LOL. Since we have kill threads with all types of arrows I thought it would be cool to have a cheap bow kill thread. May not be able to do it until next year but with all the hoopla over the Lancaster winner shooting a cheap bow I thought It would be neat. Let's say $200 or less. And yes I am bored. LOL.

Pearson 306 - 60# - cost? Traded knives to Don T.

Nice pig Tony!

I think selfbow guys will be all over this!

Funny to think that my ‘90 Howatt Hunter qualifies as “cheap”, as it sure didn’t feel that way at the time!

$150 was a lot of money to me then. Half a paycheck! Now I can barely get out of the grocery store for that, especially when Hans and Franz are home from school….

I don't have a picture but my first deer was killed with a solid glass Brown Bear that I think I paid less than $25 for...including three Razorhead tipped cedar arrows, an armguard, a quiver, a finger tab and and a target.

Pretty sure that would qualify as "cheap."

I've killed a lot of deer since then with much more expensive bows, but as far as I know they weren't any deader.

LOL

I bought a Bear Grizzly off of the big auction site for less than $120 with fees and shipping a couple years ago. I refinished it myself and killed this buck and doe with it 2 seasons ago.

But if you value your labor at $5/hour, does it still come in under the $200 cap? LOL

Can’t put a price on the satisfaction, though. Nice work!’

Frankenbow I built in 2021. I got $140.00 into it.

Should have just resurrected your cheap bow thread from July ; you would have have more pics to look at !

1974 Bear Grizzly my Dad bought for me, for about $45.00 / $50.00 back in 1974. Killed a few bucks with this bow.

Cheap bow thread from March was even better !

Martin Mountaineer long bow around $175.00 I bought back in 1989.

Does this count this was giving to me 60# Longbow 20yrd shot

Nice guys.

Longbow I bought used for under $100.00 back in the early 1990s.

I should have. Forgot I even posted that. lol

$170.00 longbow a guy named Mike made for me I had back in my longbow days back in the early 1990s.

I haven't taken any game with this one (1997 Bear Super Kodiak) yet, but I got it on the big auction site for $125.00 and shipping was included. It was a make an offer option. I thought for sure he would reject my offer, but he didn't. Since I got it so cheap I had it camo dipped.

Squirrel hunting with a $99 Kittredge recurve and $99 John Schulz back quiver

1950's #62 Stream Eze fiberglass bow and a Microflite 8 arrow with a Bear Razor Head. Paid $15 for the bow and the arrow was my Dad's. Me back in the 80's.

#45 Grimes aluminum bow with a #70 spine cedar shaft and a Hunters Head. Probably around the year 2000. Both this and the deer I got with the Stream Eze were taken on Public Land.

First Bow I built on my own, simple longer flat bow. Less than $40 in materials. Another Public Land deer.

shot this buck with a herters takedown in 1976. bought it off a guy for $35. still a great shooting old bow! 60# @28" i was a young feller in 1976!

I paid .25 cents for a Shakespeare recurve at a yard sale and shot a fox with it.

Made the bow myself from materials won on this sight. (A Kenny M drawing) Except riser wood which was scraps from other builds. I think I paid $2 for one piece of it in the scrap box at wood store. Ace broadhead was won as a door prize during Ky Tradfest. Made the string, quiver top, the bottom was bought at a yard sale for a set for $2. A couple of the arrows in the quiver was picked up at a yard sale by a friend and given to me, but the arrow I used and lost was out of a dozen I purchased on sale for $40 per dozen. It would probably take a selfbow guy to have less money invested! ??

Well I’ll jump in with this years buck with homemade Osage selfbow. Self harvested tree, road kill timber rattler skin and homemade quiver. 8yd shot from the ground.

My labor is cheap, satisfaction reward is great.

My used 80.00 Galaxy Sear and 100.00 limbs. This years kill.

WHAT no $70 new Chinese bows? No Black hunter bows?

I prefer Frugal Bow Kills .

First bow kill ever. $18.50 for a spool of B-55 (which strung several other bows to). $20 dollars for one prairie rattler skin I got at a primitive meet.

I spent almost as much on my six arrows and I won the TSA shafts. The half dozen grizzly single bevels were over $30.

I love how Frugal I can hunt. My tags cost more than my hunting setup.

Bjrogg

Second bow kill ever. This one was only the cost of my D-97 string i Flemish twisted up for it. It’s just Osage and a string. The Osage log it came from was gifted to me. It’s the first Osage bow I ever made. Still my favorite.

Bjrogg

Reverse handle longbow I built, patterned somewhat after a 90's era Black Swan, with a Jim Fetro vertical layout. Used cheap glass that was purchased on here with a total of $27 in materials. Cedar shaft used was from a bunch I got for about 4 cents a shaft.

I was really thinking about the cheap bows Like is sold on amazon. Black hunter, Sanlida etc.

I was guessing you were Jimmy, but I really do love how little it cost to go hunting like this.

As far as the time spent working on this stuff. I always say it’s very effective and cheap therapy. I think I need it to keep me sane sometimes. And the reward of a successful hunt is incredible.

Bjrogg

JR as C H E A P and tight as you are you should just stick with plugged camper drain lines. . good idea for the topic, wonder how many Black Hunter bows have blood on them.

lol leathercutter. I was only trying to help you with your camper.

I really like that it doesn’t cost much to get shooting.

How can you beat Jon Stewart 15 cent Shakespeare and a fox kill? No kills with the China bows?

Bought the 52# Shakespeare Yukon for $15. Shot alot of deer with it. Heres one of them. Mid 1980's

And another one with the $15 Shakespeare. Late 1980's

Same Shakespeare Yukon. I don't even think I had 2 arrows that matched. Just didn't have the money back then. Had to go with what was in hand.

$40 Browning Nomad Stalker I sold the bow two years ago for $60 and included all the arrows that fit it spine wise. I made a few bucks and filled my freezer with a lot of valuable meat. Priceless! ??

My first trad deer with samick sage back in 2014. Biggest buck I’ve killed with any equipment

Killed with a $90 Amazon black hunter. Upgraded to a TTT string and she was good to go. That season I had several bows worth 5x that much but I was shooting the black hunter the best so I hunted with it. Still have it my son shoots it now

Galaxy Ember

There ya go Dave. Nice hog. Well done.

Nice sheep dog. It aint rocket science

Nice cheap bows!

“It aint rocket science”

But it IS all ‘bout dem Physics.

True that

You mean you can kill game with a bow that cost less than $800 bucks? This is a good thread.

You can. but I think it should be reserved for cheap bows. Not good bows that guys got for a low cost. But that is just me.

I might have a buck fifty in this bow for glue, the arrow rest and string material. I don't put any value in my time because it was pure enjoyment making the is bow from a log. I could add $5 or so for chainsaw gas and fuel for my truck to drive to some land close by to cut the tree.

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