The limbs are dark to match, with the “Fred Bear Custom Kodiak T/D” stamp on the lower limb. Beside it was a coiled string, a leather journal, and a Grayling quiver from Selway Archery—a remake of the ...

That bow was handmade by Fred Bear himself, sometime between the founding of his first factory in Detroit in 1933 and when he moved his manufacturing facility to Grayling in 1947.

Fred Bear began making bows for friends in 1933 and within six years, he left the automotive industry to pursue the archery business fulltime. Fred Bear was born in Waynesboro, Pa., in 1902.

C RAWFORD COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) — The Grayling City Council has decided not to proceed, at least for now, with a proposal to rename the city park after Fred Bear, a bow hunting pioneer. The ...

An original Fred Bear bow — at least 60 years old, George BeDen estimates — was collecting dust in the Nixa resident's garage until it recently caught the eye of his great grandson.

Every year around archery season, bow hunters feel a spark of life. It grows and warms us, and eventually it sets us on fire just as autumn erupts. I like to imagine that a little bit of Fred Bear ...

Bear, who died in 1988, was modern bow hunting's architect-in-chief. He began carving his own longbows and arrows in the late 1920s, and in 1933 he started Bear Products Co., forerunner to the ...

Memorial services were held in Gainesville, Fla., Monday for legendary bowhunter Fred Bear. Bear, 86, died of a heart attack last Wednesday in a Gainesville hospital where he was confined since an … ...

Fred Bear F300+ Compound Crossbow with model number AFB8949301; Fred Bear F300 Compound Crossbow model number AFB8949300. The model name is written on the outside of the bow's bottom limb.

Fred Bear was a legend in the world of bow hunting. Even though he died in 1988, he continues to make his mark as a manufacturer (Bear Archery), author and television show host as he became the ...

CRAWFORD COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) — The Grayling City Council has decided not to proceed, at least for now, with a proposal to rename the city park after Fred Bear, a bow hunting pioneer.