Originally Posted By: doaSo you were born in the 90s ?
I shot a Oregon bow for awhile when they were still being manufactured, think it was called a "Black Knight" they were a decent bow.
Nah, Oregon went out of business in the 90's, but I have an older model. I'm a child of the early 80's, a tech that I had "age" my bow put it in the late 70's, no later than early 80's, so this old Oregon Bow and I are within a few years of eachother one way or the other. We had to get pretty creative to reduce the draw length for me, and of course we had to make the strings and cables custom.
I've been curious whether the new Bowtech Carbon Knight moniker had anything to do with the old Black Knight, but drawing a straight line between John Strasheim or Kevin Strother to connect Oregon and Bowtech is a subject of debate. Seems like nobody has any straight dope about when or where these guys moved from one to the other, or how much they were actually involved in operations.
But, I lean towards the whimsical rumor mill because it suits me. Oregon made super fast twin cam bows with short brace heights, they collapsed, a few of them ran over and Bowtech emerged, also making binary cam super fast bows with short brace heights... Seems like there's something to that.