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Offline joe skipp

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Re: Your First TradBow
« Reply #60 on: May 22, 2007, 03:54:00 PM »
My first bow was a 1969 Bear Cub, 48#. Shot Bear cedar arrows tipped with Razorheads.
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Re: Your First TradBow
« Reply #61 on: May 22, 2007, 04:58:00 PM »
My first "real" bow was a "Red Bear" fiberglass recurve. I shot my first squirrel with a Bear cedar arrow tipped with a green Bear Razorhead out of that bow.....I believe I was about 8 years old.

My first "Big Game" bow was a 1960's 50# Bear Alaskan,shooting Bear cedar arrows tipped with green Bear Razorheads,carried in a backquiver.   :archer:  

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Re: Your First TradBow
« Reply #62 on: May 22, 2007, 05:10:00 PM »
My first trad bow was a martin super diablo (zebrawood).  I got it in 1992 when I was 16, but got it 65# and was way overbowed.  Kept it a couple years was totally in love with trad archery.  Finally sold it, and got something the right weight and never looked back.

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Re: Your First TradBow
« Reply #63 on: May 22, 2007, 07:06:00 PM »
Martin x-200 #45.The inaspiration for the obsession.I still love shootin it once in a while.Got it a couple years ago for my bday.Funny you should mention it cause I just dug er' out today to tune some new shafts with it for cold weather hunting.
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Re: Your First TradBow
« Reply #64 on: May 22, 2007, 07:06:00 PM »
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Re: Your First TradBow
« Reply #65 on: May 22, 2007, 08:02:00 PM »
A fischer price set that kindled my passion as a kid, then it was the oak selfbow I made after I had had enough of compounds.

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Re: Your First TradBow
« Reply #66 on: May 22, 2007, 08:13:00 PM »
Ben Pearson H70 58" 45# @ 28" in 1969.

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Re: Your First TradBow
« Reply #67 on: May 22, 2007, 08:53:00 PM »
York cadet 30#@28" My dad got it for me fromWhiffen Archery.I was 7 years old. Man I miss my Dad.<><
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Re: Your First TradBow
« Reply #68 on: May 22, 2007, 10:38:00 PM »
First year I was old enough to have an archery licence I hunted with a 68" Root recurve,44#@28". Up til then a green fg recurve (Indian?).


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Re: Your First TradBow
« Reply #69 on: May 22, 2007, 10:50:00 PM »
Mine was a Tim Meigs longbow all green glass 65#@28.  Bought it from Ron LaClair in 1980.  It kicked like a mule but I loved it (didn't know any better  :)   Doc
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Re: Your First TradBow
« Reply #70 on: May 22, 2007, 10:59:00 PM »
First was a fine piece of lemonwood in shop class,nobody there knew diddly bout bows,shaped it down nice,bent it over my knee to check the limb flex and SNAP  :banghead:  ,then a green glass recurve I bought for $5,then a sleek 52" Pearson Mach 1(still got that one). Stacked like hell but I thought I really had sumpthin,never liked short bows since.
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Re: Your First TradBow
« Reply #71 on: May 22, 2007, 11:08:00 PM »
A 55# Jerry Hill long bow was shooting a 70 # compound so I thought 55 was a good starting wieght boy was I wrong 3 months later I bought a chekmate Falcon and sold my compound and haven't looked back
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Re: Your First TradBow
« Reply #72 on: May 22, 2007, 11:10:00 PM »
First "real" trad bow was an American Archery Cheetah special hunter, 45# that I got from a yard sale for basically nothing.  I don't know how many people have been introduces to recurves or bow fishing with that bow since then.

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Re: Your First TradBow
« Reply #73 on: May 22, 2007, 11:40:00 PM »
brown fiberglass longbow hand me down from big brother to young to rember maker  we bought bowstrings from hardware store they had 1 loop and were brown hemp you had to  tied the other loop in they were in a glass case next to the dasy bb's

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Re: Your First TradBow
« Reply #74 on: May 23, 2007, 07:02:00 AM »
A ten dollar yard sale recurve, I was nine yrs old. Very dark wood, 62" long, and probably 45 lbs. Not a letter or a number on it anywhere.
It shined like the stock on a Weatherby rifle.

It shot ANY arrow I had like a lazer beam. When we went "up north", I carried it around like a pet.

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Re: Your First TradBow
« Reply #75 on: May 23, 2007, 09:03:00 AM »
A Bear Recurve.  Sometime back in the 60s'
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Re: Your First TradBow
« Reply #76 on: May 23, 2007, 09:08:00 AM »
Little wood bow and some suction cup arrows at the age of 3. Still miss the innocence and wonder of that first experience.
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Re: Your First TradBow
« Reply #77 on: May 23, 2007, 09:28:00 AM »
Also had hickory bow and suction cup arrows at about 3. Then bought a bigger hickory bow. about 18# when I was about 10. 1958
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Re: Your First TradBow
« Reply #78 on: May 23, 2007, 10:00:00 AM »
1948-Ben pearson? Lemonwood, found in basement of house we moved into. Then a Bear Cub around 1954.
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Re: Your First TradBow
« Reply #79 on: May 23, 2007, 11:32:00 AM »
i can't remember the name of the first bow i used as a kid, but the first trad bow i bought for myself was a Martin Dream Catcher, 55# @ 28"... still shoot it sometimes just for old time sake.
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