Trad Gang

I picked up this bow from a fellow Tradganger. It is a 64 Kodiak @58# in the original box with 2 sets of original strings. Can't get more mint than that.

Here is the question do you shoot it? If so does it's value go down?

No opinions until we see pics!!!

HAHA.

I couldn't resist shooting it...

Yeah we need PICS!.........

Very cool man............

(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn42/bearkeeper/useless-thread1.jpg)

sure would like to see pics too bd

Here they are. (http://i955.photobucket.com/albums/ae33/aforand/64%20Kodiak/64k4.jpg) (http://i955.photobucket.com/albums/ae33/aforand/64%20Kodiak/64k3.jpg) (http://i955.photobucket.com/albums/ae33/aforand/64%20Kodiak/64k2.jpg) (http://i955.photobucket.com/albums/ae33/aforand/64%20Kodiak/64k1.jpg) (http://i955.photobucket.com/albums/ae33/aforand/64%20Kodiak/64k7.jpg) (http://i955.photobucket.com/albums/ae33/aforand/64%20Kodiak/64k6.jpg) (http://i955.photobucket.com/albums/ae33/aforand/64%20Kodiak/64k.jpg)

No doubt in my mind.  I would have already shot it.

Looks like it's been shot a little (slight groove in the rug rest and nock locks on the string)  What's it gonna hurt to shoot it some more?

Trap

Wowser. Quite Nice!
Very Very Nice Find! Great Weight Also.

real nice find,and yes I would be shooting it ....a lot   :thumbsup:    :cool:

Uncommon high weight

B U T ful

I wouldn't shoot it.  I'd keep it mint.

Store in  soft sleeve.

Your never going to know how it thumps if you don't shoot it! Nice find for sure....Mike

Thats quite a pickup!

oh yeah baby now thats treasure right there as for shooting it your call.Myself well maybe maybe not bd

Shoot the day lights out of it...why not ???

Doc, that is the way I've felt all along maybe I would and maybe not. But now listening to all of these replies I think I will. Again that is why Fred made the darn thing.
By the way thanks for sending out my '65.

Don't shoot it just yet, I'll trade you one just like it that has been shot,that way you won't have to worry about scuffing that beauty up.Just kiddin' nice find congrats.

I say put a pretty arrow in that baby and sling it!

TRAP, maybe it got shot at the factory when they "sighted it in".  :bigsmyl:

Dosen't do any good sitting in a box.  It was made to be used so use it.


it was

WHO WOULD KNOW.    NEVER KISS AND TELL
SHE LOOKS LIKE A BEAUTY! HOW COULD YOU NOT WANT TO PULL HER STRING.  HAVE A LITTLE FUN

That is   :cool:  

Actually, I think you should not shoot it    ...but if you send it to Washington I will.  :D

Not shooting it is like having a great huntin knife and never usin it. I say give her what she wants.

I could not get a string on that bow fast enough. Go kill something with it.

OK...shoot it a few times, then pick it up

There are thousands of '64 Kodiaks out there with bumps nd bruises.

How many do you think are around in that condition

I have a '63 dogleg in the same condition.  It is the only bow I store in a sleeve.

I agree that Bear made them to be shot.  They also made them to be dragged through the mud, across rocks, and take punishment.  However, I'll be damned if I would with that bow.

I have a '64 Kodiak that has been through the ringer.  I could send it to Bowdoc and have  it looking as good as yours, maybe better....but it wouldn't be the same.

I my self would not shoot the bow. Simply said bows like that do not come around very often.

I wouldn't shoot it but would find another '64 shooter somewhere to bang around.  It could bring a few bucks in that condition.  But that's the collector in me coming out.

Whooooaa, what a beauty. I'd shoot the crap out of it. But I'd watch what I set it on while I was pulling arrows. That's like buying a knife and never sharpening it.

While certainly not 64 Kodiaks, I recently sold two early seventies Bear bows still new in the box and unshot. For what I received for them I probably could have shot them and not suffered much financial loss. Myself, I didn't have the heart to shoot a 35 year old bow that had been preserved so well. I believe both the buyers that purchased them from me planned on shooting them though. Their money, their decision.

QuoteThat's like buying a knife and never sharpening it.  

Got a couple of them too.

Decisions, decisions I think I'll do what PAPALAPIN suggested. Shoot it a few times and put her up. At least I won't drag it through the woods.

Years from now you will be glad for that decision.

Now, get ready for the "THUNK"  Dstinctive sound to '64 Kodiaks.  

I can tell ya though...once you shoot it, you will want to shoot it more.  Very addictiong.  It'll be like a teenager saying he will try crystal Meth...just once.

Or sex!

MULLET...Better analogy

What Jack says!