Name this bow...
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From: ELKMAN
15-Jun-18
Let's play name that bow...
From: ELKMAN
15-Jun-18
From: smarba
15-Jun-18
Betty
From: GhostBird
15-Jun-18
Eugene
From: Buffalo1
15-Jun-18
Browning or Martin?
From: wyobullshooter
15-Jun-18
Ugly Betty
From: APauls
15-Jun-18
looks like about a 2014 Hoyt?
From: pav
15-Jun-18
Martin Jaguar
From: oldgoat
15-Jun-18
Fugly!
From: BIGRICH
15-Jun-18
History !
From: Brotsky
15-Jun-18
I could slap a couple REDWRX stickers on it if you want to tell me how awesome it is! :)
From: HDE
15-Jun-18
^^^ now that's funny right there!!
From: Rut Nut
15-Jun-18
T-rex. ;-)
From: JW
15-Jun-18
Martin Onza???
Definitely on the fugly side, even makes a Mathews look ok...
From: pav
15-Jun-18
Could also be a Jim Cox Black Ram or Martin Black Ram II....thinking the Martin Jaguar version came first though.
From: pav
15-Jun-18
Overdraws were the "buzz" in the early 80's. I seriously considered the handle forward design before settling on a shoot through riser design. Can you name this one?
From: smarba
15-Jun-18
2011 Rytera Seeker
2011 Rytera Seeker
I'm thinking Martin. Apparently Martin thought the concept was worth reviving in 2011 in their Rytera line with the "Seeker"
From: altitude sick
15-Jun-18
The initial, top picture looks like a Browning or Cabelas bow.
From: boothill
15-Jun-18
Looks like an old McPherson from the 80's.
From: WV Mountaineer
15-Jun-18
Brotsky for the win
From: Paul@thefort
15-Jun-18
My guess, the bow is a 1984-85 Martin Jaguar.
Looks like a mouse ate the fetching off the arrows.
Yep, lots of history in the development of the perfect compound bow.
From: Cobie33
15-Jun-18
I am going to guess that pav's pic is of a York S-T-O (shoot-through-overdraw).
From: Errorhead
15-Jun-18
Pav’s pic , York STO, I had one! It was so ugly but different.
From: caribou77
15-Jun-18
I was guessing the same as boothill.
From: cnelk
15-Jun-18
Id drown it before I named it
From: drycreek
15-Jun-18
I don’t have a clue but I’ll bet Ted Nugent had two of them. :-)
From: Paul@thefort
15-Jun-18
OK, ELKMAN, what do I win for "naming" the bow correctly.
From: pav
15-Jun-18
Cobie33 and Errorhead got the York STO (shoot through overdraw) correct. Not sure exactly....but bought mine new between 1982-1984. Not a bad bow for it's time....once you got used to loading an arrow! LOL
From: t-roy
15-Jun-18
I’m with pav and Paul on the jaguar.
Back in the 80s, I used to shoot with a guy who accidentally got shot by his sister with a shotgun in his left forearm when he was a kid. He didn’t have much lateral strength in that forearm, so he rigged up a strap to the riser of his jaguar that went around his wrist to stabilize things. He won a lot of tournaments, plus killed a pile of deer and several elk.
From: stick n string
15-Jun-18
Are they wooden cams? Feel like that cant be possible, but Lookin on my phone, so pics are pretty fuzzy....
From: carcus
15-Jun-18
Its a Jag
From: WapitiBob
16-Jun-18
It's a Jim Cox black ram. Late 80's give away is the slotted yoke wheel, and the clip holding the buss cable to the yoke. That clip was an after thought of some mfg's after Mel Stanislawski sold the roller guard to Martin.
From: Paul@thefort
16-Jun-18
After comparing pictures of all three extended handle bows, I agree with Bob, it is a Jim Cox Black Ram. The Martin Jag, had a slimmer riser and a slightly different extended handle. my best, Paul
From: x-man
16-Jun-18
The Jag had round wheels. I agree that this is a Jim Cox Black Ram.
From: t-roy
16-Jun-18
Jaguar didn’t have a wooden riser either, correct?
From: WapitiBob
16-Jun-18
not that I remember
From: ELKMAN
16-Jun-18
Perhaps a Martin Black Ram from around 1987 ???
From: WapitiBob
16-Jun-18
Martin probably made it for Cox.
From: ELKMAN
16-Jun-18
Correct
From: Boreal
16-Jun-18
The Black Ram with Wristcutter Wriser Technology!
From: midwest
16-Jun-18
Would be fun to shoot it.
...maybe, sort of.
From: ELKMAN
17-Jun-18
I will let you know
