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Old 02-29-2008, 02:20 PM   #1
 
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My uncle has one of the original Fred bear super kodiaks he bought in the 50's i think, does anyone know how much this bow is worth.
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Old 02-29-2008, 02:54 PM   #2
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It depends on the bow to be honest. I'm not sure what the super kodiaks go for myself. A picture would help the people that know get you close.

I have several bows from the 50's but none of them are worth alot except to me.
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Old 02-29-2008, 08:34 PM   #3
 
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I know its in pretty good cond. cause my cousin has it and he takes real good care of all his huntin stuff.
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Old 02-29-2008, 11:43 PM   #4
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Bear didn't introduce the Super Kodiak until 1967. Actually, it didn't appear until the 67 1/2 supplement catalog.It's a common mistake to see the 1953 patent date and think that's the year of manufacture, but Bear put that patent date on all their recurves for many years.

The Super isn't nearly as popular with collectors and shooters as the regular Kodiak, so it's not worth as much.On a good day, you canpick them up for under $200 on Ebay.
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ok then he must of bought it in the late 60's then, but that is ebay everything is dirt cheap on ebay
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See thats what I meant about someone that knows more than I do. I didn't know when the specials came out.


As for ebay I think you'll find they aren't to far off on bow pricing. Sure you may find someone to buy it for more but ebay has thousands of people that could want your item.
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Old 03-01-2008, 05:28 PM   #7
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Don't go giving me more credit than I'm due, Jasonlester. I don't know beans. I'vegot a CD with all the Bear catalogs from 1949 through 1978, so all I did was research the question.
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At Denton Hill last year, I was scoping out a couple of old beater bows laying on a blanket at the swap meet. I was looking for something cheap that I could loan to neighbor kids, take carp hunting, or otherwise loose or destroy. I asked how much a couple of them were.

"This one's thirty-five and this one's eight", the guy told me.

Thirty-five dollarsseemed reasonable for the better looking of the pair, but the other was so bad, that I debated whether I wanted to even waste 8 buckson it. Eventually, I decided to take both, gathered them upand handed the guy $43.

"Um, sir", he said. This one is eight hundred.

"Ohhhh", I said, while gentley laying the battlescarred wreck back on the blanket. Evidently that one was a rare Bear collector's bow, a Super Kodiak, if I remember right. (I wasquite content with the no-name, uncollectable, but very functional and cheap bow.)

Who knows, maybe you've got one of those collector deals, can sell it for a mint, and then order a brand new custom bow.
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^ well its my uncle's and if it is or was worth that to somone i wouldnt sell it anyways if it was mine.
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Was that in one of the boxes in the garage you had to clean out today[8D]
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