RE: New Traditional Hunter gets his first bow.
Could very easily be an early Bear Bow. Fred first started making bows in the Detroit area, where he lived at the time. For quite awhile he had his factory in Detroit in the Grand River Ave/Shaefer Rd area of N.W. Detroit. I might be wrong, but I don't believe he moved his works to the Grayling, MI area until the '60s. So either way it's conceivable your Grampa could have purchased the bow from Fred's Co. in either Detroit or Grayling. I'll check around my club, because we've got lots of old-timers that shot in our Bush League (barebow league) when it used a portion of Fred's factory for a range. They might be able to identify the bow.
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Jack
Edited by - Floxter on 01/16/2002 21:19:20