Bear Collectors... Strings???

[bear1336]

Endless loop string works better for me and are quieter I believe.

[yeager]

I'm a flemish twist guy.

[Herder]

as a collector I prefer endless spring
as a shooter I like those strings

[Herder]

All in all I like them both,-
when they are, like Bjorn  says, - are well made!!!






ps. spring will coming soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Wade Phillips]

IMHO as a collector who hunts with Vintage Bear Archery Tackle -

Vintage Bear Bows deserve to have original Endless Loop Bear Strings.

Or a reproduction of the Original Bear String...

[Bjorn]

That's a lot of spare strings. You need  

[Mojostick]

Bearbowman's strings are fantastic.

[TRAP]

Herder,  when I glanced at that '62 it was like looking at a beautiful woman on the beach and then having someone ask me what color her bikini was.  I paid absolutely no attention to the string color.

[Shane Reed]

I am looking for someone who can make a period correct string for my 1930's bow that was Fred's. In the picture shown on page 68 of Dick Lattimers book, is Fred drawing the bow next to a Ford license plate dated 1932. My guess is that this would have been a silk string, maybe all white?. If anyone knows of a string maker who can produce such a monster please contact me. This is a bow that Fred made in his garage, and was the 13th bow he made.

[Mojostick]

Shane,
I'd contact Dan Toelke. I bet he'd be a good resource on finding someone for making such a string.
http://montanabows.blogspot.com/p/contact-us.html

[TonyW]

[Wade Phillips]

Just have to smile and shake my head in near disbelief every time I see this 1932 photograph of a target archer with his protruding elbow who is drawing a light weight target bow made of lemonwood and wearing a white shirt, tie, dark rimmed spectacles and a hat trimmed with a wide dark hat band. It seems unlikely that the target archer in this image could become the legendary bow hunter, Fred Bear who many of us grew up with in the 1950s and 1960s.

The 1935 image on the facing page of the successful bowman with his first B&A deer and obviously much heavier weight hunting bow (yew?) looks a little more like the Fred Bear who many of us came to know much later.

[Brock]

I have endless loop on all of my vintage brownings....as that is what they had on them originally when first purchased in 60s.  To me EL is more vintage....for this era...if I had one from 1800s would maybe use hemp or linen or something...

I use the flemish twist on my more recently built bows....just for aesthetics only and that is what they came with.  

[TonyW]

Went back to the endless loop for the same reason.
Just seems to be the right string for them.

Here is Fred in 1935, before he got us all hooked.

[Shane Reed]

It is funny Wade. I would like to find the bow on the next page as well ;-)

[Wade Phillips]

Shane,

I'm sure there are dozens of collectors who would also like to find the bow on page 69 that Fred took his first deer with in 1935.

Not certain that most who would see it, would actually be able to identify it.

I have the broadhead, but you can not really see it in the photograph.

Still so much stuff to be found, and so little time.

[Shane Reed]

I found the old string that came on the first Grumley I bought in the case with bow socks. It has a couple knots where someone tied it back together. This string is more like a thin rope, and all white.

Wade,
 It's my goal to find the Snowbuck movie, and I am letting everyone know that I can.