History of the Bow by Fred Bear Part 1 of 3

[@volli56]

Had the bow set up at a pro shop. It performed just fine kzbin.infoUgkxQEKUoxLWwayEDZR0NKB-5limn4MBU-2L . And I would say this is a good starting now that I could pass down to my son when he is older.But the package was missing the release and a nock was missing from one arrow.Dealing with customer support was terrible. They suggested I buy a new release rather than correct their own quality control issue because it’s to expensive for the. to ship it out from China.Update: manufacturer got back to me and resolved the issue. I retract the above statement.

[@Smokercraft427]

One of the men in the world that I respect the most. Certainly appreciate his life time of hard work, ingenuity and all he's provided to make archery and hunting what it is today. RIP Mr Bear.

[@jimmysapien9961]

Trophy 205 he is and was A Pioneer. Great 👍🏻

[@joshuawilliams194]

Fred Bear the Man!!!!

[@liamromain1200]

I love this and him, I wish he was still around.... Rest in peace Fred Bear.

[@Kurtdog63]

Thanks so much for posting this. A great American success story. His hunting videos inspired me as a child. Archery and bowhunting such a great pastime for so many.

[@nathansmith5331]

I watch this all the time. Fred bear did more for bowhunting than anyone in the world. If you've ever loved archery or bowhunting you owe it to Mr. Bear. He made a product than showed the world what could be done with it. As always Thankyou Fred Bear

[@MustObeyTheRules]

I love archery but Fred bear means nothing to me I make my own bows from wood and he had no impact on my interest

[@kennethray8129]

but... you had interest enough to click on a fred bear youtube video.

[@davidcastle3292]

it could be implied that you would never have become interested in bows without Fred. perhaps but unlikely. i like bow hunting, i did long before i know who Saxton Pope was....yet without him bow hunting,as we know it, may never have been

[@joeellis4013]

MustObeyTheRules he is hell of man did a lot for the sport.

[@jimmysapien9961]

David Castle some people just don’t have any respect for anything or anyone these days , times have changed. I’m from the old school . 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@jakeziegler6503]

Such a wealth of knowledge and skill this man had.

[@bubblerum69002]

I really could listen to Mr. Bear speak about bows and tell his hunting stories all day. I was born way too late.

[@l.e.o.1127]

Thanks for everything Fred

[@sipatuwambli1192]

I have one of his bear special recurves. Its about 35 years old. Still in perfect working condition still has the original string strung on it.

[@cbeck611]

The bow Fred called a Chinese bow was designed by the samurai in japan. The handle was purposely placed on the lower third of the bow to drastically reduce shock transferred to your hand since the center of the bow absorbs the shock. The samurai design is also made to spin the bow in your hand while the arrow is being launched. This was proven much more efficient and accurate. The samurai bow is the most powerful and the most accurate long bow ever made. The spinning in the hand design is what makes it stand out the most allowing the arrows to fly much more straight and precise without any loss of energy through mid flight wobble. The technique to building a samurai bow is also unmatched. Some of the wood used has to be smoked for 6 months.

[@barnehagefanden]

The yumi is indeed an amazing construction, but it is not the most accurate and it certanly is not the most powerfull longbow. It is the longest bow tho, I'll give you that..

[@jonduffer4340]

Thank you for posting. Can,t wait to see the rest!

[@moogybannahilstopaflingon6803]

Absolute GOLD...need I say more!

[@nightawaitsusall9607]

The first bows we’re created in Africa. Unpopular to speak on, but very true.

[@curtbrooks7495]

Fred Bear is a great guy, plain and simple.

[@hzc363]

Mr. Bear is extraordinary. He is able to going backward while moving forward.

[@edwardtupper6374]

I reckon he would be astounded if he were to be shown around a modern day archery store

[@jimmysapien9961]

Edward Tupper - I imagine he would be 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Great man

[@BilgePump]

I doubt it.

[@randyrick8019]

There are a couple of videos here on utube of Fred at archery meets and Olympic trials in the 60's and 70's after the introduction of the Hoyt risers and limbs. So he lived to see the modern bow

[@mr.rogers9319]

This man is a National Treasure. I started out shooting a bow when I was 8 years old with a Bear mini mag. And my dad was using a Bear Delta V.

[@AnonYmous-ii4tc]

Thank you for sharing this video.

[@billythesunbeltsamurainapi3670]

I live in Gainesville and go gators! visit his first factory all the time to see the new line up and get my bow tuned. amazing guy

[@sunaJH]

What a treat, thanx for downloading this sunaj

[@chrissmith9151]

I have that same model of compound bow he has there. That was my second Bear bow. I still have both and still use them today.

[@jakeziegler6503]

So do I! I have the Whitetail Hunter and Whitetail 2 and I shot the hell out them both before going back to traditional shooting.

[@-lotus8650]

Fred was a legend. I dug up some of his old tapes from my dad's collection. Not a lot of people can kill a full grown Polar Bear with a Recurve.

Woah, woah, woah! Turks did not come up with the composite bow 500 years ago out of the blue. Scythian-Hunnish-Avar-Magyar recurve, sometimes labeled composite bow written, and archeological continuity extends back into around the 2nd millennium BC.

[@KamKing19]

We have discovered more since this video was made, don't forget about the Mongolian bows.

[@beepot2764]

Also some native Americans (first nations) in the California region used composite bows. Always discovering new thing.

[@5tonyvvvv]

+VáTÉsz Mag probably older than that.

[@Excalibure666]

Turkish history much older than 500 years. Huns, Avars (which has probably Turkic roots), Mongolians, Turks... They are all coming from Asia. No need to say composite bow is first made by Turks, but probably Turks are one of the first users (maybe even inventors). But we can definitely say especially Ottoman Turks took it another stage. Tozkoparan Iskender's flight was 846 Metre. And once he hit a target from 820 m. (I'm not sure about that)

[@khanimran1238]

There all tbe same peoples the tartar

[@jamescooper2618]

I have several of Fred's bows from '71 and '72. Still going strong today. Fred also invented the best 3pc takedown system in the world.

[@garychynne1377]

very interesting story.

[@milspek]

I like his bolo tie, very nice.

[@ItsDLC]

Good footage of a real legend.

[@westbows]

It is interesting that he does not mention Native American bows as part of bow history.

[@Eldobaz]

Фрэд был великим человеком! Это человек, которым дойствительно может гордиться Америка. Это как Калашников в СССР и России.

[@GottliebGoltz]

I had a # 35 Bearcat and a 60 # Kodiac I was on hard times to part with both. Yup! Kids now don't know hard times, free college, etc, flipping burgers would be better than pounding R/R spikes by hand all weather all day or underground hard rock mining lucky to have an air drill, logging was out in the air even if it was well below zero too. I'm still here. Yup!

[@bygodfreeman]

Some of us kids still work that hard! Farming every day to pay for my habbit of collecting vintage archery equipment! So far i have a kodiak, a grizzly, and a montana. Wouldnt trade them for my own house. Haha

[@MarchalisVan]

Some of this stuff concerning the history of bows is non factual, or just not worded very well. I mean recurve shapes and compound materials have been around a much, much, longer time. including hard and soft siyah. That said the history of fibreglass laminate was kind of interesting :)

[@Kalydosos]

Next to gun powder I think the composite bow was one of the biggest military breakthroughs.

[@Excalibure666]

That's why Ottomans refused to switch rifles for 100 years. Their bows were much faster (shot per minute), accurate and powerful. :)

[@beardedbjorn5520]

Not really

[@promod114]

Pure gold!

[@milicici]

The old man is lovely and perhaps he is an archer legend, but definitely not a narrating legend :)

[@jamesd9439]

In the wind he is still .....

[@gilfaver362]

Terrific.

[@trentfox6436]

I met a gentleman that showed me a piece of Osage orange that was hand picked and marked by Fred Bear he hadn’t made a bow out of it because of what it was

[@georgetempest2469]

I wouldn't dare to criticise Fred, but the shorter lower end of Chinese and Japanese bows was a design for shooting from horseback, making it easier to lift the bow from left to right without getting the horses neck in he way - makes sense somehow, eh?

[@brockoneexcavatingtheallot1892]

George Tempest dose shooting like the American Indians did with the bow horizontal not work? after all a lot of traditional shooters do this to aim down the arrow. it also makes reloads easy because you slap the arrow on the bow let it fall to the rest point and pull back. make sense?

[@albertarthurparsnips5141]

Indeed, this curiously-surnamed gentleman certainly was ' skilled '. He was brilliant. Even ' outstanding ' will do. Few people can claim to have skulked behind, or among, so many lush bushes. And densely leaved trees. And to have slowly killed quite so many unsuspecting animals. I salute you, sir. Your gumption measures up very well to that of people like doctors wandering about in Ebola-ravaged West Africa, or pilots flying above lands teeming with ISIS savages. I tip my lid.

[@kan-zee]

3:09 .... Did he say *The CHURCH* came up with a Composite Bow ?? This is inaccurate information. Archaeological finds and art indicate composite bows have existed since the second millennium BCE, (2000 BC) but their history is not well recorded, being developed by cultures without a written tradition. They originated among Asiatic pastoralists (Raising livestock/ Farmers of sheep,cattle, camels, goats, cattle, yaks, llamas and other grazing animals) who used them as daily necessities, classically for mounted archery, although they can also be used on foot. Such bows spread among the military (and hunters) of civilizations that came into contact with nomad tribes; composite bows have been used across Asia from Korea to the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North Africa, and southwards in the Arabian peninsula and in India.

[@brianhaumontsr9030]

Fred bear was very good bow hunter

[@mattharris2398]

Fred Was the real deal

[@joshhunt5274]

what i would give to go hunting with fred bear n maybe get some lessons on shooting a recurve i have several bear bows recurve and compound n i tell you what nothing shoots like a bear bow

[@Sonicguy95]

Shot a 140" deer last year with my recurve. Got interested in bowhunting from my brother starting and Bear's field notes. Started off killing a doe with a black bear compound, same bow my brother started off with. Got onto a mathews, and a 4 year curse took over. Even lasted over when I started shooting recurve. Last year shot first archery buck with a Kodiak Hunter. The P&Y measurer was the first Bear dealer in my state. He's been a measurer since P&Y's second year, 1962. He was a Bear dealer all through the 60's. Fred came down to the state's outdoor show with his record brown bear. The measurer later meet with Bear. Bear spent time with his entire family at the measurer's own house! Pretty cool to shake the hand of a man who shook's Bear's had. The measurer was a legend in his own right. Unforgettable moment for me. Almost didn't ask him but worked up enough courage to ask before we left. Glad I did now!

[@uK8cvPAq]

Anyone know what year this film was made?

[@dennis77710]

It showed it was recorded 1986 at 9:25.

[@khanimran1238]

The tartars have been using the composite bow for thousand of years but when the mongols came and conqured thats when the eastern europeans and the West saw how powerfull and leathal there bow they did not stand a chance it would penertrate the knights armour so the mongols and later the turks swept through and conqured vast lands

[@gautaamkadayat9278]

I can't understand what he said

[@abnercarvajal1768]

M'r Bear, no disrespect about where the bow originated, but you're rone. I know that this was your opinion but the knowledge came from above, from the fallen once.

[@billholb1974]

Abner Carvajal you have any proof for that?..I would love to see that fact.

[@panchovilla5359]

This guy is a coward killer killing defenseless animals 🐯🐰🐑🐹

[@Crosswalker.]

LOL... Like your ancestors 😅

[@panchovilla5359]

@Crosswalker Well I don’t kill defenseless animals 🐼🐰🐻

[@tash003]

my dads better