Browning Recurves

Browning · December 29, 2009, 11:50:00 AM

Does anyone know where I can get info on Browning Recurve bows? I have a Browning Rover 60" 40# @ 28" and a Browning Wasp 56" 49# @ 28". Wanted to know when they were made and what they may be worth. I gave $50.00 a piece for them. They are both in great shape. I can't find anything on the internet.

Horney Toad · December 29, 2009, 10:02:00 PM

WASP 56" 1970-1975

bartcanoe · December 30, 2009, 09:38:00 PM

I have the same question. I picked up a Browning Wasp. I love the way it shoots, but I'd like to know when it was made. Will the number on it tell me that?

Horney Toad · December 31, 2009, 12:01:00 PM

Get a Browning Explorer II. That is the nicest hunting bow they made.

reddogge · December 31, 2009, 02:32:00 PM

I own a 30# Browning Spartan which technically is my grandsons' bow but I shoot it once in a while. It's a fine shooting bow.

Browning · January 01, 2010, 02:36:00 AM

I thought the Explorer II was a compound bow. Because I have one. Bought it new in 1983.

Horney Toad · January 02, 2010, 01:23:00 PM

Browning later used the recurve names for compound bows. Here is a pic of some browning bows, see the Explorer I, it is the same as the explorer II, only it is 56" and the explorer II was 62".

http://***********.bowsite.com/tf/pics/00small63422547.JPG

cacciatore · January 02, 2010, 02:52:00 PM

Those Browning were some nice looking bows!How they did shoot in comparition with the Bear?

Horney Toad · January 02, 2010, 02:54:00 PM

I like them over Bears actually.

reddogge · January 02, 2010, 06:01:00 PM

I rehabbed myself from a torn elbow tendon with that 30# Browning Spartan and got addicted to shooting it. It is a sweet shooter and I shot it in quite a few 3-d rounds. With light arrows trajectory was similar to a hunting bow.

cacciatore · January 02, 2010, 06:21:00 PM

So Horney it means that you are going to sell me your Type1?

Horney Toad · January 02, 2010, 09:21:00 PM

Those takedowns I have both have custom Schafer limbs Felix. I love em both!

Spectre · January 03, 2010, 12:17:00 AM

I have a Nomad 2 and a Wasp. Great fun, these bows.

fling · January 03, 2010, 02:02:00 PM

I have a Browning Prep recuve 62"50@28 shoots great. It's all Maple riser and limbs with glass. any info would be nice. Thanks jon

Nodrama43 · January 09, 2010, 06:29:00 PM

I have a mint Browning "Cobra". It is a 50" bow that is 51# @28. I bought it from the original owner several years ago. Can anyone tell me anything about this one. the serial # is 9N3230.

Horney Toad · January 09, 2010, 10:29:00 PM

I believe the cobra was made in 1969. They also made a Cobra I in 1970-75.

Nodrama43 · January 10, 2010, 11:00:00 PM

Thanks Mr Horney Toad. The bow is mint and I may sell it because I like Bear Bows. I have no clue what to ask for it though.

Horney Toad · January 11, 2010, 12:01:00 AM

I'd say about $125.

Nodrama43 · January 12, 2010, 10:18:00 PM

I don't have enough posts here to list it but if anyone wants it just pm me. I have a pile of wall hangers (non Bear Bows) I would trade for a nice Bear or two...

Ssamac · January 22, 2010, 09:37:00 PM

I have Bears, Wings and Brownings. I have a 50# Browning Safari II I prefer to all of them. Pulls like 45 shoots like 55 flat and right on the mark. Dead in the hand and has a nice high grip and just the right heft.

sam