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Title: Bear Kodiak ID Help Please....... Pictures...... NEW PICTURES ADDED!
Post by: tenbrook on December 29, 2010, 02:37:00 PM

I am thinking of buying a Fred Bear Kodiak off of a Craigslist add and had a few questions.  The bow is a hours drive from me so I would like to get some info from you all before I go and pick it up.

The seller does not know much about the bow as it belonged to her father.

-SN# K.4.2641
-#43
-Says Bear on one side and Kodiak on the other (Back/Belly)
-Also says Grayling, MI on it somewhere?

Here are the pics they sent me.  

  (http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/matter_daddy/3nd3k03ma5T15W25X6acrd024ddf60a3e156a.jpg)

  (http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/matter_daddy/3k23p23o85U05P05X3acre006fabd2b25155e.jpg)

I would like to know the Age and Value of this bow please.

Thanks

Tenbrook

Title: Re: Bear Kodiak ID Help Please....... Pictures...... NEW PICTURES ADDED!
Post by: Larry m on December 29, 2010, 03:07:00 PM

Very early 50's Kodiak from what you can see by the pictures. Cannot discuss value here.

Title: Re: Bear Kodiak ID Help Please....... Pictures...... NEW PICTURES ADDED!
Post by: Jack Shanks on December 29, 2010, 03:12:00 PM

I was looking at that one too. I'm pretty sure 1952. I'm missing that year from my collection and would have liked it as it is the year I was born. It was a little far for me to drive though to look at it.

Good luck!

Title: Re: Bear Kodiak ID Help Please....... Pictures...... NEW PICTURES ADDED!
Post by: Migra Bill on December 29, 2010, 03:28:00 PM

Looks like a 1952. Good weight. Right Handed. We are not allowed to discuss value here. Most bows purchased on Craigs list (at least where I live) are a bargain.

I'd get in the car now.

Title: Re: Bear Kodiak ID Help Please....... Pictures...... NEW PICTURES ADDED!
Post by: seboomook on December 29, 2010, 04:12:00 PM

I'm seeing alumilam in the last pic. Plus serial numbers were sequential then, and '52s start around 7K
I'd say '50 to early '51
Not a shooter but desirable anyway.

Title: Re: Bear Kodiak ID Help Please....... Pictures...... NEW PICTURES ADDED!
Post by: Jack Shanks on December 29, 2010, 04:20:00 PM

Couldn't see the aluminum myself and was going by glass color. Aluminum would put it in the 50-51 era in that case.

Title: Re: Bear Kodiak ID Help Please....... Pictures...... NEW PICTURES ADDED!
Post by: Larry m on December 29, 2010, 04:38:00 PM

I was thinking 52 also but thought I was seeing aluminum so just wasn't sure.
Craigs List by Santa Cruz!!!    HMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!

Title: Re: Bear Kodiak ID Help Please....... Pictures...... NEW PICTURES ADDED!
Post by: tenbrook on December 29, 2010, 05:01:00 PM

I'm going to pick it up around 3:00

I'll post some pictures this evening.

Title: Re: Bear Kodiak ID Help Please....... Pictures...... NEW PICTURES ADDED!
Post by: Jack Shanks on December 30, 2010, 07:03:00 AM

Well, lets see those pictures.

Title: Re: Bear Kodiak ID Help Please....... Pictures...... NEW PICTURES ADDED!
Post by: tenbrook on December 30, 2010, 10:34:00 AM

New pictures.....

  BTW.  I'm listing this bow on the big auction site for $10 as a no reserve auction if anyone is interested.  I was looking for a bow I could shoot.  Because this one has aluminum its not supposed to be shoot from what I can gather.

Thanks

Tenbrook

 (http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/matter_daddy/DSCN0668.jpg)

 (http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/matter_daddy/DSCN0670.jpg)

 (http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/matter_daddy/DSCN0672.jpg)

 (http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/matter_daddy/DSCN0675.jpg)

 (http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/matter_daddy/DSCN0676.jpg)

Title: Re: Bear Kodiak ID Help Please....... Pictures...... NEW PICTURES ADDED!
Post by: tenbrook on December 30, 2010, 11:18:00 AM

Also, is this the original bow sock that it came with in 1950?

Thanks

Tenbrook

 (http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/matter_daddy/DSCN0679.jpg)