Best One-Piece Recurve Bows

The Super Kodiak is the flagship of Bear's traditional line — a 60-inch one-piece that succeeded the original Kodiak and became the recurve a lot of traditional hunters aspire to own. A Shedua riser with a black-stripe accent, maple-cored limbs faced in black fiberglass, a cut-on-center shelf, and a DynaFlight 97 string included. It reaches the highest draw weight in this lineup — up to 65 pounds right-hand — and carries the price to match. This is the buy-it-for-life end of the category, not the value end.

Price

$629.99

Max lb

65 lb

Length

60"

Min lb

30 lb

The Bear Grizzly is a piece of American archery history you can still buy new — a 58-inch one-piece hunting recurve with a solid Shedua riser, in more or less continuous production since 1949. Short and maneuverable for tree stands and thick timber, cut on center with a crowned shelf, leather side plate and bear-hair rest, it comes ready to shoot for instinctive hunters who want one stick they'll keep for decades. Right-hand shooters get the full 30-to-60 lb range; lefties get a narrower 35-to-55.

Price

$499.99

Max lb

60 lb

Length

58"

Min lb

30 lb

The Kodiak Magnum is Bear's short-and-fast answer for the hunter who shoots in tight quarters — a 52-inch one-piece reissue of the 1961 original, built to order in a Shedua riser with Arctic Grey glass limbs. At 52 inches it's the most maneuverable bow in this lineup by a wide margin, made for dense brush and cramped blinds where a 60-inch stick is a liability. That length asks for good form (short bows pinch the fingers on longer draws), and it ships right-hand only across 35 to 60 pounds — no left-hand version exists.

Price

$549.99

Max lb

60 lb

Length

52"

Min lb

35 lb