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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Pine on January 28, 2020, 01:10:08 PM
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I'm talking about bows that you have gotten rid of in the past, and you wish you still had them.
For me, I had a "C" handle Bear Takedown 35# target bow that was just awesome.
Sold it to the owner of an archery shop in the late 1970s.
I stopped by his shop a couple weeks later and he told me that Fred Bear stopped in last week, saw that bow and figured it needed to be signed. :banghead:
Another bow I foolishly let go was a Hoyt Pro Medalist. It was a target bow with white limbs but the draw weight was 64#@28".
That bow would now be a collectors item because of the unusual draw weight for that model.
I hunted with it one season with the removable camo paint but it was just too cumbersome to hunt with. That was in the early 1980s.
That's just a couple of bows out of a few others I let go.
So, what bows are you kicking yourself for letting go?
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Traded away a DH Hunter 65#@28" it was a 64-66 model don't have the serial number. Traded for a Hill style High Country longbow to a guy from ID. Just got my first custom bow a Big River recurve that John patterned after a 59 Bear.
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Nothing that I couldn’t replace. I wouldn’t mind getting back my Liberty classic.
I just didn’t give that one enough time.
Other than that I am really happy with my three bows:
Stickflinger, Blacktail Sitka, Javaman Elkhart.
But, ask me next week as and I’ll probably have a different answer.
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DH Hunter wasn't the best bow I've had, but it was the first real hunting bow, and was with me for @12 years, put a bunch of venison and pork in the cooler.
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My first longbow, a 58# Archery Traditions Bamboo Longhunter.
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I had a '68 Super Kodiak that I shot my first deer with in '68. 60" 44#. Traded it in to buy a '72 Howatt Super Diablo. Big mistake !
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Oh Yea!!
A custom Robertson longbow.
Just in case the owner reads this....
Lefty, 66" 60@29 Cocobola riser, Yew veneers. I'll buy it back!
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This does not compute. Still have every bow I ever owned including the first one.
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Sure do. I didn't get rid of it, my parents did. It was my first bow, a 30# Pearson lemonwood longbow I got for Christmas in 1955. It lit the fire that still burns today. I don't even have a picture of it. I'm a sentimental fool for that kind of stuff.
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I didn't sell a bow but I have shot nothing but takedown Longbows and wanted to get a one-piece and I had my eye on a Mohawk Sparrowhawk well Vince shut down before I could order one but luckily I found a used one and very happy.