Scored a Sweet Herters Perfection Magnum

[cacciatore]

Great looking bow,congrats on your finding.
I hope to buy a lefty sometimes

[JINKSTER]

Thanks everyone! and?...

 

Originally posted by Paul/KS:
Nice find, that is a beauty of a recurve.
Whoever the bow designers were at Herters, they sure came up with some cool designs back in the 60's and 70's.

This is who designed and built this bow...Bob Barrie...head of Herters Archery Division from 1961 to 1979 and inducted into the bowhunters hall of fame...very interesting throw-back link about him here...

   Addington Interviews Bob Barrie

[Dan bree]

A take down in the 60.s. in the mail  started my sickness getting  bows  man that bow was sweet with the farbenglass arrows  I was all set for hunting rats in the dumps!   Herters  was great !

[Paul/KS]

Interesting interview. Thanks JINKSTER.  

[bruinman]

Always liked the looks of the old Herters. I have one, but it is not anywhere close to that kind of condition. Congrats!

[Cyclic-Rivers]

That is a great looking Bow!  congrats on the find!

[KentuckyTJ]

MASS weight makes a shooter. Nice bow.

[JINKSTER]

Thanks everybody!....and a little update here...I put about 100 shots across my new-to-me 60"/44# 1975 Herters Perfection Magnum stretching out a new B50 string this past Saturday so I took Sunday off from shooting as yes...the 100rd session put a thumping on me...but this evening?...in my mind?...I had a few tuning questions that needed answering and the answers needed to come from this new bow of mine...so without further ado?...

 Q1 was: I have two arrow/point weight combinations that I felt had a high level of potential for this bow...

 A. 29" long .600 spine Beman Classic MFX's w/ 125gr points which weigh 390grs for right about 9GPP (that it's already tasted)

 and?..

 B. 30" long .500 spine GT3555's w/ 175gr points which weigh 430grs for right about 10GPP (which it hadn't yet tasted)

 so I felt it was time for a "taste test"...and the results?...kind of shocked me...not that the .500's w/ 175gr points seemed pristinely spined to this bow but...even though they weighed 40grs more than the bemans?...they seemed to visually shoot faster...and yes...."quieter"...and man did they hit the bales with notably more THUD!

question answered....selection made...and onto?...

Q2: Do I shoot this Herters Perfection Magnum Split or 3Under?....a firm decision needed making...so what I did was I adjusted the nock point to where my bare shafts flew just a touch nock low with 3under and just a touch nock high shooting split...and began switching back and forth between the two...and to my surprise?....the deciding factor wasn't how I don't aim by consciously using the arrow (when shooting this bow)...nor was the deciding factor how the bow became just ever so slightly more vocal when shooting 3under...with so little difference it wasn't even taken into account as it became abundantly clear to me that the deciding factor was something I never figured it would be...

"The Grip"

as it seemed when I shot 3under?...my bow hand would ride up into the throat where it then encountered what I could feel would soon become a very uncomfortable if not crushing pressure point just below the web of my bow hand...where conversely?...my bow hand felt perfectly content with equal pressure across my thumbs palm pad when shooting split finger....2nd decision made...and man is this bow loving the .500 spine GT's with 175gr points!...this was at 15yds...
 
 

Thanks again for reading and looking, Bill.