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Offline Mic W

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How old is your bow?
« on: October 23, 2011, 09:59:00 PM »
I would like to hear about how old the bows are that you regularly use.

  Post pictures if you have some.

I would like to see what bows have lasted the test of time.
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Offline Cyclic-Rivers

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Re: How old is your bow?
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2011, 10:10:00 PM »
My wife prefers her 55 K special.

No good pictures at present.
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Re: How old is your bow?
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2011, 10:22:00 PM »
Bingham Project longbow bought in 1979 or close thereabouts. 32+/- years old

Bear Super Grizzly bought new in 1981. I paid $45 for it from a salvage place that bought insurance claims items from wrecked TT trucks.

These two bows are my most shot bows nowadays.
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Re: How old is your bow?
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2011, 10:26:00 PM »
The two I shoot the most are my Pearson Mercury Maurader TD and my Wing Thunderbird both 69's. I'll get some pics. tomorrow.
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Re: How old is your bow?
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2011, 10:28:00 PM »
Took a deer last week with my 45 year old 1966 Browning Explorer.

   

 
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Offline RobinHood1389

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Re: How old is your bow?
« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2011, 11:20:00 PM »
1970 bear grizzly.......41 years old.
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Offline NIGEL01

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Re: How old is your bow?
« Reply #6 on: October 23, 2011, 11:25:00 PM »
Love the arrows with that Browning....
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Re: How old is your bow?
« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2011, 12:22:00 AM »
Thanky.  Douglas fir I tapered myself with a scraper plane and with pecan and yellow leather stain.  Minwax polyurethane wiped on with a rag and then the cresting is Sharpie permanent markets and Pilot metallic ink pens.  Duco the feather fletching and fire away!

 
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Offline rdoggsilva

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Re: How old is your bow?
« Reply #8 on: October 24, 2011, 12:30:00 AM »
A 1966 Pearson Hunter, I bought new in 1967. Still shoot and enjoy it.
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Offline two4hooking

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Re: How old is your bow?
« Reply #9 on: October 24, 2011, 12:31:00 PM »
I'm shooting a brand new Bear TD this year.  Still trying to get it bloody.

 
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Offline bogeyrider63

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Re: How old is your bow?
« Reply #10 on: October 24, 2011, 12:38:00 PM »
my great plains and black widow were both made in 2008.
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Offline Ric O'Shay

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Re: How old is your bow?
« Reply #11 on: October 24, 2011, 01:13:00 PM »
My yew longbow is a little over 300 years old.

 
 
 

Sorry, just couldn't resist. The English yew tree began growing 300 years ago. At that time, it just didn't know it was going to be a longbow. Does that count for being an old bow?
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Offline KodiakMag

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Re: How old is your bow?
« Reply #12 on: October 24, 2011, 01:35:00 PM »
76' K-Mag
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Re: How old is your bow?
« Reply #13 on: October 24, 2011, 01:40:00 PM »
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Originally posted by Ric O'Shay:
My yew longbow is a little over 300 years old.

Sorry, just couldn't resist. The English yew tree began growing 300 years ago. At that time, it just didn't know it was going to be a longbow. Does that count for being an old bow?
Careful - the carbon fiber guys are going to come back with 10 billion years old and forged in the furnace of a long dead super nova.    :jumper:
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Offline Uncle Buck

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Re: How old is your bow?
« Reply #14 on: October 24, 2011, 01:56:00 PM »
Had a 1989 Hoyt come apart on me 2 weeks ago, but my 73-75 Kodiak Magnum is still going strong.
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Offline imhntn

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Re: How old is your bow?
« Reply #15 on: October 24, 2011, 03:26:00 PM »
I checked with Black Widow on mine once and I think it is a '94 model.  I got is used.
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Offline Schafer

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Re: How old is your bow?
« Reply #16 on: October 24, 2011, 03:42:00 PM »
Im shooting my new to me Schafer Silvertip that my dad ordered in '98 and got it at the beginning of '99(I was 4)that he gave me this previous christmas.

   
Deer my dad got with it in '07

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Offline Hit-or-Miss

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Re: How old is your bow?
« Reply #17 on: October 24, 2011, 04:47:00 PM »
1968 Kodiak Hunter.
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Offline DennyK

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Re: How old is your bow?
« Reply #18 on: October 24, 2011, 06:18:00 PM »
I've got 2 relatively new Black Widow bows, a 2004 PSAX and a 2006 MAX.
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Re: How old is your bow?
« Reply #19 on: October 24, 2011, 06:20:00 PM »
2,3,4 years old
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