Newb needs help with '07 Bowman Chrom

[peramoure]

Used to collect when I was little - 8 to 12 years old..

Just started up again at 24 and bought about 20 packs of bowman chrome over the past few weeks.

Excuse me if I'm an idiot, but I can't figure out for the life of me which are "refractors". I have a clear one, a gold refractor of Chris Leak. It is a double thickness card and is obviously gold. I also have a Michael Bush card which is Michael Bush with a red background.

But for instance, I have a Calvin Johnson where it is him "in action" with only a greenish background behind him. Same with Russell and Selvin Young. Are these refractors? Can someone fill me in on how you tell the difference between your basic Refractor?

[golfman61]

Regular chrome card will just be chrome looking nice and shiny. Then the Refractor will have a foil look to it where the colors really kick and glow plus on the back it should say Refractor some where. Then the X-Fractors have tiles and a really strange reflection to then plus they should be numbered and say X-fractor on the back.


When you open a pack and 3 look the same but 1 looks different then that one is probably a Refractor or Xfractor. Collecting now is a lot different then when you were 12. Be wise with your money and good luck hope this helps.

[blu350z]

It should say refractor on the back of the card, on the top right. Refractors have a rainbow type finish, like when you pass light through a prism.

[storm]

Is it bowman chrome you are buying,or regular bowman?Regular bowman will have a couple chrome cards in each pack.The reason i question this is the "thick gold cards",a refractor would not be any thicker than a regular chrome,but the bowman gold cards are much more thick than the regular.