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Online Doc Pain

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Bow Regrets
« on: January 13, 2010, 08:13:00 AM »
Have you ever regretted selling or trading a particular bow and wish that you could have gotten it back.  Tell us about it.
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Offline Kevin Dill

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Re: Bow Regrets
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2010, 08:16:00 AM »
Just one and it hurts too much to talk about.
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Re: Bow Regrets
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2010, 08:36:00 AM »
Why did you have to remind me!!! I hate to admit it, but I sold my beautiful Shrew CH and have been beating myself up over it ever since.  I didn't give myself enough time with it... after waiting a year for it.  When I was packaging it up for shipping it felt like I was burying my dog!!!!  Maybe I should give Ron La Clair a call soon.
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Offline joevan125

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Re: Bow Regrets
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2010, 08:38:00 AM »
Yep my 64in ACS but i plan on ordering another with the 16in riser and a little heavier.
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Re: Bow Regrets
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2010, 09:33:00 AM »
My ony regret to date is that the sight window on my ex-H56, Little Mo, was too short for my shooting style. I absolutely loved that little bow, just couldn't shoot it w/o radically changing my style & anchor point.  So being I sold it...
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Offline Winterhawk1960

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Re: Bow Regrets
« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2010, 09:39:00 AM »
Yep......I sure did. I had a one-piece Hummingbird Alpha Male that I sold to "Big Striper" up in Michigan. Beautiful bow, that I shot VERY WELL. I know that he is as happy with it as I was.

Oh well.....I will own another one, it's on my "to own" list.

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Offline JoLo

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Re: Bow Regrets
« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2010, 10:04:00 AM »
Ohh yes. A PTFII
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Re: Bow Regrets
« Reply #7 on: January 13, 2010, 10:09:00 AM »
Oh ya!  A Toelke Whip I owned for a short time, oh and a special little Kanati...
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Re: Bow Regrets
« Reply #8 on: January 13, 2010, 10:26:00 AM »
Funny timing with this thread, contemplating selling my 56" great northern super ghost to offset the cost of my new to me shrew.  the voices in my head are telling me i will regret it if i do and to find a way to keep them both.
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Offline Winterhawk1960

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Re: Bow Regrets
« Reply #9 on: January 13, 2010, 10:41:00 AM »
pcappy08......better listen to those "voices"

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Re: Bow Regrets
« Reply #10 on: January 13, 2010, 10:44:00 AM »
The 1st Whip that Dan Toelke made me, a dark black/red Cocobolo riser with dark highly figured Zebrawood veneers. Short story is I got stupid and sold it and have regretted it ever since. I have ended up with one Whip and the Lion's share of my shooting is with Dan's D bows and I have a very special one coming soon but I still miss that 1st Whip.
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Offline George D. Stout

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Re: Bow Regrets
« Reply #11 on: January 13, 2010, 10:47:00 AM »
There is none that I fret over but there are a few I shot well and should have kept.   One that comes to mind was a Northern Mist Superior longbow, bamboo limbs...may be the best longbow I ever owned.
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Re: Bow Regrets
« Reply #12 on: January 13, 2010, 10:51:00 AM »
Yep a 21 century nova that had been reworked by Jeff Massey and had his finish on it...
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Offline bear1336

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Re: Bow Regrets
« Reply #13 on: January 13, 2010, 11:09:00 AM »
Yep my first Bear A mag I sold in the late 70's or early 80's.
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Re: Bow Regrets
« Reply #14 on: January 13, 2010, 11:18:00 AM »
My first Dale Stahl T/D recurve.  I bought it used and shot it for quite awhile, for me.  It was sort of plain jane compared to some of the other Dale Stahl bows I've owned.  It had a Bubinga riser with a gray action arch stripe down the center of the riser.  The limbs were red elm.  the bow was, and still is, a phenomenal shooter.

I sold it to the owner of The Archery Shop.  I've tried to buy it back from him dozens of times over the past 6 years or so and he just laughs at me.  I also sold my first Crow Creek Black Feather longbow to him and he still has it.  He killed a fox with it the last weekend of our deer season at 25 yards.

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Re: Bow Regrets
« Reply #15 on: January 13, 2010, 11:51:00 AM »
No, but I got a Bob Lee Sig Recurve that I should sell, because we need the $, but can't get myself to do it.
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Re: Bow Regrets
« Reply #16 on: January 13, 2010, 11:54:00 AM »
Yes, and I have pictures of 2 out of 3.

My first real hunting bow, a new 1967 Bear Grizzly with which I killed my first deer. I traded it in on a Root Gamemaster which I wish I still had but don't have a picture of it.
 
The next was a 1972 Super Diablo I traded for a Colt pistol at a New Year's Eve party.
 
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Re: Bow Regrets
« Reply #17 on: January 13, 2010, 12:02:00 PM »
some of my Schafers and widows
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Offline straitera

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Re: Bow Regrets
« Reply #18 on: January 13, 2010, 12:18:00 PM »
Almost sold my 1st hunting LB (Proline Saxon 68" & 75#@28") a few times. Bow is 30+ years old & shoots just as good as the day I bought it. Lately, discovered its maker, quality & value & that it is a first from Proline. Whew! Happy endings.
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Re: Bow Regrets
« Reply #19 on: January 13, 2010, 12:49:00 PM »
oh yeah.lets see,2 treadways,a blackcreek,a widow,2 rer arroyos(luckily i traded for another)a griffin(must've been drinking when i traded that one).a real sweet crow creek blackfeather.
   ummm,there's a few more but these are the ones that usually bring me to tears.  :help:
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