Trad Gang
Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: rkelly on July 20, 2015, 07:15:00 PM
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I recently acquired a 2014 bear super kodiak.
Never owned one before.
Fade out to fade out seems awfully long making for very short working limbs.
Were all the super kodiak's built like this?
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Yes...and many credit that riser mass, especially the pheolic years, for the shooter-friendly reputation of Super K's. There are and were 64" Super K's, but most folks preferred the 60", then and now.
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Yes, the design has not changed much, if at all. Any changes has been a narrower grip, or a more radiused shelf. I prefer the 64"er's, but as said above 60" still the most popular.
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Yes, and you can see the evidence this design has left in many other bows.
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Nice pick up; they are very good shooting bows. I'll probably pick one up myself.
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I think the Super Kodiak is one of the most beautiful bows to shoot and to look at.
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My experience has been that a long handle/short limb recurve of sufficient length (like your SK) is more forgiving than similar length short handle recurve because it is harder to torque the bow. I think that is why they have stood up after all this time - we are getting close to 50 years of production of those bows. The new SKs, especially the phenolic compare very well with the originals (i'm saving my money).
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Let's not forget, versatile. Two short SK stories. A brother of a compound hunter told me how his brother told everyone that my trad stuff was junk and useless. I asked him and his friend how many quarters they had, 6, and bet them those six quarters that I could hit one of them if they were to be politely tossed across my four by eight target stack. I backed up past ten yards just to make him nervous while he hid behind by wood barrier. He tossed them politely enough, I hit four out of six and put the quarters we could find in my pocket.
2. The 9 pointer and two does were coming, rather quickly, up the further trail. From my low position the brush line would block the shot, so I climbed half way up a silo latter that someone left from the previous year against a tree to access a strap-on tree stand. I stuck one leg through the ladder and when the buck was approaching the only possible hole in the brush, I drew, swung with him, took a little lead and put the 2018 tipped with a Delta through him. The shot was still up hill and the arrow hung up in some tree branches past the buck a few yards. The buck tore off, covering about 50 yards, then his legs gave out, he skidded to a stop and lay still. While I waited on the ladder without moving, everything was very quiet, then the final sound of what just occurred, my arrow rattled out of the tree. I waited another fifteen minutes, before I climbed down.