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Over the next three decades Bear Archery changed hands in a series of mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs from Victor Comptometer to Walter Kidde & Co, Hanson PLC, U.S. Industries, Fenway Partners and the North American Archery Group.

In 1947 the company moved to a new facility in Grayling, Michigan. The Grayling plant focused on making and marketing recurve bows and longbows in a growing archery market. Bow manufacturing changed from hand-made bows to mass production using fiberglass and other modern materials.

Fred Bear sold the company to Victor Comptometer in 1968, but remained the president of Bear Archery. Bear Archery was not one of the first compound bow manufacturers, but eventually found success with early models like the Whitetail Hunter.Together, Natural Habitat Adventures and World Wildlife Fund have teamed up to arrange nearly a hundred nature travel experiences around the planet, while helping to protect the spectacular places we visit and their wild inhabitants.Earn rewards for referring your friends! We’d like to thank our loyal travelers for spreading the word. Share your friend’s address so we can send a catalog, and if your friend takes a trip as a first-time Nat Hab traveler, you’ll receive a $250 Nat Hab gift card you can use toward a future trip or the purchase of Nat Hab gear. To refer a friend, just complete the form below or call us at 800-543-8917. It’s that easy! See rules and fine print here.Look for a special welcome message in your inbox, arriving shortly! Be sure to add [email protected] to your email contacts so you don’t miss out on future emails.

New Shock Management System (SMS) removes noise and vibration in every shot, making the 2023 Execute the most quiet, dead-in-hand, and shock free Bear Archery bow ever.The Bear Execute features an all new riser design, new aluminum limb pocket design, new wider limbs, and new vibration and noise reduction technologies to take performance to a whole NEW level.

Ninety years of excellence packed into one legendary bow. Introducing the 2023 Bear Archery Execute 30. The Execute 30 encompasses everything the industry has come to expect in a flagship hunting bow. The compact 30″ ATA and 6 3/8″ brace height make this bow maneuverable, comfortable and most importantly – lethal in the field. The Execute offers speeds up to 340 FPS with our most capable and highly adjustable EKO cam system. To enhance the performance of the Execute even more, every Execute ships with a limb stop for a rock solid back wall. The bow fits draw lengths from 26-30″ and features a new parallel limb design with wider Gordon limbs and more efficient machined limb pockets. The Execute 30’s revolutionary riser design features a new swing arm cable guard and Shock Management System (SMS) resulting in the most dead-in-hand and quiet shot experience on the market. In addition to the new SMS, the Execute comes with two grips; the popular slim grip so many know and have come to love and an all-new soft touch grip with a thicker palm-swell for added comfort.HeadHunter Contraband bow strings are constructed with the perfect blend of materials engineered for enhanced durability and performance, even in the harshest conditions.

Meet the Bear Archery Legit – this compound bow is made to legitimately fit all ages and skill levels. We’ve engineered this bow to be adjustable from a 14” to 30” draw length range and from 10 to 70 lbs. peak draw weight. All adjustments can be made using an Allen wrench and there is no need for a bow press. The bow comes ready to hunt equipped with Trophy Ridge accessories – a Joker 4-pin sight, 5-Spot quiver, Whisker Biscuit, No-tie peep sight & D loop. The Legit weighs only 3.6 lbs. and fires arrows at 315 feet per second. The new and improved dual cam system provides a smooth draw cycle. This bow is legit.Since then, the Fred Bear Museum was displayed at the headquarters store of Bass Pro Shops in Springfield, Missouri. Exhibits included the story of Fred Bear and bowhunting history, life-size animal mounts, bowhunting artifacts, some of his trophies and memorabilia, and historical bows and arrows used or built by Fred Bear and his company. The exhibit was temporarily closed due to the construction of an aquarium in the same building. Artifacts from the Fred Bear Museum have now been incorporated into the Archery Hall of Fame and Museum on the upper floor of the Bass Pro Shop Outdoor World.

Bear was born in a farmhouse in Franklin County, Pennsylvania on March 5, 1902, the second of three children. His heritage was English, Dutch, Swiss and German.

F.B. Bear applied for a patent on April 21, 1950. On January 12, 1954, Patent 2,665,678 was issued for the Composite Archery Bow. (USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database: US002665678).Early on, Bear worked as a glue maker for the Chrysler Company in Detroit. He also worked for the Ford Motor Company in Detroit as a wood carver, making cabinets for the radios/dashboards. In an interview, he mentioned operating a plant from 1929 to 1933, during the Great Depression, that caught fire, thus rendering him unemployed. With a partner named Chuck who had worked at the same plant, they put together $1,200 to open his bow business in a garage. Bear Archery was thus founded in 1933.

The Fred Bear Museum originated in Grayling, Michigan in 1967. Eventually the museum’s collection represented the largest privately held collection of archery artifacts in the world. At first the museum remained behind in Grayling, but in 1985 it too was moved to Gainesville, where it found a home in the Bear Archery plant between Archer Road and Williston Road, just off of I-75. That museum closed in 2003, and the collections were sold to the Bass Pro Shops chain.

Fred Bear was also the first president of Michigan’s oldest archery club, Detroit Archers. A small collection of his memorabilia is located in the club house. The most prized piece is that of one of his polar bear skins, shot with an arrow. In 2006, Detroit Archers was broken into and the skin was stolen. The case is still open and no suspects or evidence has been found as to the skin’s whereabouts.In 1947, Bear and his wife moved to Grayling, Michigan, where they lived in a tent along a river to keep their personal expenses down while trying to make a go of their bow business. Even as late as 1961, it was difficult making ends meet for Bear. The following years proved prosperous however, as more states permitted bow hunting and the sport’s growth steadily increased.

Bear’s interest in bowhunting was stimulated by another legend, Art Young of the Pope and Young Club, whom Bear met in Michigan in the late 1920s and often called his hero. Bear’s first bowhunting trophy was a Michigan whitetail taken in 1935. In the ensuing years, he traveled the world with his bow and appeared before thousands of bowhunters promoting and teaching the sport. His television debut was made on Arthur Godfrey and His Friends, with later appearances on The American Sportsman and The Tonight Show. He also produced several films of bowhunting around the world and was a popular contributing author for magazines such as Outdoor Life and Archery Magazine.Fred Bear (March 5, 1902 – April 27, 1988) was an American bow hunter and manufacturer. Although he did not start bow hunting until he was 29 and did not master the skill for many years, he is widely regarded as a pioneer in the bow hunting community. Bear was a world traveler, film producer, and the founder of Bear Archery. He died in Gainesville, Florida and is inducted in the Bowhunters Hall of Fame.

Bear sold controlling interest in his company in 1968, but continued on with the title of chairman. In 1978, following a strike and continuing labor problems, the Bear Archery manufacturing operation was relocated to Gainesville, Florida.Below are the specs for the Bear Arena 30 compound bow. This compound bow was modified by the Bear design team over years. Scroll down to find Bear Arena 30 specs for all modifications.

This bow has a great feel and killer looks right out of the box. It immediately grabbed our attention with the super popular Mossy Oak Bottomland camo pattern finish. But it also has a slim and trim compact design that feels good in the hand. Our test bow weighed in at 4.9 pounds, but honestly feels much lighter due to its balanced design and construction.

This bow starts with a fresh redesign of some of Bear’s hottest features to make a good thing even better in the Execute 30 bow build for 2023. You’ll see it in the bow’s revised EKO (Equalized Kinetic Orientation) cam system.We got our hands on the Execute 30 to spend some time on the range and get an overall feel for what this latest offering from Bear is all about. Take a closer look in our Bear Execute 30 bow review below.

We spent some time on the range to see how the bow felt at the shot as well as performed through the chrono. To get a real-world look at performance, we shot a hunting arrow weighing in at 408 grains through the bow set up at 28″ draw length and 70 pounds of draw weight. Here’s what we got when shot through the chrono.

The Execute will give all other flagship bows a run for their money when it comes to noise and vibration reduction with their Shock Management System (SMS) built into the bow’s forged riser. The result is a much quieter shooting experience. And as mentioned above, a more dead-in-hand feel at the shot.The bow draws nice and smooth with a light bump on the back end of the draw cycle as the cams roll over to the back wall. It’s a pleasantly smooth drawing and shooting experience with very minimal hand-shock at the release.

October is here, and it’s time for new bows for the coming year to start being announced to the archery and bowhunting community. One of the first to launch this year is Bear Archery with the release of their all-new Bear Execute 30 and Execute 32 compound bows.The grip on a bow can often be a love/hate relationship for many shooters. There’s a number of ways to customize a bow’s grip by building up, tearing down, adding tape, etc. But Bear has made the move to help please a wider range of shooters by including two grips with the Execute 30. It comes with the popular slim grip design and the all-new soft touch Grizgrip, with a thicker palm swell for added comfort.Der Bear Archery Execute 30 2023 Compoundbogen bietet Geschwindigkeiten von bis zu 340 FPS (373,07 km\/h) mit dem leistungsst\u00e4rksten und am besten einstellbaren EKO-Camsystem. Um die Leistung des Execute noch weiter zu steigern, wird jeder Execute mit einem Wurfarmed\u00e4mpfer f\u00fcr eine starke R\u00fcckwand geliefert. Der Compoundbogen passt auf Verl\u00e4ngerungen von 26-30 Zoll (66,04 – 76,2 cm) und verf\u00fcgt \u00fcber ein neues, paralleles Wurfarmdesign mit breiteren Gordon-Wurfarme und effektiveren, maschinell bearbeiteten Wufarmtaschen. Das revolution\u00e4re Riserdesign des Execute 30 umfasst einen neuen Kabelschutz mit Schwingarm und Shock Management System (Shock Management System (SMS)), der das beste und leiseste handgef\u00fchrte Schusserlebnis auf dem Markt erm\u00f6glicht. Zus\u00e4tzlich zum neuen SMS wird der Jagd Compoundbogen mit zwei Griffen geliefert: dem ber\u00fchmten d\u00fcnnen Griff, den so viele kennen und sch\u00e4tzen, und einem brandneuen weichen Griff mit einer dickeren Handfl\u00e4chenmulde f\u00fcr mehr Komfort.

Der Bear Archery Execute 30 2023 Compoundbogen bietet Geschwindigkeiten von bis zu 340 FPS (373,07 km/h) mit dem leistungsstärksten und am besten einstellbaren EKO-Camsystem. Um die Leistung des Execute noch weiter zu steigern, wird jeder Execute mit einem Wurfarmedämpfer für eine starke Rückwand geliefert. Der Compoundbogen passt auf Verlängerungen von 26-30 Zoll (66,04 – 76,2 cm) und verfügt über ein neues, paralleles Wurfarmdesign mit breiteren Gordon-Wurfarme und effektiveren, maschinell bearbeiteten Wufarmtaschen. Das revolutionäre Riserdesign des Execute 30 umfasst einen neuen Kabelschutz mit Schwingarm und Shock Management System (Shock Management System (SMS)), der das beste und leiseste handgeführte Schusserlebnis auf dem Markt ermöglicht. Zusätzlich zum neuen SMS wird der Jagd Compoundbogen mit zwei Griffen geliefert: dem berühmten dünnen Griff, den so viele kennen und schätzen, und einem brandneuen weichen Griff mit einer dickeren Handflächenmulde für mehr Komfort.This product is oversize due to the weight and/or dimensions, which will result in a higher shipping rate during checkout. Products designated as “Oversize” are not eligible for shipping promotions.

BearX, an extension of Bear Archery brands brings forward some of the most compact and affordable crossbow options on the market. We have taken our nearly 90 years of experience and applied the same quality and performance in our compound and traditional bows across all our crossbow models.Everything is different, and nothing has changed. Fred Bear started this company in 1933 with the goal of making archery accessible to everyone. We are proud to carry forward that legacy in our equipment today. For more than 85 years we have crafted the most iconic recurve and longbows for the archery industry.

In August of 1959 Alaska’s Little Delta river, boiling with glacial runoff, stopped Fred Bear and his group in their tracks. The men rigged spruce beams, support poles, wood rungs and wire into a suspended catwalk anchored to live spruce leaning over the water.

More than 85 years ago, a man named Fred Bear decided to follow his passion and start an archery company. He believed the finest trophies are not always in the harvests, but in the memories of fellowship and the great outdoors. At Bear Archery, we promise to never forget the principles our brands were founded on – to create utterly reliable, intensely lethal archery equipment, capable of delivering the ultimate archery experience. We are Bear Archery. This is The Fred Bear Way.Fred Bear started Bear Archery back in 1933 with the goal of making archery accessible to everyone. He was a man devoted to the outdoors that had a respect for nature and all things wild. He believed the bow and arrow were the history of mankind and that by immersing yourself in the outdoors made you a better human being. At Bear Archery, we strive to create bows that give you the best shooting experience across the archery industry while still maintaining Mr. Bear’s mission and vision to make archery affordable to everyone. Es ist immer die sehnenziehende Hand entscheidend. Wenn Sie den Bogen in der linken Hand halten und mit Rechts ausziehen (wie ein normaler Rechtshänder), dann benötigen Sie einen Rechtshandbogen, ansonsten ist es umgekehrt (meist bei Linkshändern). Natural feathers are the most original way of feathering an arrow. They are a pure natural material and are still very popular today. Especially traditional shooters prefer natural feathers, but also compound shooters in the indoor area use this type of feathering. Bear Archery has accomplished what it first set out to do, and arguably they’ve been the most successful at doing just that. They’ve been manufacturing and promoting quality archery products at reasonable prices for nearly 90 years now.I’ve been involved with archery for over 25 years off and on and am always interested in learning as much as I can. I’ve taken part in local tournaments and even 3D course setup.

I’ve shot many different brands and owned quite a few different brands as well. I loved my Hoyt, I love my Parker, but I’ve never been disappointed at picking up a Bear compound bow and shooting it either.

As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. If you make a purchase through links from this website, we may get a small share of the sale from Amazon and/or other similar affiliate programs. You can read our complete legal information for more details. I would never say to someone they should avoid Bear compound bows. Quite the opposite, I think they provide some great products aimed at beginners and people on a budget. But don’t sleep on their higher end product either, they make some great shooting bows at various price points. If you sniff around enough archery forums and groups of bow hunters and archers you’ll find plenty of people who have owned a bear compound bow. Most often they have good things to say about the equipment and the company, along with some fond memories.Fast forward a few years and I was shopping for a reasonably priced bow to start shooting again. Bear was on my radar, in fact they were in my crosshairs. I had a couple models picked out that really appealed to me.Bear compound bows are well made quality bows at affordable prices. Bear is a well known and established brand with over 85 years of experience. While Bear is not always on the cutting edge of technology they have tried and true methods that have proven effective and reliable over decades.

However, in the interest of affordability and reliability the company builds modern bows with modern tech without pushing the limits. They aren’t lagging behind in the modern archery world as some seem to suggest, but they don’t often pave the way either.The ONLY reason I didn’t pull the trigger on a Bear Compound is because I had a used Parker fall into my lap at a price I couldn’t pass up. I do however still have a Bear Recurve bow that’s at least 40 years old and shoots great.With so many manufacturer’s out there it can be hard to know what’s good and what isn’t. Many companies are cutting edge with the newest technology and high price tags. Bear remains true to their roots providing good solid archery equipment at affordable prices.

They’ve somewhat quietly built a quality product at an affordable price that’s accessible to beginners and seasoned archers alike. They’re not really making waves, they’re being consistent and that’s not a bad thing.That being said, I feel that one reason Bear doesn’t get as much buzz as they should is that people feel they’re using old technology. There may be some truth here but not nearly to the extent some naysayers would like to suggest.

You may think I’m a Bear Archery fanboy at this point, but the fact is I don’t even own one at the moment. I am a fan of the company, I’ll give you that. But I’m also a fan of Hoyt and the now defunct Parker bows. I actually don’t think there’s necessarily a lack of love for Bear’s bows, it’s just not a brand that has a lot of buzz around it. They’re sort of a prisoner of their own device in that way. The year was 1933 and a devoted outdoorsman by the name of Fred Bear started an archery company with the intent to make archery accessible to everyone.Some manufacturers spend thousands, maybe millions on research and development to find the latest and greatest new tech to eek out 1 more FPS from their bowline. They’re often successful, and the cost of that is partially reflected in the price of their products.The fact that Bear sells many of their products, especially those aimed at budget minded folks, in chain stores and online is more proof that they want this sport to be accessible to all. They also sell in plenty of pro shops as well, right next to Hoyt, PSE, and the lot of em.

In fact, Bear believes so much in that statement themselves that they offer a limited lifetime warranty on all of their compound bows. This is not a blanket warranty that means you can get free parts for life but it is a solid warranty against defects. Check out their site for more on Bear’s Warranty.That’s nothing against those companies, marketing is a key business component. Bear just does it a bit differently. They put their bows in the hands of beginners and veterans alike by keeping the costs down and selling the product through multiple channels.

One of my very first bows was a Bear recurve bow. At the time I was young, pretty new to archery, and yet I was already aware of Fred Bear and the amazing company he built. These days it seems like they’ve been lost in the shuffle a bit, but why?

While they weren’t one of the first companies to produce compound bows, Bear had some early success in the 1970’s with a model called Whitetail Hunter. Since then the company has enjoyed continued success with various other models of compound bows.

A while back I took a break from archery for a few years, I had a lot going on and not a lot of time to shoot. At that time I sold my Hoyt that I absolutely loved. A choice I’d later regret, but nevertheless it was gone.

So we can see where there are problems. If many visitors leave our site during the purchase process while choosing the payment method, we know that something is wrong and can improve it. Sounds good, right? Thats good for You and good for us. So it´s a win-win situation. So let us accompany You on Your way through our store. Deal?Neunzig Jahre exzellentes Knowledge verpackt in einen legendären Bogen – wir stellen den Bear Archery Execute 30 vor. Der Execute 30 umfasst alles, was die Industrie in einem Flaggschiff-Jagdbogen zu erwarten hat. Mit einer kompakten Achslänge von 30 Zoll ist dieses Modell wendig, komfortabel und – was am wichtigsten ist – extrem präzise. Der Execute bietet Geschwindigkeiten von bis zu 340 FPS mit unserem leistungsfähigsten und hoch einstellbaren EKO Camsystem. Um die Leistung des Execute noch weiter zu verbessern, wird jeder Execute mit einem Limb-Stop für eine felsenfeste Wand geliefert. Der Bogen ist für Zuglängen von 26-30″ geeignet und verfügt über ein neues, paralleles Wurfarmdesign mit breiteren Gordon-Wurfarmen und effizienter gefrästen Wurfarmtaschen. Das revolutionäre Riser-Design des Execute 30 verfügt über einen neuen schwingenden Kabelabweiser und ein Shock Management System (SMS), das für das beste und ruhigste Schusserlebnis auf dem Markt sorgt. Zusätzlich zum neuen SMS wird der Execute mit zwei Griffen geliefert: dem beliebten Slim Grip, den viele kennen und lieben, und einem völlig neuen Soft-Touch-Grip mit einer breiteren Auflagefläche für zusätzlichen Komfort.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness.

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