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Title: How old is your bow?
Post by: Mic W on October 23, 2011, 09:59:00 PM
I would like to hear about how old the bows are that you regularly use.

 Post pictures if you have some.

I would like to see what bows have lasted the test of time.
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Post by: Cyclic-Rivers on October 23, 2011, 10:10:00 PM
My wife prefers her 55 K special.

No good pictures at present.
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Post by: Bud B. on October 23, 2011, 10:22:00 PM
Bingham Project longbow bought in 1979 or close thereabouts. 32+/- years old

Bear Super Grizzly bought new in 1981. I paid $45 for it from a salvage place that bought insurance claims items from wrecked TT trucks.

These two bows are my most shot bows nowadays.
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Post by: ksbowman on October 23, 2011, 10:26:00 PM
The two I shoot the most are my Pearson Mercury Maurader TD and my Wing Thunderbird both 69's. I'll get some pics. tomorrow.
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Post by: Stumpkiller on October 23, 2011, 10:28:00 PM
Took a deer last week with my 45 year old 1966 Browning Explorer.

  (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/Stumpkiller/Bowhunting/HPIM2644.jpg)

 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/Stumpkiller/Bowhunting/HPIM2297.jpg)
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Post by: RobinHood1389 on October 23, 2011, 11:20:00 PM
1970 bear grizzly.......41 years old.
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Post by: NIGEL01 on October 23, 2011, 11:25:00 PM
Love the arrows with that Browning....
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Post by: Stumpkiller on October 24, 2011, 12:22:00 AM
Thanky.  Douglas fir I tapered myself with a scraper plane and with pecan and yellow leather stain.  Minwax polyurethane wiped on with a rag and then the cresting is Sharpie permanent markets and Pilot metallic ink pens.  Duco the feather fletching and fire away!

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/Stumpkiller/Bowhunting/HPIM2209.jpg)
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Post by: rdoggsilva on October 24, 2011, 12:30:00 AM
A 1966 Pearson Hunter, I bought new in 1967. Still shoot and enjoy it.
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Post by: two4hooking on October 24, 2011, 12:31:00 PM
I'm shooting a brand new Bear TD this year.  Still trying to get it bloody.

(http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr180/two4hooking/101911003.jpg)
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Post by: bogeyrider63 on October 24, 2011, 12:38:00 PM
my great plains and black widow were both made in 2008.
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Post by: Ric O'Shay on October 24, 2011, 01:13:00 PM
My yew longbow is a little over 300 years old.

(http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e285/bard9l/IMG_0919-1.jpg)
(http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e285/bard9l/IMG_0926.jpg)
(http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e285/bard9l/IMG_1673.jpg)

Sorry, just couldn't resist. The English yew tree began growing 300 years ago. At that time, it just didn't know it was going to be a longbow. Does that count for being an old bow?
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Post by: KodiakMag on October 24, 2011, 01:35:00 PM
76' K-Mag
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Post by: Stumpkiller on October 24, 2011, 01:40:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by Ric O'Shay:
My yew longbow is a little over 300 years old.

Sorry, just couldn't resist. The English yew tree began growing 300 years ago. At that time, it just didn't know it was going to be a longbow. Does that count for being an old bow?
Careful - the carbon fiber guys are going to come back with 10 billion years old and forged in the furnace of a long dead super nova.    :jumper:
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Post by: Uncle Buck on October 24, 2011, 01:56:00 PM
Had a 1989 Hoyt come apart on me 2 weeks ago, but my 73-75 Kodiak Magnum is still going strong.
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Post by: imhntn on October 24, 2011, 03:26:00 PM
I checked with Black Widow on mine once and I think it is a '94 model.  I got is used.
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Post by: Schafer on October 24, 2011, 03:42:00 PM
Im shooting my new to me Schafer Silvertip that my dad ordered in '98 and got it at the beginning of '99(I was 4)that he gave me this previous christmas.

  (http://i1019.photobucket.com/albums/af311/TraditionalBowman/076pt006.jpg)
Deer my dad got with it in '07

Schafer
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Post by: Hit-or-Miss on October 24, 2011, 04:47:00 PM
1968 Kodiak Hunter.
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Post by: DennyK on October 24, 2011, 06:18:00 PM
I've got 2 relatively new Black Widow bows, a 2004 PSAX and a 2006 MAX.
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Post by: frassettor on October 24, 2011, 06:20:00 PM
2,3,4 years old
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Post by: dave19113 on October 24, 2011, 08:28:00 PM
'72 K Mag
10 yr old Grizzly recurve
3 yr old Bob Lee recurve
1 Yr old Big Jim LB
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Post by: Cherokee Scout on October 24, 2011, 10:08:00 PM
I am shooting Bear Mag takedown for the early 70s, maybe 40 years old.
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Post by: YORNOC on October 24, 2011, 10:21:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by Ric O'Shay:
My yew longbow is a little over 300 years old.

 (http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e285/bard9l/IMG_0919-1.jpg)
 (http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e285/bard9l/IMG_0926.jpg)
 (http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e285/bard9l/IMG_1673.jpg)

Sorry, just couldn't resist. The English yew tree began growing 300 years ago. At that time, it just didn't know it was going to be a longbow. Does that count for being an old bow?
THAT is awesome!!!!!
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