Bear Archery Reviews & Rankings

The Bear Titan is the classic first bow for a kid who's outgrown a toy — a 60-inch youth recurve set, ambidextrous, with a continuous draw up to about 29 pounds and composite limbs that take real practice. It ships as a set with the essentials to start, aimed at ages 12 to 16, for fifty-five dollars. It's a genuine recurve, not a compound (Bear's youth compound is the separate Brave), so it teaches proper form from day one.

$54.99

Bear's Leather Tab is about as simple as string protection gets: a single piece of full-grain leather with a soft felt backing, cut for traditional shooters who want nothing between them and the string but good hide. No spacer, no plate, no adjustment — just a $7 tab that works on a recurve, longbow, or trad bow. It comes right-hand only in two sizes, which is its main limitation.

$6.99

Bear's adjustability champ: 10-70 lb and 14-30 inches on one set of cams, with the Trophy Ridge kit installed and tuned at the factory. At 3.1 lb bare it's the lightest bow here. The catch in June 2026: the Cruzer G4 has taken its spot on Bear's own site, so you're buying retailer stock.

$449.99

The 2025 refresh of Bear's best-selling adjustable platform. Same absurd 10-70 lb / 14-30 in range as the original Legit, but with a revised dual-cam that draws noticeably smoother. You pay about $60 over remaining Legit stock for a bow that's actually in Bear's current catalog — worth it if you want parts support past next season.

$479.99

The Hunting Public collab, round two. This is the bow you buy after you've outgrown a Cruzer: single cam, 320 fps, 80% let-off, KillerWave dampeners, and a Picatinny sight mount you won't find on anything else at this price. It gives up the mega-adjustability on purpose — 24-31 inches and two limb options — and shoots better for it.

$599.99

The Montana's been Bear's longbow since the late '90s, and it hasn't changed much because it hasn't needed to. You get a hard-rock maple riser, white maple limbs under black fiberglass, a mild reflex profile, and a leather-wrapped grip with a leather shelf rest. At $529.99 it costs roughly double the import D-bows, but it ships with a D97 Flemish string and it's the only bow in this group you can buy off the shelf in almost any weight, right now.

$529.99

Bear's value flagship: real flagship tech (EKO² cam, press-free cam timing) at $1,300, the most affordable bow on this list. The smart pick for hunters who want 90% of the premium experience without the premium price.

$1,300

The Fred Bear Logo guard is the traditional bracer with a name on it — 100% leather, stamped with the Fred Bear logo, laced on with an adjustable elastic cord through four lace hooks. It's the guard for someone who wants their recurve or longbow to look the part, and it carries a heritage price to match. Seven by five and a half inches of genuine leather, it's more about the look and the badge than any protection a $12 guard doesn't also give.

$29.99

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.

$629.99

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.

$499.99

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.

$549.99