Archery Gadgets From Days Gone By

[sticknstring+]

Your collection is awesome doc... Don't stop

[raghorn]

Here's the Shear Advantage arrow syatem, which was developed here in Colorado in the 1980s.The shaft is open from the center of the broadhead, and there are holes at the rear of the shaft by the nock. In the photo with the name you can see grooves cut into the shaft every inch. This was designed so the arrow would shear off at a groove. By counting the inch marks you would know how much shaft was in the animal.The hollow shaft was to promote bleeding outside of the animal and to aid in collapsing the lungs.  They were available in three sizes: 20xx,21xx,22xx.
     

[Mike Shaw]

Very cool Ron...I had one of those a few years back...Some great stuff here! Any idea on my field tip? ...Mike

[Mike Shaw]

Here's a early Bear fishing outfit ..Note the line spool

[Bob Dunn]

Here's a Bear fishing outfit I picked up awhile back.Not as early as yours Mike, but still a good find. Never outta the box.

[Mike Shaw]

Bob...Very nice indeed...Anything Bear Archery in the box is a good find!

[TRAP]

Awesome stuff guys.  I have a few items I'll throw on the thread  tommorrow.

Trap

[TRAP]

Here's a "Nelson Arrow Holder" on a 59 Kodiak and the holder add from the Bear Archery 1959 Catalog.  I actually played around with this in the back yard and it worked quite well.  I wouldnt have drilled the bow to install it but it was there when I got the bow.  Pretty Cool
 

 

Front view
   

Here's a head that I found several years ago in a box of fishing tackle at a flea market.  Great Rabbit head but I don't know anything about it.  Manufacturer? age?
 

Then of course, another favorite of mine

 

Trap

[d. ward]

Those stinken nelly's screwed up lots of bows huh ? I bet I've fixed around 50-100 bows with holes from that type arrow holder.Hey don't be shooting those tips at no rabbits until we do a little research.Some field tips are collectable and worth a few bucks......bowdoc

[Mike Shaw]

Very cool stuff there Daryl. I like that fieid tip...Thanks ....Mike

[Jon Stewart]

Doc, are those white full length bear feathers hanging on your wall?  I also have a couple  of those smokers clips.

[TRAP]

LOL Doc, I bet I've killed 20 or more rabbits with that head through the years.  It's my favorite and my "go to" rabbit head.  It rolls em like a 50 caliber. I've lost it in the snow more than once and marked the spot and went back after the snow melted and found it.  I refuse to shoot it at squirrels for fear of sticking it in a tree and not being able to get it back.  I have it mounted on a semi flu flu to make it easier to recover now.

the inside of the ferrule is not tapered.  If that helps identify it.

Trap

[raghorn]

The cone shaped small game head was made by Herters.
I think there might have been two sizes. Long ago i several of them and carried them for practice shots while elk hunting. They really worked well as they would not stick in anything, but wouldn't deform on a rock hit.

[d. ward]

Oh yes Jon there are about 6 packs or so of the full length feathers.Most of them do have a little moth damage,but I still love to look at the packages.The smoke clips are great.Thank you Ron I just knew you would bail us out on that tip.I always like the copper head shocker too.Trap those were parallel ferrules before the trapper tool was invented !!!!!!!!!!!!!! bowdoc

[Jon Stewart]

Doc, send me your address again.
Jon

[raghorn]

Here's the Frydenlund Timer.
This worked dual duty as an arrow holder and draw check.
This one is a RH.

     

[Mike Shaw]

I remember that gadget..Ron thats cool stuff!

[PAPALAPIN]

TRAP

The head you pictured was made by Herters.  I had a few of them.

I put one on a bolt tht I had for a really chep 75# Crossbow.  I shot it at a Saunders straw target next to my dad's shed.  It went through the target, through both sides of the shed, and stuck in the block of my neighbor's lawnmower while he was cutting the yard.

Raghorn...I disagree with you...they stick quite good in a Briggs & Stratton.

I cought hell for that one.  I waas 15 at the time.

[d. ward]

Wow thank you Jon you da man this week,those are great and will look real good hanging next to thier white brothrs..Thanks again bowdoc

[Jon Stewart]

Can't remember where I got them but they were sitting in a box collecting dust. Didn't think of using them with the history behind them so I thought they would look good next to your white feathers.  Little  color to your feather wall. Your welcome.  Seems I remember you sending me a quiver screw for my bear quiver once.