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Main Boards => Trad History/Collecting => Topic started by: hardbern on March 28, 2012, 08:35:00 PM
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What's the word on these bows? They never seem to have come up in this forum.
I've 3 of them, all 64", banana yellow back glass, black belly glass, believed to be:
'64 - 2x1320 38# (receipt dated 13 Aug 1964);
'65 - 3x657 38#
'66 - 3x670 40#
Nice, sweet shooting bows.
See: (http://s1103.photobucket.com/albums/g473/ArcheryDuns/Bows/?action=view¤t=HoytXperts100814-1-1.jpg) Hoyt Xperts (http://s1103.photobucket.com/albums/g473/ArcheryDuns/Bows/?action=view¤t=HoytXperts100814-1-1.jpg)
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The other Hoyt in your picture is a nice bow as well. Green glass model. I've got one in maple 66" 44#, very nice shooters & light in the hand.
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Only 3 (yellow backs) are Hoyt Xperts - sorry my ordering of the photos was buggered-up as I was try to post the photos inline but failed miserably.
The green one is a Yeoman Lion, from circa '59-'61, a British Bow. The main man, Frank Bilson was British Champion archer in 1948, wrote a few books, & was a early proponent of "composite" bows using glass fibre & resin,
heavily influenced by (middle) Eastern bows.
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Here's one of your contributors work using Frank Bilson flight bow plans. (In the original plans themselves the bow pictures look just like the Yeoman Lion - 68", not the 48" flight he says he's building).
Frank Bilson\\'s Flight Bow - build along (http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=058727)
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Now I'm not sure what mine is, labels are missing. Looked much like an old Hoyt. Guess I'll post some pics in the collecting forum to peg the make & model.
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Now I'm not sure what mine is, labels are missing. Looked much like an old Hoyt. Guess I'll post some pics in the collecting forum to peg the make & model.