Question for all you "Old Timers"

[BAK]

Bought my first "Bear" in 1969.  #45 recurve but don't remember the model.

Had some cheap fiberglass stuff before that.

[Sage Custom]

First one was a Wing Falcon 42# and I was in 5th grade. Later owned a Wing Vantage Pro. Really a nice bow and the one I first took a deer with. That would have been about '73. Now shooting a PSAX but the Bob Lee Ultimate might be my next bow. Still have my mom's St. Charles Thunderbird from the 1950's or 60's. She won a shoebox full of ribbons with it.

[Steve Clandinin]

In 1964 I was shooting a 45# Ben pearson Cougar( still have it )Shot my first deer in 1973 with a 58# Lewis Carrol TD recurve( Wish I still had it!LOL)Many many bows have come and gone since then.

[Sixby]

First bow was a yellow solid fiberglass Indian bow with red leather grip. I could actually hit frogs out in the middle of the ponds with it and killed a lot of cottontails including bunnies on the run and one double that clearly stands out in my mind today. That was a 45 lb bow and I was 10. 55 years ago.1957. I don't know what happened to that bow. It kind of disappeared along the way. Next bow was a Super Neceda zebrawood. Pretty nice bow. I don't remember when I bought it but it was the new bow at the time. Next was the roughest bow I ever owned. A pearson low price cheapy. I do remember it hurt to shoot. LOL. After that Hundreds gone by the way. Loved most of them.

God bless and Merry Christmas, Steve

[hayslope]

The same bow I started hunting with.....1962 Bear Kodiak......although I really don't feel like I'm an "old timer"!

[Cory Mattson]

Browning recurve 60#
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[SELFBOW19953]

In the late 50's, I made bows to play with out of green bamboo, very common in Florida.  About 1960, my grandfather gave me a lemonwood longbow. After about a year, it became a 3 piece one day while shooting.  He then gave me a recurve he'd had made when he lived in Grayling in the late 40's.  While I was stationed in Denver in 1971, I bought a Browning Safari ll at the BX-my first store bought bow.

[snufer]

In 1964 I joined our local archery club, Bigfoot Archers, went on a "Organized Hunt" by Bear Archery in Mecer Wi. for bear and whitetails There were 30 archers, and I shot the only deer with a Bear Kodiak Magnum 55#, this was the first time that I was ever in the woods deer hunting, and a yearling ran by a 15 yards and I "skillfully"  spine shot him! ( I think that I was as suprised as the deer was!) This hunt consisted of sitting in the AM. and doing drives the rest of the day, with the BEAR rep and his friends getting the best spots to sit while the rest of us peons did the drives.

[Bowwild]

1970- Ben Pearson Cougar
1971- Bear Grizzly (56")
1972-1975 Bear B Mag

[hitman]

In the 60's I had a Ben Pearson for sure, can't remember when I was only about 8 but when I was 15 I got a 54# Wing Thunderbird. It was solid black and I hunted with it for several years until I got a Bear Kodiak Magnum.

[muley40]

Wing Redwing Hunter Micro-Flite arrows MA-3 broadhead,

[Hatrick]

1957 Bear Polar. Red glass, 64" and 46# @ 28". I still have the warranty card but I think it's expired. Ben Pearson cedar shafts and Bear razorheads. Graduated to Microflights later in the 60's.

I still have the bow and take it out occasionally for "old times sake."

[ChuckC]

Snufer. . . was that hunt out of Art LaHa's camp ?  Sounds a bit like his plan of attack.
ChuckC

[Sean B]

Pretty cool stuff guys.  I've always Ben drawn to old recurves since I was a kid,  reading old "Bowhunter" magazines from the early '70s, and when I'd se them in my dads friends basements.
Also watching the Wensels DVD Sirit of the Bow, seeing Gene &Barry in some of the old footage, makes me wonder what everyone was using back in the day.

[reddogge]

Bought a new 1967 Bear Grizzly in '67, traded in on a '68 Root Game Master, traded in for a '71 Damon Howatt Super Diablo.

[bwana]

I bought a Bear black bear 45# from a local discount dept. store in upstate NY. Killed a butten buck my first day hunting. Been hooked ever since. In 1972 I bought a 52" Bear K Mag.

[joe skipp]

Tried to resize the photo of my old Kittredge, 62" 55#. The quiver was my Shulz...note the honey color before I started the Pitch Blend. Also a few squirrels hanging around. Another bow I should have kept....   :mad:  

[Blackhawk]

A used Ben Pearson Hunter model at 45# made in the mid 60's...and then a brand new 1971 Kodiak Hunter at 50#.

[bosteldr]

1973 Bear Kodiak Mag I was a rich 2 Lt stationed at Mather AFB Ca in the Air Force, got at Sears on sale.

[Yellow Dog]

Darton Magnum, Microflite arrows, Bear Razorheads and let's not forget the clamp-on Kwikee "suicide" Kwiver.