Pearson Cobra

[GreatBay]

I saw a recently ended auction for a Pearson Cobra recurve and could not find anything on them in the archery archives. Does anybody know when they were produced?
Dave

[Migra Bill]

I am familiar with the Pearson Compound that was called a Cobra- but not aware of a recurve.

[GreatBay]

Bill- familiar with that as well- this was definitely a recurve, with green glass

[Gary Altstaetter]

I was told that Pearson made the Colt Target
bows, and if a bow was a second it was labeled as a Cobra.  I have one of these bows.  It should be a Colt Heritage, but it is labeled as a Ben Pearson Cobra.  I have looked it over real good, but I cannot find any flaws in the wood or the construction of the bow.  It a very good shooting bow

[oldhickory]

Ben Pearson made 2 models of the Cobra recurve, one was a one piece, the other is a take down.

[GreatBay]

Thanks guys, it must have been a renamed Colt Huntsman Hi-Power from 1964 or 1966. I dug into the archery archives a little more and noticed that. I wonder what constituted a "second". This bow looked very similar to a Wing Presentation bow in style, and was only 56", so shorter than the Colt Heritage.