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Title: Heavy Weights?
Post by: azdriheat on April 02, 2009, 09:37:00 PM

I don't mean personal heavy weights or I would have to count myself. How many own bows over 90#'s and can you draw them?

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: Wade Phillips on April 02, 2009, 09:55:00 PM

Joe -

I have a 1954 Kodiak 100# & a 1957 Kodiak 100#, both RH.

Yes, I can draw them, but not very well.

Just a few minutes ago, I drew this one shown below, but not certain which one it is...

As I stated earlier, I do not draw very well...

      (http://i386.photobucket.com/albums/oo301/WadePhillips/100-LB.jpg)

Seriously, I have never strung either of them. They mean too much to me as collectibles to to risk stringing them for some foolish stunt that will probably only result in me dislocating a shoulder or worse.

I have enough shootable bows under 90# that I can shoot.

100# @ 27", 68" 1954 Kodiak and 100# 64" 1957 Kodiak (little brother to Bill Negley's 102# 1957 Kodiak, The Elephant Bow)

 (http://i386.photobucket.com/albums/oo301/WadePhillips/100-54.jpg)

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: marlon on April 02, 2009, 09:56:00 PM

Alot of bows. I would say 20 poundage from 80# to 290# Yes im a lefty. Marlon

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: azdriheat on April 02, 2009, 10:13:00 PM

Wade- you draw 100#'s nicely. My fingers ache just thinking about drawing a 100# bow.

-Joe-

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: Horney Toad on April 02, 2009, 11:41:00 PM

There is an 80# kodiak hunter that just popped up on the bay.

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: PAPALAPIN on April 03, 2009, 10:18:00 AM

MARLON

I would like t osee a pictur and info on that 290# bow.  Sounds liek a good story behind it.

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: newell38 on April 04, 2009, 09:24:00 PM

107# bear TD?!!?  i would give a kidney for that bow....

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: Wade Phillips on April 04, 2009, 10:25:00 PM

newell38 - You might want to hold out for something better than a 107# Bear T/D for your only extra kidney. I am assuming you are taking about giving one of your kidneys, not a kidney from someone else?

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: D.Sheppard on April 04, 2009, 11:37:00 PM

If he can pull 107 removing someone elses kidney will be a piece of cake !

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: marlon on April 05, 2009, 01:56:00 AM

Papalapin sent you pictures to your email. Yes Justin can shoot 107# bow with no problems. Justin i got a monster bow coming hopfully it will be 150# Marlon

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: TRAP on April 05, 2009, 02:09:00 AM

You could probably pick my kidneys, as well as other body parts, up off of the ground if I tried hard enough to actually accomplish that feat.  

Can you find wood arrows spined that heavy?  Of course you could probably get by with 3/8" rebar in a pinch.

Trap

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: newell38 on April 05, 2009, 07:06:00 AM

hahaha you guys crack me up!!!  marlon, what u got coming buddy?!

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: newell38 on August 03, 2009, 06:34:00 AM

guys there is a heavy kodiak magnum on chees**** right now item number 130322546165.  its a bow doc masterpiece!

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: newell38 on August 03, 2009, 06:35:00 AM

the auction site i should say cheese bay

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: Benny Nganabbarru on August 03, 2009, 07:31:00 AM

Wow! Those are awesome!

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: Wade Phillips on August 03, 2009, 09:24:00 AM

Nice heavy weight Kodiak Magnum, 52" 85#, my fingers were pinched just typing that.

Now if it had a Wedge Sight window...

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: newell38 on August 05, 2009, 11:40:00 PM

i also have a 75# kodiak hunter 60 incher thats about the prettiest bow you could ever hope for and its been re-done by the master don ward aka bowdoc...thats also for sale if anyone is interested...its not an ugly green one either

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: Wade Phillips on August 05, 2009, 11:57:00 PM

newell38 - Have any 100# Kodiaks for sale?

I have a peculiar collector's obsession for the 100# Bears.  

All collectors are crazy...

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: Benny Nganabbarru on August 06, 2009, 02:11:00 AM

Newell38, just sent a PM to you. Cheers!

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: newell38 on August 06, 2009, 06:34:00 AM

no i but have a line on a 100# 1966 kodiak but i need to find something to trade the good man.  its a lefty but i shoot both ways!  ben, ill get you some pics this afternoon....how would shipping to OZ work?

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: Benny Nganabbarru on August 06, 2009, 07:35:00 AM

Well, FedEx is the best value after USPS is no longer an option due to length restrictions (FedEx cost a bit more, but deliver to my door and have no length restrictions).

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: Charlie Lamb on August 06, 2009, 08:43:00 AM

I've got a 78# and 120#+ Sunbear that I'd part with.

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: TimberlineX on August 06, 2009, 11:05:00 AM

Ages ago I had a 90# Howard Hill Big Five longbow that I used as a trainer bow for my then-usual 75-80 hunting recurves. Ah, to be young and that strong again.

In fact, the very first pronghorn antelope I ever shot was taken with an 82# Archery 2000 SST recurve, while hunting in NW Wyoming with none other than this forum’s Charlie Lamb, who was living in Pinedale, WY at the time. Charlie said go here and have at it. I did.

Then a funny thing happened. With each passing decade I seemed to drop about 10 pounds in preferred hunting-bow weight. I’m not sure if that was atrophy or wisdom. Probably both. There was a long time when I couldn’t imagine dropping below 70# in a traditional hunting bow. Then, gradually and quite reluctantly, I had to admit that Fred Bear’s 65# felt good. Slowly, 60# came to make sense. And today, something around 55# seems like the ticket. In twenty more years I figure I’ll be shooting deer with a lady’s target bow.

When, for no particularly good reason, I began collecting old hunting recurves in the mid-1970s, one of the first bows I acquired was a 1959 Bear Kodiak from a man in Hawaii, of all places. He’d ordered it by mail from Bear Archery, but hadn’t shot it much. “Never did like that bow,” he told me. “Too hard to string, man.”

I still have that ‘59. And while not in the monster-weight range, it’s definitely stout.

Bill Krenz
Colorado

  (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/TimberlineX/Trad8609011.jpg)

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: newell38 on August 06, 2009, 04:54:00 PM

man bill...like i said before...id give a kidney for a bow like that!!! ben, ill get you some pics!  i also have an 85# super mag with the original box that id be willing to part with!

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: marlon on August 07, 2009, 01:47:00 AM

Does anyone have 100# plus they want to sell? Im looking Lefty.

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: newell38 on August 08, 2009, 12:29:00 PM

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v250/newell38/DSC01280.jpg)

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: newell38 on August 08, 2009, 12:30:00 PM

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v250/newell38/DSC01277.jpg)  (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v250/newell38/DSC01279.jpg) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v250/newell38/DSC01278.jpg)

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: azdriheat on August 08, 2009, 01:34:00 PM

100#, LH, 68 Kodiak here. Got any trade bait?

-Joe-

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: Benny Nganabbarru on August 08, 2009, 04:16:00 PM

Thanks, Justin. That bow looks sweet! I'm keen to get her over here hunting! PM sent.

Title: Re: Heavy Weights?
Post by: fatman on August 08, 2009, 06:05:00 PM

All across Australia, feral animals are trembling.....  :eek: