I have this 1961 Polar. It is 64" long and 50@28". All I want to do is share it with other people and let it live a little.

The bow is a "Hot Mess" it has stress cracks all over and the finish is getting rough. She has a slight twist in the upper limb, but she will shoot where you are looking.

If anyone is interested, all I ask is you pick a month, keep it for up to a month.

Sign it, put a note of what you experienced with it, and maybe a picture. Then send it to the next person in line. Thanks, Hugh

Sorry, it is Right Handed >>>-------->

Sure ... Count me in !!! June is my birthday ... I'll do some stumping. Thanks,John

It's a great thing you are doing and similiar to "Old Buck," which I was able to enjoy a couple years ago.

I recommend making sure the people who sign up have a history here on this site. A couple years ago, one of our members, and personal friend, was gracious enough to do the same thing with his Black Widow and on two different occasions, I had to literally track two people down in order to get it back. I even paid a personal visit on one of the instances. I'm sure your probably not all that worried about it but, it only takes one person to spoil it for everyone that looks forward to being a part of something unique like this. I'd say 99% of the members on this site are straight shooters but as we've seen in the past and on occasion, there's always someone coming on here looking to benefit from the generosity this site is famous for.

Kudo's to you and I'd be honored to partake in this as well. Any month is good and pm me when you need an adress, etc..

Sign me up. I sure like to check it out for a while. Drew Sumrell Let me know the details.

I hope the borrowers will report on here. I have a 50# Polar,so will just watch from the sidelines. Hope there are reports.

Jim

Busta I have to second the 99% of leatherwallers my wife was floored today when my strings arrived from a swap for a knife. She said she would have never expected you could do that on the internet. I had no doubt it would go well, traditional archery and most outdoor forums seem to be straight shooters for the most part. Okay as for the bow making rounds I'm in and if we are going by birthdays mines in December, and that's archery season where I grew up :)

hugh put me on the list july I should be on my feet by then ill take her on some roves thank ol frind oh yea did you get the turkey call for your daughter

Thanks for the interest... I look forward to seeing where she goes and hearing what she does while staying with everyone.

Her nickname is "All Cracked Up" and I hope she brings a smile to whoever gets to enjoy her. I will try to post a picture or two later today.

The list so far:

May-Myself (Breaking in the new string) June-Droptine July-String wax August- September- October- November- December-Chemsolder1

Bustacrook gets August... Thanks

That's a great gesture! Love seeing things like this.

I would love to participate in this! This is a really cool idea. Shoot, Sign, Pass it on. Sounds great! Hugh, could you put me down for September?

Drewster has September now...

Here she is with the new string courteous of Bearbowjunky. Set the nock point and this is exactly how they hit at 20 yards. She is smooth, quiet, and quick with lots of character. I will also throw a picture on showing how she got her nickname.

Here is a closer shot of the riser.

This is how she got her nickname.

I have a 61 Kodiak Special with some of the same issues that I came up with a fix for...you just cover up the stress lines with stick on Polar Fleece and forget about them

DDave

Dave, the idea I had was to strip the old finish off and run some brown stain down the limbs and make it look like wood grain. Then I figured why, she is beautiful in her own right.

Hugh

I would like in! Never did get to spend time with old buck!

You have November "buckbow" and I hope you enjoy her. Old buck definitely made a name for himself. I can only hope everyone enjoys "All Cracked Up" as much and she makes a name for herself.

We are now starting to schedule 2014...

One thing you might want to consider, if any of those lines might be open to the limb cores, is filling them with Loctite 420...other than that I am kind of the same mind as you...those old bows came by their character marks honestly and there is no reason they need to be changed

Cool. Pm sent. Thanks!

I'll pass. Just had a vintage pearson recurve split in two pieces at the riser shelf. Put a 2" gash on my head and cut my eye. I am going to be ok, but I flinch a little when someone gives me an old bow to shoot! LOL

to bad it ain't a lefty!

Jim, glad to hear you will be OK. Completely understand the fear of the unknown as far as some old bows are concerned.

I may worry more if this bow hadn't been shot all along and had just came out of a closet after 20 years. This one however is a shooter and does her job well. Take Care and Shoot Straight...

Hugh; thanks for the opportunity and I'm looking forward to my date with the girl in August!!

Bustacrook, you are welcome and I hope she brings you much enjoyment. Be sure to share your adventures with us.

Bustacrook, you are welcome and I hope she brings you much enjoyment. Be sure to share your adventures with us.

If no one is in for October, I'd like a chance at taking a West Virginia whittail with it!

The rest of this year is taken. I can put you down for a month in 2014 if you would like?

Okay, put me down for October 2014

Old Crow has October 2014.

Okay uphuntn, I'll do my best to "score" with your bow. Thanks.

Any month you have open. I can introduce it to a hog and some other critters in Fls.

Tarponnut I will give you February if that works for you. Thanks for joining the group.

Update: Polar and I went Turkey and Mushroom hunting this morning. Managed to see 1 Tom and 3 Hens. They never came in for a shot unfortunately. Less than a month and she will be on the road. I will try to get some pictures next time we take a walk.

Thanks,

well she is back on the road heading to WILD AND WONDERFULL BY GOD WEST VIRGINA all I got to do was some yard shooting with her I wouldn't be afraid to hunt with this ol bow THANKS HUGH

Must be headed to Bustacrook, Chris give them ground grizzlies hello!

The 'ol girl arrived intact yesterday and I plan to get some arrows launched tomorrow. I'll try my hand with her in pursuit of some ground hogs this weekend but if that's a bust, some Starlings are next on my list. Pictures forthcoming when I put her to work! Thanks again Hugh!

Well folks, I got "All Cracked Up" in the mail today from Bustacrook and even though I'd been at our monthly club shoot all day, I had to string 'er up and fling a few. What a dandy old bow. She shot my 400 spine carbons the best with my 29 1/2" draw length but did quite nicely with some cane arrows I recently built. I'll check in again after playing with her a while.

I will take her amonth and take her hog hunting!

I need help... My list was accidentally tossed by my wife. I need to know who had October of this year.

buckbow-November chemsolder-December

Looks like 01archer86 was asking for sept but it was booked. Did you put him in for October?

Ps. I am buckbow. I changed my handle. I'll pull that thread up for you.

I looked at that, but thought he was in next year. I will ask him though. Thanks

Would love to be a bit player in the life of" Hot Mess"story. Birthday is in January. Our J.O.A.D. club would just love to see this.

Would love to be a bit player in the life of" Hot Mess"story. Birthday is in January. Our J.O.A.D. club would just love to see this.

Barebowin you have January. Hope you enjoy it.

Whoot! Whoot! Thanks, lookin forward to it.

What's the next available month?

Here are the open months in 2014: March, April, May, June, July, August, September, November, and December.

I would like to get her for November 2014 if know one else has her.Thanks for the chance.

"All Cracked Up" is doing fine. Her new string stretched out and the brace height was too low. She was really noisy and shooting rough so I got the brace height back up to 7 3/8", added some wool silencers and a second nock point since I shoot three under. Oh yeah, shooting nice now.....and quiet.

She's no beauty contest winner with all the stress cracks, but she can sure fling an arrow with the best of 'em :-)

Thanks for sharing and helping her out. Hope you are having fun with her.

Yep, I've definitely enjoyed trying out this Polar. Never shot one of these Bears before. With my 29 1/2" DL she seems to like 400 spine carbons and a cane arrow I recently built flies great too. And I don't notice any stacking either. Nice!

Dont worry about my request just forget it, guess i haven't been on here long enough.

squirrel, I sent you a pm. It must not have made it through. No matter how long you have been on here it is more than enough. This is just about everyone having fun with my Polar and sharing their experience with it. If you would like November you got it.

From now on I will respond to all request on this post. Hopefully this will save on any confusion. My apologies if I missed anyone else.

What a great idea.... That's what I enjoy about this site.

Well done!

Frank

Sorry dude did not mean to be an a$$hole. I thought you were just looking over me because i have'nt been on here to long. Thanks for the chance to use a good bow,but i think i am going to just give up hunting all together. I apologize to you again.

Did not even take it that way. I am sorry it didn't work out. If you change your mind feel free to get back to me. Don't even have to be for hunting. You could get it and take it stump shooting.

I just saw where you said your wife accidently tossed the list, post #13 & #14 on thread, was that I was supposed to get "All Cracked Up' in October 2014.

TTT for uphuntn!

ill take december if nobody wants it. thanks

Old crow has October and twoblade has December. If anyone was in line and missed their month please pick a month and it will come back around. Sorry about it falling by the wayside.

Very cool idea . !!

Oh, if I was only robust enough to draw 50#s!

I'll take her turkey hunting in April if it isn't spoken for.

i will take her any month

This is the first time I've ever seen this thread, and I think this is just awesome! One more thread that shows that Traditional Archery seems to attract (for the most part) amazing and generous people! I'm curious how many different people have had the chance to shoot it so far?

Oh and I would love to have it in March if possible (my Birthday is March 19th), even if it isn't until 2015. I could take it roving/stump shooting out at my family's 80 acres, and maybe even get some squirrels!

March-DEAc23, April-lowboy, May-rubby, June-Open, July-Open, August-Open, September-Open, October-Old Crow, November-Open, December-twoblade.

Thanks to everyone who has already let her visit. She will be hitting the road again this month. Please add to the thread any of the adventures you enjoy with "All Cracked Up" so that we may see what she is doing while traveling. Also make sure you sign her before sending her on. Hugh

Thanks Hugh! Has anybody hunted successfully while they had it? My main goal will be to get at least one squirrel with "All Cracked Up"

Oh and I love taking pictures so I will definitely add a bunch to this thread when it's my turn. Just PM me for my address whenever :D

I have an old 53# polar with some stress lines and she too is a great shooter. This is a really cool project you have going.

Really excited to take her out! The style of bow is right up my alley. One of the ranchers we lease from is having a real problem with hogs. I'll bet All Cracked Up is up to the task! I'll be sure and take a bunch of pics!

I was just asking about Old Buck the other day. This is a nice surprise. Hugh, thats a cool thing to do. I will take what ever month is open, please.

Thanks,

Mark

Hi Mark, I put you down for July. Hope you enjoy her visit.

Thank you, Sooooo cool!

The Polar came in the mail today. I can tell you I was pretty excited to see that box at my door step! Shot a few arrows in my tiny yard and can't wait to try it on some raccoons and maybe even a hog this weekend. The bow shoots great. I've had never shot a 64" recurve before, what a smooth draw! I'll let you know how she does on raccoon control soon.

Glad she arrived safely. Enjoy and share your adventures with us.

I took All Cracked Up out squirrel hunting, actually connected on a bushytail(after many misses) but it climbed up a tree and got in a hole.I will post the video I shot on my youtube channel(Jim Dussias)tonight. It's a very smooth shooting bow and a real pleasure to carry. I may let her have another "crack" at them this weekend before sending her off.

The video is on my youtube channel: Jim Dussias Lots of misses, one good hit(with a Bear Greenie and cedar shaft)

Great video Jim! That makes me look forward to next month even more :D

Awesome video Jim! Thanks for sharing it with us.

I just bought some new 2016 Legacy shafts from a fellow Leatherwall member, and they should be here on the 1st. All I have to do is put some feathers on them, so they should be good to go by the time the bow arrives. I can't wait :D

Just a heads up on the shipping cost associated with "All Cracked Up". Depending where you need to ship it the cost can run quite high. Thanks Jim "Tarponnut" for bringing this to my attention.

What does it cost on average to ship a bow. I know it depends on distance etc. but generally speaking what does it run? Thanks, Eric

It has cost me between $15-$25. Distance does affect the amount. From the east side to the west side it could run up to $50+.

I've shipped quite a few bows in the past few months, and the average cost for me is about $17 (that is for Priority Mail with insurance). Of course I make my own boxes when I ship a bow, so I always make it as small as it can possibly be while still protecting the bow.

The funny part is that once the package is above 84" of length/girth, then Priority Mail is actually cheaper than Standard Post. For instance, a package that is 65"x6"x4" (that is 85" in length/girth) costs $16.28 for Priority, but it's $38.21 for Standard Post. Oh and that is for a package that weighs 4 pounds and is going from Spokane, WA to Miami, FL (across the country).

Thanks for the info. This is a cool deal and I hope you all have fun with that bow! Eric

"All Cracked Up" arrived today =D

I haven't had the chance to string it up yet, but I got it out of the package and took a quick pic. I will update this thread with plenty more pics, once I get the chance to take it roving/squirrel hunting.

Thanks again for the opportunity Hugh!

Well I couldn't wait, so I got "All Cracked Up" strung and took today's first shot (from 10yds, inside). I posted the picture in CD's thread, but I thought I would post it here as well...

I can't wait to take it out into the woods!

I just realized I hadn't posted in this thread in almost two weeks, so I figured I would come post an update.

First off I am having a ton of fun with "All Cracked Up", and I haven't even had the chance to take it into the woods yet. My main bow before this was a 40# Black Bear, so I was a little worried about the 50# weight. Although after a few shots it was a lot easier than I thought, and now I am pretty consistently accurate with the 50# Polar at 10-20yds (at least more than I was with my Black Bear).

Anyways, here are a couple pics that I took almost a week ago, right after I finished putting together my first ½ dozen arrows. Obviously the first pic is of the arrows in front of "All Cracked Up", and the second pic is one of my first groups @ 10yds.

I will make sure to post some more pics soon, especially next weekend when my brother and I go out roving.

Hey everybody, I just got back from dropping "All Cracked Up" off at the Post Office, so it should arrive at rubby's house on the 10th.

I also got some pictures from when I took it out for the last time on Sunday, but I will be starting a new thread to post them in (so it doesn't clutter this one up). I will post the URL to the new thread later tonight or tomorrow once I have time to upload/post them.

Thanks again Hugh!

What happened? Anyone know who has " All Cracked Up" and where it's at, nothing posted since April 8, 2014

TTT

So I was going through the bow pile and came across a bow sock I hadn't seen in a while. Opened it up and "All Cracked Up" was inside.

This bow traveled around in 13'-14' and accounted for one squirrel and a Doe.

"Tarponnut" = 1 Grey Squirrel "Old Crow" = 1 Doe

Brought some good memories back of good conversations that were had with good people about their time with "All Cracked Up"

I would like to send "All Cracked Up" out again, so if anyone would like to have "All Cracked Up" for a 2 week stretch and then pass her on to the next person just PM me and I can get a list started.

Thanks, Hugh

Correction to the two week time frame. I think it would be better to stick to the original 1 month time. So if you are interested in a month PM me and I will put a list together. If someone already has the month you have picked I will contact you to arrange a different month.

Thanks again, Hugh

Hugh, what a great idea...put her on the road again. I am guessing she's a 1960 ; 1961 Polar moved up to 66", "ice" blue fiberglass. I have a 1960 Polar, a "light" 45#, that Shandor Weiss threw into a box with another bow about six months ago and sent my way. Its in good shape and a sweet shooter. If there's interest from folks who are a bit hesitant about 50#, I'd be happy to put this one on the road as well. Mark

Hi Mark, She is a 1961 64" with White glass. Awesome that you are offering up that 1960 Polar for people to shoot. If you wouldn't mind I'd offer to be the first on the list. I really like how the 59'-60' Polar's shoot. Thanks, Hugh

Very cool Hugh. I always enjoyed this type of thread. Does anyone know who was the first to do this type of thread? With the traveling bow. It is a really cool idea who ever came up with it. It sure makes for an enjoyable thread. Thanks Hugh.

Hi Don, not sure who the first one to do this was however I do know George's Old Buck Longbow was before me. Take care, Hugh

Mike Huston started sending around the "Little Delta Bow" almost 20 years ago. 1957 Bear Kodiak Special that Bill Brown (one of the founders of the P&Y Club) killed a bear and caribou with in Alaska in 1958. I was fortunate enough to kill an Oregon blacktail buck with it in 2003 and a hog on Mike's Florida lease in 2006.

Thanks for the info Jerry, sounds like it was an awesome experience.

uphuntn, it was!

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