Can anyone help identify this bow?
07-25-2003, 08:42 PM
#1
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Can anyone help identify this bow?
This is very important to me. This is my grandfather and he is no longer living. I finally found one picture of him with the bow and want to identify it.
http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/ph...3-med.jpg?6462
http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/ph...3-med.jpg?6462
07-25-2003, 09:35 PM
#3
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RE: Can anyone help identify this bow?
I have one of his two bows. I cant tell if its the same or not. I think its not. He seems to be working to hold the wight of that bow and the one I have is only 25#. It does look just like that one however. There are absolutly no marks on the bow I have at all. I can tell you that picture was in the 50' s.
07-26-2003, 09:04 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Can anyone help identify this bow?
Straight pistol-style grip and static tips-could be a Bear Grizzly(early 50' s model)??
http://www.archeryhistory.com/recurves/pics/bear51.jpg
http://www.archeryhistory.com/recurves/pics/bear51.jpg
07-27-2003, 09:06 AM
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RE: Can anyone help identify this bow?
I apreaciate the information everyone. I do think it was a bear. My dad remembers him telling him at one point he had a 50# bear.
I have a 1964 Grizly I may try to locate one from the early 50' s that matches the wood patern and color in the picture.
Should I be conserned if has aluminium in it?
I have a 1964 Grizly I may try to locate one from the early 50' s that matches the wood patern and color in the picture.
Should I be conserned if has aluminium in it?
07-27-2003, 09:53 AM
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RE: Can anyone help identify this bow?
Should I be conserned if has aluminium in it?
If that bow has aluminum in it, it was made between 1949 and 1951. If the aluminum is an interior lamination, it is either a Grizzly or Kodiak. If it has two aluminum lams with one being an exterior lam, it' s a Polar. If it' s a Griz or Kodiak the difference is that the Kodiak was a 64" bow and the Griz is 62" . Hope that helps.
07-29-2003, 03:26 PM
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RE: Can anyone help identify this bow?
Hard to discern from photo, but size and configuration of grip leans towards an early " Kodiak."
If the bow is a " static" limb bow, especially an early " Bear," you should have no problem determining that it is a " static." Most of the " static" limb bows that I observed looked like a straight " longbow," especially when unstrung.
Also, the " Bear" static' s that I saw, which were very few, had a " hump" on the tip, between the limb and string. I thought it was some type of reinforcement for the tip. However, I once was told that the " hump" was a built-in anti-brush snag guard. I am not positive that the info was factual, but it does make sense.
To me, the " static," at least the few I saw, was an ugly bow.
If the bow is a " static" limb bow, especially an early " Bear," you should have no problem determining that it is a " static." Most of the " static" limb bows that I observed looked like a straight " longbow," especially when unstrung.
Also, the " Bear" static' s that I saw, which were very few, had a " hump" on the tip, between the limb and string. I thought it was some type of reinforcement for the tip. However, I once was told that the " hump" was a built-in anti-brush snag guard. I am not positive that the info was factual, but it does make sense.
To me, the " static," at least the few I saw, was an ugly bow.
08-08-2003, 08:08 AM
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RE: Can anyone help identify this bow?
Can' t help you on the ID but gotta say, Congratulations on having a picture like that of your grandfather. I wish I had one of mine in the outdoors. He was a fisherman/duck hunter extraordinaire.
Neat to see the old picture with the barred turkey fletchings, crested arrow, etc.
If you think it' s a Bear (and that seems to be the consensus of the more knowledgeable people here) her' s a link to the Bear collecters site. http://www.stickbow.com/stickbow/Collector/beararchery/
Neat to see the old picture with the barred turkey fletchings, crested arrow, etc.
If you think it' s a Bear (and that seems to be the consensus of the more knowledgeable people here) her' s a link to the Bear collecters site. http://www.stickbow.com/stickbow/Collector/beararchery/
10-24-2003, 06:32 AM
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RE: Can anyone help identify this bow?
LOOKS LIKE A OLD BEAR TO ME. IT IS SOME WHERE AROUND 1950 BECAUSE THEY STARTED MAKEING LAMINATED LIMBS IN THE 60' S. I HAVE 4 DIFFERANT BEAR BOWS LIKE YOU HAVE IN YOUR PIC.
HOLD ON TO THEM THET WILL BE PRICELESS LATER ON
HOLD ON TO THEM THET WILL BE PRICELESS LATER ON
