Great story. I hope mine never hits me in the head.
Cacciatore, why you not like about the 86 - 2007 risers ?

Just wondering
Randy

Roy, which limbs do you have on your bow?

Great story Charlie......own quite a few older Bears, but not a takedown. Maybe someday though.🏹

#3 @ 42 #

Awesome story and pics. (love the falling squirrel )
I had 2 high end three piece long bows delaminate and changed to Bear takedown recurves, I have 3 now. I love the nostalgia [emoji16] I hope your bow serves you well.
Regards
Mark


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I loved that story !!

Mine was a tad different , though. I'd get excited flying in on the helicopter to my base knowing I'd have mail piled on my desk after being out in the mountains.

Thanks Charlie, for your story and especially for your Jungle service.  Glad you made it home!
You are without a doubt the only guy I know who can start a story with . . . "I got knocked down by a bear twice . . ."

Orion... they must have been #2 as the bow was a 62".  My favorite length.

Robin... good to see you here buddy!! Long time no see. I think about our trip up on Hell's Canyon often. What a great time. 

Guess I should have mentioned that I got the riser while I was out of town this weekend. Haven't had a chance to mess with it much yet but it sure looks sweet. No hard angles, all smooth and rounded. I did snap in a set of 55# limbs and string it up. Just looks better and better.

Tomorrow I'll hook it up with a bowquiver... the ones I tried have screws that are too small.  I may shoot it some without the bowquiver. I noticed that in the photos I posted the bow was naked. As a matter of fact for a long time in my early days I hated bowquivers. I was convinced they were a detriment to accurate shooting.

I love me a bow quiver! I'm sure you know Bears take that 1/4-20 thread I believe. The great northern I had on mine was great! 


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Ok, here's a few pics of the new bow and I'm pretty excited. I haven't spent much time shooting it. It's not properly tuned right now. Even though tuning will be very simple... the right arrow and well adjusted brace height. I've been up to my eyes in other projects so my play time has suffered.

Nice Bubinga
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I like that they lowered the shelf in homage to Papa Bear even if it isn't as low as his bow.
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There's no accessory bushing on the back of the bow. That's a good thing in my book. I'm not likely to put a stabilizer on it and I'm sure as hell not taking it bowfishing.
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I can tell you from the few mismatched arrows that I have shot that this bow is a sweet shooter. The draw is smooth like butta. Arrow speed seems good but will be even better when I get the brace adjusted.

Gonna get me some turkeys in a few weeks.  Found a spot while I was out of town this past weekend.

I don't know why I open this post all going to happen is I will start thinking I need a Bear TD and I will buy one my wife will kill me  and sell my bow. Great post Charlie Lamb thank for sharing.

It's beautiful. Did you already have the bubinga limbs? 


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Yes, I already had the limbs with bubinga wedges. Wish I had a set with black wedges to match the phenolic. I've got a set but they are 60# which is just too much these days. Looks pretty darn good anyway.

I should have added that the bow is dead silent with just minimal wool silencers. Really important in my book. In my experience that is typical of Bears bows.

Charlie, thanks for your service! My first Bear T/D came while in the service also 1971, it came because the Black Widow I was shooting decided to become takedown one morning shooting a shoot at 29 Palms, Ca. It literally exploded! A couple weeks later I was in FS arrow supply in Costa Mesa looking at the Bears. $20 don't seem like much now but being in the service at the time I opted for the Magnesium handle as they were $119 compared to the wood ones at $139. I got 61# number 2 limbs that came out to 75# at my 32" draw. I loved that bow, got more limbs for it and shot it until Aug 1979 when the handle let go 2 weeks before my first big trip to BC moose hunting. I  had been shooting it with 75# limbs(88# at my draw) and if you remember at that time Bear wasn't making anything but compounds so I had to hunt with the closest thing to it a Bear Alaskan compound.(same handle different limb attachment) The next 12 or so years I shot longbows exclusively and then I came upon a T/D for sale and jumped on it! 55and 65# limbs with a Green strip handle, I was back! I've had many bows over the years always looking for something better but keep coming back to my GO TO . I have 4 of them in the house now and don't plan on changing any time soon.

Good stuff Charlie! Enjoy the new bow and good luck with the turkeys.  Seems you have a few more around these days. 

Quote from: rjackson on March 22, 2019, 05:03:02 PM
Great story. I hope mine never hits me in the head.
Cacciatore, why you not like about the 86 - 2007 risers ?

Just wondering
Randy

because the grip and the whole handle is too thin and the back of the grip is a little too squared and somehow uncomfortable. Then they used a kind of laminated plywood material. For the same price you can buy a Green Stripe handle that are just beautiful and almost bombproof and they were personally checked one by one by Fred!!!

Charlie, on one of the Fred Bear DVD's he is talking about trying to shoot a compound on an Ontario bear hunt and giving up. Was that the same hunt you were on? Were you there when he was trying to get the hang of the compound for the cameras?

Very nice bow charlie, now get a catchers mask and go shoot it. lol