Oregon made a fantastic bow, but suffered from poor management after the original owner was killed in an accident.

They were extremely high quality, and thier limbs were some of if not THE best out there. The were one of few manufacturers who claimed to have carbon in their limbs who actually did, and it was a failry significant amount.

They were very fast apples to apples, extremely quiet, and built like a tank. They did tend to go through bushings a little fast.

Oregons new onwer ran them into the ground with his arrogance, and extremely high pricing structure. He had a great product and wanted to price them beyond reason even for the quality. He screwd alot of the original Oregon sales reps, and dealers in the process. Dealer cost on the original Black Knight w/ Z2000 machined riser was in the high $500 range in 1995. the cast riser models sold for around the $500 mark. hard to sell a 500 smcker cast riser bow, and a $750-$800 machined riser bow in 1994 or 1995.

AFAIK, Kevin designed only the last year or three of their existence, though I could be mistaken.
Fantastic Bows, I really miss the company from a product standpoint. One of my local gun shops still has dozens of Oregon BK's and Qriser BK's as well as other models on his shelves (The fellow who used to run the archery shop died, and he's too high onthe bows to move them). IF you have never seen an Oregon BK decked out in target colors, you owe it to yourself to find an old catalog. Prettiest compound bows I've ever laid my eyes on,and I mean that, every other target color bow I have seen pales in comparison even the old Mountaineer and Proline bows. These things were all hand painted/sprayed. Intricate spider webs on the limbs, American flag bows, beautiful 2 and 3 tone color fades, matching stabilizers and overdraws.

One of thse days I might break down and buy a couple from this guy, I do miss the original BK.

JeffB