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Title: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: 69RECURVE on March 11, 2010, 05:43:00 PM
I picked up this bow from a fellow Tradganger. It is a 64 Kodiak @58# in the original box with 2 sets of original strings. Can't get more mint than that.

Here is the question do you shoot it? If so does it's value go down?
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: OldSkoolArcher on March 11, 2010, 05:49:00 PM
No opinions until we see pics!!!

HAHA.

I couldn't resist shooting it...
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: Cody Roiter on March 11, 2010, 06:11:00 PM
Yeah we need PICS!.........

Very cool man............
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: Mike Shaw on March 11, 2010, 06:11:00 PM
(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn42/bearkeeper/useless-thread1.jpg)
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: d. ward on March 11, 2010, 07:08:00 PM
sure would like to see pics too bd
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: 69RECURVE on March 11, 2010, 07:37:00 PM
Here they are. (http://i955.photobucket.com/albums/ae33/aforand/64%20Kodiak/64k4.jpg) (http://i955.photobucket.com/albums/ae33/aforand/64%20Kodiak/64k3.jpg) (http://i955.photobucket.com/albums/ae33/aforand/64%20Kodiak/64k2.jpg) (http://i955.photobucket.com/albums/ae33/aforand/64%20Kodiak/64k1.jpg) (http://i955.photobucket.com/albums/ae33/aforand/64%20Kodiak/64k7.jpg) (http://i955.photobucket.com/albums/ae33/aforand/64%20Kodiak/64k6.jpg) (http://i955.photobucket.com/albums/ae33/aforand/64%20Kodiak/64k.jpg)
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: TRAP on March 11, 2010, 07:38:00 PM
No doubt in my mind.  I would have already shot it.

Looks like it's been shot a little (slight groove in the rug rest and nock locks on the string)  What's it gonna hurt to shoot it some more?

Trap
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: OldSkoolArcher on March 11, 2010, 07:47:00 PM
Wowser. Quite Nice!
Very Very Nice Find! Great Weight Also.
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: yellow bow on March 11, 2010, 07:56:00 PM
real nice find,and yes I would be shooting it ....a lot   :thumbsup:    :cool:
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: PAPALAPIN on March 11, 2010, 07:59:00 PM
Uncommon high weight

B U T ful

I wouldn't shoot it.  I'd keep it mint.

Store in  soft sleeve.
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: Mike Shaw on March 11, 2010, 08:36:00 PM
Your never going to know how it thumps if you don't shoot it! Nice find for sure....Mike
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: bowhawk archer on March 11, 2010, 08:37:00 PM
Thats quite a pickup!
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: d. ward on March 11, 2010, 08:54:00 PM
oh yeah baby now thats treasure right there as for shooting it your call.Myself well maybe maybe not bd
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: Moooseran on March 11, 2010, 09:16:00 PM
Shoot the day lights out of it...why not ???
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: 69RECURVE on March 11, 2010, 09:22:00 PM
Doc, that is the way I've felt all along maybe I would and maybe not. But now listening to all of these replies I think I will. Again that is why Fred made the darn thing.
By the way thanks for sending out my '65.
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: DAVE1275 on March 11, 2010, 09:39:00 PM
Don't shoot it just yet, I'll trade you one just like it that has been shot,that way you won't have to worry about scuffing that beauty up.Just kiddin' nice find congrats.
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: Slewfoot62 on March 11, 2010, 10:40:00 PM
I say put a pretty arrow in that baby and sling it!
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: reddogge on March 11, 2010, 10:50:00 PM
TRAP, maybe it got shot at the factory when they "sighted it in".  :bigsmyl:
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: Brently on March 11, 2010, 11:06:00 PM
Dosen't do any good sitting in a box.  It was made to be used so use it.


it was
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: MR BILL SHORTY on March 12, 2010, 12:00:00 AM
WHO WOULD KNOW.    NEVER KISS AND TELL
SHE LOOKS LIKE A BEAUTY! HOW COULD YOU NOT WANT TO PULL HER STRING.  HAVE A LITTLE FUN
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: Blackhawk on March 12, 2010, 12:47:00 AM
That is   :cool:  

Actually, I think you should not shoot it   "[dntthnk]"  ...but if you send it to Washington I will.  :D
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: RunninWild77 on March 12, 2010, 02:29:00 AM
Not shooting it is like having a great huntin knife and never usin it. I say give her what she wants.
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: macclare on March 12, 2010, 07:01:00 AM
I could not get a string on that bow fast enough. Go kill something with it.
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: PAPALAPIN on March 12, 2010, 08:36:00 AM
OK...shoot it a few times, then pick it up

There are thousands of '64 Kodiaks out there with bumps nd bruises.

How many do you think are around in that condition

I have a '63 dogleg in the same condition.  It is the only bow I store in a sleeve.

I agree that Bear made them to be shot.  They also made them to be dragged through the mud, across rocks, and take punishment.  However, I'll be damned if I would with that bow.

I have a '64 Kodiak that has been through the ringer.  I could send it to Bowdoc and have  it looking as good as yours, maybe better....but it wouldn't be the same.
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: zepnut on March 12, 2010, 09:44:00 AM
I my self would not shoot the bow. Simply said bows like that do not come around very often.
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: reddogge on March 12, 2010, 10:22:00 AM
I wouldn't shoot it but would find another '64 shooter somewhere to bang around.  It could bring a few bucks in that condition.  But that's the collector in me coming out.
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: mullet on March 14, 2010, 12:02:00 PM
Whooooaa, what a beauty. I'd shoot the crap out of it. But I'd watch what I set it on while I was pulling arrows. That's like buying a knife and never sharpening it.
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: Jack Shanks on March 14, 2010, 12:35:00 PM
While certainly not 64 Kodiaks, I recently sold two early seventies Bear bows still new in the box and unshot. For what I received for them I probably could have shot them and not suffered much financial loss. Myself, I didn't have the heart to shoot a 35 year old bow that had been preserved so well. I believe both the buyers that purchased them from me planned on shooting them though. Their money, their decision.
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: reddogge on March 14, 2010, 02:44:00 PM
Quote
That's like buying a knife and never sharpening it.  
Got a couple of them too.
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: 69RECURVE on March 14, 2010, 06:24:00 PM
Decisions, decisions I think I'll do what PAPALAPIN suggested. Shoot it a few times and put her up. At least I won't drag it through the woods.
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: PAPALAPIN on March 14, 2010, 06:48:00 PM
Years from now you will be glad for that decision.

Now, get ready for the "THUNK"  Dstinctive sound to '64 Kodiaks.  

I can tell ya though...once you shoot it, you will want to shoot it more.  Very addictiong.  It'll be like a teenager saying he will try crystal Meth...just once.
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: mullet on March 14, 2010, 07:38:00 PM
Or sex!
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: PAPALAPIN on March 15, 2010, 06:12:00 PM
MULLET...Better analogy
Title: Re: New in the box 64 Kodiak
Post by: SERGIO VENNERI on March 16, 2010, 07:00:00 AM
What Jack says!