About Us

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In 1969,  I was blessed to have been born into a large archery and bowhunting family. It's all I've ever known. My father,  and most all of my uncles, aunts and cousins either bowhunted with traditional gear or shot trad competitively. Needless to say, traditional archery and hunting have been a binding force in my family, and a huge influence in my life. 

Over time, my interest in vintage and traditional archery extended to a different level as I absorbed as much history, connections, memories, and artifacts as I could. I've been collecting since a kid, but for 40 years, hardcore. I've made some amazing connections along the way. And found a lot of archery and trad junk in the process.

All of these decades later, having been to countless banquets, shoots, rendezvous, and visiting personal collections that I could throughout the Midwest, I've been blessed with many friends and contacts. And with all of that comes a lot of opportunities to accumulate stuff. I've been buying and selling bows and collections all of these years, literally thousands of bows. Collecting is my passion.

I have appraised and bought many collections as well. And my own collection needs trimming too. Not to mention all of the other related gear or junk per se. With all of that said, I am also an antique dealer by profession.  You'll find the spoils of my hunting all right here on my website.
 

The items you will see listed here are personally owned by myself and one other collector. Between the two of us, we have over 2000 bows to sell, along with a ton of archery-related stuff. So visit us often as the inventory will constantly be changing and updating.

When you buy from this website, you are buying from reputable,  well known, and knowledgeable collectors with nearly 90 years of traditional and vintage archery collecting experience, with extensive knowledge of fair,  current values. I know bows, related gear, and what they're worth. This will be the only vintage bow website you will find owned and operated by another collector. Knowledge is everything in this hobby.

Our goal is to provide a straightforward, transparent website where collectors, shooters, and bowhunters can find the items they're looking for and know that these vintage treasures are being sold by a fellow long-time collector, shooter, and traditional bowhunter.

I'm sure I will know a lot of visitors to this site. If not, I'm looking forward to making new friends. Contact me via email if you have any questions, I would enjoy hearing from you.

This website is also the home for the Traditional & Classic Archery Trade Show. You can view news, and upcoming events, or purchase table rentals via this page.

I appreciate all of you that I have come to know over the years and I am looking forward to everyone that I have yet to meet. Welcome to the campfire. 

Friends in Traditional archery. Kevin Bishop