Our super awesome first bows.

[MADMAX]

My first 3 compounds
Indian
Golden Eagle
Clearwater

all sold unfortunately

[TheHunt]

Golden Eagle...   What a bow!!!

[Bill W]

Back when I got my first one there was also magnesium bows on the market.  As I remember, they sure did twang.

[scotsman]

This is my very first 'real' bow. i bought it with money I earned on my paper route and I'll tell ya, it took many months to earn $49.95. It's a Red Wing hunter, 45#@28" and still shoots as nice now as it did in - gasp- 1963. To close the circle of life, I plan to use it get my deer this Fall.... my 70th year.

[JDHasty]

Golden Eagle and then a Spoiler.

The Spoiler was rated 80 lbs, but actually peaked at 96 lbs.  No way I could even pull it today, much less shoot it.  The Golden Eagle was really long and a pain to get through the crap in Hoe/Clearwater where I used to hunt. 

[NOCK NOCK]

Another vote for a Bear Whitetail, thought that bow was the poop. 
Don't recall what I ever did with it, sure wish I'd of kept it.
I do still have an old wood compound, York or Darton..........have to dig it out to remember which it is.

[branches]

My first bow was a Martin Warthog "A" bow I got in the summer of 1984. I shot my first buck and bull with this bow with 2216 arrows. I still have this bow. It is kind of funny how much better bows are better today but I still have this bow as my back up bow. I still feel like I can pick up this bow and kill anything in this state.

[nwwanderer]

Let me know if you need the late season on the east side, get'er done

[Becky]

  

[erk444]

Now thats a beauty SG

[JDHasty]

I made a bunch of Bingham recurves.  I still have one of them. 

[throttlejocky20]

My first a Jennings Carbon Extreme then the boys first and the day he got it.

[elkboy]

I had a Martin Lynx that my parents bought me when I turned 13.  Arrows were Easton 2215.  Shot it for years before I really got into bowhunting.  I used that bow to take my first game animal, a cow elk, from a tree stand when I was 24.   I waited five evenings in a row in that tree stand on the edge of an open field, and a herd finally walked in right under me.  What a rush.

[idaho guy]

Ha nice!  Mine was a Darton SL-50 around 1978ish?  It came in only black and of course, I "camo'ed" it myself with spray paint and leaves.. Looked a lot like this pic I found on the net.. Look at the cams on this thing  , LOL.

 


That was my first bow I bought it used in about 1984 I think! I missed a lot of animails with that awesome bow 

[bracer40]

Martin Black Panther about 25 yrs ago.  From NW Archery. Place was a museum of history.