So I have a 1969 Super Kodiak - mostly part of my 'art collection' but I shoot it once in a while as it's actually a sweet shooter. I was shooting it recently, and I thought, 'wow, this bow's got some cast!'. The bow is clearly marked 45 lb, but was thumping arrows like nobody's business.

To satisfy my curiosity, I went ahead and strung up a couple of other bows I have that are marked 50lb - doing a side-by-side, it was clear the super k was heavier than either of the two 50 lb bows! So I went ahead and pealed the strike plate back to see what Grayling marked there 45 years ago - 53 pounds! Ha ha ha, must have been running short on their 45-lb bow quota for that day, so someone must have said, 'just mark that one 45 lb and let's get the heck out of here!'. Wow, an 8 lb difference...

Anyway, just thought I'd share.

I've seen it before but it's an anomaly. How about well over 200,000 bows per year for years on end...probably about 40+ different folks making bows. Do you think it's possible you could have a few miss the mark by 8 pounds? I would actually think "Wow"....in regards to how much they hit the poundage correctly. Perfection is just a term.

U would think wow, this bow is way heavier than what I paid my hard earned money for, and I don't care if the other 199,999 were right that year

If this was 1969 and I just dropped some major coin to buy that bow new, I wouldn't be very happy. As it is, it just cracks me up... at least Bear marked it correctly - under the strike plate.

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