Bows over the years

[Buzzard Breath]

Switchback was/is one of the best hunting bows ever!!!

Yep!!

 

[WTNBowHunter]

i cant understand how anyone shoots a matthews. bought a v3x and took it back the next day- heavy and harsh cycles. i have a bowtech realm x and aa new solution ss. both are awesome but the solution ss is smooth as silk, short and light. love it

I have liked the different mathews bows I've had over the past 20 or so years (minus the Reezen 6.5, not my favorite). Everyone has their opinions but I'm a mathews fan. I have test shot Hoyt and an Elite prior to buying my Halon 32 and they seem like good bows too. To compare draw cycles/back walls/"shootability" and all that mess nowadays is splitting hairs to me because the majority of what's out there is good.

 

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Hoyt
Darton
Mathews
Prime
And I have to say the prime revex is a better bow that any hoyt or mathews bow that is currently out I'm my opinion if you have not shot the new prime bow just go shoot it.

 

[TboneD]

When I approximate in my head what myself and y'all might've spent on bows it reminds me of another reason I love rifles.
Carol PSE Marauder 2(?)
Bear Jennings Buckmaster
Bear Grizzly recurve
57 lb RD longbow made by a gentleman out west whose brand I don't recall
PSE Drive
Bowtech Reign 6
Excalibur Mag340

 

[Wooden Arrow]

Tbone, what year was your Griz ? the '61 through '67 models were beautiful.

 

[Kirk]

Started with a Darton recurve bow. Then got into compounds
Bear Whitetail.
Jennings T-Star II.
PSE.
Golden Eagle.

Sort of got out of bow hunting about 20 years ago.

 

[SaltwaterWalt]

Interesting, lots of Bears on here ... he started it all really, the father of modern bowhunting

Bear Kodiak Hunter
Bear Brown Bear (wood handle compound)
Bear Super Kodiak
Bear Take-Down
Darton compound
Bowtech compound
Predator recurve
Predator longbow
Predator Predator Predator ... smoothest traditional bow I've ever shot

 

[redblood]

I have liked the different mathews bows I've had over the past 20 or so years (minus the Reezen 6.5, not my favorite). Everyone has their opinions but I'm a mathews fan. I have test shot Hoyt and an Elite prior to buying my Halon 32 and they seem like good bows too. To compare draw cycles/back walls/"shootability" and all that mess nowadays is splitting hairs to me because the majority of what's out there is good.

Im sure its what u get use to. Prime seems to be the next big thing coming

 

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Im sure its what u get use to. Prime seems to be the next big thing coming

I was very impressed with prime new bows the revex,or the rvx these bows are something else. Plus if you buy new get free strings every 2 years for life of bow

 

[00bucshot]

do you still have your Kodiak ? the mid-60s were the prettiest bows made IMHO. i sold the '65 i once had...

No, unfortunately I did like you and sold the darn thing

 

[102]

JUST the bows I hunted wit, not all I've owned.

Started with a Cougar recurve. missed my first deer with it
Then got a Ben Pearson compound that I traded a Marlin 22 magnum for in a pawn shop
Then a Jennings T star
Then another T star
Jennings Carbon Extreme
High Country Safari
Parker Wildfire
another Parker Wildfire
Whisper Creek Navigator
WC Sweet Demise
Mathews Mission
Diamond Carbon Cure
Elite Synergy
Bowtec Icon
Icon #2
Icon #3
Bowtec CP-28
Bowtec SS 34/Icon #3-back up

And a few others but I'm too lazy to get up to go look at my list.

All field tested on live free range whitetails. Most from tree stands.

The best were repeats!

Icon, now Zion, are at the TOP of the list for day to day carry and kill!

 

[Biggun4214]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned a Bear Delta V. A friend of mine described it as something from Star Wars.

 

[Iglow]

I had a Jennings forked lightning back when, I think I got it at Bill Clay's in 1987. That little 50% letoff rascal was my buddy for a bunch of seasons.
I always wanted a Howard Hill longbow and finally got one a few years ago.