This Bow is an old bow that belonged to a dear friend who is now passed away. It is a 58" recurve bow with green glass on the belly and black glass on the back. There is a picture of a kneeling hunter with a back quiver on getting ready to bring the bow up on a deer in the background. Below the picture is the inscription  HUNTER 709.

The riser apears to be Zebra wood and has a flat shelf. The following numbers are on the left side of the lower riser:
09-4972 and x45#-28".

You might want to post this over on the collectors forum.

Some of those folks know their stuff.

God bless,Mudd

Ben Pearson.

Kill Deer got it BP

Would look like this.

   

Mine is a '65 and the serial no. begins 09-264_ _

Pearson 709 Hunter!! Nice shooters, I owned one for 37 plus years! Shawn

A Ben Pearson Hunter. My Hunter is a 1966. I bought it in 1967, still shoot and hunt with it.

try archery archives the catalog number 709(ben pearson has it on all their bows) and limb colors will tell you everything you want to know...

also ben pearson made this exact bow for westernfield under the name deluxe hunter...the earlier bp hunters had a blueish/green limb color with tigerstripe risor...thats the one i like...nice bows

You guys are Great!! Thanks a million!!

This was Denver York's Bow and he was my bowhunting mentor. I straightened the limb last night and it will shoot now. I am going to put on my wwII camo and my Jones hat and go out and shoot a deer with it this year in honor of Denver. I just wanted to know who actually made the bow.