ANY BODY HAVE A FISHER MOMA BEAR STOVE I LIKE MINE

Griz, you can install a baffle in the Fishers and make them burn "much" cleaner and more efficient! When I get back to NJ on my own computer I'll show you the installation. I've done three of them on Fishers and one on a Kodiak and all burn so much better, hotter, and use less wood than when first built.
Yes there are many new stoves and very nice ones at that, "but" there is nothing wrong with the Fisher if you do some simple things.
I have 2 Grandma's 2 baby's and a momma bear. I heat my home with a Grandma and a baby just fine, I used 5 cord last winter in a 2250sqft home and kept it a constant 75* + all the time. In my opinion, "DON'T" give up on your Fisher unless you want to move on.... I like simple, and the Fisher is as simple as it gets and "STILL" works very well!

 

If your going from a Huge non EPA Fisher, your still gonna need 3 + cubic feet. IMO. Go big, or you will be disappointed. You will have a hard time going from a 4 to 5 cu ft Fisher, to a 2.0 cu ft EPA model.

The Englander 30-NC is a beast of a stove (3.5 cu ft), the Lopi Liberty (3.4 cu ft), the Enerzone 3.4 (3.4 cu ft), Heatilator WS-22 (2.7 cu ft but a very solid unit), Drolet HT-2000 (3.4 cu ft). The Lopi and Enerzone will be the highest two out of the bunch.

With the Englander, Heatilator, and Drolet being more budget friendly.

There are many more options that are more expensive. The Enerzone and Lopi fall into this category. Woodstock makes their 2 Hybrid stoves that are large, the Blaze King Princess or King would both be great Cat stoves, and Regency just came out with their F-5100 (4.4 cu ft) and it's a Hybrid stove as well (Utilizes both secondary and Catalyst)

 

Griz, I'll be perfectly honest with you, I have a "very" good friend who works for a local fireplace/stove store... I know absolutely S#!T about the new stoves, with that said I have done the reading and some of the comparisons, all that is fine and good on paper but the proof is how it truly heats. I know I'm gonna raise some hairs on a few when I say this but, with a correctly installed baffle and a "correct" flue/draft and learning the stove, I'll run the old girl against any new EPA all day. Now, will the new stove perform to specs, yes! But you can get the same/close return on the Fisher as well.
Again, it will be close and I have mine burning to the point that you never see smoke from mine "only" on light off!
I won't mention it but there is a man on another site, and I have met, named Coaly. Him and a other person, Camfan are the absolute guru's of Fishers. Camfan actually built them in the late 70's and 80's.
I have been burning Fishers for 40 years and I have "extensively" picked there brains on Fisher things. Again, there are "many" super new stoves, I just can't see spending a couple grand and installation if you don't have to. The Fisher will do the job with some tweeking and I'll give/help you with all I know! You should get great results.

My buddy has been trying to get me to junk my rusty grandma for years now, but every time he walks in the door in the dead of winter and it's 80* in the house he shuts his mouth real fast!

 

I will agree with that.. A good baffle system (Coaly is the Man!) AND good wood and proper technique is key to success with an old Smoke Dragon. When burning properly, they should burn very clean.

But, that is with good wood, good technique, and if you can get a good baffle system installed (this is so the heat doesn't shoot straight out the flue. It gives the heat more "dwell" time in the stove, by giving a path it must take, before exiting).