roofleakfixer - I got the Riser in 2008. I grew up listening to Jack Benny who always said he was 39 years old. On his 22nd 39th Birthday Party, he was actually 61 years old, but still claimed to be 39. You may have grown up listening to someone other than Jack Benny.
If the A Riser was actually first made in 1969, in 2008 when I got this Riser, it was 39 years old, thus the name "Jack Benny A". In September 2008 I took an antelope and a mule deer with it in Wyoming, then used it on whitetails around home. I've hunted only with 1959 and 1960 Kodiaks for years, except when I have to fly, but wanted to break in the "Jack Benny A" on its first 39th Birthday... Frankly, it makes a very nice traveling bow, but I am going back to my old Kodiaks full time.
All collectors are crazy, some more so than others...