What was your first "NEW" bow?

[C Kerley]

November 14, 1991, my birthday, and a Bear Hunter TD.  I didn't have a clue what I was doing, all I knew was that I had to have one of those recurves.  This photo is November 14, 2009.
 

Remember a brief time period when you could buy recurves from Cabelas mail order.  This is that bow.    
 

[huntnfool62]

I 'm a new member and would like to say how glad I am that I stumbled upon Tradgang . I checked out the forums for a couple days before joining and I am amazed at the knowledge that is shared here ! Now MY first new bow was a Martin(howatt)Mamba 58" 50lb Bought it on the way to a MUCC expo, Happen to stop in a Dunhams sport store and there it was with a "clearance " tag on it . think I paid 85.00 for it(mid 80's) Kept it for a couple years then sold it for what I paid .I have a few older bear bows and a newer Bear Takedown but all of those were bought used . I have one that I will be asking for some help Identifying its an aluminum handled recurve I bought at a yard sale for 2.50 as soon as I figured out how to add pics I'll include more . Iknow how everyone likes Pics
huntnfool

[Jack Denbow]

First one was a 1962 Kodiak.
Second one was a 67 1/2 Super Kodiak.
Jack

[Kelly]

First bow was a new Ben Pearson Cougar in 1961. Cost me $19.00 of my hard earned paper route money. Then next purchase was 1 dz cedar arrows for $9.95 with points.

[tippit]

I didn't get into archery until 1980.  But while in high school in Ohio, we'd go rifle deer hunting over Thanksgiving in Michigan...town was called Grayling!  That would have been 1961-64.    Jeff

[Billyjack]

This is easy,my first bow was a Black Hawk yellow Jacket 35#@28" 66". It was 1966 and the bow was taller then me. I still have the bow and still shoots fine.
 Gordon

[Gray Buffalo]

1949 lemon wood longbow no name 68" and 30 @ 28". A christmas present at age 8. A real rabbit killer.

[bow'narrow]

1950's Bear Polar.  Deflexed long bow with brown glass.  Earned the money as a "printer's devil"  while in high school.  Bought it at a sporting goods store in Reno, Nevada.  Earned all sorts of small game patches from NFAA with that bow.  Wish I still had it.

[PAPALAPIN]

huntnfool 62

Correction...you "were" a new member

Once you post twice, you are a veteran...you are one of us now.    

I look at the names of all the posters here that got their first bow in the '60's.  Can't help but thinking "Man, how far have we all come since we each got our first bow?"

[Moooseran]

Signature Saxon Hawk....60" 55# @ 28"

[lone hunter]

50# 1970 Grizzly. Still going strong, took a turkey with it last year. Man I felt/feel proud carrying that bow, like I was stepping back in time. Light and free cutting a wide swath.

[4406v]

I drove to Ravenswood West Virginia and bought a Zipper takedown recurve from Bob Thompson.We went to his basement and I picked out my Bubinga and Grey Maple riser with Curly Maple limbs.It was a beautiful bow I should have kept.

[myshootinstinks]

In about 1967-68 I went into Rink's, a combo sporting goods / grocery / variety store at Taylorsville, Utah and bought an orange glass, maple riser, 35# recurve built by Indian.  That bow is long gone but it was my first "store bought" bow and at age 12 I thought I had really arrived.
   

    My first bow to include self-bows was one my great granpa built for me several years before.  A wooden bow that I broke.
   My Dad bought me a spankin' new Howatt 45#er in 1972 that I still own and shoot.  

[Archer Fanatic]

My wife brought me a new Browning bow for me on our first Christmas when we got married. Yet to this day she cannot tell you why she brought me a bow.

[Ga.boy]

I think I was 9 or 10 yeaws old (1955 or 1956) when I got my first bow for Christmas. All I remember is that it was green fiberglass with a black rubber grip. Probably a Pearson. My next door neighbor friend got the identical bow and we became the terror of the neighborhood. I can remember using the tops from Coke bottles to make new points if an arrow broke at the tip. We would use pliers and a hammer to attach them to the arrow. Man I wish that I could time travel back and reclaim that bow! (And pick up a bunch more on my way back to the present).

[hayslope]

I've never actually owned a "new" bow (although I do have a Dale Dye Medicine Point on order).

My Dad bought my first ("new" to me) bow from the local hardware store in town.  A gently used, two year old 1960 Bear Kodiak, 60", 42#.   Every archery item in that store had "Bear" on it.

About two years later, I went back to that same store and traded it for a great 1962 Kodiak, 55#.  I think it cost me about $12 plus the 60 Kodiak.  Of course, that was a lot of money to a kid back then.

Sad to say that I sold that '62 back around 1982 for a song.       I now spend way too much time trying to find it's replacement!

[oops29]

late 60's  ben pearson jet bow cat.#3330  fiberglass bought by my parents, in my closet now and always will be   maybe 15 or 20 lbs. fist one i paid for in the early 70's bear kodiak magnum 48# also in the closet just can't let go -  too many memories!!

[macclare]

1972 Bear Grizzley 58" 50# and still have it. I shot 4 deer with that bow and still shoot it once in awhile.

[Winterhawk1960]

Ben Pearson "Mach One"..........sometime in the early to mid 70's.

Winterhawk1960

[jarhead_hunter]

On my return to CONUS in 1970 I took a 30 day leave and bought a brand new wood handle Bear take down.

With a few extras and a fishing pole I went to the Gila Wilderness in SW NM to convalesce. Spent all 30 days there.....

After that I spent every annual leave in the Gila for 16 more years.

Charles.