Do you remember?

[griz#1]

Do you remember your very first bow? I bought mine in 1968 at Woolworths and I still have the old girl.

[Ian johnson]

a martin youth target bow givin to me at christmas when I was eight, that was ten years ago and I still have the bow

[Three Arrows]

Fred Bear yellow magnesium take down with white 40# limbs and black 55# limbs.

[Biggie Hoffman]

I still have mine. A lemonwood longbow with black glass. 17# pull.

[Curtiss Cardinal]

a 26@24 Bear cub RH and a 24@24 LH one in 1964 I was 3 and a half but I never actually owned those. All us kids had to share. The first bow I ever hunted with was a 47@28 Red Wing Hunter that was, in point of fact, my Mother's bow. At 12 years of age I drew about 27". Killed my first deer with that bow and a full dipped white arrow fletched with 4 4" shield cut red dyed turkey feathers in a shield cut and a MA3L broadhead. I made the arrows myself.

[rod251]

My very first bow was a Fred Bear Element.  It had wheels.  My first bow without training wheels was an older model Ben Pearson longbow, which is now in the hands of fellow TradGanger Arwin.  I hope to see pics of a kill with it come fall.    

[snag]

My first was at age 6. My dad bought me a little stickbow and 4 wood arrows with metal tips. Fast forward 20yrs. Sorry to say it was then a PSE wheelbow...but the day I got it at the local archery shop I was shooting it at their range when I noticed a man shooting a stickbow. I marveled at the simplicity and just the fun of watching him shoot. That man was Larry D. Jones.

[billy shipp]

It's hanging on my bow rack.....15# Ben Pearson Power Jet, Model 334....that was 50 something years ago. Time flies when you're having fun.

Billy

[John3]

This is it(center).. Dad brought this home for me around 1974.  A 10# Hoyt recurve that I shot everyday.

My parents kept it for 30 plus years and gave it back to me at Christmas a few years ago. One of my best Christmas presents ever.

[mwmwmb]

I had a red bear fiberglass when i was a kid. wish is i still had it for my sons.

[GRINCH]

Mine was an 18# ben pearson power jet,great little bow.

[George D. Stout]

My first bought bow was a Bear Cub,  Summer of 1965.

[recurvist]

It was an Indian compound ..A Dandy..If you didnt like where the arrow was headed you could run it down and guide it to your target!!    slowest bow think ive ever seen...

[non-typical]

1956 Ben Peason lemon wood bow. Still have it. Taught my wife and my kids to shoot with it.

[adeeden]

A old all fiberglass "Red Bear" I still have it and all five of my boys started out shooting that same old bow!

[Dave Bulla]

52" Darton Junior Scout with a maple riser and green glass that almost always gets mistaken by folds as a Bear Cub.

Got it for my 12th birthday but it was more sized for about a 5 year old.  I bet it don't pull 20 pounds at 28 inches.  I didn't know or care.  I loved that bow and still have it.  My daughter started with it almost 11 years ago and then my oldest boy Emmet and now my youngest Jacob is using it.  A little furniture polish on it and it still looks almost new.

[Joseph]

A green Bear Grizzly, 45# @ 28, I grew into it and was shooting it really good until I bought a compound.  First bow after that was a Sky Archery Hunter Supreme that was 65# @ 28.  Killed a Muledeer doe with it.

[Teacher_of_the_Arcane]

Hi All,

My dad and mom got me one for Christmas 1962, a Ben Pearson hickory "semi-recurve"...I was in seventh heaven!  She's hanging in my bedroom closet as we speak.

[Don Stokes]

My first bows were from the "dime store" and were hickory, with a red-and-white striped string and arrows with rubber suction cups. Those were removed immediately, of course.

My first hunting bow was a solid fiberglass Bear longbow, ambidextrous, 40# draw. I bought it from one of my older brother's friends (he upgraded to a recurve) for $5, in 1962 or 1963. For arrows I went to Western Auto, where I could buy cheapo cedar arrows for under a dollar, or hunting arrows with Bear razorheads already mounted on them for about $1.50 each, as I recall. I could never afford more than three at a time. I still have an old blister pack of 6 Bear broadheads from around that time, unopened, marked 45 cents each. The bow is long gone.

The deer were pretty safe.

[Wary Buck]

Not sure whatever happened to the all fiberglass "Red Bear" and "Blue Bear" bows my brothers and I all started with, but I do have the first bow I bought with my own money.  It was a Herter's Model Perfect (of course) Sambar Junior (or maybe Sitka) bow, 29# @ 24".  Man, I loved that bow and terrorized the local songbirds and bunnies until Dad let me hunt by myself with a shotgun and the bows gathered dust for a little while.  Now it's the shotguns that are gathering dust.