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Title: Who makes this r/d longbow?
Post by: Jeremy on September 04, 2007, 12:47:00 PM
This one comes in at 62", 56# @28"
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/fliksr/Random/Alaskan.jpg)
Title: Re: Who makes this r/d longbow?
Post by: Rusty Izatt on September 04, 2007, 01:07:00 PM
Looks like a Bear Cub I have.

Rusty
Title: Re: Who makes this r/d longbow?
Post by: Jeremy on September 04, 2007, 01:16:00 PM
Maybe this helps
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/fliksr/Random/Alaskanprofile.jpg)
Or this
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/fliksr/Random/Alaskan1.jpg)
Title: Re: Who makes this r/d longbow?
Post by: Gray Buffalo on September 04, 2007, 01:17:00 PM
also looks like a Hoyt Champ II
Title: Re: Who makes this r/d longbow?
Post by: Jeremy on September 04, 2007, 01:20:00 PM
Rusty, nope.  Though I do have a nice '55-'56 Bear Cub now.  It's got a straight reflexed profile to give it the "semi-recurve"  See:
 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/fliksr/Random/cub3.jpg)

This bow is quite definitely has a fair amount of deflex in the riser.  It's a 1958 Bear Alaskan.  Just thought I'd post a pic or two for all the people saying the r/d hybrids are a new bow design.  There are also pix available of r/d bows a few thousand years old that are near dead-ringers for today's hybrids.
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