Do you still use a vintage bow regularly for targets or hunting? I am curious about who is using the oldest compound amongst us? I'll start by saying that I still shoot targets with a Browning Drake Flightmaster that I bought used in 1985. How about you all?
Which ATer is using the OLDEST compound?
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2005 and 2006 martins and the only thing better might be the 2007 i will get
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Year before last year my daugther and I used old Bear bows made in about 1970's.. ??? Mine was a Bear hunter. Took first placed in the mixed league where we shoot!
Handicap is a wonderful thing! As well as we were allowed to add new stuff like arrows, rests, and the like.. as we could afford them... by the end of the league I was shooting in the 280's.. The look on the faces of some of the people was priceless.. This old fart and a 15 yr old kid... with old crap bows... beating them..
We got the best bows, etc., now... funny, our scores did not go up THAT much... But we took first again this last year... really upsetting them this time...
Now, my wife is using my daugther's old bow... and after her 4th time ever is shooting raw 240's and 250's..... I feel I will be on the other side of the coin this summer league..:embara:
Old does not mean bad...
Handicap is a wonderful thing! As well as we were allowed to add new stuff like arrows, rests, and the like.. as we could afford them... by the end of the league I was shooting in the 280's.. The look on the faces of some of the people was priceless.. This old fart and a 15 yr old kid... with old crap bows... beating them..
We got the best bows, etc., now... funny, our scores did not go up THAT much... But we took first again this last year... really upsetting them this time...
Now, my wife is using my daugther's old bow... and after her 4th time ever is shooting raw 240's and 250's..... I feel I will be on the other side of the coin this summer league..:embara:
Old does not mean bad...
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I still pull out my Indian Archery Stalker that was my first bow. You have to aim to the sky to shoot a 20 yd target.
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I want pictures
Good thread.
Should be interesting.
Good thread.
Should be interesting.
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I don't shoot it often, but I still have a compound bow I built back in 1973. The one I have in my possesion is RIGHT handed and is red in color, but otherwise identical to this one. They were both built off the same pattern.
It is a shoot thru design, with a custom made plexiglas handle OR a "torque free" spindle (can be changed to that), It has Jennings compound limbs, wheels, and idlers and "turnbuckles" on it. 35# peak weight 28% letoff, 56" ATA with a Flemish splice dacron string on it. The posted picture shows the "torque free" spool grip that was mounted on a ball bearing...you could NOT torque this bow. Notice the Killian Chek-it site...I still have it too, and it works just fine. Scopes weren't a common thing then, so the "site" is an up pin aperture with the bubble on top. I shot lots of 560 field rounds with the bow pictured...in fact, my first 560's were shot with this bow in 1973, and I shot the NFAA Nationals in 1974 with this same bow.
The gold item at the bow's end of the stabilizer is the ORIGINAL "omni-coupler" built by none other than Jim Yochum...BEFORE Bear Archery came out with their version of the "omni-coupler"...but well AFTER HOYT came out with their "torque-flite" compensators on their recurves in the late 1960's. The stabilizer (if you want to call it that) is a SOLID piece of 5/16" steel rod with a home-made weight at the end and threaded into the omni-coupler...worked just fine.
The release aid is a home-made rope spike release I made with 3/4" thick plexiglas and a 16 common nail bent and shined to a smooth as silk finish. The rope on the release is parachute cord...I was in Flight Training in the USAF at the time...so had access to tons of that stuff!
Most all of us shot with ourselves out of position like this back then...I've posted pics of Jack Lancaster a few times on here...he was nearly unbeatable in his day....Wouldn't be caught dead with this form these days however, hahaha.
The shoot thru design is a lengthened pattern from a SABO recurve riser.
Uses a FlipperII arrow rest and a REAL ORIGINAL BERGER BUTTON...not an "imitation"...the REAL THING made by Vic Berger.
Something special...this bow shoots an 1814 or 1816 aluminum arrow very well....and I could back then easily get 125 yards on the site bar and clear the arrow easily with over 1 1/2" to spare! It MIGHT have shot 190 fps, but still was able to pound the dots on the OLD FACE...pre 1977.
I'll get around to posting a picture of it. I have posted a "mate" that I built in addition to the one I have, but the limbs were destroyed during a house move and the riser got lost in yet another shuffle.
It is a shoot thru design, with a custom made plexiglas handle OR a "torque free" spindle (can be changed to that), It has Jennings compound limbs, wheels, and idlers and "turnbuckles" on it. 35# peak weight 28% letoff, 56" ATA with a Flemish splice dacron string on it. The posted picture shows the "torque free" spool grip that was mounted on a ball bearing...you could NOT torque this bow. Notice the Killian Chek-it site...I still have it too, and it works just fine. Scopes weren't a common thing then, so the "site" is an up pin aperture with the bubble on top. I shot lots of 560 field rounds with the bow pictured...in fact, my first 560's were shot with this bow in 1973, and I shot the NFAA Nationals in 1974 with this same bow.
The gold item at the bow's end of the stabilizer is the ORIGINAL "omni-coupler" built by none other than Jim Yochum...BEFORE Bear Archery came out with their version of the "omni-coupler"...but well AFTER HOYT came out with their "torque-flite" compensators on their recurves in the late 1960's. The stabilizer (if you want to call it that) is a SOLID piece of 5/16" steel rod with a home-made weight at the end and threaded into the omni-coupler...worked just fine.
The release aid is a home-made rope spike release I made with 3/4" thick plexiglas and a 16 common nail bent and shined to a smooth as silk finish. The rope on the release is parachute cord...I was in Flight Training in the USAF at the time...so had access to tons of that stuff!
Most all of us shot with ourselves out of position like this back then...I've posted pics of Jack Lancaster a few times on here...he was nearly unbeatable in his day....Wouldn't be caught dead with this form these days however, hahaha.
The shoot thru design is a lengthened pattern from a SABO recurve riser.
Uses a FlipperII arrow rest and a REAL ORIGINAL BERGER BUTTON...not an "imitation"...the REAL THING made by Vic Berger.
Something special...this bow shoots an 1814 or 1816 aluminum arrow very well....and I could back then easily get 125 yards on the site bar and clear the arrow easily with over 1 1/2" to spare! It MIGHT have shot 190 fps, but still was able to pound the dots on the OLD FACE...pre 1977.
I'll get around to posting a picture of it. I have posted a "mate" that I built in addition to the one I have, but the limbs were destroyed during a house move and the riser got lost in yet another shuffle.
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A 1991 High Country Top Gun.
Won a Jnr. World IFAA with it in 1994 and dragged it out of the cupboard after a 12 year lay off for the IFAA worlds earlier this year. Managed a 5th in the barebow and had a lot of people checking out the old bow!
Won a Jnr. World IFAA with it in 1994 and dragged it out of the cupboard after a 12 year lay off for the IFAA worlds earlier this year. Managed a 5th in the barebow and had a lot of people checking out the old bow!
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I had an ol' First Strike. That was a really good bow. My buddy still hunts with his and regularly kills deer with it.Lonescout said:
The oldest bow now?
I was shooting my PSE Infinity yesterday at the range.
I believe it was made in the early 90s.
It still has steel cables with teardrops, a 12 strand dacron string on it, a machined riser, and a 60% breakover wheel system.
I shot a 262 score in a 14 target Field round with it using X7s arrows.
Not bad for me.
It shoots a lot smoother with a STS on it, but otherwise, it's all good.:wink:
I was shooting my PSE Infinity yesterday at the range.
I believe it was made in the early 90s.
It still has steel cables with teardrops, a 12 strand dacron string on it, a machined riser, and a 60% breakover wheel system.
I shot a 262 score in a 14 target Field round with it using X7s arrows.
Not bad for me.
It shoots a lot smoother with a STS on it, but otherwise, it's all good.:wink:
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