I have several custom bows and like them real well but I just bought a 72 Kodiak Mag the other day and really like how quite and smooth it shoots. Not near as fast as other bows I have but there is something about it that make me want to hunt with it next year. Are many guys still useing these older Bear bows as their go to bows?
Tell me about your set-ups.

Been shooting a green Kodiak Hunter since 92 (50# @ 28") and shoot GT 35/55 with 3gpi weight tubes it has always been the bow I grab when things get serious,but I shoot my new 66" Horne's combo as well and have only had it 4 weeks so next year who knows.

I just purchased a 57 Kodiak Special 66" 52#@28 from a Gentleman here on Trad Gang.
Used to own it's little brother 64" 49#@28.
I never hunted lil bro, but think I'm going to give this one a whirl.
I'm so enthused I hate to wait til hunting season.
Every morning when the sun comes over the small rise of the hills, I look out my back door facing South over the creek bed and see an abundance of wildlife.
Guess I'll just have to keep shooting arrows into that haystack until Spring Turkey Opens.

I hunt with a A mag with factory camo limbs and a 4 arrow spring arm quiver.

I am pretty new collecting old bows,but i really like them,they have a special feeling on them,silent accurate easy to tune.Like you I have many custom that I like but can't wait to hunt with my old Bear TD or Super Kodiak.

I take my '66 Kodiak and my '59 Grizzly out every once in awhile.

I am use my 59' Kodiak 99% of the time but just got a 66' Kodiak the will get used this year.

doug77

My Bear Grizzly comes out to play every once and a while since I got a silvertip.It was my go to bow last year.50@28" 58".Shot 30" 2213 with 175 gr Razorheads.

I hunt with a couple of Super Mags (1967 and 1976), a 1970's Black Panther and just picked up a 1966 Tigercat.

The Super Mags are both 50# and I shoot cedars with Zwickey No Mercy heads through them.  They also like GT 3555 and GrizzlyStik Sitkas.

The Black Panther is 45# I shoot the GT and lighter cedars.

I haven't got the Tigercat set up yet.  I need to get some lighter cedars for it.

Last year's setup was a '56 Kodiak double shelf, 62", 56#@28.  Had a tape-on bow quiver, shooting cedars w/ Razorheads/bleeders, and a Bear Western quiver to carry all the extras.

My "Go To" bow has been a Magnesium A with 54# #3 limbs for about 20 years now.
I have drug a couple other bows out, a Martin and a Widow, but otherwise it's been the TD.

'59 Grizzly is the bow I shoot best and enjoy it immensly!!

I've hunted with vintage bear in the past...none in my stable right now but I do have a number of 1960(s) shakespeare and pearson recurves that are excellent shooters. I've gone as far as selling my custom bows and refinishing/shooting nothing but vintage now and loving it.

have fun!

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Glenn

I hunt with a  70s model Grizzly and a Black Panther from around the same time. Also have a 1954 Griz that I'll shoot once in a while and a Tamerlane that's on the rack that I haven't shot in decades.

I hunt with a  70s model Grizzly and a Black Panther from around the same time. Also have a 1954 Griz that I'll shoot once in a while and a Tamerlane that's on the rack that I haven't shot in decades.

I haven't, but I'm beginning to feel the itch.  I'm keeping my eye out for a good '60's era refinishing candidate and think it would be very cool to hunt with.

Been hunting with a 1973-1974 green kodiak hunter but just got a 1966 kodiak I'll be scaring deer with next fall!

What little hunting I did this past season was with a 1975 SK. 45#@28 and total satisfaction.

Welcome post!  I'm been contemplating for about two weeks buying a new Bear TD Supreme (B Handle with 60 inch limbs-- 50#'s).  I have 7 recurves; Predators, Fox, Black Widow, Hoyt, Mathews Eagle. I haven't held a Bear TD riser in my hands since my RH shooting days in the early 1980
's. Those of you who have shot both the customs (especially if you have Widow experience) and the supreme, how does the Supreme feel and shoot comparatively?  I picked up a new Super Kodiak at Bass Pro Shops yesterday (1-piece) and I didn't like the feel of it at all.  I don't want to make a $1,200 mistake.
Thanks

I have hunted with my 65 Kodiak quite a bit. I'm sure it will get plenty of play time over the years.