What was your first recurve/longbow, the one that started it all?

[RC]

Jeffery Royal Hunter. A killer if there ever was one. I gave it to a good friend John Pardue as it was too heavy for me later on. RC

[ron w]

Originally posted by highlow:
Green Stamps! Now that brings back a lot of memories.

Boy I'll say........

[Gerry]

Shakespeare can no longer remember the model.  Low end bow but shot okay.

[JRY309]

I like many had the fiberglass bows when younger.My first real bow was a Dan Quillian Canebrake recurve and then a Gary Sentman Warrior longbow.

[MattC]

As a young kid I had the old 20# solid fibreglass bow but my first real Trad bow as an adult was a Great Plains Palo Duro

[Homey88]

My grandfathers 67 bear kodiak Hunter. I used to run around the yard shooting it at trees and dirt clods. He gave me the bow before his passing and told me to kill something with it. So that is my goal to harvest a deer or turkey with the bow. I had no luck last year but will be trying again this year.

[Benny Nganabbarru]

Martin Hunter, 60#.

As soon as I could afford it after I started working. Actually, I had been dreaming about a fancy compound, but then I read about Howard Hill and Paul Schafer. Changed my mind.

[reddogge]

Mine was a 30# Ben Pearson lemonwood longbow similar to this one. My parents gave it to me in 1955 when I was 11. A friend gave me this one after I told him the story. I didn't kill anything with it but stuffed scarecrows made up to be The Sheriff of Nottingham.

   

[frank bullitt]

Good friend of my family gave me an Indian recurve my freshman year of highschool.

Cool, because it was made in Evansville, Indiana.

[acedoc]

A friends samick sage. Made me go trad ,else was going to the wheels.

[Longbow58]

Good friend of mine gave me his cousins Ben Pearson Mach1 . His cousin no longer could hunt and he new I wanted to try trad.Practiced for a year before I hunted with it and took a 6 point. Don't own any wheelie gear anymore and own 6 trad bows. I now shoot a Stewart Slammer. Thanks

[Longbow58]

Good friend of mine gave me his cousins Ben Pearson Mach1 . His cousin no longer could hunt and he new I wanted to try trad.Practiced for a year before I hunted with it and took a 6 point. Don't own any wheelie gear anymore and own 6 trad bows. I now shoot a Stewart Slammer. Thanks

[atatarpm]

I was 45 driving a truck and needed something to do. Bought a 55lbs recurve having not the first idea of what I was doing. and it was all down hill from there.  WHAT A RIDE!!!!!  Oh yea now I'm 58                  

[jackdaw]

An early 60s "coe bow"...handed down from my dad...in mid 1970s..

[Bill Turner]

Wing Thunderbird; 45@28", 62" long. Bought it in the spring of 1970. Hunted with it 1970 and 71 and then got into college basketball coaching game. Didn't touch it for 6 years. Mom stored it for me at home while I was away, unfortunately it was stored in the attic. Picked it up on one of my trips home; grabbed my stringer and about half way through stringing it, my Thunderbird exploded. Scared the dickens out of me. Lesson learned, never store your bow in a hot, dry environment for an extended period of time. Nothing good will ever come of it.    

[TURKEYFOOTGIRL]

Hoyt Huntmaster 60 at 28. 15 years old and killed a deer the first day aftrr i failed to do so for 3 years with a wheelie bow

[mark Willoughby]

I guess for me I've always been facinated by the bow I remember when I was a child making sapling bows out in my yard braced with whatever kind of string I could find a lot of times bailing wire but if I could find some trot line I thought I had hit the jackpot the years rolled on and I got away from the simple stick and string until I met my current hunting partner lol he had the grand idea to get rid of our wheel bows and buy longbows .. And at first I thought he was nuts but went along and boy am I ever glad I did ! First couple years was real tuff !! And had we been Indians would have prob starved to death       been a awesome journey thus far and hopefully many more memorable years to come

[pockets]

One of those old all-fiberglass low-poundage long bows....white with a green plastic handle. My mother bought it for me at Woolworth's around 1963. Killed my first groundhog with it that summer.

[yeager]

My first production bow was a 52" Herters Perfection which I still own.  Bought it from a friend back in 1970 when I was in high school.  Before that I carved crude bows out of tree branches which would last about a week or so.

[NYRON]

My first was a green Plyflex fiberglass bow that my neighbor gave to me after I saw it in the rafters of his garage. I was about 10 at the time. Forty years later and I still have the bow.

The next was a Fasco recurve that got me into big trouble for shooting things that a young man should not be shooting!