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Author Topic: The bow you sold , ya wish ya had back thread!  (Read 2837 times)

Offline Ia Hawkeye

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Re: The bow you sold , ya wish ya had back thread!
« Reply #40 on: January 24, 2008, 01:16:00 PM »
1.-1965,66' and 67' Kodiaks

2.-Massie Longhorn
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Offline donw

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Re: The bow you sold , ya wish ya had back thread!
« Reply #41 on: January 24, 2008, 01:23:00 PM »
bear take down, howatt hunter,pearson maurader...
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Offline LV2HUNT

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Re: The bow you sold , ya wish ya had back thread!
« Reply #42 on: January 24, 2008, 02:03:00 PM »
Leon Stewart one piece osage longbow 62" 50@28". That thing was so quiet when I shot over deer they would not even pick up their head!  :(
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Offline Buckhammer

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Re: The bow you sold , ya wish ya had back thread!
« Reply #43 on: January 24, 2008, 02:25:00 PM »
I've owned 3 compounds, 2 of which I've sold with no regrets. But after reading this thread I think I better start explaining to my wife that I'll need to keep every trad bow I own or will ever own. I've only been into the curves & LB's a couple years but find it amazing how attached I have become to some of my sticks & string.   :archer:
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Offline Robhood23

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Re: The bow you sold , ya wish ya had back thread!
« Reply #44 on: January 24, 2008, 02:37:00 PM »
Schafer silvertip, have owned more since then but none like that one!!
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Offline Larry247

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Re: The bow you sold , ya wish ya had back thread!
« Reply #45 on: January 24, 2008, 03:23:00 PM »
I traded my first black widow to a DR. in N.C.

59#@29' SA11, man i wish i'd never done that!
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Offline BillJ

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Re: The bow you sold , ya wish ya had back thread!
« Reply #46 on: January 24, 2008, 04:20:00 PM »
Browning Backpacker I - 55 lbs.  

BillJ
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Offline Otto

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Re: The bow you sold , ya wish ya had back thread!
« Reply #47 on: January 24, 2008, 04:51:00 PM »
Well, I'm the odd man out.  No regrets on anything I've sold so far......
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Offline Curtiss Cardinal

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Re: The bow you sold , ya wish ya had back thread!
« Reply #48 on: January 24, 2008, 05:01:00 PM »
A Great Norther Ghost Recurve. In so many ways it was the most amazing recurve I have ever shot. Lost my job and waited until I was unemployeed for 4 months to put it up for sale and it sold so fast I didn't have time to reconsider. The guy that bought it sold it to someone else since.
I also sold a Kota Longbow I miss, an Anderson Skookum I found ayt a garage sale (he didn't know what it was and neither did I. 44# @28" and Beautiful, bought it for 50 bucks. Took it to a 3D in California and an older gentleman saw it and asked if it was a Skookum and asked if he could shoot it and offered me 800 for it on the spot. A 64#  Osage Selfbow a guy traded me for a 65# double shelf longbow I had that a local UPS driver saw me shooting in John McCready's back room. He was a compound shooter and the selfbow just intrigued him. So I turn a wheel bow guy into a trad guy by selling him that bow cheap. I also had to sell all my Bear collectables in the year I was unable to work after my open heart surgery.I miss all of them. The 1952 Kodiak 62#, the '59 Grizzly 80#, '57 Kodiak Special 72#,the '66 Kodiak Hunter 54#. I'm gonna go cry in my coffee now.
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Offline Shawn Leonard

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Re: The bow you sold , ya wish ya had back thread!
« Reply #49 on: January 24, 2008, 05:31:00 PM »
I had a Norm Johnson Blacktail that was 62"s and 62#s at 28"s. I shot that as well as any bow I ever owned. It would be a bit heavy for me now with my shoulders but I would have some 51-54# limbs made for it. I once hit 10 out of 12 at the Muzzy shoot which if ya have ever shot it is pretty darn good. I have seen it up for sale once or twice but have never had the cash at thje time! One day!! Shawn
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Offline Weekend Warrior

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Re: The bow you sold , ya wish ya had back thread!
« Reply #50 on: January 24, 2008, 06:08:00 PM »
TimberHawk    Osage 50#@28  :knothead:       :banghead:    :banghead:    :banghead:    :banghead:    :banghead:
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Offline brmize

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Re: The bow you sold , ya wish ya had back thread!
« Reply #51 on: January 24, 2008, 06:16:00 PM »
Great Northern Critter Gitter Special, 58" 60@28".
Bought it here sold it here. Almost identical to the bow I now covet at The Noking Point. Oh well.

Brian
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Offline randy grider

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Re: The bow you sold , ya wish ya had back thread!
« Reply #52 on: January 24, 2008, 06:25:00 PM »
A Bear "Bruin" longbow, not because its that great of a bow, just because I shot my first deer with it. I know the guy thats got it, but he won't sell it back. Bad thing is he never shoots bows anymore. Maybe some day.
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Offline One eye

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Re: The bow you sold , ya wish ya had back thread!
« Reply #53 on: January 24, 2008, 07:05:00 PM »
Too many to mention, but the one that stands out would the Super Shrew Deluxe Limited I sold.  Been kicking myself ever since.  I will get another Shrew though.

Dan
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Offline mshane

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Re: The bow you sold , ya wish ya had back thread!
« Reply #54 on: January 24, 2008, 07:10:00 PM »
This one.. A morrison shawnee with dakota limbs...

 
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Offline John Nail

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Re: The bow you sold , ya wish ya had back thread!
« Reply #55 on: January 24, 2008, 07:14:00 PM »
A plain, very old, Elk River Hill-style longbow.
It was the smoothest, quietest, least handshock,fastest, and best tillered Hill bow I ever shot. I get mad at myself just thinking about it...
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Offline Scott E

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Re: The bow you sold , ya wish ya had back thread!
« Reply #56 on: January 24, 2008, 07:49:00 PM »
I miss my martin howatt hunter it realy is a sweet recurve   "[dntthnk]"  . -Scott
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Offline Dave Rice

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Re: The bow you sold , ya wish ya had back thread!
« Reply #57 on: January 24, 2008, 07:55:00 PM »
A striped ebony veneered, striped ebony riser 66" [email protected]" takedown Royal made for me by Wes Wallace. That bow just shot where I looked. I took my first deer with that bow, one of the biggest mulies where I hunt. I wasn't foolish enough to sell it, it was stolen when I shipped it for refinishing. But, after three shoulder surgeries, I shouldn't be shooting it anyway.
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Offline TRAP

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Re: The bow you sold , ya wish ya had back thread!
« Reply #58 on: January 24, 2008, 08:01:00 PM »
I bought and sold a truckload of Bear and Browning recurves back in the 80's during my compound days.  I'd buy them for $15.00-$20.00 at garage sales and sell them for $50.00 or so to help fund my newest most improved wheeled contraption and thought I was doing the right thing.

LOL, now you can't find one at a garage sale, I'd like to have all of them back.  

The one bow of all time I'd most like to have was a 60" 1-Piece Bighorn (Asbell Era) Recurve.  Great shooting bow.  

I'm having a blast trying to find a bow as nice as it though.

Trap
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Offline Boneyard Bowhunter

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Re: The bow you sold , ya wish ya had back thread!
« Reply #59 on: January 24, 2008, 08:06:00 PM »
Early 70's 50# Brazilian Rosewood Super Diabalo. Smooth as silk and fast as lightning. I sold it and bought a compound. Shame, shame, shame.
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