Are All Archery Collectors OLD?

[jcar315]

While I don't "feel" like a geezer at 42 but looking back and telling my kids about things I did way back when there have been quite a few years that have passed.

Is it the connection to Fred Bear that got us going? I too remember seeing him on TV as a young kid and the image never left me. Kids today don't know anything about Fred unless we tell them. Like lots of things they have no concept of what was just what is today. It is great fun to sit downstairs and put in a DVD of one of Fred's shows and watch it with my 2 kids.

Tom: I have a picture of that target with my kids from Sawmill. That was their favorite!! Thanks again for the heads up.

[Earl E. Nov...mber]

Well I wasn't born before Pearl Harbor, but I was born just a couple years later.
I won't teach kids to shoot wheels till they master the stick and string.. I figure most will go to wheels later but if they have the seed, many will return.
Worst hunting season I ever had was the one I shot a buck on opening day. Back then we could only get "One" permit

[alaskabowhunter]

I'll be 48 next week which is old enough to know better, young enough to keep on trying. Not sure if the next generation will have much of an appreciation for antique archery and it history until the Fred Bear BowHunting Adventures video game comes out on Wii or Xbox.

[Don Stokes]

Tom, what IS that thing the kids are shooting? Can't decide whether it's a walrus, a crawdad/lobster, or a manatee.    

[TRAP]

Don, I think it's a Cobra.

Chuck, Happy Birthday a week early.  I turned 48 in April.

I think future generations will have an appreciation for Archery's rich history if we do our part to preserve it, document what we know and most importantly, share it freely with others.  

I'd hate to think the effort of today's "caretakers" would go to waste.  Traditional archery is still growing and a certain segment of that brotherhood will always be attracted to collecting and the historical side of things.

I have 3 young girls.  My 7 year old is in the middle of my small colllection all the time, asking questions and looking at stuff.  

Plant a seed, watch it grow.  

Trap

[NancyVTAS]

Hey Ron ----ss is ok! for us old guys, does your wife shoot that Grizz we swaped for?  Nice to be retired! Dick-vtas

[grizz]

It is nice to see all of the "OLD" guys fessing up on how old you are, I finally figured it out when we had three young fellows visiting at our booth in Arizona once and one made a comment about the crazy arrows that I was selling. The cedar arrows had a swirl wood grain stain and after his close inspection he turned to me and said "This is wild, you are SICK man!" My wife explained the real meaning later. After a shooting round with my brother in law a few years back we both decided that this was one of the few ways that we could feel like we were twelve years old again. Yes it has been a good journey since I would open the box of new cedar arrows that I had ordered out of FonDuLac mich and the "SMELL" would overpower my senses. I still make the sixtys come back occasionally when I purposely break a cedar shaft just to smell it!

[raghorn]

HI Dick,
That bow shoots great, she really likes it.
Thank you for the trade.
Ron

[Tom I.]

Don....yep....it's a Cobra.  We all thought it was one of the most unique targets we had seen and shot.  My son-in-law, the father of that brood of youngen's, took the picture. We had all made a hit on the target with our first arrow...so we thought it should be commemorated with a picture.
Tom I.

[Don Stokes]

Should have known- I used to have a wallet made from one.  

[Chuck_Delsandro]

The more I read this post the younger I feel:) I turn 40 next month! Took an interest in bear bows a few years ago. I am not a collector by any means, but I am here a few times a week and enjoy learning the history of Bear Archery, and about the life of Fred Bear.

[Bladester]

I'm a newbie to the Forum, this being my first post.  58 and retired.
Started archery in the early '60's with a little kid fiberglass bow.  As I recall, the bow, 3 arrows, plastic quiver, finger tab (don't think there was an armguard) sold for $3.00.  I wore it out.

I can remember poring over every page of a 1965 Bear catalog (still have it), dreaming about all the bows, which one I would buy if I could.  Fell in love with those beautiful bows, with their exotic woods and curves.

Since then, I've always been a recurve man.  Have still never shot a compound.  

The nice thing about being retired is that you have plenty of time to shoot.  Unfortunately, the body doesn't cooperate like it once did.

Everything I like is now being called "traditional."  Go figure.

I'm glad I found the Trad-Gang and have enjoyed going through the threads.

Thanks for reading.  --Larry

[TRAP]

Welcome Jerry, nice to have you on board.

Trap

[fatman]

my wife says I've been working on geezer-hood since I left the womb....  

[DGW]

Kinda new to this forum but turned 50 and feel honored to be the same age as those 59 Kodiaks!
Must of been a good year. Archery has always been in my blood. Love to watch arrows fly and the arc of the bow. Have always loved the history, Hope we can keep it going. Dan