finaly got the arrows wow bear arrows are sweet

[b44mag]

i was at buddys place today to pick up some arrows . i traded him some traps for. he came out with a dirty old 8 box of bear 45/50 ceders hunting arrows with razor tips on them plus a extra perfect match for a total of 9. 3 with bleaders all never shot. 4 with moth damage to some of the feathers. 5 about perfect.they are tan with what looks to be 1964 tips light blue knocks and orange feathers. were these wraped in plastic or was there a top to the box . im pumped for sure. im thinking of hunting turkey with these out of a 60in. 35# no.25 indian archery fiberglass semirecurve. i pull it to 28 3/4 outside of grip . you think its enough bow if i do my part at 15ish maybe 20 yards max. they were my buddys dads. they all went to compound when they first came out and never looked back. i ask him if he had any more and he said nothing worth anything i told him ill trade him a few more traps for what ever he has to make fluflus for stumping and small game . he told me he will get the old arrows together and he has enough traps. so i can just have them . no one else will shoot them. i have some FL feathers on the way thinking of making 4 flu flus out of the moth damaged arrows. did i type im pumped oh yea for sure.

[b44mag]

i just got done cleaning them up. i think all but one are shootable the way they are. one needs 1 feather. the tips are in great shape very light surface rust on a few edges but after sharpening they should look like new. sweet hope he has a bunch of ceder arrows in the attic. when i was a kid with a red bear fiberglass 25# bow running a muck through the neighborhood. i used to buy his arrows from him for .50 a piece. very cool to get back into it after 30 some years and get arrows from him now. very cool ol dude. i took a ceder shaft i made into a fluflu with some of my turkey feathers to show him. he said he had some realy nice turkry feathers in his garage. and went in came out with a bag of feathers. he handed them to me and said i was going to sell these on fleabay but your playing around with the arrows here take them with you.
im excited to say the least.

[Cottonwood]

I have a dozen Fred Bear originals as well, these are fiberglass arrows and rated for 50-55# bows.

[Empty Quiver]

I think you will find that correctly spined arows are worth looking for. 15 - 20 pounds is quite a stretch to expect good flight. If the arrow is still whipping around you are going to have poor penetration to boot.

Congratulations on the find, by the way.

[cwlongshot]

We hunted with those arrows for many years!! I made the switch to a compound around 1983/4 and did not look back until about ten years ago.  I ran across a beautiful recurve but couldn't buy it as it sold before I could buy it. Busy day and I did not expect to sell it. ( At store I worked at) SO I was on the hunt for a recurve!!  I found a very nice Damon Howat 45# recurve and grabbed it right then!! I bought some cedar shafts and built arrows. (If you haven't done this, it's alot of fun and you should look into it!!)

Move forward to last year, my grand father passed and I was left two recurves and about 4 dozen bear hunting arrows a couple quivers and a couple boxes of bear and zwickie broad heads.

The bows are a 50 and 55#. The 50 is a Pearson and the 55 a bear grizzly   Both perfect stored unstrung and horizontal. Some of the arrows need reflecting but as I said that's the fun part.

Try shooting arial targets in a field with the flu flus!! Make your own targets with cardboard discs glued together. Lots of fun!!!

CW

[b44mag]

i read the wood spine charts and 35# bow arrow 29 45 50 spinemaybe they will shoot good boy i hope they shot good .
so what you guys think about trying to stick a yard bird with a old35#  fiberglass bow if i do my part at 15 20 yards

[cwlongshot]

While thearrows spine is important for good flight. It becomes less important with the lower draw weight and less still from a recurve, such as your 35# bow. Even then over spineing is far better and safer than under spineing. 

Shoot it and see what you think. I feel the worst you will get is a heavier arrow.

CW

[b44mag]

well i shot today and the 400,600,2018 shot like a dream the 2117 need more weight up front but still pretty good the bear arrows shot at 7 oclock  first 2 then right in there next one . now this was just at 10 yards there was leage night at shop and he left me slide in for a quickie . i need to shoot them more to see if the 2 left was me or the heavy spine . i read something about left or right for right hand archer is it heavy left weak right spine .

[Frank V]

Bear memorabilia is great stuff. I'd suggest you don't shoot them however, they are pretty valuable & could be brittle to boot. They would look great in a display, thus saved as a piece of history.
Thanks Frank

[Cottonwood]

Frank, I don't shoot these even though very tempting as they just sit boxed up in my closet.  I probably for the right price pass them on to a collector though.

[cwlongshot]

I shoot mine!!!
They are well dried before they became an arrow! Most bear arrows are alsofully painted. Further sealing them.

Take them out and enjoy them!! 

CW