ted williams

[brock ratcliff]

I dusted off one of Dad's old bows today. He hunted with it when I was a kid, and I hunted with it when I was a teenager. It has been hung up for years but I got it out today. I was looking for a bow to buy when I remembered I had this one. It is 50lb@28, either 58 or 60", it isn't marked and I haven't measured it yet. It has a name brand on it but I don't recall what it is. It is a ted williams signature series. I think his sig line was sold through Sears or somewhere similar. When were these made? I am guessing early 60's or so.....any idea?

It shoots SWEET, and I am gonna have some fun with it.

[geezer II]

Cool - Sears had a J. C. Higgins and a Ted Williams line of sporting goods - dang i remember those stores - ya could but just about everything ya could need

[brock ratcliff]

Kinda funny how you forget about toys you already have. I was snooping on line for a fifty pound or less and remembered I already had this one and another. I never really liked this bow back in the day, but now I think it is pretty cool. I think ill use it to kill something this year.

[coonskinner]

chances are the bow was made for them by a major archery company like bear or pearson,maybe even shakespeare...i think jc higgins was a store seperate from sears...another large store was wards...and their bows too were made by major archery companies...usually these bows were 58" if made mid 60s...and 60" around the seventies...:D

[geezer II]

chances are the bow was made for them by a major archery company like bear or pearson,maybe even shakespeare...i think jc higgins was a store seperate from sears...another large store was wards...and their bows too were made by major archery companies...usually these bows were 58" if made mid 60s...and 60" around the seventies...:D

j. c. higgins was a brand named used by Sears - it was the name of there accountant of something like that - they had it on everything from guns to baseball gloves - muh neighbor gave muh a j.c. higgins .12ga pump wif a cutts comp on it last year - :whistle: :mischeif:

j. c. higgins brand name was dropped after WWII and the Ted Williams brand took over -

[coonskinner]

j. c. higgins was a brand named used by Sears - it was the name of there accountant of something like that - they had it on everything from guns to baseball gloves - muh neighbor gave muh a j.c. higgins .12ga pump wif a cutts comp on it last year - :whistle: :mischeif:

j. c. higgins brand name was dropped after WWII and the Ted Williams brand took over -i knew ted williams was sears which i thought came out in seventies...but wards is another company i know for sure as i got bows by them as well as sears...:D

[brock ratcliff]

Bill watson....I think he made it. Approved by ted w. I think dad told me it came from MW but I thought TW's stuff was sold through Sears. I will have to ask him.

The funny thing is I have had many of the high dollar "custom" bows and I like this one as well if not better. I think the lower poundage helps too. That works for me cause the lower pondage bows are cheaper on ebay......jeez I sound like Coonie.

[hoot gibson]

coonie junior :whistle:, the ted williams stuff was only sold through sears . im just guessing , but i bet your bow looks just like a bear grizzly . h

[coonskinner]

coonie junior :whistle:, the ted williams stuff was only sold through sears . im just guessing , but i bet your bow looks just like a bear grizzly . h

ted williams was sears sporting goods,fishing hunting,football,golf,baseball,basketball,camping. ..but i do not have one bow marked ted williams,i know they were made,i just dont have any,just not on my priority list,i only buy them if i get a real good bargain...they were marketed at first just under the SEARS NAME...just as wards do...ben pearson made bows for these companies as did bear and i believe shakespeare did too...it was done in different years,some of the bows i have seen had slight deviations from the archery companies that made them for sears or wards,usually in the sight window area......:biggrin:

[brock ratcliff]

Spoke to Dad this morning. He said he got the bow for Christmas before my sister was born. She will be 45 this year, so that puts it early 60"s. My mom bought it for him so he was not sure but thought it came from Sears, which goes along with the Ted Williams theme.

He never killed a deer with it. He hunted with it until the mid 80's. He and a few friends would go to the hills every Saturday, regardless of weather. We lived in Circleville but he always hunted in Vinton, Hocking, or Meigs counties. There were very few deer in Pickaway County at the time, plus Dad grew up in Vinton County and Grandpa still lived there so he had LOTS of land to hunt back then.

He had a unique way of shooting it. His right elbow is severely deformed and he is unable to draw a bow in a conventional way. His anchor point was somewhere between his belly button and chest. I don't think the bow was every drawn to 28" until I started shooting it. It never stopped them from going and having a blast.

He started shooting a crossbow in the late 80's. He would go with me, or rather I would go with him, but he lost his taste for hunting for the most part by the mid 90's, probably my fault.:mischeif: I told him this morning I had been shooting it and would probably hunt with it this year, he said good that is what it is for.....which is funny because he got mad every time I took a hook out of his tackle box back in the day.:D

I haven't been able to find out much about them. I found an old listing on ebay or somewhere. The seller stated they were extremely rare, but he may have just been trying to get the price up.

Hoot, it does look similar to a Grizzly, but heck they all look a little alike.

[coonskinner]

i don't see a lot of them...thats all i can say...:biggrin:

[brock ratcliff]

Hoot, it looks like you are right.

I asked MR James what he knew about this bow and he remembered them but that was all, but would snoop a little. Joe St. Charles (Glenn's son) said they were made by Bear in the mid 60's.

You get a cookie. )

[hoot gibson]

the trouble with my memory is i cant remember where i put it most of the time . but i spent alot of time down at athens with a guy probably the only guy who could give al reader , a run for his money on bear bows , im sure coonie knows who im talking about . nice story about your father . h

[brock ratcliff]

Too much time in Athens is bad for anyone's memory.

[coonskinner]

j w...:mischeif: