[Hvyhitter19]

This is only in the past 10 years since I first picked up a bow... I was giving away ole blackie tonight, and figured I would take a pic to compare...

Check it out..

 

[macweas]

check out the sights

Check out the sights.Thats what put cobra on the map. just think of how many they sold!

 

[Cornfed]

LOL!!! Yep, that pic will take ya back!

That ol' blackie is probably still as good of a bow to shoot as that Mathews is, isn't it??? :wink:

 

[Bassmaster]

How do you like the use of fiber optic, better than paint. The releases are a whole lot better and faster. Have your groups improved in 10 years. Had more robin hoods. Just think 10 years from now. Top of the line will be past of the bottom in 10years. Before long any person off the street can get a robin hood.

 

[old Graybeard]

So do you feel good having that Mathews for a backup Bow:wink:

 

[RxBowhunter]

Cool!

I wish I could get my first compound back. It was a Polar Bear LTD with hand-painted camo. I sold it in college for $25 to a co-worker. I just noticed last week that his brother is filming for The Wild Outdoors program. I bought a little Toyota truck from him in college.

 

[old Graybeard]

I wish I could get my first compound back. It was a Polar Bear LTD with hand-painted camo. I sold it in college for $25 to a co-worker. I just noticed last week that his brother is filming for The Wild Outdoors program. I bought a little Toyota truck from him in college.

It wasn't my first bow but I had one just like it Hand painted camo was the only way back then.

 

[Trauma]

I know! I was looking at my first bow the other day. I don't ever see me getting rid of it. I got it back in '93 and it was used then! Funny thing is, I had more robin hoods with that bow than I have since. One day, I will shoot a deer with that thing.

 

[MuzzyHunter]

I just started three years ago competitively and I don't see myself ever getting rid of my Switchback.

 

[Cornfed]

10 years ago I was shooting an XI Velocity V-Max. The season before, in '95, I was shooting a High Country Machined Supreme and the year after that XI, in '97, I purchased my first Mathews, a Mathews Z-Max

Man, that seems like such a long time ago! Many, many bows ago!

 

[bear45]

Is that the "Black Bear" by Bear. If so, then that was my first compound. My buddy and I were 12-13 years old and both had black bears set at 50 pounds. I sold that bow and then bought a Robin Hood "Phoenix" from Wal-Mart. Several bows later and I have finally graduated to Switchback XT, but those were some fun days shooting the ol' black bear, man we wore those things out shooting at robins, squirrels, and anything that we could see on the ground.

 

[bsnelling1]

My first bow was an old small wheeled PSE. I don't know how old it was cause it was used when I got it. It shot like a rainbow even at 25 yrds., but I sure could lay them right in the bullseye. The best thing about todays bows is how quiet you can make them.

 

[Texoma]

That looks just like the bow my dad is currently shooting.

Old school if it aint broke dont fix it.

 

[Switchback29A1]

good lord.

 

[deerhunter3241]

While that is a great comparison to how far bows have come...I don't think it truely shows the difference in a top quality bow from 1996 to 2006...That "old blackie" has steel cables and painted pins...Personally in 1996 I was shooting a Mountaineer with fiber optics, a micro adjust TM Hunter rest, and it certainly had metal (not plastic) cams and real cables, not to mention a factory camo paint job...I haven't shot a bow anywhere near the one pictured since more like 1986...

But you're right they have come a long ways...Though I'm not sure they kill any more deer then they did back then...!

 

[BigBirdVA]

To think I actually went in the woods with this.

 

[short stop]

I sold two of my old beaters for $30 apeice a bear and a High countyr - they hadnt been shot in yrs . Kinda like looking at a bike vs a car when comparing a Old Bear whitetail II vs a Bowtech Tribute . Man your right its come along way , for me its been 25 yrs of bow shooting .I started when I was 11 .

 

[TreeJumper]

My old Bear

This was my first compound..The "Bear Grizzly ll" I remember 20 some years ago when it was the cats *****Oh yea,its the one on the right....:wink:

 

[deadquiet]

Thats an old PSE I can tell ya' that. They used that riser design for several years. I had a PSE Phaser I got in 82' that looked a lot like that bow. I had to be pushin' those 2117's close to [email protected] 63#'s! The good ole' days!?