Bear TD-Limbs

[cacciatore]

This is what i was talking about for the ones that can see the differences.These first edition green tips are really as slender as the 69-70 white tips,they look very different from the later ones and are better than the red tips I have seen too.What do the old timers much more experienced think about that...Don?

[Grant Young]

Felix- Don is considerably more of an "old-timer than I am but I agree. I haven't shot many redtips that impressed me as much as I wanted them to. Love the white tipped first run limbs though.  GY

[PAPALAPIN]

"Anybody knows if Bear made limbs heavier than 70#?"

I had a set of 75# White tips years ago.  Heaviest I have ever see personally.

I think I remember hearing of some 80 & 90 # limbs.

I am pretty sure that I read where Papa Bear used a 90# bow on some of his ultra big game, but I don't remember if that was with a takedown or a one piece bow.

[Ben Tstic]

Thanks, Grant, you cleared up several things for me.
One thing...so green tips come in all three lengths & are most desirable; and the same with red tips ,but these are least desirable? (not the first time I've heard that)

Thanks again

[cacciatore]

Green tips were made ONLY in #1,they are way to be the most desiderable,but these ones looks to be very close to the first run white tips,the really more desiderable.Red tips are considered fair.

[Kelly]

Heaviest set of limbs(also heaviest weight bow I've ever hunted with) I've prsonally seen were 82# on my speckeled(came from factory that way)B Mag riser. Killed a bear in Wyoming about 1977/78, if my memory is correct. Pretty sure they were #3 limbs but what their actual weight marked I don't remember-could have been 82# or maybe that is what they were at my draw, which was 30" then. Either way they were over 70#.

[Ben Tstic]

Thanks cacciatore

Dang! I'm glad I found a site that I can actually get quick answers from people who KNOW.
I wonder how many years of accumulated knowledge this membership has...I'll bet it's staggering...

[cacciatore]

Ben,if you make some searches here,you'll find really a lot of knowledge.

[Ben Tstic]

thanks,Cacciatore,
 I'm sure your right about searches. So far I've mostly been browsing all the old posts, asking a few questions here & there.
The first week I found this site I was glued to it night & day 'til I had covered a few dozen of the most interesting threads(like BowDoc's "Repair 101")
This site is the closest thing I've seen to a bow encyclopedia(or whole library), which is what I need 'cuz I'm just kinda startin' with tradgear & have LOTS of questions from time to time.
But what really makes the site is the people, who are so helpful to us new guys.

[Hud]

Felix,

I am not surprised that you found limbs with a different profile, Bear produced a lot of different limbs, I had a set of 65# limbs that were much narrower on an early Green Stripe. They were quite smooth drawing, but I did not notice more speed than a set of 66# limbs from Grayling.

The Bear flyer, shows a C and B riser, and the B looks different than the Type 1 riser. The handle is similar to the Green Stripe, is this a Type II?

[d. ward]

The early green tips I believe were built to the same specs as the originals.However somewhere around the mid 80's they shorted the limb tip lessining the recurve at the end of the limbs.But I would like to mention I also have a set of green tips that are some super good shooters bd

[Grant Young]

Ditto, Bowdaddy. GY

[Hud]

Thanks Don, the green tips that I had did have less recurve and were narrower; just did not remember the year they were bought. Sold the bow and limbs.