Who still has there first bow....

[Cody Roiter]

Hello Guys, Well I was out in my small bow making shop I got looking around and found the first bow that I made and hunted with it's an Ash longbow 45@26.. I made it over the summer then when the time came for deer season I was ready as I ever was.... I to her out for the first day of season but didn't see any thing....
I never got a deer with her but man did I have lots of fun... I did hunt small game with it with one kill I shot a rabbit on the run at about 25-30 yard man I was happy as a boy with a baseball bat..  

My arrows where some thing ele's they where 5/16 shafts I pick up at walmart and at that time I paited them what ever color I had on hand... I also didn't know about useing feather's for arrows and I when I went to buy shafts I would buy vanes and nocks and every think would cost around $15 for 12 shafrt doz nock and 3 doz vanes... Then for gule I used super glue        .....

But I then started to use real turkey feaher's that I picked up in the wood in the summer time and man did they fly better........

Sorry I know I got of track sorry guys....

I just wanted to see how many still had there first bow.....

Take care and God Bless,

Cody

[GregD]

Cody, I probably sold it to buy my second bow. I wish I still had it though.

[owlbait]

My first bow was a Kodiak Magnum that my Dad had new. Killed my first deer with my first shot with it in 1978. I recently handed it over to my buddy Damion Halverson and he shoots it better then I ever did! It also spent a lot of time killing fish.

[hat creek]

I still have my Pearson Colt 45@28" bow I bought with lawn mowing money in 1964. About six months ago I took it off the wall and started shooting it again...just as much fun as I remembered it to be. That bow got me going again and I finally retired it after the lower limb blew up just before Christmas. It still hangs on my wall, but I just received this past week the Quinn Stallion Classic I ordered. Great bow and it will do me for the next 45 years or so.

[limbow]

First bow was a Jefferies t/d recurve. Sold it before I knew what trad gear was or what it meant to me. Thankfully it was re-introduced to me, bought a silvertip longbow which I regretfully sold but it will hopefullt be making it's way back to Michigan this spring. Once I actually to it serious, I never looked back.

[bawana bowman]

Still have the first two bows I ever made. Both 55@28 Longbows, Shedua riser, maple lams, with black bowtuff glass back and belly. Made them in the summer of 1978. Both Bingham Projects 72" designs.
  Then went on to produce around 140 or so longbows of my own design. Stopped making them in early 80's when personal finances got in trouble.
Have been considering starting the business back up, but as of yet haven't done it.
   Also still have the first three bows I ever owned.
My first a 15# hickory flatbow I was given at age 5
Second a 40# fiberglass bow at age 7.
Third a 45# bear Kodiak my Father bought me at age 7. I believe it is a 1955 model.  And I hunted with it  till I was 12 and moved up to a 50# Kodiak.
   I  guess these bows are the reason I've always shot heavy draw weights. When you learn to pull them at a young age you develop the shoulder muscles early.  

[Cody Roiter]

Yup I started young shooting heavy bows as well and ever since thats all I have shot none of the bows I shoot are under 60 pounds....

[duck'n]

My first new bow was a Black Bear Hunter made by Bear Archery in Gainseville, FL.  I saved and saved and finally had "just enough" to buy it (thanks Dad).  It is 58" AMO and 45# @28".  I still have it on the rack...purchased mid 80's.  Unfortunately, it had a not-so-brief career killing fish so it took a severe beating.  About 2 years ago I sent it to Bowdoc and probably spent as much if not more than I bought it for new to have it re-done.  It looks great and I don't regret it a bit!

[Cody Roiter]

Yup BD dose a hell of a job....

[Stringdancer]

I don't have my first bow.  My first bow was made from Maple tree limb by my Dad over 40 years ago.  I was a Cub Scout back then, and our troops had a turkey shoot, and I took first place with that bow.  Cody, thanks for reminding me of those days.

[straitera]

My first real hunting longbow (30 years ago) is a 68" Proline Saxon 75#@28" hanging in my bowrack. Last kill-Easter 2008, 110# pig through the heart/24 yards.

[mq32pa]

I still have mine it's a blackhawk scorpion 43# I now have 3 of the same bow. I'm now on my 7th homemade longbow. I'll never get rid of the first2 and having a hard time selling off any of the others!

[artifaker1]

I still have the bear takedown my stepdad gave to to me around "77" give or take---down. I think he picked it up on pool shooting debt. That would be my first hunting weight bow. This one of my most sacred possessions. But there was others, some I might not even remember. There was a American archery 27# 64" recurve that I shot for many years while I was a kid. good stuff.

[broketooth]

i still have my first and second bows . 1st bow is a 45#@28" hickory longbow w/rawhide backing made by william santolla. ive had this bow since the second anual cta state tournement ,im guessing at the year of 1996. the 2nd is a 1969 bear k-mag that my wife bought for me 4yrs ago x-mas. i still have four arrows w/broadheads that i hunted with the fall of 96 when i got my long bow and they are still straight

[Eric Krewson]

Found my first several years ago in a closet at my mother's house. This one is from the mid 50s.

I actually made a string for it and shot a couple of years ago. When I was a kid I thought it was the best bow in the world. My present day evaluation of it.....AWFUL, terrible shooting bow.

 
 

[vtmtnman]

Refer to my sig....    

Got it in '91,lived in the closet for a few years,got busted out recently when my trad fires rekindled again....      

[Cody Roiter]

Thanks for the pic's Mr.K great looking bow

[Teacher_of_the_Arcane]

Yup!!

It's a Ben Pearson hickory/glass laminate, "semi recurve".....draws 35# @ 28".  My dad gave it to me for Christmas when I was in sixth grade (circa 1960), after I'd learned to shoot at Boy Scout camp the previous summer.  I shot it until I was in college.

[John3]

My first Hoyt.. Brought home for me by my Dad in 1972 or 73.  My parents kept the bow all these years and gave it back to me just a few years ago.  Way too cool to remember all the fun I had with this little 10# @ 14" bow as a young boy. Thanks Dad.

It will have a place on my bow rack from now on.

 

[Cody Roiter]

Nice looking hoyt u have there my friend....