This bow travels around the country from traditional archer to traditional archer. If you’ve never heard of a traveling bow, it’s pretty self explanatory. This year, they released a special 50th anniversary edition to honor one of their best-selling bows. It took Bear archery 20 years of field testing and perfecting the takedown before Bear himself was happy with the finished product. The takedown bow is one of the most legendary models that have ever been made by Bear Archery, and it appears in many photos with Fred Bear. The company not only thought it was a great idea, but immediately shipped a brand-new 2019 Takedown. He reached out to Bear Archery about a traveling bow. The idea began in July 2019 with Jeff Nowak, the founder of the Facebook group. That’s where the traveling takedown project was born. A few years ago, I joined a Facebook group called Traditional Bear Archery Group, a place for like-minded hunters and archers who enjoy all things traditional archery. Although he passed away in 1988, he continues to inspire people of all ages. To this day, I still see Fred Bear as a role model for all of us. Details of the custom Bear Kodiak takedown. To him, any animal taken with a recurve was an accomplishment. It wasn’t always a game of antlers and scores. Bear was all about the experience, and the journey. That’s a bit different from how many of the big-name hunters today portray things. His story is why I shoot Bear traditional bows.īut more inspiring to me than Bear’s technical knowledge and eventual archery prowess was his connection with nature, and his love for the hunt. I pored over stories about Bear, and even used several photographs of him shooting as an example for my own form. Learning that Fred Bear was a beginner at the same age made the challenge more approachable. I considered making the switch from my compound to traditional archery for years, before finally taking the leap and buying a recurve. I was raised as a gun hunter, and I also fell in love with traditional bowhunting in my late twenties. A detail of the riser a biography of Fred Bear. Instead, Young used his osage longbow to take sheep, mountain goat, moose, and a brown bear on Kodiak Island. He brought one cameraman, and neither of them brought a gun. And it happened at the movies.īear saw the film Alaskan Adventures, a 1926 documentary about Art Young hunting the Last Frontier. His father taught him to hunt when he was young, but he didn’t fall down the bowhunting rabbit hole until he was 29. Like me, Fred Bear didn’t start bowhunting until later in life. The author with the traveling takedown bow. The only catch was that it wasn’t mine to keep. It was a beautiful bow, and I couldn’t wait to hunt with it. Beside it was a coiled string, a leather journal, and a Grayling quiver from Selway Archery-a remake of the original quivers made by Fred Bear himself, years ago. The limbs are dark to match, with the “Fred Bear Custom Kodiak T/D” stamp on the lower limb. The dark riser, inlaid with a gold Bear coin, has a red stripe running vertically through the wood grain. Inside was a recurve bow, built of shiny black maple and disassembled into each of its parts. Even though I knew what I would find when I unzipped the case, it didn’t lessen the anticipation. When the box arrived, I opened it immediately.Įnclosed was a soft, vintage-style carrying case with leather handles.

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Takedown recurve bow quiver