1. Wood/glass laminated limbs? 2. Dacron strings 3. 4 wheeled compounds 4. Painted sight pins 5. Everybody shot using fingers.....glove, tab, etc. 6. Tightened straw bales were enough to stop arrows 7. Paper targets and later on 2D targets 8. Satellite and Savora broadheads were high tech 9. Berger buttons 10. Am I the only one who didn't wear some sort of safety belt, rope in a treestand? Maybe nostalgic and I had as much fun as today........but not sure it was the good ole days. Feel free to add others.
I remember cruising several hobby/model shops in search of luminescent paint for my brass pins to try to be able to see them at last shooting light.
I used to drill out the holes in my peep sight and then paint the inside white so I could see though it better in low light. I also shot a sight without any sort of pin guard, which led to some pretty rad bent pins from time to time. My first release was a Jim Fletcher with a rope that wrapped around the string and attached to a post on the other side of the release. It was handheld, no wrist strap for this guy. Remember those rubber arrow holders that mounted on the outside of your riser, then wrapped around and held your arrow securely to your NAP Flipper rest?
Ah, yes. My second bow was a Bear Whitetail II. I still have some of my original bear razorheads. Probably a satellite broadhead around somewhere too. Remember when they came out with those 'spiffy' range finders that you dialed until the image wasn't fuzzy?
I remember them, but most of those things weren't all that great. I also remember hunting an entire season and seeing 0 bowhunters and very few deer. If you hunted in my region 42 years ago you know what I mean You could count the Bowhunters in my county on your fingers. Now everyone is a bowhunter around here Dan
Still remember painting my pin shafts white and using flourescent orange on the pin itself. Hay bales stopped all our arrows. And our treestands were ladder stands made with 8ft 2x4 and plywood platform. The best part was that we could hunt 100's of acres around our place, that's really what I miss the most - then the magazines had to start saying Pike/Adams county Illinois...
I still have my darton from my childhood with wooden laminated limbs. LOL both limbs are warped , But it still hangs proudly on my wall beside the maxxis. It will never be locked away and forgotten. Gift from my grandfather. great memories. Kinda funny that bow is black just like the maxxis.
the ones i remember 4. Painted sight pins 5. Everybody shot using fingers.....glove, tab, etc. i worked up a mean callous between my pointer and middle fingers!!!!!!!!!!!!! 6. Tightened straw bales were enough to stop arrows 7. Paper targets and later on 2D targets i'll add this one... draw length???? a bow fit you if you could pull it back! thanks dad!
Went and pulled this out of the old barn for you guys. Baker climbing treestand they should of named it "The Widowmaker" This stand has made me sh!# my pants more than a couple times I have had this for 30 years and look at the second pic at the arm that tore off, while i was climbing no less good thing i was bear hugging climbing at the time.
Yup I remember those days. I've still got my Bear Whitetail Hunter hanging in the basement. I think my 5 year old son's Diamond Nuclear Ice shoots arrows faster than that bow. LOL Back then bowhunting consisted of sitting until 9:30 (for the guys that could make it that long), getting together for a snack before pushing for the afternoon, and then sitting in the evening. Those evening sits were mighty slow.
I bought one of the first safety belts made, black strap maybe a 1 1/2 wide that had a clasp on the end and by todays standards it was a joke, i only have a pic of the clasp but i think you will get the point.... it did not work and took a 20 foot fall and almost tore my arm off and took almost two years to shoot a bow again. the other part of the stap or parts of it still hang in the old oak tree still the steps are all rotted off from long ago.
I rember the factory paint on one of my old hoyts.....it looked like it was really spray painted camo at the factory. Wow we have come a long way.
Haha, same here. I'm not as old school as a lot of you, but I remember shooting my Golden Eagle Talon fingers (no tabs, just straight fingers). That had painted pins and the two prong rest, too. I can remember not having a clue what arrow spine was, and I was shooting 2117 logs cut to about 33" .
