Who still has their first bow?

[BamBooBender]

After looking through all the great pics on the "bow inventory" thread, I got to wondering how many of you still have your first ever bow.

I still have mine. It's not much to look at, just an old, no name, solid glass bow that my dad gave me when I was probably twelve. I didn't know the first thing about archery at the time, even strung and shot it backwards for years.     I used to go to the store,get a couple or three wood arrows, and shoot em until they were all too short to use any more. I had a lot of fun with that bow, I think I'll keep it.   :D

[Cliff]

Ask me in 2 weeks.  I should have my first bow by then.

   

[ethan]

My first "real" bow when I was a kid was a Ben Pearson Bronco Recurve. I shot my first thing ever with it.  It was a little copperhead, and I shot my first fish with it. I still got it and it hangs on the wall next to all my other bows!

[Jason Lester]

I do. my first bow had training wheels on it. Killed my first deer and first buck with it. Mid 70's Bear Polar 2. Big ol 44" ATA. Love that thing for the memories. After a while hunting with it I got sucked into the higher tech stuff. Thankfully I never had the money to buy anything expensive. Then I went to the salvation army one day and found a mid 70's bear grizzly for $30 with a few arrows. I loved it but it had a twist (I later removed it.) So that counts 2 I'd never get rid of. Never really swithed over to trad until I had the opertunity to make a selfbow. Ok now the count is higher 3, no 4, or 5, or 6...well its higher. I have my first that will never leave me if I can help it. Besides they are worth more to me than the money value.

[BamBooBender]

Jason, nothing wrong with that.Those kind of memories are priceless, regardless of equipment type.       I kinda wish I still had my first bow with training wheels, it was a bear  black bear(the tear drop pulled out of the cable), it prolly woulda made a nice warf.    :D

[MrBadExample]

I do, but then again I only bought it 10 months ago!  

[bkupris]

Bought my first bow in kmart around 1969. It's long gone and can't remember what I eventually did with it? My second bow was a 1971 Herters Sitka. It's laying under my bed with a broken limb. It was not treated with the respect it deserved...   :(

[Roger Norris]

I do. Here are all of the bows "of my youth":


 

[longstiks]

I've still got my first bow. It's an Outdoor Sports Mfg. Co. solid glass 25# purchased in about 1963. It still gets shot when I have little ones come by.
Denny

[Stone Knife]

I still have an old longbow my dad gave me when i was 10, it's the first bow i ever had. I don't even know who made it i think it's lemon wood, it was old when i got it 38 years ago.

[Danny Roberts]

I do, an old Ben Pearson 45 # recurve.
DR

[John3]

Good thread... I thought about my first bow yesterday when I posted on the bow inventory thread. Bottom bow in this pic. A Hoyt 10# recurve my Dad bought for me in either 1971 or 72. My Mom had kept it safe from being lost in her famous "garage sales" and gave it back to me a few Christmas's ago.  Thanks to my parents.
 

[katman]

Passed my first bow to my nephew who was interested in archery, I received the bow from my uncle, thanks uncle Ben.

[Jim now in Kentucky]

First huntable  bow was a Ben Pearson solid fiberglass recurve like the one at the bottom of Roger Norris's post. I still have it and shoot it once in a while.

Before that I had a "Genuine Hickory" 48" bow that was maybe a Pearson. Before that a little kids hickory bow with suction cup arrows. Don't have either of those.

[Oregon Bill]

Mine was a very plain late-70s Browning compound with a wood riser painted a textured olive drab. Can't recall the name of it, but I sure got accurate with it. It was lightweight and comfortable too. I haven't seen one in 25 years or more.

[Oregon Bill]

Mine was a very plain late-70s Browning compound with a wood riser painted a textured olive drab. Can't recall the name of it, but I sure got accurate with it. It was lightweight and comfortable too. I haven't seen one in 25 years or more.

[TRB]

Still have the first bow that I paid for. Right out of high school 1972. Shakespeare Necedah 58" 40#. Still shoots too.

[Bobhat]

My very first bow,a Blue Bear is gone.  My second bow as a youth, an Outers recurve got broken.  I do still have my first real hunting bow, a 45# Bear Grizzly.

[Earl E. Nov...mber]

Does have it again count?? 1963 Kodiak Mag, sold it 20 years ago, bought it back 12 years ago. Started serious bow hunting back in '66

[Billy]

I spent a lot of time with borrowed bows as a teen. Then, the first I bought was a used Bear Whitetail II. It became a hand me down to our oldest when he was ready; still in the garage awaiting his return to archery.
Bought a 'kit' bow from Jim at Rudderbows for the younger son's first; flat bow, he/I finished the handle, sanded, and oiled it. Then we added rabbit fur to the back and he loves to fling flight arrows off of "Thumper".
 My first is the Red Wing Hunter I am using. The bow was 'born' around 1965 to 68. Shoots really old wood (GT trads) 515gr arras with authority.
Got first blood (chipmunk)this summer and hope to continue that with my first group gathering/hunt in October in southern Indiana.