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What was your first bow?
12-22-2003, 04:46 PM
#32
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 9,175
RE: What was your first bow?
You don't have a selfbow category on your poll, Coug. So I clicked longbow instead.
I'd been making, shooting and hunting with homemade bows and arrows for a good six years before I ever got my first storebought gear - a solid glass 45 pound Bear recurve. That was cool. A bow that would never break or wear out.
Unfortunately, I found out it wasn't tornado proof. It was gone with the wind in 1979.
It had been retired for a glass laminated recurve (Shakespeare maybe? I forget) long before that though.
I'd been making, shooting and hunting with homemade bows and arrows for a good six years before I ever got my first storebought gear - a solid glass 45 pound Bear recurve. That was cool. A bow that would never break or wear out.
Unfortunately, I found out it wasn't tornado proof. It was gone with the wind in 1979. It had been retired for a glass laminated recurve (Shakespeare maybe? I forget) long before that though.
12-22-2003, 04:48 PM
#33
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blossvale, New York
Posts: 21,199
RE: What was your first bow?
1970 DAMON HOWITT recurve. I'd give lots of money if I could have it again. I'd give even more for one free shot at the yahoo I let borrow it who then locked it up in his pickup during the August heat(about 105 that day) in Georgia after I told him NOT TO. He went out and pulled it out at work during lunch hour to show some fellow employees how good he was getting. It shattered when he pulled it back. ONE FREE SHOT... that's all I want. TO THE MOON ALICE...... BING...BAM>... ZING....ZOOM.... TO THE MOON.
12-22-2003, 05:18 PM
#34
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Dover, PA USA
Posts: 5,497
RE: What was your first bow?
I started bowhunting in 1984 and that meant a Bear Whitetail Hunter compound.(X-mas 1983) I think I had one of the first camo models of that bow.
I couldn't even begin to tell you how much I shot that bow for the 4-5 yrs I owned it.
I couldn't even begin to tell you how much I shot that bow for the 4-5 yrs I owned it.
12-22-2003, 08:47 PM
#37
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 9,175
RE: What was your first bow?
I think just about all of us had the red fiberglass, and the tree limb bows...
My first hunting bow....
My first hunting bow....
Dang! I hate finding out I made such a bad mistake more than 45 years too late to do anything about it. [:'(]
By the way, my fiberglass bow was NOT red.
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