Question for all you "Old Timers"

Owlgrowler · December 08, 2012, 05:21:00 PM

started in 1968 with a '68 Bear Grizzly 56 incher, 43#@28, didn't kill anything with it until 2006,(long story)

then in '72 I bought a Browning Nomad II and bagged my first 2 bowkills in 72 and 73. Sold it to my brother, I gotta ask his widow if she still has it one of these days.

Bernie B. · December 08, 2012, 05:29:00 PM

For Christmas in 1968 I received a 53# Bear Grizzly, which I used for two years, then got into Wing bows. I had several different models, but my "go to" hunting bow was a 1972 Red Wing Hunter.

This is the bow I called my "40th anniversary bow". Having shot a big Minnesota buck in November, 1972 with it, I used it again this fall to shoot a nine point Iowa buck. I pretty much shot Wing bows until my first custom, a Bighorn in 1983.

Bernie Bjorklund

NC Iowa/SW Wisconsin

Kip · December 08, 2012, 05:32:00 PM

Started bowhunting in 1974 killed my first deer in 1976 at 26 with a K-mag a 50 at 28" went up to 60lbs. but now back to 50 plus or minus a couple lbs, with diff. limbs at 62 years old.Still having fun.Kip
my first

Rifle River Scout · December 08, 2012, 05:34:00 PM

About 1965 40# York Cadet, looked like a Bear Grizz.
Then about 1972 50# Bear K- Hunter.

ron w · December 08, 2012, 05:44:00 PM

Got a Browning Nomad Stalker brand new in 1967, hunted with it till about 74' or 75'.....Paid $37 for it and I really wanted a Bear Grizzly, but they were a lot more money....$52, Back then I was washing dishes and 15 bucks was a lot of cash!!!

stujay · December 08, 2012, 05:44:00 PM

Damon Howatt Hunter, #45 60" recurve. Bought in mid 70's from Northwest archery, Glenn St Charles shop. His son Jay recomended it to me and it was a good choice.

JimB · December 08, 2012, 05:52:00 PM

My first real hunting bow was a new,'64 Grizzly.In 1970 I got a Super Kodiak and in '72,a 56" A Mag takedown,which I still have.

Bill Carlsen · December 08, 2012, 06:04:00 PM

I had a Bear Super Mag....48"...the first year they were on the market. Worst bow I ever shot.

Then a Red Wing Hunter....thought I died and went to Heaven until I found Groves Spitfires.

joe skipp · December 08, 2012, 06:09:00 PM

Started in '69...Browning Nomad then a Kittredge Signature Hunter. The Kittredge was basically a Howatt/Martin, built to Kittredge specs. Similar to the lower priced one piece Jack Howard offered.

fishone · December 08, 2012, 06:20:00 PM

Red Wing Hunter

longrifle346 · December 08, 2012, 06:38:00 PM

Aside from all the ones we made growing up(which accounted for quite a few tree rats btw) my first store-bought was a 45# Bear Kodiak Magnum in '71. I've got it's twin hanging on my rack right now.

Terry Lightle · December 08, 2012, 06:40:00 PM

Bear Grizzly

December 08, 2012, 06:44:00 PM

'60s Ben Recurves, early '70s, Bear takedowns, target bows, an 89 pound reverse Hill Tembo and a 72 pound Schulz.

rick7 · December 08, 2012, 06:44:00 PM

bear grizzly 1973

SERGIO VENNERI · December 08, 2012, 06:46:00 PM

1975, Kittredge hunter 62" 65# http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x132/recurvehunter_2007/1975Bear.jpg

Archie · December 08, 2012, 06:47:00 PM

I can't contribute much to this thread... I am not old enough! But my late father was big on the trad bowhunting scene 50 years ago, so I can tell you what he shot....

Dad ran a good-sized archery shop in southern CA in the late 60's/early 70's, and he was a big user and proponent of Jack Howard's Gamemaster.

horseman12193 · December 08, 2012, 06:55:00 PM

A 58" 50# @ 28 Bear Grizzly fall of 1972 when i came home from army

6feathers · December 08, 2012, 07:05:00 PM

1964 joined an archery 4-H club and learned to make arrows and since this was in the Flint Mi. area, we went to Darton Archery and purchased ready to finish bows. Around 1966 I graduated to a Redwing Hunter that I got for Xmas. I used that bow until college graduation in 1972, then bought a Super K after that. I have been through a lot of bows between then and now.

shadman · December 08, 2012, 07:05:00 PM

First real bow in 1954 was a solid glass Paul Bunyon. In 1956 my Dad got me a 46# Eddings. Great bow. Wish I hadn't sold that bow!

dnovo · December 08, 2012, 07:17:00 PM

First one was a Shakespeare Necedah, the a Red Wing pro after that about '74.