OK, I just posted this last week in the bowhunting forum so I thought I'd get everyones opinion here as well. Is there a collector's market for bows or rare bows? I ask because I just found out last week that my bow is 1 of only 100 ever produced. It took forever to get the strings replaced. They called bowtech and they told them the bow didn't exist because it wasn't listed in any of their manuals. Turns out they had to call the designer who told themit wasn't in their books because there are only 100 of them in the world It's a 2001 bowtech pro 38 dually and I bought it used from an employee of the pro shop. It was actually a prototype for the following years black knight. It was the first long riser bow bowtech ever put dual cams on and I didn't know it when I bought it. I'm guessing it's not worth anything more than the headaches it causes trying to find parts but it did get me thinking.

There's no collector market for old, rare or otherwise compounds that I know of. As time goes on and new models are introduced, compounds lose their monetary value like a fishing net loses water. You can find old, original Allen compounds in the second hand stores around here for $50-75. Talk about headaches trying to find parts though!

Now, if you find an all wood bow made by Bear in the 40's and signed by Nels Grumley... You can get a little cash for something like that. There's a real good collector market for vintage Bear recurves from the 40's thru the mid-70's.