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Main Boards => Trad History/Collecting => Topic started by: toehead on October 21, 2008, 12:24:00 PM
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what's the one bow you guys have that you would never dream of letting go, for whatever reason?
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62 K MAG year I was born. Plus it's a shooter
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1960 64" 65 @ 28 Kodiak. Serial number DD001
1961 Kodiak Mag; my dead father's old bow.
New 64" Dale Dye 63 @ 28; best shooting bow ever for me.
Dave
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A longbow made in the late 1920's or early 1930's by Cassius Hayward Styles.
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My 1967 58" Kodiak Hunter...It loves killing deer :archer:
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Hard to tell at this point, but I would like to have a special bow to pass on to my son someday!
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The bow that takes my first trad will be the one I will hang on to. :bigsmyl:
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Now this is like eating Lays Potato Chips. Ya just cain't stop at one.
I got several that I will not let go of.
Right now I have over 80 and it would be a lot easier if you asked which one I would be willing to let go.
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63 KM Type 3.. The one I started with.
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My dads 70 something KM.
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My new Custom Kodiak T/D Supreme. If looks could kill, I wouldn't even have to shoot it... but I do, and it shoots even BETTER than it looks! :notworthy:
Say what ya want about the new Bear's, I think Fred would like this one!
:archer:
>>--Ron--<>
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1. My Fathers Ben Pearson, Puma bought new in the mid 60's beautiful Zebrawood. Missed every deer it ever shot at, still straight, still shoots great (just not at deer anymore).
2. My new Dale Dye Cocobolo/Bocote
3. My Dale Dye Snakewood
(I love Dye Bows)
Frank
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My RER LXR, it was donated to my bunny hunt by RERBOWS and I was lucky enough to win it. The hunt is named in memory of my Mom(Joan Leonard Memorial Bunny Hunt)so the bow has a special meaning to me. It is inscribed "Bunny Bow"!! Shawn
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My Dad's Browning Challenge target bow, and my browning explorer 2 55# hunting bow.
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Jerry Pierce Choctaw
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late 1940's Bear Deerslayer signed by Grumley, never been shot (so I was told) , all original pristine condition, great bow.
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I'm still searching for it. :bigsmyl:
Trap
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There are several I won't be letting go of; first among them is the stunning '59 Polar I was given by a friend.
Sounds like that Supreme is working out well for you Ron?! :D
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You bet, Jeremy...
I'm "Supremely" confident that any "backstraps" that step in front of me will soon be wearing freezer wrap! :thumbsup:
(BTW..Did I tell you about the "strangely coincidental" thing about this bow? I met Fred Bear just over 30 years ago back in 1978...and had wanted a T/D like his pretty much ever since then, but for whatever reason and after dozens of bows, I never owned one.
I had JUST received the bow I traded you for the Supreme only a week or so before I saw yours available. I FINALLY had my Bear T/D and now I was already trading it away for another one?? And, amazingly enough, this one is the "Supreme" Kodiak T/D- (which I never would have bought) and is pretty much a once-in-a-lifetime bow!! Wow!
But the real kicker is, after I got the bow, I notice the serial number on the Supreme just happens to be....078!!)
Hmmmmm?? :notworthy:
>>--Ron--<>
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The bow I'm most attached to is my 1969 styleI B riser Bear takedown. I only keep and shoot bows I really love and all have been altered or modified almost to the point that selling them is out of the question but this is the last bow I'd part with. Grant
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My 1975 Bear Grizzly.It was my dad's first bow and thought he never took a deer with it(He only had it a year until he bought his Browning compound, which he shot up until last year when he went to a crossbow),it was given to my uncle and passed back to me,which I used to take my first deer with.Unfortunately I was shooting it one day and the top limb got a small crack in the laminations,thus ending it's career.But I'll NEVER sell it.It'll live on my wall till I die.
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Great topic, 1 also have a few, One is a Late 50s Howatt 58" Balboa. Nice deer hunting weight 45#, Very nice to shoot 3-D courses, and with the kids in the back yard. I was lucky enough to have the following sign it, On one side; Don Jewett, Gail Martin , Larry Hatfeild, and a few others//. The other bow is the "60" Made by the bowdoc, 53#. Its a take down, Just a nail driver, also a dozen or so Bear bows. cool topic.I just don't see these bows leaving before me. Thanks CWarberg
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I still can't figure it out...I will keep looking....bd
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A longbow signed by Roy Case:signed: Case 1939. The year he took the first legal bow killed deer in wisconsin and possibly the bow he did it with.
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What a thread! A Deerslayer signed by Grumley, a bow made by bowdoc, and an original Roy Case plus a host of others.
I am not worthy; but I do intend to keep my 50# 56" 1960 Kodiak that is an amazing shooter!
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wadde, is that the first bow season as well? that's an awesome peace of history!
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My Custom Brackenbury Quest all Cathedrail grain zebrawood and my Custom Blacktail Elite VL Gaboon Ebony footed with Cocobolo and beautiful yew vaneered limbs and the Jack Howard that Rich is redoing for me right now.
Danny
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My Blacktail.
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Two actually. Both 67.5 Super K's. Both 48#. One is 60". The other is 64".
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stagetec those are both sweet and I do mean sweet shooting model bows huh ? the 67 1/2 Super Kodiaks have just the perfect weight in the risers...great bows.....bowdoc
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Originally posted by PAPALAPIN:
Now this is like eating Lays Potato Chips. Ya just cain't stop at one.
I got several that I will not let go of.
Right now I have over 80 and it would be a lot easier if you asked which one I would be willing to let go.
I have too know how you get your wife to allow that large of a collection! Tracy's head starts to spin the minute she hears "Classic Bow".
Which bow would I never consider selling? All of them! For me when I add a bow to the family it's here to stay. I might "loan one indefinitely" to a relative but sell!Never! OK if ya put a gun to my head my fleetwood volcano, my least collectible, second poorest shooter. It was a X-Mass gift from Tracy and the bow that got this whole thing going!
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bowdoc, They not only shoot great, but, you made them look fantastic as well !!
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I kind of thought I reconized them....ya gotta love em huh ? bd
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My Knight recurve, given to me by a great friend and has brought down elk, bear, coyote, grouse, quail .... greg