Never owned one but the emerging consensus is that they are better bows than initial reaction , at the time they were sold, would suggest. A lot of bow manufacturers, including Browning, were re-directing their energies to the skyrocketing compound market at the time and several tried to create risers that could be minimally modified to shoot compound limbs or as a 3-piece recurve,mostly with poor results. There was an assumption that the Firedrake was an afterthought, a bone thrown to the last vestiges of recurve diehards. Folks forget that 3 piece recurves were a newfangled thing in the early 70's. The Firedrake and Backpacker take-downs suffered from unfortunate timing. The plain, cheap-looking limbs didnt help, either. But I never heard a complaint about them being slow or poorly made.
Topic: Browning Fire Drake (Read 955 times)
