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Author Topic: Garage sale find by friend…need help.  (Read 243 times)

Offline Oliverstacy

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Garage sale find by friend…need help.
« on: May 27, 2011, 04:19:00 PM »
Okay time to make a few people cry...including myself!

Friend just called and said he just bought the following:
Bear Kodiak Special
Serial # 2ZA27R
69”  37#

He said it had green glass and that it looked light green in color…what does he have?  Said it looked to be in good shape just dirty…going to clean it up.  I stated I knew a good person to refinish it if he needed…WHIP I might be giving you a call.
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Get this…paid $3 at a garage sale from two older ladies.  That wasn’t a typo…$3!

I told him the other day to look around for stuff like this!  

Josh
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Offline Shakes.602

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Re: Garage sale find by friend…need help.
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2011, 04:23:00 PM »
Dontcha' Just Hate That??   :biglaugh:   Congrats on the Bargain!! To Yer Pal that is!   :archer2:
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Offline ron w

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Re: Garage sale find by friend…need help.
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2011, 04:26:00 PM »
:biglaugh:  When I go to sales I find old diapers and stuff that should go to the dump!!! Great find, maybe I'll get lucky one day.
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's there are few...So the most difficult thing is always to keep your beginner's mind...This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner.  Shunryu Suzuki

Offline Mike Vines

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Re: Garage sale find by friend…need help.
« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2011, 04:29:00 PM »
Awesome find.  We are kinda blessed here in Michigan with Bear being stationed here for so long.  I'll bet there be plenty of finds like this in the future.
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Offline Jack Shanks

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Re: Garage sale find by friend…need help.
« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2011, 04:34:00 PM »
Sounds like a 61 or 62 Kodiak Special. The 61 will have a zebrawood riser a 62 rosewood.
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Re: Garage sale find by friend…need help.
« Reply #5 on: May 27, 2011, 04:36:00 PM »
I don't know how you can live with yourself Oliverstacy....you better give it back...or if it makes you feel better just send it to me. I wouldn't want you to have this burden of guilt hanging over you.    ;)
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Offline Oliverstacy

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Re: Garage sale find by friend…need help.
« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2011, 04:56:00 PM »
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Originally posted by snag:
I don't know how you can live with yourself Oliverstacy....you better give it back...or if it makes you feel better just send it to me. I wouldn't want you to have this burden of guilt hanging over you.     ;)  
I don't feel bad...It was a friend who found it!  :goldtooth:    :biglaugh:  


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Kanati 60" 57@29"
AP Cumberland 66" 58@29"
WhisperStik KajikaStik 56" Recurve with Canebrakes...57@28"
WhisperStik KajikaStik aka "Wormy" RC & LB,both 55@29"
Martin Savannah 50@28"
Kota Kill-um 55@28"

Offline Bowwild

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Re: Garage sale find by friend…need help.
« Reply #7 on: May 27, 2011, 05:02:00 PM »
I got a great deal on some Lincoln Logs at a garage sale about 15 years ago!

Offline Jack Guard

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Re: Garage sale find by friend…need help.
« Reply #8 on: May 27, 2011, 05:08:00 PM »
Ohhh man, I never find cool deal like that.  

Way Cool !!!!
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Re: Garage sale find by friend…need help.
« Reply #9 on: May 27, 2011, 05:23:00 PM »
I've got a nice $3 garage sale bow, Its an Indian Archery Chochees, not likely as nice as the Bear your friend found but I shoot is some every year and this spring regularly in the garage to work on form.

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Re: Garage sale find by friend…need help.
« Reply #10 on: May 27, 2011, 05:43:00 PM »
I picked up a little Bear Black Panther Hunter bow a couple years back. I was looking at a job and he had an old recurve laying on the garage floor. We started talking about it and he says " I picked up that one and another yesterday at a garage sale." I asked what the other one was and he goes out back and pulls this little bear bow out from between the rafters, up against the roof deck. Now this was in July in MO and I offered to double his money on that bow. He said ok so I had to give him $4 for it. I felt like I saved that bows life by getting it out of there where the heat would have destroyed it.
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Offline Dave Bowers

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Re: Garage sale find by friend…need help.
« Reply #11 on: May 27, 2011, 06:33:00 PM »
Dang that awesome   :thumbsup:

Offline Reaper TN

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Re: Garage sale find by friend…need help.
« Reply #12 on: May 27, 2011, 06:47:00 PM »
My best find was a mid 60's model 43# LH Red Wing Hunter, pristine, not a scratch on it, $30 at a local flea market. My other flea market finds, Bear K-Mag, Bear K-Hunter, Bear 76er, Wing Falcon, Shakespeare Ocala. The K-Mag and Wing Falcon were like new. I found a Pearson Hunter II at a yard sale once, paid $3 for it.  I still hit the local flea market 3 or 4 times a month, but no luck as of late.  Maybe I got em' all.    :goldtooth:
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