From: Stealth2
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Date: 14-Jan-19 |
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At 66 yrs old, my buddy and I looked back on our bowhunting lives and talked about all the fine bows we have owned/hunted with over the years. I would like other members here to add their list and shared memories.
1969 started with an Browning Nomad. Took some nice deer but after talking to Doug Kittredge, bought one of his computer designed limbs one piece 62" Kittredge hunters. Again...many deer fell to this bow. At 17 I could only dream of owning a Groves, Maurader T/D or Tice&Watts.
As I travelled, a Kittredge T/D, then an Archery 2000 SST. The late Bill Krenz talked me into this bow. Quite a few animals including a nice Antelope fell to the SST. 1986 I owned a Rocky Miller Heritage T/D and Predator bow. Great bows..wish Rocky was still making them.
A bow hunt in Alberta Canada...and I met bowyer Jack Kempf. I got one of his Stealth T/D's which I still shoot today along with Jack's longbow. I opened up Renegade Archery in 1995, carried Jack's bows and a great shooter from Rick Lepp, Bow River Archery...The Summit T/D and one piece Woodsman.
I became a dealer for Groves and have a one piece Spitfire Magnum. The Groves, Lepp and Kempf bows are responsible for my freezer always staying full. At 66 yrs old, the above 3 bows are what I hunt with. Every now and then I break out my Browning Cobra for turkey.
Moose, Caribou, Mule Deer, Antelope, black bear and countless whitetails have been taken with my bows. I would love to hear from everyone, what bows you started with and what your shooting now.
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From: Evergreen
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Date: 14-Jan-19 |
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Bear Super Kodiak, have a Groves, Browning Wasp, Shakespear Kaibab, and a ton of customs. Missed my biggest buck in my life with the Kaibab. Totally my fault though.
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From: fdp
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Date: 14-Jan-19 |
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Well....I really never owned all that many different bows but I have been fortunate to get to spend time shooting a lot of different ones.
Jerry Hill longbows, Craig Ekin longbows, several of Dave Guthries bows when he was building as Appalachian Archery, a number of different models of Hoyt, Fasco, Ben Pearson, 3 or 4 different models of Bear bows, Shaespeare, Sky Archery, Wes Wallace, Texas Commanche, Black Widow, Browning and Groves I can remember for sure.
I still have the Groves, a Magnesium handles Bear takedown, a couple of Groves, a Browning and a Sky Archery that was made before Earl sold the company. As well as a couple of others that I am playing with now.
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From: fdp
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Date: 14-Jan-19 |
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Oh...I left out the Howatt's that I have had over the years as well.
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From: Babbling Bob
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Date: 14-Jan-19 |
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Remember talking to my wife's cousin in an old foggies home in Bristow, OK, in the early 2000's. He was close to going home and confined to bed. A farmer/rancher and oil field worker in his day, for more than half an hour, all he talked about was his '59 45lb Kodiak Special. Wow, was he proud of that bow! When I came back to shooting, which was just after that visit, the first bow purchased on my rack of eight I have now, was a '59, 45lb 64-inch Kodiak Special, like the one he talked about. Rosewood 1959 to 1962 Bears for me forever.
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From: George D. Stout
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Date: 14-Jan-19 |
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As a very old recurve junkie, there aren't many I haven't at least handled and shot a few times. If I bought all I liked I wouldn't have the room to keep them. Be easier to figure out which ones I never had. Some of my favorites were Sanders of Cortland, NY, and early Hoyt recurves...and of course Wing and Bear various models. But good Lord, there are so many great old bows.
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From: arlone
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Date: 14-Jan-19 |
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First laminated bow was a Bear Kodiak Hunter bought spring of 1970, followed by a Bear Kodiak in 1985 when I hunted bear and thought I needed to go up to 60 pounds. Bought my first custom in 1999 or 98? A Robertson Montana Falcon and shot that till I won a RER Vortex at the Rapid's Trad Shoot in 2007. Got that bow set up and never looked back at my recurves. Had Kevin build me a Vortex II in 2011. In 2016 I picked up a used Cascade Mountain Longbow "Skookum" and have been playing around with Fred's bows ever since. I did make an ironwood selfbow a couple years ago and have a piece of osage that is trying to look more like a bow as time marches on.
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From: larryhatfield
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Date: 15-Jan-19 |
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My first bow was a sinew backed Yew self bow made by Damon Howatt. He gave it to me because I could string and pull it. Killed a deer with it that fall and shot a lot of archery golf with it. It was somewhere north of 100#. Every bow since then, but three, have been one's I designed and built at Howatts. I enjoyed killing some Moose, caribou, elk, and deer with one of Tim Meig's longbows he gave me and lately I have been gifted with a pair of great Magyar bows made by a friend and great Champion archer, Jozsef Monus.
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