Your First TradBow

[joe skipp]

My first bow was a 1969 Bear Cub, 48#. Shot Bear cedar arrows tipped with Razorheads.

[woodchucker]

My first "real" bow was a "Red Bear" fiberglass recurve. I shot my first squirrel with a Bear cedar arrow tipped with a green Bear Razorhead out of that bow.....I believe I was about 8 years old.

My first "Big Game" bow was a 1960's 50# Bear Alaskan,shooting Bear cedar arrows tipped with green Bear Razorheads,carried in a backquiver.    

Those were the days Cody.....Enjoy your youth Little Brother!!!!!

May The Great Spirit Guide Your Arrows

[mooseman76]

My first trad bow was a martin super diablo (zebrawood).  I got it in 1992 when I was 16, but got it 65# and was way overbowed.  Kept it a couple years was totally in love with trad archery.  Finally sold it, and got something the right weight and never looked back.

[New to Traditional]

Martin x-200 #45.The inaspiration for the obsession.I still love shootin it once in a while.Got it a couple years ago for my bday.Funny you should mention it cause I just dug er' out today to tune some new shafts with it for cold weather hunting.

[Danny Roberts]

Bear Kodiak Magnum

[BarryOnly]

A fischer price set that kindled my passion as a kid, then it was the oak selfbow I made after I had had enough of compounds.

[BowBrain]

Ben Pearson H70 58" 45# @ 28" in 1969.

[sticshooter]

York cadet 30#@28" My dad got it for me fromWhiffen Archery.I was 7 years old. Man I miss my Dad.<><

[Steve P]

First year I was old enough to have an archery licence I hunted with a 68" Root recurve,44#@28". Up til then a green fg recurve (Indian?).


Steve

[tippit]

Mine was a Tim Meigs longbow all green glass 65#@28.  Bought it from Ron LaClair in 1980.  It kicked like a mule but I loved it (didn't know any better     Doc

[kennym]

First was a fine piece of lemonwood in shop class,nobody there knew diddly bout bows,shaped it down nice,bent it over my knee to check the limb flex and SNAP    ,then a green glass recurve I bought for $5,then a sleek 52" Pearson Mach 1(still got that one). Stacked like hell but I thought I really had sumpthin,never liked short bows since.

[styckbow]

A 55# Jerry Hill long bow was shooting a 70 # compound so I thought 55 was a good starting wieght boy was I wrong 3 months later I bought a chekmate Falcon and sold my compound and haven't looked back

[bsh_jr]

First "real" trad bow was an American Archery Cheetah special hunter, 45# that I got from a yard sale for basically nothing.  I don't know how many people have been introduces to recurves or bow fishing with that bow since then.

Brannon

[vizsla]

brown fiberglass longbow hand me down from big brother to young to rember maker  we bought bowstrings from hardware store they had 1 loop and were brown hemp you had to  tied the other loop in they were in a glass case next to the dasy bb's

[Bonebuster]

A ten dollar yard sale recurve, I was nine yrs old. Very dark wood, 62" long, and probably 45 lbs. Not a letter or a number on it anywhere.
It shined like the stock on a Weatherby rifle.

It shot ANY arrow I had like a lazer beam. When we went "up north", I carried it around like a pet.

Never leave your bow in a hot car.

[Wapitidung]

A Bear Recurve.  Sometime back in the 60s'

[BenBow]

Little wood bow and some suction cup arrows at the age of 3. Still miss the innocence and wonder of that first experience.

[Jim now in Kentucky]

Also had hickory bow and suction cup arrows at about 3. Then bought a bigger hickory bow. about 18# when I was about 10. 1958

[Biff]

1948-Ben pearson? Lemonwood, found in basement of house we moved into. Then a Bear Cub around 1954.

[paleFace]

i can't remember the name of the first bow i used as a kid, but the first trad bow i bought for myself was a Martin Dream Catcher, 55# @ 28"... still shoot it sometimes just for old time sake.