Charlie, thanks for your service! My first Bear T/D came while in the service also 1971, it came because the Black Widow I was shooting decided to become takedown one morning shooting a shoot at 29 Palms, Ca. It literally exploded! A couple weeks later I was in FS arrow supply in Costa Mesa looking at the Bears. $20 don't seem like much now but being in the service at the time I opted for the Magnesium handle as they were $119 compared to the wood ones at $139. I got 61# number 2 limbs that came out to 75# at my 32" draw. I loved that bow, got more limbs for it and shot it until Aug 1979 when the handle let go 2 weeks before my first big trip to BC moose hunting. I had been shooting it with 75# limbs(88# at my draw) and if you remember at that time Bear wasn't making anything but compounds so I had to hunt with the closest thing to it a Bear Alaskan compound.(same handle different limb attachment) The next 12 or so years I shot longbows exclusively and then I came upon a T/D for sale and jumped on it! 55and 65# limbs with a Green strip handle, I was back! I've had many bows over the years always looking for something better but keep coming back to my GO TO . I have 4 of them in the house now and don't plan on changing any time soon.
Topic: Bear T.D. (Read 6952 times)
