Help me identify this Bow

[EZ]

This Bow is an old bow that belonged to a dear friend who is now passed away. It is a 58" recurve bow with green glass on the belly and black glass on the back. There is a picture of a kneeling hunter with a back quiver on getting ready to bring the bow up on a deer in the background. Below the picture is the inscription  HUNTER 709.

 The riser apears to be Zebra wood and has a flat shelf. The following numbers are on the left side of the lower riser:
09-4972 and x45#-28".

[Mudd]

You might want to post this over on the collectors forum.

Some of those folks know their stuff.

God bless,Mudd

[Killdeer]

Ben Pearson.

[bloodyarrow]

Kill Deer got it BP

[Stumpkiller]

Would look like this.

   

Mine is a '65 and the serial no. begins 09-264_ _

[Shawn Leonard]

Pearson 709 Hunter!! Nice shooters, I owned one for 37 plus years! Shawn

[rdoggsilva]

A Ben Pearson Hunter. My Hunter is a 1966. I bought it in 1967, still shoot and hunt with it.

[kadiak kid...]

try archery archives the catalog number 709(ben pearson has it on all their bows) and limb colors will tell you everything you want to know...

[kadiak kid...]

also ben pearson made this exact bow for westernfield under the name deluxe hunter...the earlier bp hunters had a blueish/green limb color with tigerstripe risor...thats the one i like...nice bows

[EZ]

You guys are Great!! Thanks a million!!

This was Denver York's Bow and he was my bowhunting mentor. I straightened the limb last night and it will shoot now. I am going to put on my wwII camo and my Jones hat and go out and shoot a deer with it this year in honor of Denver. I just wanted to know who actually made the bow.