burniegoeasily

PA Hardwoods
Have you considered refinishing it? I refinished my 1978 Herters last year and it came out great. I carefully removed the old finish with sand paper, being real careful not to get into the laminate, and resprayed it with Minwax helmans laquire. It made a world of difference. Ive hunted with that bow most of this season.

MOmightymite

I shot this spike last year to be my first bowkill deer. I used my Bowtech Mightymite. Before this one I took 2 hogs in Texas. Since then i have taken 2 more deer with it.

outdoorslover

My first bow kill was this year. I killed a 150 pound doe. I shot it at 20 yards with my Browning Rage One set at 60 pounds and I was using Thunderhead broadheads. I double lunged her and she went like 80 yards and died in minutes. She dropped no blood and I just went to where I last saw her.

smittymo

Here's my first post about my first kill. Been bowhunting for 6 years and it took3 years of bowhuntingto shot a spike at 35 yards, double lung and liver (quartering away). This was also my first year of deer camp.

PA Hardwoods

Burnie the thought did cross my mind of refinishing it. It is just one of the 5 recurves I own. (Chek-Mate Hunter II, Bear Black Bear, Bear Kodiak Magnum, Locksley Puma(This was my grandfathers) and the bow that started me down the archery path, a Ben Pearson Super Jet that was my dads when he was a kid.) It will probably always be used for bowfishing. That may be a winter project this year. The one that I love to shoot is my Chek-Mate Hunter II. That is my baby! Probably followed by the Kodiak Magnum.

burniegoeasily

A check mate is an awsome bow.

Finch

My first was a doe 4-5 years ago with an old Pearson Buckmaster (bushmaster) not sure on the name. I wasn't into bowhunting that much back then.

I'm in love now though. I have taken 5 deer with a bow in my hunting career so far.

burniegoeasily

I believe that would be a bushmaster. I had two back in the 80s. In the mid 80s person made a round wheel version and a double cam version. Both were decent bows for the time. I shot a few animals with a bushmaster.

Talondale

I think it was '92. A five point with an old Whitetail II an older gentleman had loaned me to see if archery would interest me. I returned the bow to him after killing that deer and went and ordered my own bow. That Whitetail II was a nightmare to tune and I couldn't get it to group better than 6" but it got the job done.

ahunter55

My 1st year of Bowhunting I took some Rabbits (1956) & 2 years later (1958) took my 1st Deer (Doe) with a 45# Eddings Recurve & wood arrows & MA3 blade. 35 yard shot-double lung & she went 30 yards.
This is the ANNIVERSAY of my FIFTIETH year of Bowhunting.
I took a hog in Oklahoma earlier this year & this is my 1st Deer in Iowa on one of my antlerless tags (Nov. 12th) Me & my 2 youngest girls.. I have traveled many states & Canada Bowhunting & have been blessed with a great variety-Whitetail, Mule Deer, Elk, Caribou, Black Bears, Wild Hogs, Rams, & a few Exotic Deer plus a Buffalo