It is on of the original Cougar Magnum bows from the late 1970's, possibly early 1980's What is the serial number?

 

This is a photo of a Cougar Mag Proseries made in 1981 with wheeled cable gaurd.

 

We always referred to that as the "My Favorite Martian" bow.

It was sweet in its day.

 

Only number on it is wrote on the limbs.

CLXM 43814-6

And that looks like mine, just mine dont have the roller cable guard. My riser is black too. But over all same bow, I just didnt know it was that old. It looks better then my 06 diamond does, but not by much.

 

My dad has a pristine one from 1980 I think. It does not have the wheeled cable guard. It was the shizzle at the time.

 

The closest I can come is 1983-84. We later increased the sight window clearance.

 

Its a left hand model. I really like the bow. I had my local archery shop owner say if i ever sold it to let him know. I dont know what he would give me for it or even if i would sell it. Its one of the best looking bows I have seen.

 

Old martin

I thought Mathews invented the Roller Gaurd { just kidding}
cool bow thanks for the pics.:thumbs_up

 

You beat me to it :shade:

I thought Mathews invented the Roller Gaurd { just kidding}
cool bow thanks for the pics.:thumbs_up

 

This is a prototype bow made about the same time(late 1970's) that, as far as I know if the first one cam with an upper wheel. Made from parts by my main R&D man at the time (Tim Newbold) who was left handed. I have collected hundreds of bows over the years and hope to have the book done soon.

 

I'd like to know when the books available, I'd definitely buy a copy:thumbs_up

 

I still have the limbs and wheels off of mine but my eccentrics didn't have the tri-draw slots and were some sort of plastic and limbs have a rough finish with flat black color before I used some paint to further camo it, obviously not the pro-series. I do have one of those risers with later limb/eccentrics on it. Draw was 29-31 not because you could set it to that, just depended on how far you drew it. LOL I think I measured the actual let off at 40-45%, I killed quite a few deer with that bow.

 

That was my first compound bow! '81 or '82 I believe. Mine had a metalic green riser, but the whole bow was camo painted the old school way from the shop I bought it from. Gave it to my brother 10 years ago, who then sold it to a friend of his.

 

I have one too!

 

Didnt know alot of you guys would still have this type of bow. I thought I was the only one that still had a old bow lol.

 

I've got one also. It has the wooden limbs and the metallic green riser with a pearl colored plastic grip on it. I really have no use for this if someone would like to buy it?

 

Cougar

Chugga still has one of these too!! However, his bow is from 1978 and isn't the Magnum version. From what I hear all around our local pro shop and everyone else for that matter, in the late 70s and early 80s they were just about the best bows made.

 

I had one of those in the early 80's cept mine was rattle canned with the ever popular "Fern Camo" ... I think it was my first bow.. I never took a critter with it but it wasn't the bows fault I just couldn't hit anything...

 

Yep, that's the way we used to do it. I kind of miss that form of camoflauge, but I don't think I'd do it again to a modern bow.

 

My neighbor had me sell his and from what he told me was that it was built using left over parts and few were built.

I shot on several 3-D shoots and actually fun to shoot with the round wheels.

 

Im use to having 80% let off on my diamond, and when I go to shoot the mag, its like 50%. I have noticed I can hold the Magnum alot steadier then my rapture. I found that strange. Im also thinking of selling my Cougar mag. Thinking it would be a good start working toward another bowtech.

 

Here is a photo of my Cougar Magnum that I picked up a couple of years ago. I really like the look of the grip.

It's in pretty good condition except that I don't have the roller cable guard and there are a couple of nicks in the finish.

Terry, any chance of some close up photos sto that I could make one?

Thanks,
Allen

 

Mine has the cable side, not the roller.

 

realizing its been a few years since this post . but do you still have the metallic bow for sale id like to buy one .

 

Here's mine. Bought for my wife because I thought it looked cool. That was 3 years ago never used it.

 

Sorry to bring this up from the past, but do you happen to know what year this bow is? I have one similar to that and I haven't been able to figure it out.

 

I love the old Martin bows, I had a mid 80's WartHog, my first compound, that was just an amazing bow at that time. I used to stack arrows in a paper plate from 70 yards, made me a few free beers going that!

 

I have a jaguar magnum from around 83 it was an odd cookie.

 

Wow...a thread from the past. Perhaps one of these days, I'll clean all the camo paint from Chugga's old Cougar and expose it for the gorgeous bow it is. The wheels lean like crazy at full draw, but man was that thing quiet. He actually used it until 2004 when he bought a 97 Martin Prowler, which was also a phenomenal bow for the money.