Savage death master

rambo1993 · November 21, 2013, 01:37:00 PM

Hello everyoe wanted some info and known where abouts of savage deathmaster recurve I've wanted one a long time and would love some more info and if anyone knows a place I can get ahold of one please let me know thanks everyone hope you all have. Great holiday and lots of blood trails to follow a short distance

jess stuart · November 21, 2013, 02:37:00 PM

Me too, would love to find one.

reddogge · November 21, 2013, 05:50:00 PM

Ha ha. It's the hen's teeth of bows. Maybe when Frisky dies you can inherit one of his. The best I can come up with is he promised if he came east I could shoot one of his.

Austin Brown · November 21, 2013, 05:57:00 PM

They are terrific shooters, I owned a 68# for a while.

rambo1993 · November 21, 2013, 06:47:00 PM

Im itching to get my hands on one I'd even trade one of my nicest customs for one hahaha

DEATHMASTER · November 22, 2013, 08:15:00 AM

I even have the name (DEATHMASTER) but ran several want ads and not a single offer for one. Have looked for years and only one with a broke limb. I WANT one bad also.

Caddo · November 22, 2013, 09:44:00 AM

Join the crowd! I've been looking for one for a long time. Seem as though there are a lot of folks looking for them and those that have them aren't giving them up.

LD

reddogge · November 22, 2013, 10:30:00 AM

Since they were made in only 55-70# unless special order and also only RH unles special ordered they didn't fit into a lot of shooter's specs. so I don't think there are a lot of them around, certainly not the originals made by Bob Savage. Perhaps more by Owen Jeffrey.

Certainly a mystique around them as far as speed and shooting goes but you could probably duplicate that today with modern materials. Border limbs would probably outperform it. It certainly would be a very collectable bow.

Frisky · November 22, 2013, 11:55:00 PM

It's the BOW of BOWS, but even this blistering fast and quiet bow is no better than the shooter behind it. A fast miss is still a miss, lol! Mine, at 54#, is the lightest I've found. Most were 60+ pounds and they were never offered with an insert for a fishing reel. Not that anyone would bowfish with one.

Joe

November 23, 2013, 01:35:00 AM

I don't think the Deathmaster shot an arrow any faster than the Tice and Watts. They were great bows, I wonder if the one I had is still shooting?

Frisky · November 23, 2013, 03:03:00 AM

Tink Nathan did a bow test on the Tice and Watts Spartan Hunter. They were very fast bows. However, I'll look up the test speeds, because I don't think they were as fast as the Deathmaster. If I didn't find a Deathmaster, I had planned to get a Spartan Hunter. Reddogge has a couple of them, so he's set. The place to find a Deathmaster is Montana. Most were sold there. I got mine from a guy in Montana known as "Radical" Roy Jones.

Joe

Frisky · November 23, 2013, 03:39:00 AM

I looked up Tink's test. It's in the June 74' issue of Bowhunter mag. and is entitled "Texas Test." Tink states, "For my money, this bow is the fastest recurve made." He was talking about the Tice and Watts Spartan Hunter. He said Lovell Tice tested the bow against many others and it outperformed them all. He said it was also "dead in the hand" meaning it had no felt hand shock. He said only compounds tested higher in efficiency. Well, in 79' Steve Gorr wrote he'd never seen a compound bow that could outshoot a Gamemaster Jet or a Deathmaster in flight competition, provided heavy arrows were used. Bob Savage insists his bows were faster than the Jets. I think the Deathmaster and the Spartan Hunter are probably about equal.

Joe

Jack Whitmire Jr · November 23, 2013, 05:16:00 AM

There is a Tice and Watts on the Auction site right now .

Paul J. · November 23, 2013, 07:48:00 AM

Ironic to see this thread. I just started shootin
mine again last week. I have a blind that calls for
a short bow. I bought the Deathmaster from Gene Wensel several years ago. It is 61# @ 28". 55". Was
made by Bob Savage for Gene to hunt mountain goats.
Also have another Deathmaster that was made by Rocky
Miller, but with a small crack where the limb meets
the riser.

rambo1993 · November 23, 2013, 04:39:00 PM

Omg all this talk I'd give my best custom for one In a split second :/

Frisky · November 23, 2013, 05:58:00 PM

I used to tell people they could have mine when they pried it from my cold, dead and bloody fingers. I stopped saying that after I got to thinking someone might take me up on the deal, lol!

Joe

Frisky · November 23, 2013, 06:46:00 PM

Bob told me his daughter got one of the 55" bows in the mid 40 pound range at a garage sale. She paid about $90 for it, lol! So, he did make lighter drawing bows. He made bows for kids too.

Joe

rambo1993 · November 23, 2013, 08:19:00 PM

Lol yeah is bob still alive ??

Walt Francis · November 23, 2013, 09:22:00 PM

Bob still lives in Bozeman but I do not think he has made a glass bow in quite a while. Sometimes he jumps in and help on the group selfbows built a different TBM functions.

Mark Baker did an interview with Bob and it was published in TBM. Think it was within the last year.

Frisky · November 23, 2013, 09:22:00 PM

Yep. I talked to him not that long ago. He still hunts, is retired but not building bows.

Joe