Do you remember your first bow?
 

Ohhhhhh.....it was beautiful. I'd wanted one of these for a very long time. It was my birthday, 3-22-84. I was 12. Dad couldn't wrap it, so he brought me into the den where it was hanging on the wall. My first bow!! I was so excited I couldn't stand it. A Bear Whitetail Hunter. You remember those, don't you. Lotta guys use them for bowfishing rigs now. The poundage was adjustable by moving 2 wheels attached to the riser. I think it was maxed out at 42# and just to show how the times have changed, I was shooting an Easton 2018. Talk about HEAVY!

And now look. I've gone all high tech! But I'll never forget that first one. Coincidentally, that bow is hanging on the same wall as when it was given to me.

How about ya'll? What was your first bow?

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How could you forget it?

60# Jennings Forked Lightning with 2018 shafts at a blistering 185 fps!

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A Bear Polar LTD with big ol easton shafts at aobut 200 fps lol slow but could get er done

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yep....i used to have a little long bow type compound! 9lb draw...dad said i could fling them arrows better then anyone! ...but my first REAL bow will be coming shortly! i wish dad never got outa archery! that way i wouldnt be stuck jumping into it alone at 19!

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Oh yeah! Mine was a used Browning with all other markings worn slap off of it. I'll never forget how I used pull back that 60 # rascal and let that Easton 2018 sail, reach down and get a sip of tea, and then watch that marvelous arrow slice into that 20 yard target. It may not have been fast but it sure was fun.

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yes

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well my first bow would be one of those bows that one way its right handed and flip it the other way its left handed,the next one would be a Brave golden eagel max 20#,then a pse nova max 40#,then an OLD Indian Warhawk max 60#, then here i am now Browning F5 tornado.The nova was the first bow i could hunt with i htink i was shooting 1816's and i only had one shot at a deer and i missed but i was only 11 ish but i got my first one the next year

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My 1st bow was some sort of greenish glass limbed longbow. Maybe a 25-30# draw wt. That was before i was old enough or big enough to hunt. Then it went to an oldshakespeare recurve that I used for 1-2 years until at 14 I saved up enough money to buy a PSE Pulsar express.

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I remember mine. It was an Indian. Max draw weight was 50lbs. I harvested 12 deer with that bow. Still wish I had it.

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First bow was a kind of fiberglass recurve.
My first compound was a Whitetail II,I think it chronoed at 195 FPS

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bear, black mag, 50lb, killed my first deer with it, dad bought it for me some 20 yrs ago, andstill got it.

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Green fiberglass recurve, wooden arrows I found in the summer kitchen. That was a long time ago...

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Hey, I had one of those green long bows for my 1st bow.

Then I got a 40# Ben Pearson recurve

Then a Jennings Side kick 3 For my 1st compound

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My first bow was a Hoyt Raider, still have it. (hasnt been used in years) then i bought myself a golden eagle orion then a hoyt intruder and now i shoot a hoyt vipertec

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I bought my first bow when I was 12 when I worked for my uncle at his produce stand. I paid the man $40.00 for a Peason bushmaster or buckmaster(Can't remember which). I remember I set up a makeshift target behind the produce stand and my first shot was low and went right into my uncles waterhose which fed all theplants.Had to buy him a new water hose.:D

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my first was a Browning recurve. i dont know the actual name of it but its sweet. i should pull it out sometime and shoot it. got it about 8 years ago or so.

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My handy dandy Jennings Speedstar. I still use from time to time today. Its actually a very quiet bow.

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first bow was a Fred Bear recurve first compound was a Graham

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my Darton Nomad 60# wasnt too bad as a beginner bow but I grew out of it and needed a "good" bow lol

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My first bow is the bow that im using for this bowhunting season! I remember a few months ago after begging my dad for a bow for christmas, he took me to several places and then i seen the PSE Bruin for $200. I knew i just hadda get the bow so my dad bought it and i couldnt use it till christmas. The next few days after that i shot all day:D

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Yup, I remember mine.....I'm still shooting it....7 years later. I'll give it another 2-3 years before an upgrade.

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Jennings Forked Lightning. I shot the hell outta that bow, and even killed a few deer with it. I graduated to an XI Legend Magnum from there. At the time, Myles Keller was my hero, that was who he was endorsing at the time.

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My first bow is only 3 years old right now and my brother owns it now, its a hoyt ultramag, the next year i got the vipertech and this year i got a bowtech defender!
talk about being hooked, I already admitted in a thread that was posted a couple of days ago about having a problem that Im a archery junky haha:).
I killed my first two deer with the ultramag I killed two deer and three pigs with the Vipertech last year the defender dosent have any to its credit yet hopefully 2006 !

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my first bow is a PSE silverhawk, that my dad bought at wally world, 3 years ago, i started using it, 2 season ago and killed my first deer with it that year. This will be the third season that i will use the bow if i dont get enough money to buy i new bow, which i would like to do, but if not i am good to go. it is a nice bow, little loud, even with silincers on it but it does get the job done. i have the bow maxed out now at 30"DL and a little of 60# of draw wieght, shooting easton maxum quattro's 340 alum. 2413 i think is what they are

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Bear compund bow, 60# ... sold it for more than I bought it for! Now that's getting your moneys worth!

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Mine was one of those "toy" bows... you know, the red fiberglass bow with wheels.... I think I was about 5
When I was about 7I got a Pearson with a 35# max peak weight... That's about when my dad and I would take turns trying to bust each others knocks.. hehe... By the time I was 9 I showed my dad that I could pull back my mom's which was at 50#.... I remember sneaking downstairs and trying it everyday for weeks before I finally could.... When I was 10 I started hunting with it. Before I could legally sit in a stand by myself. My mom would sit in a box blind a 100 or so yds away while I sat in a stand....

Only thing I ever killed was a squirrel(literally nailed to a tree).... but man was I COOL!!! :)I got to bowhunt like my dad!!!

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Mine was a Browning something or another. Round wheel compound at 60# draw. I put an overdraw on it and my Easton 2117's were screaming at 214fps. I sold it to buy the Browning Mirage when it first came out. That had two radical cams and I couldn't shoot it worth a damn! I wished I hadn't sold the first one for years.

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You know.....when I first started to reply to this......I thought I was gonna get laughed at. I "started" to put down that my first bow was the one I'm shooting, now ....my '05 switchback.

When I started thinking......I opened up a lot of old memories.

My first bow came when I was just a REALLY little kid. My dad used to cut my brother's and my har with electric clippers when we were young. I remember the day he took me to the barber shop for the first time (If any of you are Andy Griffith fans....it was the barber shop right beside the "Snappy Lunch" they mention on the show. I grew up in Andy's home town......and MUCH of the show is depicted from 'our' hometown). Well.....the bribe was.....after the haircut....we could go and get a toy from the Rose's department store (across the street)....and then eat lunch (which ended up being at Snappy Lunch).

At Rose's....dad bought me a "li'l Beaver' (yeah....I was a Red Ryder fan) toy bow and arrows. I thought nothing could be finer. When I look back on that, now......and think how far I've come (financially......though anywhere at that time would have been UP).....I can't imagine anything other than my wife and son making me ANY happier than I was at that moment. Life is funny....and simple, sometimes.....ain't it????

Anyways......I remember also being a few years older.....and buying some real arrows from the store (cheap). I remember getting a piece of nylon rope......notching a green....just-so-perfect tree limb.....and making my own bows. It was amazing how good the arrows flew with the homemade bow.

I also remember getting an old recurve at a yard sale for practically nothing.......and shooting it off-and-on for a few years. Nothing ever serious, though.

It wasn't until my son (14yrs) got an old Jennings from a neighbor.....last year.....that the archery bug bit me, again. At the time (and up until this very moment) I thought THAT was the beginning of me and archery. I wanted a bow, too. I thought it was something we could do, together. I bought the Switchback.....and I've been balls-to-the-wall, every since.

I hate to go onand on.....but this topic has opened up some oldmemory albums.I can thank dad for buying me that old toy bow.....35 years ago.....but he left us in 2001. If your dadgot you into bows and bowhunting......tell him "thanks".....

I don't recall who opened this thread....but I apologize for the long-winded answer......and hope I didn't threadjack.

Jeff

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I remember my first bow like it was yesturday.
I was hunting in the Berkshiers in Ma. and a friend of mine just bought a new fangled thing with 8 wheels and called it a compound bow. Fred Bear came up with the idia and of course I watched all the American Sportsman series with Curt Goudy and Fred was on there quite a bit Archery hunting.
Any way he let me shoot it and it was really neat you could come to full draw and 50% of the weight let go. I had to have one so I went to the local gun shop (back then there wern't any archery shops around here) and bought a Fred Bear Whitetail. I hunted hard with that bow for our 3 week season every year for 6 years and never took a deer with it. here wern't many deer around here back then. But it got me hooked and here almopst 40 years latter I am still a bow hunting adict.

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Yup it was a bear kodiak recurve in 1973 man i wish i still had that bow!!! Walt

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Bear Whitetail Hunter bought it in 1976. Bow,Qwkee Quiver, case and sight for around $100.00. Then an other $15.00 for 6 Game Getter 2016.

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i see a trend here with people wishing they still had there old bows

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My first bow was a browning but i cant remember the model of it.

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Hand me down fiberglass recurve but when I was 15 I was given my first compound as a birthday present, A Bear Black Bear II...used it til my early 20's....still have it, that was about 10 bows ago.

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I am using my first bow because of the fact I have only had it 7 monthes[8D]So yeah, I guess I remeber my first bow.

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Mine was a York Pro Classic from about 1993 i think. I still have it but the limbs have small
cracks so i can't shoot it anymore. I guess it will be an antique someday.

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Darton SL50 50# draw. I think I was 12.

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An Indian Archery recurve, 35 lbs. in 1965 or 1966. I still have this bow.

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green fiberglass recurve 35# then an old Bear not sure which model

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My first bow was a Bear recurve, I think it was a Kodiak, back in the mid 70s. My first compound was a Bear Polar LTD. The good old days.:)