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Title: Bear bow help
Post by: kbetts on August 05, 2022, 11:53:35 AM

Picked up this 60# Kodiak for short $.  It's been refinished and the markings are mostly gone.  Any ideas on time period?  I've looked, but without #'s, I'm lost.  It has reinforced laminated limb tips similar to the riser.  Bear bows shoot well for me.  I think this one may be my pick for the fall.

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Post by: kbetts on August 05, 2022, 11:54:52 AM

All my pics end up side ways.

I don't get it. 

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Post by: kbetts on August 05, 2022, 11:55:53 AM

Medallion pic

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Post by: Orion on August 05, 2022, 12:09:52 PM

Think they were making that laminated riser in the late '90s, early 2000s.  Someone else will be along to pin it down more precisely.

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Post by: Captain*Kirk on August 05, 2022, 03:17:08 PM

Can you read the serial number?

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Post by: BillyJack1975 on August 05, 2022, 06:59:25 PM

I’m thinking late 80s due to the laminated riser and raised medallion.
Flat coin started shortly after that i believe. Be then again, Bear used flat medallions in the 70s as well.

Title: Re: Bear bow help
Post by: M60gunner on August 05, 2022, 07:44:51 PM

Reminds me of the riser material used to make one of their wood riser compound bows which was used to make a bolt down limb recurve. Pretty sure that was late 80’s

Title: Re: Bear bow help
Post by: kbetts on August 05, 2022, 09:20:46 PM

Raised medallion.  The only markings left are are a sketch of the bear and the word "Kodiak".

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Post by: Captain*Kirk on August 05, 2022, 10:28:05 PM

Can you show some pix of the tip overlays?

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Post by: kevsuperg on August 06, 2022, 09:59:11 AM

Can you tell us what the coin is made of ?
  From what I know, different materials for different era's

Title: Re: Bear bow help
Post by: kbetts on August 06, 2022, 11:11:49 AM

Quote from: Captain*Kirk on August 05, 2022, 10:28:05 PM

Can you show some pix of the tip overlays?

Title: Re: Bear bow help
Post by: kopfjaeger on August 06, 2022, 11:23:03 AM

Your Bear Kodiak was made from 1989 to 1995. The riser is Multi-Colored Laminated Hardwoods. It's 60"amo, has a standing Bear plastic button medallion, Black limb glass, Brown Futurewood limb tips, and has a BK-serial number prefix.  Here is a picture of mine and it is just like yours.

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Post by: RIVERWOLF on August 06, 2022, 12:15:41 PM

You can "ALWAYS" count on Frank (kopfjaeger) to fill in the Bear Archery blanks  :clapper:

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Post by: kbetts on August 06, 2022, 02:19:51 PM

Thank you!  Brown glass though, not black.  It must be the light.

It's a shooter for sure.

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Post by: kopfjaeger on August 06, 2022, 03:12:21 PM

Yes they are good shooters.  :archer2:

If yours has brown limb glass it is a rare one. All my information says the multi-colored riser ones were first made with black limb glass in 1989 and remained unchanged through 1995.  Brown glass was used on the Kodiak bows made from 1985 to 1987 but them bows didn't have the multi-colored risers, they had just brown futurewood risers

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Post by: kopfjaeger on August 06, 2022, 03:13:58 PM

And they are deadly to.