Your Hall of Fame bow

[Bisch]

Primal Tech takedown longbow!!!!!!

Bisch

[threeunder]

Have to be 60” MOAB for me.  I have 2, but the #53@28” and I have made many memories together.

[Ulysseys]

Black Widow PLX 64” - Tulipwood- 56@28”

[Papadeerhtr]

Had a chance to buy a Black Widow crown jewel, shot it many times just felt like it was made for me. Didn't have funds at the time and it sold. Regret not getting it to this day lol

[Terry Green]

This would be my 3rd inductee, "Tines".

I designed this bow around the color scheme over the many shades of antlers we chase. 1st 2 kills were 10 pointers.... she's went on to kill more deer and over and bunches of hogs.

Again MOAB, 60 " 64@28 - Tamo Ash veneers.

[beemann]

Papadeerhtr  this ones for you.  They are sweet. 

[Wudstix]

My first love, Damon Howatt Hunter 1964/65, 62" 65#@28".  Hunted with me for 20 years, then when I got my Big River recurve with similar specs, "I didn't need two bows the same weight."  Silly boy.  Killed a hand full of whitetails with that bow.  She went to ID and I hope she is well.
 

[Honest Jon]

My Hall of Fame bow probably isn’t the best now I ever built but always seems to speak to me when it’s time to hunt Whitetails in Wisconsin. It’s an Osage Orange board bow backed with hickory and a rattlesnake skin. I carved out some walnut for nock tips and added a little reflex/deflection for performance. It pulls 47# @ 27”. Mike Yancey brought all the components to me at the Kalamazoo archery show a few years ago. The one item that gives it mojo for me is the hen turkey beard I added for good luck.

[Honest Jon]

Still trying to get hang of attaching photos.
Jon

[mnbwhtr]

My "just one" would be like a few others here a Bear T/D, I've had at least one since 1970.

[Charlie Lamb]

Jack Howard Gamemaster Classic

[Mountain State Archer]

Not my all time favorite, but I don’t think there could be any other 1 bow for a hall of fame other than the Bear Take Down

[kopfjaeger]

Here is a rare one ( the finish anyway ). It's my 1996 Bear Kodiak Takedown in traditional camo according to Bear Archery. When I would go to 3D shoots or ETAR someone would always offer to buy it. After numerous offers I wondered why there was so much interest since it was just a Bear Kodiak Takedown. I called Bear Archery and ask the employee who answered the phone. He said he didn't know but he would transfer my call to someone who would. He transferred my call to Frank Scott. Frank Scott told me less than twenty-five 1996 Bear Kodiak Takedowns where made in the traditional camo finish then Bear Archery decided to stop offering it in the traditional camo. 


I got this bow at a 3D shoot at a club called Powder Monkey near Leechburg, Pa. back around 1998. At the time I was shooting a Schafer Silvertip and I shot half of the 3D course and decided to check out the vendors. I was always a Bear Archery fan so I was checking out one of the vendors who had some Bear bows on his table. The guy ask me if I wanted to sell my Schafer Silvertip. I told him no but I wouldn't mind trading it for the 1996 Bear Kodiak Takedown he had on his table. He said he would and he also gave me a dozen arrows that were the correct spine for the bow. I shot the first half of the 3D course with the Schafer Silvertip and the second half with the Bear Kodiak Takedown. "LOL" 

[Arwin]

Soooo many great bows out there, but I think the Grizzly or Super K are probably the most known.
  I'm a fan of the Grizz.

[Gdpolk]

I quit buying bows when I got my 2-piece Sierra.

[Russell Southerland]

Ah, Super Shrew for sure. Just an extension of my arm. Great post BTW.

[Papadeerhtr]

Beeman, that is a beauty! Not sure why Widow doesn't produce those again!! Thanks for posting that!

[mgf]

A lot of fantastic bows out there but I'm going to toss in my 55# early 90's Howatt Hunter.

It was my "first". I started bowhunting with a compound but was drawn away from the wheels and cables from the start. After dabbling aimlessly with a couple of cheap locally available "traditional" bows the Hunter was the one I stuck with.

I briefly owned a 65# hunter but let a friend talk me out of it when he took up archery.

[Tedd]

Early Morrison Dakota not sure the year. Then later an Acadian Woods longbow that was lights out on deer. Both of those were deer killers. If only I could have that kind of accuracy again! Not sure why I moved on from those. I could have saved a lot of money! I think you start looking at pictures and just get the idea that you need a new bow. Next thing you know it's ordered and you spend all summer getting used to the new one.
Sticking with that modern longbow design the JK Kanati has been pretty much the same. I get my longbows made with with a grip that allows a high wrist. (lower the thumb groove).
The one I would want back is the Morrison. I only have 3 photos of the Morrison and none of the Acadian on this hard drive. But these Kanatis are stacking up some deer just the same.
The Morrison Dakota here

And some Kanatis

[Tedd]

Kanatis