Question for all you "Old Timers"

[Owlgrowler]

started in 1968 with a '68 Bear Grizzly 56 incher, 43#@28, didn't kill anything with it until 2006,(long story)

then in '72 I bought a Browning Nomad II and bagged my first 2 bowkills in 72 and 73. Sold it to my brother, I gotta ask his widow if she still has it one of these days.

[Bernie B.]

For Christmas in 1968 I received a 53# Bear Grizzly, which I used for two years, then got into Wing bows.  I had several different models, but my "go to" hunting bow was a 1972 Red Wing Hunter.  

This is the bow I called my "40th anniversary bow".  Having shot a big Minnesota buck in November, 1972 with it, I used it again this fall to shoot a nine point Iowa buck.  I pretty much shot Wing bows until my first custom, a Bighorn in 1983.

Bernie Bjorklund

NC Iowa/SW Wisconsin

[Kip]

Started bowhunting in 1974 killed my first deer in 1976 at 26 with a K-mag a 50 at 28" went up to 60lbs. but now back to 50 plus or minus a couple lbs, with diff. limbs at 62 years old.Still having fun.Kip
my first
 

[Rifle River Scout]

About 1965 40# York Cadet, looked like a Bear Grizz.
Then about 1972 50# Bear K- Hunter.

[ron w]

Got a Browning Nomad Stalker brand new in 1967, hunted with it till about 74' or 75'.....Paid $37 for it and I really wanted a Bear Grizzly, but they were a lot more money....$52, Back then I was washing dishes and 15 bucks was a lot of cash!!!  

[stujay]

Damon Howatt Hunter, #45 60" recurve. Bought in mid 70's from Northwest archery, Glenn St Charles shop. His son Jay recomended it to me and it was a good choice.

[JimB]

My first real hunting bow was a new,'64 Grizzly.In 1970 I got a Super Kodiak and in '72,a 56" A Mag takedown,which I still have.

[Bill Carlsen]

I had a Bear Super Mag....48"...the first year they were on the market. Worst bow I ever shot.

Then a Red Wing Hunter....thought I died and went to Heaven until I found Groves Spitfires.

[joe skipp]

Started in '69...Browning Nomad then a Kittredge Signature Hunter. The Kittredge was basically a Howatt/Martin, built to Kittredge specs. Similar to the lower priced one piece Jack Howard offered.

[fishone]

Red Wing Hunter

[longrifle346]

Aside from all the ones we made growing up(which accounted for quite a few tree rats btw) my first store-bought was a 45# Bear Kodiak Magnum in '71. I've got it's twin hanging on my rack right now.

[Terry Lightle]

Bear Grizzly

'60s Ben Recurves, early '70s, Bear takedowns, target bows, an 89 pound reverse Hill Tembo and a 72 pound Schulz.

[rick7]

bear grizzly 1973

[SERGIO VENNERI]

1975, Kittredge hunter 62" 65#  http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x132/recurvehunter_2007/1975Bear.jpg

[Archie]

I can't contribute much to this thread... I am not old enough!  But my late father was big on the trad bowhunting scene 50 years ago, so I can tell you what he shot....

Dad ran a good-sized archery shop in southern CA in the late 60's/early 70's, and he was a big user and proponent of Jack Howard's Gamemaster.

[horseman12193]

A 58" 50# @ 28 Bear Grizzly fall of 1972 when i came home from army

[6feathers]

1964 joined an archery 4-H club and learned to make arrows and since this was in the Flint Mi. area, we went to Darton Archery and purchased ready to finish bows.  Around 1966 I graduated to a Redwing Hunter that I got for Xmas.  I used that bow until college graduation in 1972, then bought a Super K after that.  I have been through a lot of bows between then and now.

[shadman]

First real bow in 1954 was a solid glass Paul Bunyon. In 1956 my Dad got me a 46# Eddings. Great bow. Wish I hadn't sold that bow!

[dnovo]

First one was a Shakespeare Necedah, the a Red Wing pro after that about '74.