I reached out to a friend at Stowe Archers to take a look at the bow and was thrilled to learn that it is in great shooting shape. I’ve expressed an interest in bringing the old bows back to life and my Father surprised me recently with the Red Wing Hunter purchased in 1962. Eventually target recurves were purchased (a matching set of Bear Tamerlanes were special ordered) and eventually they moved on to compounds (Jennings Arrowstars) I’m told that my Grandmother’s Red Wing Hunter was the only bow she shot for a long time. The business seems to have shut it’s doors long ago and I can’t seem to dig anything up on Google. My grandmother thinks that George’s Archery Shop was located on Aramingo Ave. I wish there was more of the story to share but details are sparse. As the story goes, she searched through the inventory of Red Wing Hunters and selected one in particular to bring home. At the time both of my grandparents were avid archers and my Grandmother was in the market for a bow. On my grandparents walked into George’s Archery Shop in Philadelphia.
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