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Title: Looking for info on a metal bow
Post by: dagwood64 on August 26, 2008, 03:23:00 PM
My Dad acquired a metal bow. It has:
 THE PAR-X BOW
 Park Tool & Die Co.
 Jackson, MICH

Does anyone have any info on this company, and what type of bows they made?

Thanks, Duane
Title: Re: Looking for info on a metal bow
Post by: Herb Calvin on August 26, 2008, 03:46:00 PM
Hi Dagwood, used to own a Par X. If I remember It was a noisy bow when it was cold outdoors. Hope somebody can give you information on it. Interested in it myself. Herb Calvin
Title: Re: Looking for info on a metal bow
Post by: adeeden on August 26, 2008, 04:29:00 PM
I know they were made in the early 1950's but thats about all I know about them, other than the first deer ever taken in Indiana's first archery season was taken with a alluminum Par-X.
Title: Re: Looking for info on a metal bow
Post by: matthewp on August 26, 2008, 06:24:00 PM
I recently aquired an all aluminum bow.  It is green and all aluminum limbs and riser.  The limb tips are very thin.  My uncles said that there was originally a metal string with the bow.  Does this sound like a PAR X bow?
 Thanks
Title: Re: Looking for info on a metal bow
Post by: vermonster13 on August 26, 2008, 06:52:00 PM
Be cautious shooting aluminum limbed bows. The aluminum fatigues and can snap.