From: DaGunz
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Date: 07-Apr-19 |
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I started the toxophillia thread and it died of technology. New to me Bear Grizzly, #51@28.
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From: DaGunz
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Date: 07-Apr-19 |
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That’s better. Try the first photo again.
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From: SB
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Date: 07-Apr-19 |
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My wife shoots the same exact bow! Hers is a 1975 model. After that they all came with an elevated weatherest.
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From: DaGunz
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Date: 07-Apr-19 |
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Then you know this is a great bow. The prior owner was a compound guy and found this 50 pounder too hard to pull. This bow (wait for it) shoots better than I can. We put a strike plate and arrow rest on, and a nick point on what I think is the original string.
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From: Nemophilist
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Date: 07-Apr-19 |
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Nice bow. Looks in really good condition.
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From: WATERMOCCASIN
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Date: 07-Apr-19 |
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A very nice find,they are nice bows!
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From: barebo2
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Date: 08-Apr-19 |
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That's a Cherry - Nice Find!!!
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From: crookedstix
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Date: 08-Apr-19 |
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That "K-Mart" Grizzly was the first serious bow I ever owned, and I suppose it's what got me hooked on trad archery...even though the interest went dormant for a few decades.
I think I recall reading that the "Greenie" Bear bows were produced in response to K-Mart putting pressure (maybe even a legal threat?) on Bear to supply them with bows for resale...so he came out with the green-dyed maple risers to set that line apart from the Grayling offerings. Maybe someone can confirm this?
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From: George D. Stout
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Date: 08-Apr-19 |
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Don't know about that Kerry. That bow above is a Bear Grizzly, not a K-Mart bow. Bear made K-Mart the Black Panther Hunter, made on the Kodiak Mag form, and also made them the Panther Hunter, which was basically a 56" Tigercat. They also made a Stag Hunter on the Grizzly form but a different design on the riser, but that may have been for Sears. My memory lets me down now and then.
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From: DaGunz
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Date: 08-Apr-19 |
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Hey George, you have any idea from the serial no. how old that bow is?
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From: Nemophilist
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Date: 08-Apr-19 |
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KR-serial number prefixes were from 1970 to late 1977. But in 1970 they were 56"amo. In late 1977 they went to GR-. The two tone risers were made from late 1972 to 1984. 1973 to mid-1976 Grizzlies had bark brown glass, late 1976 to 1978 had random dark glass.
More information would be needed to narrow your bows year down more.
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From: George D. Stout
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Date: 08-Apr-19 |
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Pretty sure they started in 1976 with the two tone green/black.
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From: Nemophilist
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Date: 08-Apr-19 |
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Here are my Grizzlies. The two tone riser ones are a 1974 and a 1976, the years I bought them. The factory camo one is 1999. The only year they were factory camoed in advantage camo.
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From: Nemophilist
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Date: 08-Apr-19 |
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From the 1973 Bear Archery catalog.
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From: George D. Stout
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Date: 08-Apr-19 |
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Good stuff Frank. Catalogs usually have it right.
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From: DaGunz
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Date: 08-Apr-19 |
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Hmmm, it’s very interesting how one is green and brown, and the other is brown and green.
Mine has the dark brown glass on the belly and back. Sounds like it maybe early seventies as you said.
Thanks for the data Nemo. I had zero info when I told my son that if he didn’t want it, I did. Just a text photo.
I really like the old Bears. They just fit and feel right, like my Wilderness Wandering Apparatus (AKA Jeep)
I have one more photo that I tried twice and failed to post last night.
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From: RymanCat
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Date: 09-Apr-19 |
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Purty nice.
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