Cody- In the mid 80's I lived in Columbia,S.C and James Dickey, the author of Deliverance was a client of mine and I spent some time with him discussing the book and movie There are too many interesting little stories to tell here but as to why Bear equipment was used I can tell you. Dickey was a bowhunter- loved to hunt hogs- and used Bear equipment himself and had met Fred previously.Bear was by far the biggest name in archery at the time and as Cliff said, they could devote more manpower and energy toward providing tech support and the equipment also served as a sort of advertisement. Kind of a "win-win" situation. Dickey told me that Reynolds was hopeless as an archer (didn't like him much) but that Voight was a great guy and a quick study. Jim said he actually had to shoot the fish for Reynolds. That may or may not be true.Owen Jeffery lived in Columbia-still does- and he and I were good friends. He despised Dickey and had nothing good to say about the man, the movie, or Bear's involvement in it.He was Bear's master bowyer and Vice-President at the time. Jim- if you get a chance to review the movie you will notice that Reynold is shooting a very long TD-pretty sure its a "C" riser but Owen said he also made a wood handled "B" riser for him as well. If you want to know more about the making of the film, read Chris Dickey's book, "The Summer of Deliverance"- he was James Dickey's son. Its a pretty dark chronicle. Grant
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