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Offline lokidog

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Bought a new bow today!
« on: April 21, 2011, 12:28:36 PM »
After watching for a while, got a great deal on a Bowtech Invasion.  Really liked the feel of the Alpine F1 Fireball but didn't like the look of the limb pockets so much.

Can't wait for it to arrive and set up.  A big step up from my mid-90's Golden Eagle.  I'll have to set that one up for bowfishing....


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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2011, 01:06:02 PM »
Gotcha moved over.

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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2011, 02:23:13 PM »
Awesome.  This might be the year I get a new (to me) bow.  I am shooting an Xi Intrepid that is about 15 years old.  :chuckle:  That carp fishing looks like a blast and live close to Vancouver Lake which has lots of them.  Just too many hobbies to start another one.

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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2011, 03:18:52 PM »
I also just recently ordered a Bowtech (Assassin) and it will arrive on Tuesday  :IBCOOL:

I am super stoked as this is my first bow

What finish did you go with?  I ended up with the Mossy Oak, really wanted the Black Ops but didn't want to wait...

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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2011, 05:37:09 PM »
Congrats on the new bow.
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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2011, 08:56:10 PM »
You will love it.
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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2011, 09:18:03 PM »
Got the camo one.  Doesn't include the red rest but have a quad pro to put on it.


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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #7 on: April 22, 2011, 08:21:17 AM »
Nice! That is one good lookin bow. If I wanted a short ata bow that's the one I would buy.
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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #8 on: April 23, 2011, 01:34:10 PM »
Looks like a nice bow.  What is the ATA?

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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #9 on: April 25, 2011, 05:51:41 AM »
Ohhhhh, BAD ASS! Thats the one I'm replacing my Guardian with sometime soon!

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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2011, 08:39:03 AM »
Looks like a nice bow.  What is the ATA?

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And really quiet.   :tup:

Supposed to be here today with UPS three day shipping, but they only fly over here about once a week from Friday Harbor.   >:(

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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #11 on: April 25, 2011, 08:41:57 AM »
Id be on the ferry! Lol

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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #12 on: April 25, 2011, 08:45:22 AM »
No ferry for us, 14 mile boat ride, one way to FH.   Maybe UPS will be early this week, haven't noticed a delivery in a while.  They usually wait until they have several packages.  We started ordering everything next day and then get our money back because it is NEVER next day to us.  You'd think they'd put a note in their computer system....   :chuckle:

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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #13 on: April 26, 2011, 09:28:04 AM »
No ferry for us, 14 mile boat ride, one way to FH.   Maybe UPS will be early this week, haven't noticed a delivery in a while.  They usually wait until they have several packages.  We started ordering everything next day and then get our money back because it is NEVER next day to us.  You'd think they'd put a note in their computer system....   :chuckle:
Now that's funny!  Congrats on the new bow!!!
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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #14 on: April 26, 2011, 10:49:24 PM »
Got the bow today!!   :IBCOOL:  Mounted the QAD Ultra-rest.  Need to adjust the draw length and weight.  Hard to wait to shoot it in daylight.  Pics later. 

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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #15 on: April 27, 2011, 09:47:25 AM »
Good lookin bow! Might have to upgrade my 07 Bowtech Tribute! Been lookin at a PSE, but after checking the Invasion out Im rethinking it. I really like Bowtechs! Im jealous!  :drool:
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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #16 on: April 27, 2011, 09:26:06 PM »
Riverside helped me set the draw length today, but got home and must have pulled my shoulder at some point during the day because rowing the dinghy in just about killed me.  I guess I'll wait a day or two to try it.   :'(

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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #17 on: April 27, 2011, 10:12:19 PM »
What's it set at for weight? My new bow is adjustable from 45-60 pounds. The little bit I've shot it so far, each time has caused sore shoulders, and it usually lasts for a few days. I really don't have enough arrows yet, but when I get them, and start shooting it more often, I think I'll drop it down to about 50 pounds, and shoot it that way for a couple months. Years ago I hunted with a bow for a couple years and it was a 70 pound bow, set at the max, and it usually didn't cause me problems. Until one time in the spring when I hadn't shot it for 6 months, and I went and shot it for around an hour and a half straight. Man, my shoulder was sore for months after that. That was the main reason I finally got rid of the bow and quit bow hunting. This time I am older and it will probably be even harder, but I hope to work my muscles into it gradually and hopefully with the lower poundage bow, I'll be alright.

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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #18 on: April 27, 2011, 10:27:22 PM »
When i pulled it back it was 70 lbs... Loki talked about dropping it down... I'm sure he could get way with 60lbs shooting those Doberman Pincers on the Island!  :chuckle:
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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #19 on: April 28, 2011, 08:00:51 AM »
Ha Ha, T....  I don't need the bow, 6 pound hammer behind the back and an apple in the other hand.   :rolleyes:

I dropped it down to 64 pounds.  This is the 60-70 pound version.  I used to shoot 74 then messed my elbow up a few years back, shoulders and elbow have not been the same since.   :bash:  I'd like to work back up toward that 70 mark and now that I have a big hunt planned for 2012, I have more incentive. (That's a tease BTW.   :chuckle:  )

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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #20 on: April 29, 2011, 08:14:08 PM »
Quote
ATA = Axle-to-Axle Length
The distance from one axle of a compound bow to the other.
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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #21 on: April 29, 2011, 08:31:16 PM »
Nice bow man BUT ONE PROBLEM it's not a Mathews .... :chuckle: :chuckle:

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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #22 on: April 29, 2011, 10:50:55 PM »
There are a couple of people at Silver arrow that have that bow and the LOVE it.  :twocents:
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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #23 on: May 01, 2011, 12:15:24 AM »
Nice Bow I would like to try the 340 myself, to bad there are no dealers around me.It would be hard to part ways with my mathews though.

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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #24 on: May 01, 2011, 05:32:49 AM »
Nice looking bow. I shot a friends Bow tech last weekend...smooth and quiet. A little to light weight for me. I like a heaver bow. I'm looking to change out my Hoyt alpha max.......
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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #25 on: May 01, 2011, 08:43:43 PM »
Thanks all.  Shoots nicely, still trying to figure out why the vanes are whacking my drop a way though.

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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #26 on: May 01, 2011, 09:25:40 PM »
Thanks all.  Shoots nicely, still trying to figure out why the vanes are whacking my drop a way though.

Your drop away might be dropping to slow for that fast of a bow, what kind of rest do you have?

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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #27 on: May 01, 2011, 09:30:01 PM »
QAD UltraRest, also posted this issue under Archery "bow questions" or something like that.  Thanks.

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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #28 on: May 01, 2011, 09:39:24 PM »
Yeah  :P

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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #29 on: May 01, 2011, 09:39:58 PM »

That should be fine

I shoot a QAD on my Mathews and have had no problems with it at all. Ive shot blazer vanes and quickspins from mine without it hitting. When the bow is at full draw the QAD should pull back just a little past where it is resting with arrow at ready. Almost like cocking the trigger. I have to turn the nock on my arrows to place the cock vane out ( perpendicular to the riser) to get the arrow to come off clean though. One thing that may be effecting the arrow hitting the rest also is if you are shooting the wrong arrow spine and the arrow if flexing more than it should. This is problably not the case but worth looking into. EastonArchery.com has a chart that should clarify the right spine to draw weight required. From here try and set the rest so that it shoots the arrow correctly through paper then set the sight pins. I use a bow square to set up the correct placement of the arrow rest then adjust pins. The biggest thing is making sure that the rest pulls all the way back on full draw. That will ensure that the rest will fall away as it should and allow the arrow to clear the rest before the vanes move past the riser.

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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #30 on: May 01, 2011, 09:43:36 PM »
Is that picture your posted of the bow laying on the box how you have the cord for the QAD currently?  If so that is the problem.  There should be a bunch of slack in the cord when the bow is at rest. 
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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #31 on: May 01, 2011, 09:45:08 PM »
Nope, the guy decided to sell/give the rest to someone else.  I seem to have the cord tension set properly according to the manual.

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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #32 on: May 01, 2011, 10:04:01 PM »
Was just thinking anyway I have a QAD mounted on my Hoyt Maxxis and it has a lot of slack.  My Destroyer 340 rest cord has a lot less slack.  The cables on the Bowtech Overdrive Binary cams don't travel nearly as far as other cams. 

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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #33 on: May 02, 2011, 02:43:04 AM »
QAD UltraRest, also posted this issue under Archery "bow questions" or something like that.  Thanks.

It may help if you paper tune the bow a touch nock high, this could help with possible contact of the rest. If you are hitting the side posts sometimes shooting a new bow and without realizing it you are torquing the bow a little. Like said above make sure you are shooting the right spine of arrow.

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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #34 on: May 02, 2011, 07:34:22 AM »
I know the arrows I have are a little stiff (cabelas, 65/80's) at the moment but I am not buying new arrows since I will be upping the draw weight before too long.  I am now at about 62 pounds.  I don't think I'm torgquing it.

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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #35 on: May 13, 2011, 01:08:44 PM »
FWIW  Just last night I had to change my nock point. I was having a devil of a time figuring out why I was getting contact. My arrow was parallel to the ground and the timing was adjusted per the instructions. Then I noticed a tip to set my nock a little higher. Now my arrow looks like it is pointing downward, but paper tunes straight and I am getting no contact. You might try it.

BTW, beautiful bow.

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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #36 on: May 13, 2011, 02:31:27 PM »
I have a QAD ultra on my Diamond. I adjusted some items once and started getting contact also. I ended up taking just a little more slack out of the cord and it fixed the problem. Try matching the timing marks just a little to the overdone side, that might help.

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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #37 on: May 13, 2011, 09:30:34 PM »
Thanks for more ideas.  Bow's on the back burner right now, focusing on shrimp and lings, oh yeah, and work and getting my garden fenced.   :chuckle:

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Re: Bought a new bow today!
« Reply #38 on: May 28, 2011, 09:37:09 PM »
If you are close enough take it to XXX archery and cory will get you going and will probably do it for free he did it for me on my destroyer and i couldn't be happier i would drive a 100 miles to have cory at XXX archery work on my bow IMO he is one of the best at working on bows ive always been very happy with his work and customer service

 


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