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Topic: Question for all you "Old Timers" (Read 1939 times)
Blackstick
Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 595
Re: Question for all you "Old Timers"
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Reply #40 on:
December 08, 2012, 07:18:00 PM »
I used and still have a 56", solid fiberglass, Colt Captain, 35# @ 28''. My next bow that I also still have and use is a 50# 1967 1/2 Bear SK that I paid $25 for.
Not sure why I ever bought anything else, other than I fell victim to the disease.
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jhinaz
Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 29
Re: Question for all you "Old Timers"
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December 08, 2012, 07:21:00 PM »
A Black Widow metal risered take-down with 48# limbs(IIRC the model was HF1225). It was a great feeling/shooting bow. - John
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Jason Kendall
Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 1210
Re: Question for all you "Old Timers"
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December 08, 2012, 07:23:00 PM »
Love the profile of the recurve Sergio, nice Bear too!
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elkken
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Posts: 3922
Re: Question for all you "Old Timers"
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December 08, 2012, 07:31:00 PM »
Wing ...
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moebow
Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 2509
Re: Question for all you "Old Timers"
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December 08, 2012, 07:31:00 PM »
1957 Paul Bunyan solid green fiberglass. That bow saved my mom's lilac bushes - source of my bows and arrows before that. First real store bought, 1960/61 Ben Pearson "Pony" 42#@ 28". Still have it.
Arne
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rainman
Contributing Member
Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 1215
Re: Question for all you "Old Timers"
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December 08, 2012, 07:33:00 PM »
Hoyt pro hunter, then a Herters perfection sitka.
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Dan Raney
Hoyt
Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 1413
Re: Question for all you "Old Timers"
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December 08, 2012, 07:35:00 PM »
First real, big game hunting bow was in 1964 an American Archery Cheetah Supreme 48lb recurve. Then I got a Black Widow recurve new $250.00.
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Stinger
Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 594
Re: Question for all you "Old Timers"
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December 08, 2012, 07:43:00 PM »
First hunting bow was a Shakespeare Yukon in '67. In '69 I took my first deer with a bow - a 58in 50# Shakespeare Necedah. I still have that bow.
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TOEJAMMER
Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 730
Re: Question for all you "Old Timers"
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December 08, 2012, 07:49:00 PM »
First year hunting very early 50's with an early Bear longbow. 1955/6 with a Gelco 800 recurve, 49 pounds; through the late 50's and 60's Wilson Brothers' Black Widows, Bob Lee Thunderbird and Jack Howard Gamemaster.
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Bill Kissner
Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 1048
Re: Question for all you "Old Timers"
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December 08, 2012, 07:50:00 PM »
After several years of hunting small game, I started deer hunting in 1963 with a Ben Pearson Conqueror. Finally killed my first deer in Colorado in 1969 with a brand new Bear Takedown. I used Easton 24srtx arrow shafts. Still have both bows and a few of the shafts!
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shick
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Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 1338
Re: Question for all you "Old Timers"
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December 08, 2012, 08:21:00 PM »
Used a fiberglass Paul Bunyon while in high school. Bought a '68 Wing Gull when I came back from Over seas. Then used a '70 Super Kodiak 64" 45#. Would buy a Super K just like that one now. Like Bill 24srtx was the shaft along with the OD swifts/ then game getters.
Shick
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BCWV
Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 1137
Re: Question for all you "Old Timers"
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December 08, 2012, 08:32:00 PM »
My bow in 75 was a Ben Pearson. I can't recall the model but it was a 45# recurve. I also had a recurve called a Super Bee which was also 45# a little later on. I took my first bow killed deer in 76. I do remember I took it with the Pearson, a wooden shaft with Bear heads and it was a 6 point.
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knobby
Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 1036
Re: Question for all you "Old Timers"
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December 08, 2012, 08:40:00 PM »
Bought a Shakespeare X18 in 1973. Paid $24 brand-spankin' new at the local farm/hardware store. Got some cedar arrows with Hilbre broadheads and snapped them into a hoodless Kwikee quiver. Yikes!
How did we not get impaled using a hoodless quiver and stringing the bow without a stringer? I recall gluing razorblades onto my broadheads after seeing how Jack Howard did it in a magazine article. Double yikes!
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cahaba
Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 1773
Re: Question for all you "Old Timers"
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December 08, 2012, 08:45:00 PM »
Jerry Hill longbows. I didn't know anybody else made them. That was before the internet and I was a country bumkin. Heck I still am. Now I shoot Hills and Northern Mist.
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Stumpkiller
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Posts: 3863
Re: Question for all you "Old Timers"
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Reply #54 on:
December 08, 2012, 08:58:00 PM »
Quote
Originally posted by Sean B:
What bows were you hunting with before '75?
I didn't start hunting until after I was married (1980) but the bows I'm hunting with now were in play at that time. ;-)
1966 Browning Explorer
1968 Red Wing Hunter
1971 Brownning Cobra II
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Bear Kodiak & K. Hunter, D. Palmer Hunter, Ben Pearson Hunter, Wing Presentation II & 4 Red Wing Hunters (LH & 3 RH), Browning Explorer, Cobra II & Wasp, Martin/Howatt Dream Catcher, Root Warrior, Shakespeare Necedah.
njloco
Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 2357
Re: Question for all you "Old Timers"
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December 08, 2012, 09:08:00 PM »
57-58 kids wooden recurve shot pigeons and squirrels. Early 60's shot rats with a fiberglass bow. 1973 Bear Magnum 48" and a Ben Person, deer hunting.
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Hoyt Pro Medalist, 70" 42# @ 28" (1963)
Bear Tamerlane 66" 30# @ 28" (1966)- for my better half
Bear Kodiak 60" 47# @ 28"(1965)
ken denton
Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 488
Re: Question for all you "Old Timers"
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December 08, 2012, 09:23:00 PM »
Black Widows by Wilson brothers. Both 57#@31" with a 66" and a 68". I shot them because of accuracy and there limbs would not twist? Ken
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amar911
Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 2860
Re: Question for all you "Old Timers"
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December 08, 2012, 09:30:00 PM »
Browning Nomad recurve.
Allan
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Knawbone
Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 2483
Re: Question for all you "Old Timers"
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December 08, 2012, 09:43:00 PM »
Had solid fiberglass bows from 1966 to 1975, then bought my first real bow, a new Martin x150 or x200 I don't remember exactly.You may call me an old timer but I don't feel old, I don't shoot old, and I don't hunt old.
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ksbowman
Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 1635
Re: Question for all you "Old Timers"
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December 08, 2012, 11:02:00 PM »
I hunted with a Pearson Renegade and a Bear Kodiak hunter. Made the circle of newer bows and now I'm back shooting 60's bows and mainly Pearsons and Wings.
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