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Author Topic: Do you ever want to just kick yourself?  (Read 1182 times)

Online Pine

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Do you ever want to just kick yourself?
« on: January 28, 2020, 01:10:08 PM »
I'm talking about bows that you have gotten rid of in the past, and you wish you still had them.
For me, I had a "C" handle Bear Takedown 35# target bow that was just awesome.
Sold it to the owner of an archery shop in the late 1970s.
I stopped by his shop a couple weeks later and he told me that Fred Bear stopped in last week, saw that bow and figured it needed to be signed.  :banghead:
Another bow I foolishly let go was a Hoyt Pro Medalist. It was a target bow with white limbs but the draw weight was 64#@28".
That bow would now be a collectors item because of the unusual draw weight for that model.
I hunted with it one season with the removable camo paint but it was just too cumbersome to hunt with. That was in the early 1980s.
That's just a couple of bows out of a few others I let go.
So, what bows are you kicking yourself for letting go?
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Re: Do you ever want to just kick yourself?
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2020, 01:42:25 PM »
Traded away a DH Hunter 65#@28" it was a 64-66 model don't have the serial number.  Traded for a Hill style High Country longbow to a guy from ID.  Just got my first custom bow a Big River recurve that John patterned after a 59 Bear.
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Re: Do you ever want to just kick yourself?
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2020, 02:58:05 PM »
Nothing that I couldn’t replace. I wouldn’t mind getting back my Liberty classic.
I just didn’t give that one enough time.

Other than that I am really happy with my three bows:
Stickflinger, Blacktail Sitka, Javaman Elkhart.

But, ask me next week as and I’ll probably have a different answer.
« Last Edit: January 28, 2020, 04:53:10 PM by MnFn »
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Re: Do you ever want to just kick yourself?
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2020, 03:04:13 PM »
DH Hunter wasn't the best bow I've had, but it was the first real hunting bow, and was with me for @12 years, put a bunch of venison and pork in the cooler.

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« Last Edit: January 31, 2020, 07:45:10 PM by Wudstix »
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60" Big River 67#@28"              
60" MOAB D/R LB 62#@27"
60" Big River D/R LB 65#@27"
62" Kota Badlands LB 72#@28"
62" Howatt TD 62#@28
58” Bear Grizzly 70#@28”
62" Big River D/R LB 60#@30"
66" Moosejaw Razorback LB 60#@28"

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Re: Do you ever want to just kick yourself?
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2020, 07:09:15 PM »
My first longbow,  a 58# Archery Traditions Bamboo Longhunter.
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Re: Do you ever want to just kick yourself?
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2020, 07:08:26 PM »
I had a '68 Super Kodiak that I shot my first deer with in '68. 60" 44#. Traded it in to buy a '72 Howatt Super Diablo. Big mistake !

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Re: Do you ever want to just kick yourself?
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2020, 09:19:36 PM »
Oh Yea!!

A custom Robertson longbow.

Just in case the owner reads this....

Lefty, 66" 60@29 Cocobola riser, Yew veneers. I'll buy it back!

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Re: Do you ever want to just kick yourself?
« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2020, 12:10:15 AM »
This does not compute. Still have every bow I ever owned including the first one.
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Re: Do you ever want to just kick yourself?
« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2020, 09:20:31 AM »
Sure do. I didn't get rid of it, my parents did. It was my first bow, a 30# Pearson lemonwood longbow I got for Christmas in 1955. It lit the fire that still burns today.  I don't even have a picture of it.  I'm a sentimental fool for that kind of stuff.
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Re: Do you ever want to just kick yourself?
« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2020, 12:55:16 PM »
I didn't sell a bow but I have shot nothing but takedown Longbows and wanted to get a one-piece and I had my eye on a Mohawk Sparrowhawk well Vince shut down before I could order one but luckily I found a used one and very happy.   
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