Where'd you get your first bow?

[Otter]

My first compound was a Browning Cobra XL 1982.  Sport shop in center of Medford left of the McDonalds, Forget the name. Killed my first deer ever with it in 1986 a 3 pt.  Before that bought a Ben Pearson recurve #35 at a yard sale for $ 10.

[Woodsman416]

My first "real" hunting bow was a gift from my parents for my 16th birthday. It was a 55 lb Shakespeare Mancos recurve. Also 3 crested cedar arrows and 3 Bear razorheads. We bought it at Metuchen Sporting Goods on Main St.

[bob kudile]

moe mountain archers upper green wood lake nj. 

[electricstart]

Wilderness Archery Dover NJ. Bear whitetail hunter. 

[jerseyboy32]

Rays sport shop.   a bear first strike xlr in 1993. 

Edited January 17 by jerseyboy32

[Swampwalker]

My father got me into hunting, he bought me my first bow from Targeteers

[308federal]

Butts and Bows mid 70's.

Jennings model T with Gamegetters. Shot the paint off of them and eventually moved up to the anodized xx75 then started to make my own.

LOL, I think I still have some xx75 bare shafts in their boxes but not the Jennings model T which was eventually relegated to carp and bowfishing duties and then retired.

 

[nmc02]

My dad gave me a Bear Polar LTD and numerous, junk recurves as a kid..............shot them for a long time. Hunted very little in HS & College due to sports, etc. When I graduated college started to hunt a ton, as I had a very flexible work schedule. I bought a used Hoyt Ultratec in 2000. I shot a ton of deer with it, as there were tons of venison dinners in the area accepting deer. 

I bought my first new bow from Garden State Bow & Reel, a Hoyt Alphamax in around 2009.....loved that bow. Also shot a ton with it.

Edited January 17 by nmc02

[fab]

It’s great hearing all the old store names again.   Damm I’m old.  Life goes by way to fast.  

[Dominant buck]

I don't know where my dad got it from, but it was a bear with pulleys all over the place on it, lol.

My 1st I bought myself was a browning at a store called BEST in East brunswick,  it was like a kmart type of store before the world went crazy.  They had guns and bows you could handle without a issue

[hammer4reel]

3 hours ago, bucky said:

Ben Pearson recurve, there was little bow shop a guy ran out of his house in Stanton off rt31, cant remember the name, its been so long

Keith Thackelbury

[barrike]

Bear Whitetail II.  1989.  K-mart.  Shamokin Dam, PA.  Price tag was around $120 iir.  I still have it.  I last used it for bowfishing around 2010.

[Devil Horns]

2 hours ago, Otter said:

My first compound was a Browning Cobra XL 1982.  Sport shop in center of Medford left of the McDonalds, Forget the name. Killed my first deer ever with it in 1986 a 3 pt.  Before that bought a Ben Pearson recurve #35 at a yard sale for $ 10.

Sportsman’s Den? I think that was the name of it.
 

Checked my first deer in there during 6 day 1989. Place was packed with club trucks in that little parking lot and deer all over the ground. 

[jerseyboy32]

My cousin got his at summit archery in Jersey city

[toxo]

Bear Cub Recurve, Bambergers in Paramus,still have it!