At first, Allen tried sawing the ends off the limbs of a recurve bow and attaching pulleys, which created a crude block-and-tackle system. In the early 1960s, Allen was fiddling with the first compound bow, hoping to give the bows of the future a mechanical advantage over traditional bows. It’s all thanks to an obscure Missouri innovator named Holless Wilbur Allen. Needless to say, I didn’t kill much - but I swallowed the bowhunting bug hook, line and sinker. It featured dual-needle bearings, “micro click” adjustment and the “hot” C4 eccentric wheels that are all of about 1¾ inches in diameter. I got mine in 1978, a dumb wannabe bowhunter a year out of grad school with no money and big dreams. That friend is my first compound bow - a Bear Archery Alaskan 6-wheel model introduced in 1977. Featured image: /illustration: Grand View Outdoorsĭigging around the garage last winter I found an old friend I hadn’t spoken to in a while.
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