My local shop has a super kodiak sn 6-208, silver colored coin 45#@28. I'd say it's an 8. It has a couple of faint lines running up the belly glass top and bottom, and, some light stress lines in the finish on the back. I forgot to look at the bear logo. They are asking $425. Is this a fair price and is it safe to shoot regularly? thanks in advance. And how old is it as well?
I t sounds like a 1966. I have seen them in nice condition going for less on the big auction site. I think the price is high based on the description of its condition.
I agree with Steve, pretty high. Also can't be a 1966 Super K as they weren't out until '67. Pictures are always best.
If it says "Super Kodiak", then not a '66. Anyway, Wadde is correct about price sounding a bit high unless it's really rare or exceptional. Used bow prices are down quite a bit.
If the serial numbering held true to what they were supposed to have done, the first number being a six would mean that the bow was actually numbered in 1966 but released as a 1967. I have read in several places that from 1965 to 1969, the first number was the year of manufacture. Do I have some fiction mixed into my Bear facts?
Is this a 2006 bow?? photos will tell
Numbering deal is a bit silly but what is pertinent is after the number on Grayling bows would be a letter to denote model. A 60" Super K would be Z a 64" Super K Y and a Kodiak Hunter T and so on and so forth so yeah this is probably a Gainesville bow
Have to agree. Sounds like a Gainesville bow.
Yup sounds like a Gainesville bow, and still too high on the price.
And yet again gentlemen you get the feeling of what we are faced with north of the 49th parallel...that 425CAD is really not a whole lot more than 300USD right now which is what you are thinking when you reference price on the big auction site...and now I have to go home and check on the serial number on my 67 1/2 Super K...turns out that, oddly enough, that is the only Bear I have ever owned in that magical 1965 to 1969 period where serial numbers actually have some meaning...I must be getting old
DDave
A photo would help. Super Kodiak's were not made in '66. They were introduced in '67.5 and came with gold coins for the first three or four years.