New (to me) Super mag 48

[James Harvey]

#2374

Received a package in the mail yesterday. Much excitement. I don’t think I’ve seen any photos that quite do the little guys justice, they’re very pretty in person.

Anyway, I don’t have any other bows that fit on a map (that’s not true, I have some huge maps… but I thought it was a nice effect!)

[David Bartlett]

#8740

Jim,

Nice looking bow. If they shoot as nice as they look, you are going to have a blast!

[Col Mike]

#8807

Very nice Jim. Can’t wait for your report on how it does in the kayak:D. Enjoy

Mike

[Brennan Herr]

#8878

Jim,

Great bow! Looks really good against the map. Enjoy and thanks for sharing.

Brennan

[sinawalli]

#8895

Nice bow Jim! Ever since your thread on short recurves came up, I’ve been looking around. Damn you, I thought guns and tattoos were the only thing I couldn’t have one of!

[Ralph]

#8976

Nice lookin’:D Hope she don’t have much recoil so as to rock the boat.

[David Coulter]

#9180

I love reading about you guys collecting bows. My old Wasp is retired and I’m shooting my R/D longbow. I’m half afraid to pick up another bow and blow all the work I’ve done getting acquainted with my longbow! Good luck with it. Enjoy! dwc

[James Harvey]

#9317

Cheers guys, my main aim with this little bloke is to facilitate a blending of kayaking and bowhunting, so I’m looking forward to getting it out on the water.

In the meantime here’s a still I got this morning… Such a tiny bow (it’s about 46″ nock-nock when strung) and look at how much work those limbs are doing!

[Ben M.]

#9617

It’s fantastic, man! Great presentation too. I like the limb protectors.

[James Harvey]

#9643

sinawalli wrote: Nice bow Jim! Ever since your thread on short recurves came up, I’ve been looking around. Damn you, I thought guns and tattoos were the only thing I couldn’t have one of!

Well, you’re in the right place to buy them, they’re rare as hens teeth down here!

I asked a fella named George Stout for his recommendations, as I’ve seen a couple of youtube videos of him shooting some short bows quite accurately. He said there were lots of good bows in the 52″ realm: Cascade Golden Hawk, Kodiak Mag, Wing Thunderbird, Ben Pearson BPH 52

He also recommended these in 54″: The Brownings…Nomad I and Safari I, The Shakespeare Super Necedah 54″.

From the moment I first saw one years ago, I’ve thought the Bear Kodiak Magnum was about the most beautiful bow I’d ever seen. Just a bit too long to fit in the kayak 😉

[James Harvey]

#9647

Ben M. wrote: I like the limb protectors.

Haha, I thought they looked kinda cool too, but I just peeled them off! I figure it was a lot of wool hanging out on the end of the limbs and the bow needs every bit of help it can get to go fast 😉 And along the same lines I figure it’s not in much danger of slapping the string terribly hard against itself 😆

[David Bartlett]

#9954

Jim,

Do you know how old your bow is? I have a 1967 Super Kodiak that looks a lot like your bow in color and style.

It too is not the fastest shooter, but it will put the arrow where it belongs if I do my part.

[James Harvey]

#10356

David,

I don’t know exactly. It’s a Gainsville bow. I’ve shown it to a couple of guys that might know and they reckoned only a couple years old. It’s actual the dymondwood riser like the last series, just a very dark one. I thought it was a very old one when I first saw photos as well 😉

[James Harvey]

#10459

The other side of the bow this morning..

Off to the shop this morning for some shafts and bits and tuning will begin 😀

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#10478

Congrats on the new shorty! I’ve always thought they were such a cool bow.

[sinawalli]

#11492

Does it stack?

[Ralph]

#11531

Now you gotta have shorter arrows to keep them out of the water!:lol::lol:

Lookin’ good there Jim!

[James Harvey]

#11612

sinawalli wrote: Does it stack?

To be honest, I’ve never drawn a bow that stacks at my draw length so I’m not 100% sure what I’m feeling for, but I haven’t noticed anything out to just short of 29″. (edited this sentence)Jeff Cavanagh said on his youtube vid that he didn’t notice any at his draw of 29.5″.

I do suspect finger pinch would become a problem though. If I don’t get good deep hooks and keep my hand strong and flat I get finger pinch at my draw length. So basically the string wants to pinch my fingers together but my hand is strong enough to resist that force and keep my fingers apart. I’m not sure how much that would change going up in weight of bow.

[Ben M.]

#12945

Stacking seems to be one of those things you have to develop a “feel” for. Essentially, if the bow pulls excessively more weight per inch of draw as you reach your full draw, that’s stacking. In practice, it feels something like pulling a low-poundage bow until the last few inches of draw. A bow that stacks has a draw that feels not as, well, “even” or “smooth” as a non-stacking bow. It feels like it’s easy going right up until the end.

At least, that’s what stacking feels like to me.

[Stephen Graf]

#13272

From the pictures, the string angle at the tips is pretty low, thus I doubt it stacks…

I’m surprised you say it’s slow though… Is it slower than you thought it should be?

[James Harvey]

#13292

Steve Graf wrote: I’m surprised you say it’s slow though… Is it slower than you thought it should be?

I expected it to be slow, but it was notably slower than my 64″ longbow or 62″ recurve shooting a 10gpp arrow. That being said I was shooting pretty wildly out of tune arrows that I just happened to have laying about, so maybe having some shafts that fly true will go a bit quicker.

It’s not so slow I’m concerned about hunting with it, just slow enough to be noteworthy 😉

[David Bartlett]

#14017

ausjim wrote:

It’s not so slow I’m concerned about hunting with it, just slow enough to be noteworthy 😉

Jim,

As a shooter of lighter weight bows, I understand what you mean. I have a couple different sets of arrows I shoot with my 45# Bear recurve. One is based on a 400 spine CE shaft with about 375 grains up front. The other is based on a 500 spine shaft with about 225 grains up front.

They both fly well, but I definitely notice a lot more zip from the lighter arrows.

Regardless, I would have no reservations about hunting with either one.

[grumpy]

#33244

NICE!!! Happy for you.

I’m searching yard sales for one of those. Not so sure they would really work with my short draw length (22″). I’m only 5’2″ and I can draw my 48″ bow from my knees with no problem, so you should have no prop in the kayak.

HAVE FUN!!!

[James Harvey]

#59770

Grumpy, keep your eye out online too, in the weeks I spent looking around I found a couple in the US under 200 bucks.

I’ve got to say the more I shoot this bow the more I’m loving it. The handle feels a little weird to me and would obviously suit a slightly lower wrist than I like to shoot with, but I think I seem to have settle on a happy hand position and am shooting ok with it. Just finished tuning some arrows (.500 with 200 gn heads) so will take it up a river this week.

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