nope but that is a CLASSIC!!!!! with possibly the original HOYT rest. It kind of looks like the faint HOYT logo on it.

 

got excited at seeing the bow. welcome to the forum!
tell us length and pounds?

 

70" 36#

 

That is a clicker mount. There was a thin strip of metal about 1/4" wide that slid under the blue tab and extended down to the arrow. I still have a couple of those laying around here somewhere.

Someone will have a picture to post.

 

thats a great bow you have. i have one i bought from anton love it

 

Welcome.
Great bow.
Smooth shooter.
A great learning bow.
Very forgiving.
Get a new string.
You don't have to use the clicker. I'd just leave it, because taking it off will then lead to, "what to do with the 2 screw holes?"
Besides, you may want the clicker later.

I have one I learned on.
I will probably never sell it.

 

Yes, welcome to our merry band! That is widely considered to be the finest one piece, therefor wooden not part metal, target bow ever made. It almost completely dominated Olympic and high level target archery in the 1960s and early 70s. After that it was superceded by a metal handled three piece version. Yours is one of the later ones.

The red thingy is the base of a draw check device aka 'clicker'. It would have had thin steel spring extending down and clipping over the front of the arrow. You would adjust it to slip over the tip at full draw, triggering you to release the arrow.

I have owned several Pro Medalists, still have some both one and three piece. They are my favorite recurves, but my heart belongs to my longbow. The one piece all wood ones are a bit lighter in the hand, so easier to raise and hold at arm's length. The 70" ones shoot best and most were made with draw weights in the mid-thirties. There is no better bow for developing your archery form. Bowsights can be added by I do not.

The best arrows for yours would be of aluminum, with target points, 1916, 1914 or 1816s, depending upon your draw length. That is what they were designed to shoot, to 100 yards. - lbg

 

i found a lefty one in a good shape and watching it since more one year, but the announce say that the seller don't want to ship it.
i have just send him a message if he would reconsidering a shipping possibility.
66" and 39# for 70 euros

 

for the story the seller answer me and seems to be ok for shipping, it just before the price increase to around 80 euros and the sailor was sorry to announce me that the total will be around 95 euros with the shipping.
by chance he didn't see me smiling.
after a phone call with him he was happy i was in love of his bow surprise that i knew excatly what i'm buying, he tells me his archer story practising with his all familly, winning tournaments, country qualifications his good old times .
it seems i will have soon that bow after a year of hesitation. i will tell you when i got it and i cross my fingers for every things are going well

 

NICE TWIX, yeh do let us know when you have it in hand. I'm GLAD you are getting it.

 

Beautiful Bow,and as said above a great shooter and Boyer

 

95 euros? That’s like what, $100? Holy cow, where you wearing a mask and holding a gun ?

 

nope, i don't know if in the United States the lefty can sell easly their bows but here in France lefty archers have issues when they want to sell their bows so the prices can be very cheap on lefty bows.
i'm looking right now a apache bow from navajo bows made by roy hall for only 175 euros the shape is brand new for exemple

 

Roy’s bows are very nice and quite expensive. I would buy 3 at that price!

 

You need the riser weights and a stabilizer for your Hoyt. I remember drooling over the Hoyt target bows in the 70s, they are the cats meow of wood target bows.

 

i have some weight issue because my bow arm, i need a light bow and i m shooting like trad way with, when it's possible the less accesories.
exception with this hoyt because i can't put a peace of leather on the windows , i will use a rest, if i remember my damon Monterey has got a old hoyt plastic and leather rest i took it off to put a peace of leather instead, i kept the hoyt rest i can use it for this hoyt bow if the rest on it isn't in well shape.
i have sent the money to the man, now i'm waiting the bow .

 

I had a short pile of several different style of the Hoyt stabs and weights for a while. Used them on some of the old Hoyt metal TD-risers. I kept some pictures, haha.

 

my hoyt pro medalist has arrived, very good shape, and with the original hoyt and plate rest, i'm going to the archery to get a string because it came without, i will send some pics later

 

i tried it just a little because the night was coming.
it's a 5 pm serie, made between 1970 and 1972, no bushing in the middle of the riser, no holes for a aiming system.
66", and 39# @28.
original Hoyt rest in good shape.
brace height at 8" 1/4 for the moment.
it looks like the best balance bow in my collection, for my hand and my personnal way to grip.
the bow stay vertical without doing a compensation with my hand, it's more relaxing for me.
i discover new sensations with a elevated rest, it's seems more in my naturals alignments.
here for the moment my observations, tomorrow i will put the nock set, and some silencers because this bow could also named hoyt pro melodist actualy,he has got a cristal clear guitar sound.

 

haha pro melodist!!!! I love it.

 

Me too. I have always regarded the bow as the first musical instrument. The music is part of the pleasure.

I have enough of them to play a simple quintet.

You might tune with the brace height to get the tone you prefer, but 8 & 1/4 sounds about right. - lbg

 

ok here the 1200 grams new comer: i put my silencers in L6, and they are doing the job, the bow is quiet enough put the brace height up to 8,5". my string got 16 strand , probably too much and it was the cheapest string in the shop, i will probably take a new one
for the moment i use easton gamegetter spine 500, 505 grains, for around 39# on my fingers.
the arrows are too heavy but weak enough, i will find better aluminium arrows may be in 600 spine.
i'm going to take some time with this bow i'm still very surprise by his natural balance than my others bows.

 

that's a great looking BOW friend. wow.

 

that's a great looking BOW friend. wow.

thanks to you Steve

 

Beautiful bow and I am sure you will enjoy it. I still have mine from when I used it for a lot of tournaments in 1969. Hoyt at one time advertised it as the winningest bow in history and until the metal riser takedown replaced it there is no doubt it was the bow to own for serious target shooters.

 

Hello, I’ve just been gifted this very bow. So new to long bowing. An obvious equation for yourself. Those little plastic flaps right by the logo. ‘Is this where the arrow shaft rests in peeping to shoot?’ Cheers.

 

Prepping not peeping..

 

arrow sits on the little curley-q arm sticking out to left.
little TAB-like plastic piece (flap) is kind of a bumper for arrow to run alongside of in beginning flight as it comes off string.

 

COLIN welcome to the forum.
not to be critical, just informative, these are recurves......
with recurves limbs come back towards shooter and then RE-CURVE away again at the tips.
You referred to being new to longbows,......with longbows there is no recurving at the tips, a longbow string does not touch limbs until the actual TIPS.