| From: Rick Barbee
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| Date: 09-Aug-22 |
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James, these are the first pictures I have received from Sam at Backwoods Composites.
Showing my limbs under construction, and they are almost done.
Enjoy.
Rick
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| From: Rick Barbee
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| Date: 09-Aug-22 |
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Have no idea whose picture that one of the birds is. Not one like it anywhere on my computer.
Here's the other bow picture.
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| From: Rick Barbee
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| Date: 09-Aug-22 |
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Have no idea whose picture that one of the birds is. Not one like it anywhere on my computer.
Here's the other bow picture.
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| From: Babysaph
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| Date: 09-Aug-22 |
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Here is my new Schafer Batman
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| From: Babysaph
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| Date: 09-Aug-22 |
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Here is my new Schafer Batman
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| From: Nemophilist
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| Date: 09-Aug-22 |
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I think Batman has seen all my bows, so I'll just post a picture of the one I'm shooting now and going to bow hunt with this year. It's a 1971 Bear Super Magnum (55#@28" / 48"amo).
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| From: Gray Goose Shaft
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| Date: 09-Aug-22 |
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I bought an old Herters CV17 recurve to refinish, then found that the limb tips were starting to split. With some ideas from Bowdoc's repair document and courage from 2bears, I pulled off a bow refinish and a G10 tip laminating job. Some good folks here; in person and in sprit.
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| From: Gray Goose Shaft
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| Date: 09-Aug-22 |
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Here is left handed a Korte '59er. Curly maple handle, Bocote I-beam, African anigre limb veneers, and fancy knife scales for highlights. A talented bowyer and a gentleman.
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| From: Batman
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| Date: 09-Aug-22 |
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Love to see me some PURDEE BOWS! LOOKING GREAT! Even the photo of the geese was interesting! Think of all those water resistant feathers! (LOL) Have to dram of that cause probably NOT legal?? BLESSED BE!
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| From: randy_68
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| Date: 09-Aug-22 |
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Just traded for this Bob Lee Exotic signature bow. 53#, 62".
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| From: randy_68
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| Date: 09-Aug-22 |
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Some stumping with my Bear Rambo Takedown last winter
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| From: randy_68
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| Date: 09-Aug-22 |
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And a pic of my 7 Lakes u-finish longbow. 47#, 66".
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| From: Mike E
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| Date: 09-Aug-22 |
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New to me Red Wing Hunter, '66 far as I can tell. Nice work on the tips GGS.
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| From: Buckshot
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| Date: 09-Aug-22 |
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A picture of mine. Osage, 72 Bear Grizzly, 96 Bear Super Kodiak, Bear Ranger and a couple of Black Hunters.
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| From: Nemophilist
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| Date: 09-Aug-22 |
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Here is one I don't own anymore. A Dick Robertson Montana Falcon. Tulipwood veneer limbs and a Bubinga riser (65#@28"). I sold it when I decided to go Bear Archery only.
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| From: Moleman 1
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| Date: 09-Aug-22 |
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54' Bear Polar longbow. This year's choice.
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| From: Mike E
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| Date: 09-Aug-22 |
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St. Charles Thunderbird I sold and was lucky enough to buy back.
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| From: soap creek
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| Date: 09-Aug-22 |
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My A mag with 48lb #1 limbs. It's going with me this fall.
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| From: randy_68
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| Date: 09-Aug-22 |
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Almost forgot this one. My camoed Bear takedown. 53# 60". It will be my deer hunting bow this fall. Just got done shooting some Bear razor heads thru it and it is spot on. Can't wait to go.
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| From: babysaph
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| Date: 09-Aug-22 |
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Dave I thought you were shooting black hunters. But that is a purdy bow.
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| From: Tomas deGato
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| Date: 09-Aug-22 |
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Tall Tines I let go 2 years ago. Buying it back. Should have it safe at home in a week or two.
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| From: fishin coyote
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| Date: 09-Aug-22 |
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I had this in my possession once. I should have had it come up missing when I sent it back LOL
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| From: fishin coyote
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| Date: 09-Aug-22 |
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Eventually I ended up with this one
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| From: Knifeguy
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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An American Archery T/D that I recently acquired and refinished. Lance
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| From: Knifeguy
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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Here’s the before Batman! Lance
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| From: Altitude Sickness
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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A bow a friend made for me in the mid 80s. it came with 70# and 55# limbs
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| From: Dry Bones
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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A recent evening with the freeman Longbow.
-Bones
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| From: Dry Bones
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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A Widow that is in my possession currently.
-Bones
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| From: Altitude Sickness
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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Pretty cool a BW with a compass. Did you Imbed it into the riser
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| From: Batman
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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GREAT LOOKING BOWS! Hope that there is stump shooting in Heaven? BLESSED BE!
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| From: DanaC
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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How 'bout a doe? Snapped this pic about 6 AM
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| From: Jim
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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| From: Jim
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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| From: Jim
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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| From: Jim
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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| From: Jim
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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| From: Jim
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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| From: Jim
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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| From: mangonboat
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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I have gotten lazy in selling bows whose phone number I stopped answering. You know how it goes..fickle as the wind when there's so many pretty girls to dance with. But I am cracking open the little red book for Batman for entertainment purposes only.
This is left handed 1959 Bear Grizzly, 55#, that I bought from a young fella on Craigslist who said he found it cleaning out his aunts garage. When I met him I couldn't help but notice that the coin, a first in 1959, had been pried out. But its a mighty fine shooter and missing jewelry is an opportunity, not a defect. I am still working on refinishing this bow, but in the meantime the 3/8" ratchet drive on the Craftsman socket set my Dad gave me in 1973 stopped working, so off to Sears I went. They let me pick a 'new' one out of their bucket of re-built ratchets, but they didn't want mine because it was so old. When I got home I couldnt help but notice that the drive direction selector disc was worn down from chrome to nickel to copper. I grew up in a family where knowing the steps and science of chrome plating was required, so I thought that was interesting. Then I also noticed that the selector disc looked mighty close to the size of a nickel, and I'd seem some early Bear coin-bows which looked mighy handsome with an Indian/Buffalo nickel in the place of a lost coin. So now I have a 1959 Grizzly that is equipped with a top-secret aiming mechanism that 'ratchets' up or down to adjust for distance and elevation , although at 55# she spits arrows so fast that there isn't much need to elevate.
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| From: skookum
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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"Diamondbacks"
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| From: Stick Hippie
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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Osage Selfbow
62” NTN
45#@28”
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| From: mangonboat
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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Here's another left-handed bow I picked up on eBay for $38 a few years ago. No labels, no writing, no stamped numbers. But I know a celebrity when I see one. She's a 1956 Howatt Mamba Sharpshooter, their top of the line bow at the time. But this one is missing the factory leather wrap grip, as well as those decals ,stamp and writing. Larry Hatfield has passed along her on LW how Damon Howatt another Howatt bowyer were shooting critters and found an old flint knapped-edge tool,, picked it up and it was used to skiv every leather wrap grip on every Damon Howatt bow sold with a grip thereafter. The mystery was solved by a patch of orange filler in the deepest part of the grip. The bowyer shaping this bow on a belt sander caught the edge of the belt in the inner curve of the grip and left a groove. Into the trash can it went ( you can find pics of those trash cans filled with bows in the Damon Howatt shop) and out the back door it went, probably the same afternoon!An employee filled that groove and finished it at home and its been looking for a dance partner ever since. This 66 y.o guy and that long, leggy, mighty purty 66 y.o. gal can cut a rug 'til the cows come home.
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| From: Boker
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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Batman
Something a little different , early 70’s Bear mag TD B riser I am refinishing.
Going to paint this one tan/brown and may at a later date do a brown camo pattern on it.
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| From: mangonboat
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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Enough stories for today. Maybe tomorrow I'll spill the beans about this one...
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| From: Draven
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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Border triple carbon riser - heritage midnight - and HEX 7.5 meds set #59 OTF
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| From: Draven
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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Riser and limbs complementing together
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| From: Draven
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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Border triple carbon - shedua - 19” riser and HEX 6 meds set 53 OTF
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| From: Draven
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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Rotated maybe?
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| From: Draven
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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Dryad Epic 19” riser and Dryad Epic longs LB limbs set 49 OTF
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| From: babysaph
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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Draven I bet those bows will spit and arrow.
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| From: B.T.
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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I love that first Border. Nice hunting bow.
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| From: DHay
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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Exploring on a Hot day. Dog in the shade and a Monarch Longbow.
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| From: DHay
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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A couple of Cousins. (brown)Thunderhorn Heartstopper and a (reddish) Selway II "Lil Shooter"
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| From: DHay
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| Date: 10-Aug-22 |
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| From: Batman
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| Date: 11-Aug-22 |
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RESPECT and HONORS to those who follow the BOW!
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| From: babysaph
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| Date: 11-Aug-22 |
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Nemo that is my favorite Bear bow of yours. I would love to find one. I have two new mags I would trade for one. LOL
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| From: brianbfree
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| Date: 12-Aug-22 |
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Here are my Howatts
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| From: MStyles
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| Date: 12-Aug-22 |
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My No name 53# longbow. Osage riser.
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| From: Nemophilist
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| Date: 12-Aug-22 |
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I've posted this picture before, but it is my favorite bow.
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| From: Kwikdraw
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| Date: 20-Aug-22 |
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Here is my "mongrel" turkey stik: Border 6.5 shorts w/ a Toxocraft 11" riser, 41" strung. Really fun little bow that surprises!
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| From: Nemophilist
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| Date: 20-Aug-22 |
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My 1996 Bear Kodiak Takedown.
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| From: Greenstyk
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| Date: 20-Aug-22 |
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Wes Wallace Mentor 61@28
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| From: Bushytail
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| Date: 20-Aug-22 |
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Bow I’m shooting now. I had to come down in poundage.
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| From: Nemophilist
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| Date: 20-Aug-22 |
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My 1997 Bear Kodiak Takedown.
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| From: Nemophilist
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| Date: 20-Aug-22 |
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My Frankenbow. Bear Black Bear riser with Samick Sage recurve limbs.
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| From: Draven
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| Date: 20-Aug-22 |
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Babysaph, they sure are. Thank you B.T.
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| From: DanaC
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| Date: 20-Aug-22 |
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Bows I was shooting back in '09. Only the Dreamcatcher is still in the stable today.
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| From: Nemophilist
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| Date: 20-Aug-22 |
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Another Dick Robertson Montana Falcon I used to own. Bocote riser and Bocote veneer limbs with rattlesnake skin.
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| From: Nemophilist
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| Date: 20-Aug-22 |
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My 1989 Bear Kodiak Takedown.
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| From: YamahaYG68
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| Date: 20-Aug-22 |
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My new 66" Omega Royal Huntsman, received Aug. 6, 2022.
Riser is Specraply Jacaranda, this one is and EXCELLENT "shooter"
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| From: White Falcon
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| Date: 20-Aug-22 |
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Refinished this one. Glass sanded or scraped to the point some went through. Not by me.
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| From: DanaC
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| Date: 20-Aug-22 |
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oops this is the picture of my '09 bows
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| From: Batman
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| Date: 20-Aug-22 |
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SO MANY PURDEE BOWS! BE WELL / SAFE / COOL / COMFORTABLE!
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| From: Frisky
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| Date: 21-Aug-22 |
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If Batman wants to see bows, I'll show him bows! Here's the Stemmler that started me on the way to becoming the Mighty Legend of the North!
Joe
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| From: Frisky
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| Date: 21-Aug-22 |
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Here's the late Don Brown shooting a heavy longbow.
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| From: Frisky
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| Date: 21-Aug-22 |
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Here's the greatest bow ever made!
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| From: Frisky
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| Date: 21-Aug-22 |
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Here's my 50 pound pull Bear 76er, the bow that inspired me to own the Custom Kodiak TD.
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| From: Frisky
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| Date: 21-Aug-22 |
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Here's the Grail, along side the equally beautifully colored Klein road bike.
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| From: Frisky
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| Date: 21-Aug-22 |
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Here's my Hoyt Pro Medalist 2.
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| From: Frisky
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| Date: 21-Aug-22 |
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Here's my Kodiak TD in foreground, the Grail in the center and my 95' purpleheart Howatt Hunter in the background.
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| From: Frisky
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| Date: 21-Aug-22 |
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Here's my mid 70s Indian Archery recurve.
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| From: 1Longbow
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| Date: 21-Aug-22 |
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Love your bow ,Stick Hippie
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| From: Nemah
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| Date: 21-Aug-22 |
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RKKorte '59 Kodiak..54#...Quilted Maple & Purpleheart...Quilted Maple limb veneers dyed purple-brown.
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| From: Stickbow Felty
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| Date: 21-Aug-22 |
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Picture of my future hop hornbeam bow
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| From: Nemophilist
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| Date: 21-Aug-22 |
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2016 Bear Kodiak Takedown
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| From: White Falcon
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| Date: 21-Aug-22 |
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Tim, I had the same outfit. But I got to fat for it, traded.
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| From: mangonboat
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| Date: 21-Aug-22 |
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I tend to ignore fancy bows but I love this Bigfoot Sasquatch SS. Kirk made this one in 2016 for somebody else and I picked it up used . The leopardwood riser slabs and ipe i-beam are so classy looking and its shoots those beer zombies pretty good.
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| From: grizz
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| Date: 21-Aug-22 |
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Got a call this evening from James and he wanted me to let you know that AT&T has once more abandoned the Bat Cave.
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| From: Frisky
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| Date: 21-Aug-22 |
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Yes, I noticed my email was not getting the usual Bat abuse.
Joe
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| From: Buckshot
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| Date: 22-Aug-22 |
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My small collection.
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| From: rallison
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| Date: 22-Aug-22 |
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I love my WhippenSticks...too bad Ken got out of the biz!
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| From: Nemophilist
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| Date: 22-Aug-22 |
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My three Bear Grizzlies. 1974, 1976, and 1999.
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| From: Wudstix
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| Date: 22-Aug-22 |
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Howatt HTD
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| From: Wudstix
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| Date: 22-Aug-22 |
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Big River 21st Century clone.
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| From: Wudstix
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| Date: 22-Aug-22 |
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Close up ot Big River LB riser.
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| From: Wudstix
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| Date: 23-Aug-22 |
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Howatt Hunter, Howatt HTD, Martin MTD
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| From: BigJohn
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| Date: 24-Aug-22 |
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Something a little different... Martin Saber...set up to shoot off the shelf...it's really fun to shoot...take care Batman...
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