Okay, deals like this were fairly common in Bozeman in the early nineties. In 1992 I went to a garage sale and the guy holding it was moving to Alaska and wanted to thin his bow collection down to two or three bows. As all the bows were right-handed and at that time I was shooting left-handed, I passed on several Robertson longbows and half a dozen Schaffer recurves for the whopping price of $100-$200 each. I realized my error and went back an hour later and met the new owner of nine bows as he loaded them into his car; he paid $1,000 for all of them.
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Anyway, this morning I decided not to go hunting and was kicking around calling myself a bum, while trying to get enough motivation to start working on some bows out in the shop when I decided to see how my new phone worked on Craigslist. The new phone worked good and listed near the top among the missile launchers the name Schafer caught my attention; one of the “Trading Posts” had several bows for sale. Seeing as how the motivation to clean the shop wasn’t there I jumped in the truck and made the fifteen minute drive to Belgrade. Well, hanging on the wall there wasn’t one Schafer but four of them with a metal handled Bear takedown (I think it is a B handle) hanging next to them. To make a long story short, $500 later I walked out with an original Schafer one piece recurve made by Paul, a Schafer three piece takedown with Bocate limbs and sheep horn overlays made by Dave, two Schafer kids bows also by Dave, and the Bear takedown. I am not a bear expert by any stretch of the word, but think the limbs on the Bear are a set of the ones Paul made for a while. Three of the Schafer’s need refinished and the camo spray paint removed from the Bear and one piece Schafer.
Anyway, I suddenly got some motivation, the wife is headed home, I am headed for a treestand before I have to explain what I spent the money on.
Catch you later.
Topic: Found a Schafer (Read 1187 times)
