Scored a Sweet Herters Perfection Magnum

[JINKSTER]

Bought it used for $200...60"/44#s...the rosewood riser is massive and dead in the hand...the limbs are seriously loaded with gobs of curve to them and the tips are spooky thin and light...and spits out an arrow like nobodies business...

   

   

   

   

It's a 1975 model and I would suspect that a modern day bowyer would try to get 2-3 risers out of the chunk of rosewood that was dedicated to making this (1) amazing bow and I feel honored and blessed to own and shoot it.

If you ever get a shot at owning an old herters in pristine condition I'd highly recommend you do.

I'm thrilled with mine and L8R, Bill.    

[59Alaskan]

That is really cool!  Congratulations!  I bet it shoots amazingly well!

[jmrsyrs]

Love them old Herters  

[Stumpkiller]

Nice.  My kind of bow.      

As you mentioned: the days of that much exotic wood in a single block are gone.  

Good catch!

[JJB]

Enjoy that beauty, it's a real looker!
     
-Jay

[Easykeeper]

Very nice...  

[Sirius Black]

[Bernie B.]

That's a great looking bow!  I bought a Herter's Sitka model at the plant way back when.  They're really nice bows!  I wish I knew what happened to that old bow!  Enjoy it!

Bernie

[Jim Brennen]

That is a beautiful bow

[chall]

Very nice

[iohkus]

What does it physically weigh?  When I was first getting into archery back in the early '60s, I would look through Herters catalog and say "Man , those are UGLY bows" But I've developed a taste for them in the last couple of years, and if I ever get a chance (when I have the money) at a NICE one, I'm buying it.
    Congratulations!

[beemann]

sweet I have been looking for one myself well done thats a looker.

[Owlgrowler]

NICE! Herter's brings back a lot of nostalgia for me.

[RETARMY06]

Did it come with a trailer to tow it?
Ha Ha that is one huge riser, but that wood is beautiful that's for sure.

[Jake Scott]

I am certainly no expert, but that looks like a dandy.  All the herters bows I have ever seen haven't been in nearly that kind of shape.  Congrats.

Jake

[JINKSTER]

Wow!...Lots of nice responses here!...thanks everyone!...and for a better perspective of the riser mass on the Herters Perfection Magnum?...here's a pic of it parked next to my 1965 Bear Polar and it absolutely dwarfs the polar...

   

and while I can't tell you exactly how much it physically weighs?...I can tell you all this...behind the sight cover plate of that 66" Bear Polar?...I have 4 ounces worth of (13) .45cal lead balls suspended in clear silicone to add mass and the 60" Herters bow?...feels like it weighs 1 1/3rd of what the Polar does...and comparing the limb contours between the two?...the herters are absolutely sick and refused to be strung with a standard sliding block stringer...I had to run to Bass Pro and get a dual cup stringer to brace and unbrace this herters as the limbs are just to swept to get a decent leverage point with the sliding block style stringer...as in ain't happening...

 

here's a link of me shooting it....hope this works...

   web page

[yellow bow]

Sweet.    


  :cool:

[Bryan Korte]

Wow what a nice chunk of wood. That one looks exceptionally nice. I always liked the ones that kicked out on the front and back. There's a reason I own 5 of the Herters myself. They are very unique and are very much under rated.

[Paul/KS]

Nice find, that is a beauty of a recurve.
Whoever the bow designers were at Herters, they sure came up with some cool designs back in the 60's and 70's.

[slim_grim]

That is some beautiful wood. I'd like to have a chunk just to put on the mantle. Sweet bow.