1955 Bear Kodiak

[NWWI]

I just picked up a 1955 Bear Kodiak.  It looks to me like its in very good condition and has been lightly used.  I’d love to make it back into a hunting bow.  Is that generally recommended or should they be used sparingly?  I’m not intending in turning it into a beater but I would like to get it out every now and then when the conditions are good.

[Ray Lyon]

Very nice shooter.  I replaced both limb tip overlays on this 34#/60” 1955 Kodiak.  I’ve got some 5/16 tapered to 9/32 Wapiti cedar shafts that I’m going to pu two blade Bear Razorheads on and hopefully harvest a whitetail this fall!!

[Ray Lyon]

Here’s finished arrow

[Ron LaClair]

I bought my 1955 Bear Kodiak new in 55 the year I started bowhunting for deer. It was 60" 52#@ 28"

[Ron LaClair]

A few years ago I found a 1956 Kodiak on a table at a shoot. It is 43#@ 28" and in great shape. I got it ready to hunt with that fall. My buddy Ray Lyon gave me some old compressed cedar Acme Forge woods, fletched with Bear Razorheads. I fit it with a Bear 4 arrow quiver took it to the woods.

We got a little snow in the U P that November. I had a fall turkey permit and I managed to nail this bird. The arrow went to the feathers and the turkey died 6 feet from where it was hit.

The 55 and 56 Kodiaks were identical except for a slight change in decal placement. Double shelf, shoot from either side was good for me as a lefty. It is a great bow and one of the first by Bear going from a Static recurve to a full working recurve. Hunt with your bow it will take you back in history.

[Ray Lyon]

Ron, that was one of the neatest harvests at Shrewhaven.  Really cool that those vintage arrows, bow and points proved what Fred knew many years ago. 

[Ray Lyon]

‘Hey Ron, do you remember when you used my equipment to kill that turkey up at Shrewhaven?!  Man I could have roasted that to perfection over coals if I’d have been in your camp’ 😉

[NWWI]

I love your bow!  What brace height do you recommend setting it at?  I’m somewhat new to traditional archery but all of the sudden I have 4 bows now!  The other one I want to get going is a 66 or 67 Ben Pearson Colt.  It was my dads bow.  He was the first one to shoot a deer with the bow in our family.  The Kodiak sure looks like it will be fun!

[Ray Lyon]

I’m shooting mine at 7 1/8