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Offline Migra Bill

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Re: Whats your "Shocker" bow
« Reply #20 on: August 10, 2010, 02:21:00 PM »
Jim - The Browning explorer - I'll give you. But it's not a "shocker" that a 64 Kodiak and a bunch of Black Widows shoot well...
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Re: Whats your "Shocker" bow
« Reply #21 on: August 10, 2010, 03:32:00 PM »
1972-73 bear mag takedown 60" and 49# @ 28" I shoot it off the shelf and it shoot nice.
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Re: Whats your "Shocker" bow
« Reply #22 on: August 10, 2010, 09:19:00 PM »
I love the 58" Pro Hoyt Hunter...but the shocker is the 58" Whiffen Comet.  Essentially the same bow...but more fun to shoot a Whiffen  :)   JMHO...Doc
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Re: Whats your "Shocker" bow
« Reply #23 on: August 10, 2010, 10:44:00 PM »
RAINMAN

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Offline Larry m

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Re: Whats your "Shocker" bow
« Reply #24 on: August 15, 2010, 03:33:00 PM »
1959 Kodiak Special 66" 40#, 14 strand flemish dacron with 430 gn barrel tapered cedar's. When I first received this bow it was beat. I tried to keep it as close to original as possible. I finished it with a satin varathane and it has now become one of my favorite shooter's. Perhaps in the future this will become a candidate for the Real BD but for now I'm having to much fun with it.    
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Re: Whats your "Shocker" bow
« Reply #25 on: August 16, 2010, 08:04:00 AM »
Ben Pearson Cougar, 1968 43#- hits every stump I aim at.
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Offline BobT

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Re: Whats your "Shocker" bow
« Reply #26 on: August 16, 2010, 12:37:00 PM »
I guess the one that shocked me the most was my Cub it's a '58 of course, as are the rest of my Bears but it really surprised me the first time I shot it and continues to impress me when I get it out.

The catalog says "terrific glass-powered performance at a moderate price" I would have to agree.
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Re: Whats your "Shocker" bow
« Reply #27 on: August 16, 2010, 03:30:00 PM »
This one is just about my favorite on the rack.

Sexy little "white glass" 1957 Kodiak.  Like the rest of the Mid 50s Kodiaks, it really shoots very well.

 

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Re: Whats your "Shocker" bow
« Reply #28 on: August 16, 2010, 04:18:00 PM »
VERY nice looking set up there, Trap. Like those older Western Knifes!
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Re: Whats your "Shocker" bow
« Reply #29 on: August 16, 2010, 11:21:00 PM »
As I understand the question you are looking for bows that surprise you with their shooting features and not necessarially your best shooters.  

My three "shockers" are a 55# Tice and Watts Spartan Hunter MkI, a 50# 1958 or '59 Shakespeare Wonderbow, and a 50# 60s Root Gamemaster.
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Offline machomanandysavage

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Re: Whats your "Shocker" bow
« Reply #30 on: August 25, 2010, 09:02:00 AM »
An old Blackhawk Scorpion - shoots so nice I hunted with it last year. I've since built a couple bows I will use now, but I just can't bring myself to part with this one.
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Offline 18thcentman

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Re: Whats your "Shocker" bow
« Reply #31 on: August 26, 2010, 09:25:00 PM »
My shocker is one of Ed Holcombs 59 kodiaks. I have stopped looking for bows since Ed made one for me. This is my "holy grail" in the bow realm.
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Offline Wade Phillips

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Re: Whats your "Shocker" bow
« Reply #32 on: August 26, 2010, 10:49:00 PM »
OK guys, this is my shocker.

A circa 1950 all metal youth bow...

It has recurved tips and measures 47-3/4" between string grooves.

About 15 years ago, I gave $10 for it at a second hand store here in town. Still has the price marked on it.

Not even sure of the maker, looks like a cross between a Grimes and a Par-X.

It's guaranteed to give you a shock as soon as you pick it up.

   
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Re: Whats your "Shocker" bow
« Reply #33 on: August 27, 2010, 07:39:00 AM »
Thats bad Mr.Phillips
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Re: Whats your "Shocker" bow
« Reply #34 on: August 27, 2010, 07:56:00 AM »
That's cool Wade, I've never seen you use blue as a background color in a display case before   ;)  

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Re: Whats your "Shocker" bow
« Reply #35 on: August 28, 2010, 02:57:00 PM »
67' Wing Slimline Pro-Vantage. 62" and 43# it is a smoooooth shooter....traded a Damon Howatt "bandito" to get it. Great bow!!
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Re: Whats your "Shocker" bow
« Reply #36 on: August 28, 2010, 03:36:00 PM »
1959 Grizzly
 
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Re: Whats your "Shocker" bow
« Reply #37 on: January 02, 2011, 11:53:00 PM »
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Originally posted by Raineman:
#5- A 62" Browning Explorer II, 51# that I got at Denton Hill several years ago. Fastest thin tips I have ever experienced on a Browning. Solid one piece riser. Flat out "womper" of a bow. Sold in a fit of stupidity, and convinced I will never find that one again or any like it ever.

 
Interesting.  I have a 52#@28" Browning Explorer (decal just says "Explorer" but it is 62") and it is my "sleeper" and "shocker" bow.  Spits an arrow out with authority and I do better accuracy wise with it than any of my other (lighter or heaver draw) bows.  Just a great design, but a tad heavy.  I'm drawing it to 30" and it seems to be a hair faster than my 55#@28" Dream Catcher - and that's no snoozer for speed.


And yes, the limb tips are scary pointy.  There ain't a lot of anything inside the loops.    :eek:
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Re: Whats your "Shocker" bow
« Reply #38 on: January 03, 2011, 11:48:00 AM »
My shocker is a 1959 Kodiak (64" & 47#). I got this bow from Mike Shaw last summer and all I can say is WOW.
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Offline ron w

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Re: Whats your "Shocker" bow
« Reply #39 on: January 03, 2011, 02:16:00 PM »
I have a 67' Bear Kodiak Hunter 58" 43# @ 28", picked it up from Jack Shanks last spring. That old girl can really spit a cedar shaft. I draw it to 29" and it just gives me a bit of a thump in the hand......nice old bow!
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