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Offline azdriheat

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Most Treasured Bow Owned Or Looking For?
« on: March 21, 2009, 06:15:00 PM »
I just got a 59 Kodiak maple heart that had been high on my list of needs. I need  to "need" something else. What do you still "need"?
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Offline BobT

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Re: Most Treasured Bow Owned Or Looking For?
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2009, 09:05:00 PM »
I'm still looking for a few to complete my '58 collection. I still need to find a 56" Kodiak, and all the Kodiak specials.
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Offline kurtbel5

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Re: Most Treasured Bow Owned Or Looking For?
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2009, 11:44:00 PM »
Red glass Kodiak lol
Miegs recurve
A riser T/D
Saunders Swift
and so on...

Shorter list might be what I don't want
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Offline Wade Phillips

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Re: Most Treasured Bow Owned Or Looking For?
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2009, 09:19:00 AM »
Kurt - Way the LOL for a Red Glass Kodiak ?
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Offline PAPALAPIN

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Re: Most Treasured Bow Owned Or Looking For?
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2009, 09:24:00 AM »
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Offline griz#1

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Re: Most Treasured Bow Owned Or Looking For?
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2009, 09:39:00 AM »
my most treasured,is my 1958 kodiak special.
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Offline reddogge

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Re: Most Treasured Bow Owned Or Looking For?
« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2009, 10:03:00 AM »
Looking for late 60s/early 70s rosewood Howatt Super Diablo 50#ish.
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Re: Most Treasured Bow Owned Or Looking For?
« Reply #7 on: March 22, 2009, 10:44:00 AM »
My most treasured is still the 50# '62 Kodiak I found at a Trapper's convention.  Not the prettiest or rarest by any stretch, but it's the bow that kick started this crazy addiction for me.  Good thing I have all you other addicts for moral support.  :thumbsup:  

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Offline kurtbel5

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Re: Most Treasured Bow Owned Or Looking For?
« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2009, 05:10:00 PM »
Wade,
I lol cause not sure it exists,
but I'll keep looking
              Kurt
Ps Arrow should be there next week
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Offline PAPALAPIN

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Re: Most Treasured Bow Owned Or Looking For?
« Reply #9 on: June 15, 2016, 06:29:00 PM »
Proved to myself today that the  "ELDARADO BOWS" exist in more than just our dreams.

Awaiting the arrival of my recently found Jack Howard Supreme Target bow.  

One of only two that I know of to exist.

Will try to post pictures when it comes in.
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Offline Captain*Kirk

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Re: Most Treasured Bow Owned Or Looking For?
« Reply #10 on: June 19, 2016, 01:43:00 AM »
Quote
Originally posted by PAPALAPIN:
Proved to myself today that the  "ELDARADO BOWS" exist in more than just our dreams.

Awaiting the arrival of my recently found Jack Howard Supreme Target bow.  

One of only two that I know of to exist.

Will try to post pictures when it comes in.
Do tell! Great find on that one!
My fave (took me a wee bit of searching as well) is my '69 Bear Tamerlane HC-300.
Well worth the wait!
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Offline Brock

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Re: Most Treasured Bow Owned Or Looking For?
« Reply #11 on: June 19, 2016, 07:39:00 AM »
My first HAD TO HAVE was a near mint Browning Cobra...which Palapin assisted me in finding.  :)

Then it was a green glass, small tipped, near mint Explorer....found it too.

I have 12 bows now...after selling a few last year.  When I think back to bows I wanted over the years...a Paul Schafer, a Blacktail Elite, a Bill Stewart Double Cam Limb recurve....not same draw as they used to have though maybe a Blacktail Elite from one of Norms earlier years (not the fancy ones now) would be nice.

I think my next journey is learning to make my own hickory and osage selfbows...that dont blow up on me and are functional and a pleasure to shoot and look at.  I think that is going to bring my satisfaction going forward.

Hell, been thinking of selling that Cobra recurve that still is just as mint today as it was years ago when I first got it.  Who knows...  :)
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Offline PAPALAPIN

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Re: Most Treasured Bow Owned Or Looking For?
« Reply #12 on: June 21, 2016, 07:19:00 AM »
BROCK   No mater what you find there will always be another "El Dorado" on your list.
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The most important part of your hunting setup is the broadhead.  The rest is just the delivery system.

Offline 59Alaskan

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Re: Most Treasured Bow Owned Or Looking For?
« Reply #13 on: June 28, 2016, 07:35:00 AM »
may sound nuts but I would really enjoy owning a LH 1963 Type 1 Grizzly.

My current most treasured is a lowly 1972 LH Grizzly.  It's marked "40x#" but whoever did that was either a prankster or forgot their glasses.  It scales 53# @ 28".

It's treasured as it's from my birth year and my cousin showed up one day and just gave it to me.  He had found it for sale locally near his place.
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Offline mangonboat

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Re: Most Treasured Bow Owned Or Looking For?
« Reply #14 on: June 28, 2016, 04:09:00 PM »
I found a 1962 66" Kodiak Special in legal hunting weight, so now have refocused my obsession to finding a 1962 Browning Diana. I also ponder  a 1961 Gordon Custom Deluxe with royal blue glass limb backs and creamy belly, but that just might be a unicorn.
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Offline 59Alaskan

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Re: Most Treasured Bow Owned Or Looking For?
« Reply #15 on: June 28, 2016, 06:39:00 PM »
Oh,  I forgot one.  I would really like to have a Wellman Hurricane Hunter - lefty of course.

If you're interested, item 201608780329 on the big auction is a righty.  They were in production quite a few years and I have seen them in different woods.  I see about 1-2 a year but never a lefty - yet

They were made locally here and I would like to own a piece of that history
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Offline Greyrider

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Re: Most Treasured Bow Owned Or Looking For?
« Reply #16 on: June 28, 2016, 09:42:00 PM »
My best recurve would be my green strip Bear TD. The bow I would still love to own is a #1,B handle Bear TD
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Offline mahantango

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Re: Most Treasured Bow Owned Or Looking For?
« Reply #17 on: June 28, 2016, 10:57:00 PM »
Carrolls Gentleman Jim, 50-55#.
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Re: Most Treasured Bow Owned Or Looking For?
« Reply #18 on: July 05, 2016, 12:21:00 PM »
Would like to find a lower weight (45-50#) Great Northern 64-inch Critter Gitter or Jack Harrison Black Wolf,  J.D. Berry Viper or Fred Anderson Skookum with the same specs.
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Offline TOEJAMMER

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Re: Most Treasured Bow Owned Or Looking For?
« Reply #19 on: July 05, 2016, 04:22:00 PM »
My Jack Howard Gamester that I got from Jack in 1967, maybe 1968.
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