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Flea Market, good find?
thesupermonkey
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The wife drug me to the flea market today.
One of the 1st tables we passed had an vintage-looking box which caught my eye. I took a peak inside and saw an old long bow, complete with accessories and documentation. The guy wanted $25 for it but I passed as I know nothing about archery equipment. We walked on but the rest of the time I kept thinking about. So before we left I stopped by again, offered him 20 and he accepted. If I had to guess, I'd say it's 1950ish? Anyone know anything about these bows?
I doubt I went wrong for $20 bucks but if I'm sitting on something worth more I'd like to know before the kids play with it.
Thanks
One of the 1st tables we passed had an vintage-looking box which caught my eye. I took a peak inside and saw an old long bow, complete with accessories and documentation. The guy wanted $25 for it but I passed as I know nothing about archery equipment. We walked on but the rest of the time I kept thinking about. So before we left I stopped by again, offered him 20 and he accepted. If I had to guess, I'd say it's 1950ish? Anyone know anything about these bows?
I doubt I went wrong for $20 bucks but if I'm sitting on something worth more I'd like to know before the kids play with it.
Thanks
Comments
For dating it roughly, check in the instructions and such for date of printing ... that ought help peg the date some.
I'd have jumped on it for that ... and probably any more if he had had them. Good shopping.
Use the words "vintage", "tactical" and "rare".
If you hurry, you can take your profit and buy an ounce of silver.
[:D]
nice find,,,enjoy
I, on the other hand....[;)]
I can remember picking up a bow like that at a junk shop years ago. I was dead set on getting one, to shoot carp with. The cheaper the better, said I. Bought it, and a half-dozen aluminum arrows, for $5.
Got back to the campground, and headed over the hill to the shore. Grabbed an arrow, drew the bow back as far as it could go, and lined up on a massive carp.
About that time, the top limb give way, and caught me across the bridge of my nose. When I bought it, in my excitement, I didn't take the time to look it over, or I would've noticed that the upper limb had been epoxied back on! Christ O' Friday, did that hurt![:0][B)][:D]
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Not really a major hobby of mine, but I am up to 3 recurves myself. I have a newer PSE takedown model "Kudu", that I hunt with and a couple older Ben Pearson models hanging on the wall that I shoot from time-to-time. I don't have a longbow in my little collection though yet....[:D] Some day I long to have a nice little shooter grade Bear bow in the collection. We will see about that though...
Do they still teach archery in Gym class?
I remember using bows like that during archery in high school gym class back in the early 1990's.
Do they still teach archery in Gym class?
occasionally. i remember doing archery in 8th grade, we did it for like three days. but that was about 7 years ago...