The second one from the top has garnered much attention in pictures over the time I have had it...many consider it to be one of the ugliest bows they have ever seen...that is actually a gorgeous 1961 Kodiak Special that I bought off the big auction site for 66 bucks because the seller really focused on all of the limbs stress...when I got it I decided to simply cover up the stress with some sticky back polar fleece camo I had around from the nineties when we used it to quiet the sight window area on our compounds...I never have even trimmed it up so it looks kind of scabby but that bow also shoots 175 fps with hunting weight arrows for me...another time I got a little carried away with some 40 year old deer hide and completely covered the shelf, sight window and grip with it, again not being all that careful...all of that can be stripped off easily enough and the plan is to sell that bow to a friend who is going to make it her first refinish job...I have a much nicer one in the works anyway, with a predominantly dark piece of zebrawood...the lefty is a 55 pound 1960 Kodiak that fits with my small 1960 Kodiak collection and the fact I shoot both sides...I also bought that bow off of the big auction site for the tidy sum of 918 USD back when our dollar was worth more than yours...the shipped price in CAD was actually just a bit less than the USD price...that bow is about as good as it gets when it comes to shooting quality...at my 30 inch draw length it chronos at 185 fps with 9 gpp arrows and a dacron string...I currently run it with an HMPE string and would imagine it will easily top 190 fps when my left shoulder gets back to normal and I get conditioned to that draw weight again...pretty good for a 54 year old bow with a 62 year old operator
DDave
Topic: Grayling is where it's at (Read 2116 times)
