The Archer's Bible

[Jack Guard]

My father had this original copy in his collection and as a boy i use to flip through the pages of the book and day dream.  I now have it in my library and it brings back many fond memories.  

Just as a side note, these are my fathers only broadheads he ever used.  I hope to take a whitetail with them one day too.  

Do any of you have memories like these.  Jack
 

[theunluckyhunter]

thats too cool they only cost fifteen times more than that now

[bowhunterfrompast]

I still have the Archers Bible that I bought in 1972 or 1973. I taught myself how to shoot and hunt from that book. Yes, lots of memories.

Rick

[Killdeer]

I got that book with a Bear "Green Fox" for Christmas in 1969.





That's all the "larnin'" I got until I went to college, where I took archery in PE. I lent the book out, and had to replace it. Couldn't stand not to have a copy.

Killdeer  

[Tox Collector]

I have a copy inscribed to me by Fred Bear.  A friend of my wife's family used to vacation in in Florida during the winter where she met the Bears.  This friend mentioned me and Fred Bear graciously provided her with an inscribed a copy of his book along with a signed photograph of one of his trophies for me.  Tox Collector

[Jodi]

I remember coloring in my Dad's copy. I don't know how many hours I spent flipping through the pages. It dissapeared much like my youth. Frank Scott helped me get a copy about two weeks before he passed. Man did it bring back memories. Jodi

[Elmer Keith]

That's the edition of the Archer's Bible I'm looking for. I have the second edition with Fred Bear holding a compound bow and aiming with it.

I correctly say: holding and aiming because I don't know if he realy did release the arrow because he obviously didn't like compound bows.

My book of memories is a very cheap pocket book versions edited by the Fred Bear Sports Club with a foreword by Fred Bear: Hunting with the Bow and Arrow by Saxton Pope. It almost falls apart.

When I was at school I started to translate it into German language but anfortunately had stop my efforts because of first passing the exams.
When the  exams were passed the book was already available in a German translated version. But very bad translated, almost word by word.

[centaur]

I still go through my copy of the book regularly. Fred Bear got me interested in archery 'back in the day', and this book was pretty much my handbook in my initial years of bowhunting. It is a classic.

[randy grider]

That is the book that got me started in archery as a kid. It was lost over the years, so I replaced it. Great book!

[Ia Hawkeye]

I still have my copy of Bears' "The Archers Bible".
Mine is a first edition that I bought new in 1968.
Still like to look at it now and then.

[Bill Turner]

Memories, memories, memories. That book hits at the very core of this site. Long live traditional archery.