Rhino Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 I still have it , the original Allen compound bow, the first compound bow on the market from the guy who invented the compound bow. It has serial number etched on the riser, I htink it has a 30% let-off. Attaboy slaw. Someone kept one of those old thingamajigs. I can remember the 1st time I ever saw one of those and wondered who the heck would buy and hunt with one of those stange looking contraptions. My first bow was a 45# Bear recurve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michiganbowhunter_SQ2 Posted January 25, 2008 Report Share Posted January 25, 2008 Got my first one back in 1996. In 1995 I started gun hunting, and the next year we decided to go out and get a couple bows and try that out. He never really got into it, and with sports and stuff I rarely shot and hunted maybe a handful of times with it. Also the fact that I lived in a trailor park made it tough to find places to shoot, I had a coupld friends who hunted so I would occasionally shoot over their houses. I was never really that good and would only shoot out to about 15 yards. It was a golden eagle of golden something type bow, can't really remember, we still have em one of em, the other I gave to a friend who was interested in getting into bow hunting, told him to take it, set it up and come over and shoot anytime, and if/when he decides to upgrade then to take all his stuff off and give it back. After high school, I started getting really into it. I got a temp. job working for GM for the summer, was making good money and decided it was time to upgrade since I was a lot more into it, so I went to the shop and bought a mathews SQ2 talk about a big difference in the cam and wheel :eek: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bertman Posted January 27, 2008 Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 bear whitetail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbHunterNY Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 My first hunting bow was a Buckmaster BTR32 from Walmart. My first trophy taken was a red fox at about 23 yards, with that bow. My first bow ever was a youth recurve, but I don't know what brand it was. - Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 My first bow was a Chinook. I paid $56 dollors for it when I was eleven. I save my $2 a week allowance for a long time to get that!! I think it went from 30 to 45#. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowonly Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Had a Bear Whitetail II, then stepped up to a Darton Viper, then on to a Mathews FX.........now have a Bowtech Allegiance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 Ben Pearson recurve......I don't remember the model. No I have to take that back. My very first bow was a hickory long-bow that I carved out of a 2" diameter hickory sapling. I believe the string might have been baling twine, and the arrows were custom-selected, as straight as I could find, un-fletched willow limbs. I was 11 at the time. Actually, the thing shot pretty darn good. Doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ohbowhntr Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 Ditto the Bear Whitetail II, then I upgraded to a Browning X-cellerator Plus. Gave the Bear away to a kid wanting to get into archery a few years ago, just got the Browning back from another kid I'd "given" it to several years ago, and he got a new bow and felt it only right to return it. Wow, have we come a long way since then. I now have a Hoyt Trykon XL, and it's lightyears advanced past that old stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will_in_cky25 Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 my first bow was a high country something or the other, come to think about it, i actually found out it was a high country about four years later when the paint that was on it started flaking off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuntryboy Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 92' PERSON SPOILER ! zero LET-OFF!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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