super kodiakyear and value help

[mhlbdonny]

My local shop has a super kodiak sn 6-208, silver colored coin 45#@28. I'd say it's an 8. It has a couple of faint lines running up the belly glass top and bottom, and, some light stress lines in the finish on the back. I forgot to look at the bear logo. They are asking $425. Is this a fair price and is it safe to shoot regularly? thanks in advance. And how old is it as well?

[wadde]

I t sounds like a 1966. I have seen them in nice condition going for less on the big auction site. I think the price is high based on the description of its condition.

[papabear08]

I agree with Steve, pretty high. Also can't be a 1966 Super K as they weren't out until '67. Pictures are always best.

[Blackhawk]

If it says "Super Kodiak", then not a '66.  Anyway, Wadde is correct about price sounding a bit high unless it's really rare or exceptional.  Used bow prices are down quite a bit.

[warpedarrow]

If the serial numbering held true to what they were supposed to have done, the first number being a six would mean that the bow was actually numbered in 1966 but released as a 1967.  I have read in several places that from 1965 to 1969, the first number was the year of manufacture.  Do I have some fiction mixed into my Bear facts?

[mangonboat]

Is this a 2006 bow?? photos will tell

[papabear08]

Numbering deal is a bit silly but what  is pertinent is after the number on Grayling bows would be a letter to denote model. A 60" Super K would be Z a 64" Super K Y and a Kodiak Hunter T and so on and so forth so yeah this is probably a Gainesville bow

[zepnut]

Have to agree. Sounds like a Gainesville bow.

[wadde]

Yup sounds like a Gainesville bow, and still too high on the price.

[damascusdave]

And yet again gentlemen you get the feeling of what we are faced with north of the 49th parallel...that 425CAD is really not a whole lot more than 300USD right now which is what you are thinking when you reference price on the big auction site...and now I have to go home and check on the serial number on my 67 1/2 Super K...turns out that, oddly enough, that is the only Bear I have ever owned in that magical 1965 to 1969 period where serial numbers actually have some meaning...I must be getting old

DDave

[stagetek]

A photo would help. Super Kodiak's were not made in '66. They were introduced in '67.5 and came with gold coins for the first three or four years.