Okay, deals like this were fairly common in Bozeman in the early nineties.  In 1992 I went to a garage sale and the guy holding it was moving to Alaska and wanted to thin his bow collection down to two or three bows.  As all the bows were right-handed and at that time I was shooting left-handed, I passed on several Robertson longbows and half a dozen Schaffer recurves for the whopping price of $100-$200 each.  I realized my error and went back an hour later and met the new owner of nine bows as he loaded them into his car; he paid $1,000 for all of them.    s

Anyway, this morning I decided not to go hunting and was kicking around calling myself a bum, while trying to get enough motivation to start working on some bows out in the shop when I decided to see how my new phone worked on Craigslist.  The new phone worked good and listed near the top among the missile launchers the name Schafer caught my attention; one of the "Trading Posts" had several bows for sale.  Seeing as how the motivation to clean the shop wasn't there I jumped in the truck and made the fifteen minute drive to Belgrade.  Well, hanging on the wall there wasn't one Schafer but four of them with a metal handled Bear takedown (I think it is a B handle) hanging next to them.  To make a long story short, $500 later I walked out with an original Schafer one piece recurve made by Paul, a Schafer three piece takedown with Bocate limbs and sheep horn overlays made by Dave, two Schafer kids bows also by Dave, and the Bear takedown.  I am not a bear expert by any stretch of the word, but think the limbs on the Bear are a set of the ones Paul made for a while.   Three of the Schafer's need refinished and the camo spray paint removed from the Bear and one piece Schafer.  

Anyway, I suddenly got some motivation, the wife is headed home, I am headed for a treestand before I have to explain what I spent the money on.  

Catch you later.

WOW Merry Christmas to you my friend!!!!!

HOLY CRAP!!  CONGRATS!!  Lets see some pics.

Great deal, Xmass came early
Cheers Dan

Thats amazing, X2 on those pics!

Worst case scenario is you sell everything and make a handsome profit...very important for the male ego to make up for past blunders...explain to your wife you were simply correcting a 21 year old mistake

DDave

     Lucky you.....

What else are ya gonna do with $500 at Christmas time? Right?

;-)

Wow!Sounds like you got a good deal, I wish I could stumble on to a deal like that.

what about  a shafer T/D with the Bear metal riser and shafer limbs, it was made by Paul, one of the first few he made. anybody got any Idea what this might be worth ??

My area is a little too "green" to find stuff like that.

Great deal and a nice Christmas present for you. x3 on the pics!

What a find!  

Nice find Walt.

What a great find. Congrats!!

Good idea, get to your tree before your luck runs out!!!!

Walt, if your wife is TOO mad, I'd be willing to give you $600 for the lot!    

You're welcome!  

That's is amazing! Congrats on all the bows! What are the weights on them?

What a great find Walt.  Congratulations.

Let's see the pics