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Title: The Archer's Bible
Post by: Jack Guard on April 07, 2008, 05:41:00 PM
My father had this original copy in his collection and as a boy i use to flip through the pages of the book and day dream.  I now have it in my library and it brings back many fond memories.  

Just as a side note, these are my fathers only broadheads he ever used.  I hope to take a whitetail with them one day too.  

Do any of you have memories like these.  Jack
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Title: Re: The Archer's Bible
Post by: theunluckyhunter on April 07, 2008, 05:50:00 PM
thats too cool they only cost fifteen times more than that now
Title: Re: The Archer's Bible
Post by: bowhunterfrompast on April 07, 2008, 05:56:00 PM
I still have the Archers Bible that I bought in 1972 or 1973. I taught myself how to shoot and hunt from that book. Yes, lots of memories.

Rick
Title: Re: The Archer's Bible
Post by: Killdeer on April 07, 2008, 06:11:00 PM
I got that book with a Bear "Green Fox" for Christmas in 1969.

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That's all the "larnin'" I got until I went to college, where I took archery in PE. I lent the book out, and had to replace it. Couldn't stand not to have a copy.

Killdeer  :)
Title: Re: The Archer's Bible
Post by: Tox Collector on April 07, 2008, 06:33:00 PM
I have a copy inscribed to me by Fred Bear.  A friend of my wife's family used to vacation in in Florida during the winter where she met the Bears.  This friend mentioned me and Fred Bear graciously provided her with an inscribed a copy of his book along with a signed photograph of one of his trophies for me.  Tox Collector
Title: Re: The Archer's Bible
Post by: Jodi on April 07, 2008, 07:12:00 PM
I remember coloring in my Dad's copy. I don't know how many hours I spent flipping through the pages. It dissapeared much like my youth. Frank Scott helped me get a copy about two weeks before he passed. Man did it bring back memories. Jodi
Title: Re: The Archer's Bible
Post by: Elmer Keith on April 08, 2008, 01:15:00 AM
That's the edition of the Archer's Bible I'm looking for. I have the second edition with Fred Bear holding a compound bow and aiming with it.

I correctly say: holding and aiming because I don't know if he realy did release the arrow because he obviously didn't like compound bows.

My book of memories is a very cheap pocket book versions edited by the Fred Bear Sports Club with a foreword by Fred Bear: Hunting with the Bow and Arrow by Saxton Pope. It almost falls apart.

When I was at school I started to translate it into German language but anfortunately had stop my efforts because of first passing the exams.
When the  exams were passed the book was already available in a German translated version. But very bad translated, almost word by word.
Title: Re: The Archer's Bible
Post by: centaur on April 08, 2008, 07:30:00 AM
I still go through my copy of the book regularly. Fred Bear got me interested in archery 'back in the day', and this book was pretty much my handbook in my initial years of bowhunting. It is a classic.
Title: Re: The Archer's Bible
Post by: randy grider on April 08, 2008, 09:22:00 AM
That is the book that got me started in archery as a kid. It was lost over the years, so I replaced it. Great book!
Title: Re: The Archer's Bible
Post by: Ia Hawkeye on April 08, 2008, 02:52:00 PM
I still have my copy of Bears' "The Archers Bible".
Mine is a first edition that I bought new in 1968.
Still like to look at it now and then.
Title: Re: The Archer's Bible
Post by: Bill Turner on April 08, 2008, 03:12:00 PM
Memories, memories, memories. That book hits at the very core of this site. Long live traditional archery.  :thumbsup: