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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: L. E. Carroll on March 15, 2007, 04:41:00 AM
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Have a chance to pick up a 61? Bear Alaskan for $200 with a few Origional Bear arrows with Razorheads and bleeders. Not sure if this is a good deal? Need some thoughts quick as not sure how long it will last. Thanx, Gene
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Seems high to me. They sell for that much on certain auction sites, but that's not really a good barometer of what it's worth. If it's perfect and you are a collector, maybe.
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IT IS NOT A "GOOD DEAL".....If you REALLY want it,at any cost,then buy it.
Honestly.....The bow is worth $75 - $100,The arrows are probly not shootable (paint and cedar get brittle with age,and feathers get moth-eaten) If you look around,the old green Razorheads can be picked up for about a buck apiece.
That said.....I once saw a 1967 Kodiak Magnum with a green "spring-arm" bow quiver filled with original Bear cedar hunting arrows tipped with green Razorheads,hanging on a wall in a fellows house. I commented what a nice bow it was and I asked him if he hunted with it.....WELL.....You would have thought I slapped him by the look on his face!!!!! His reply....."ARE YOU KIDDING????? I PAYED ALMOST A THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR THAT BOW!!!!!
Lesson learned.....Collectors will pay much more than something is worth just to have it in thier "collection".