bow of mine...so without further ado?...
Q1 was: I have two arrow/point weight combinations that I felt had a high level of potential for this bow...
A. 29" long .600 spine Beman Classic MFX's w/ 125gr points which weigh 390grs for right about 9GPP (that it's already tasted)
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B. 30" long .500 spine GT3555's w/ 175gr points which weigh 430grs for right about 10GPP (which it hadn't yet tasted)
so I felt it was time for a "taste test"...and the results?...kind of shocked me...not that the .500's w/ 175gr points seemed pristinely spined to this bow but...even though they weighed 40grs more than the bemans?...they seemed to visually shoot faster...and yes...."quieter"...and man did they hit the bales with notably more THUD!
question answered....selection made...and onto?...
Q2: Do I shoot this Herters Perfection Magnum Split or 3Under?....a firm decision needed making...so what I did was I adjusted the nock point to where my bare shafts flew just a touch nock low with 3under and just a touch nock high shooting split...and began switching back and forth between the two...and to my surprise?....the deciding factor wasn't how I don't aim by consciously using the arrow (when shooting this bow)...nor was the deciding factor how the bow became just ever so slightly more vocal when shooting 3under...with so little difference it wasn't even taken into account as it became abundantly clear to me that the deciding factor was something I never figured it would be...
"The Grip"
as it seemed when I shot 3under?...my bow hand would ride up into the throat where it then encountered what I could feel would soon become a very uncomfortable if not crushing pressure point just below the web of my bow hand...where conversely?...my bow hand felt perfectly content with equal pressure across my thumbs palm pad when shooting split finger....2nd decision made...and man is this bow loving the .500 spine GT's with 175gr points!...this was at 15yds...
(http://www.fz1gear.com/htune5s.jpg)
Thanks again for reading and looking, Bill. :)