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.