Post by: sagewalker on February 03, 2014, 07:15:39 PM
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Post by: Greg Mullins on February 03, 2014, 09:35:58 PM
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Post by: KFhunter on February 04, 2014, 02:46:37 PM
I have some serious shoulder damage to my left rotator cuff so it's hard to hold a heavy bow upright in the pocket, so I need a lighter bow. I can do it with my pig heavy bow but after a minute I'm in pain.
live and learn
Post by: deltaops on February 04, 2014, 03:04:37 PM
Post by: Redbeard on February 04, 2014, 03:14:17 PM
Last year I bought a Mathews.
Six months later I shoot my Bear more that the Mathews.
Post by: Tree Killer on February 04, 2014, 03:25:41 PM
Post by: Becky on February 04, 2014, 03:42:41 PM
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Post by: D-Rock425 on February 04, 2014, 05:02:11 PM
Post by: NOCK NOCK on February 04, 2014, 08:46:01 PM
First bow was a bear whitetail. Have owned 5 PSE's since, never had a problem with any of them. The Mach X even went thru an ATV rollover 3 years ago, unscathed, and have taken a couple elk & several deer with it since. All brands are good, just depends what works for you.
Post by: coachcw on February 05, 2014, 06:24:08 AM
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Post by: bullcanyon on February 05, 2014, 06:57:07 AM
Post by: pianoman9701 on February 05, 2014, 07:05:20 AM
Three weeks before the season, one of the limbs split down the middle while at full draw. No drama and no arrow going through my hand. But, with three weeks to go to my favorite 10 days of the year, I was ska-rooood. Joe over-nighted the bow to Hoyt. The factory called me the next day and offered me an upgrade for $50, which I took. 3 days later, Archery World got the bow in and set me up that day with the old quiver, rest, and sight installed.
So, my opinion is that all of the major manufacturers produce great bows, but get one from a local shop with which you can build a relationship and get dependable service and advice. If you live down here, you should absolutely be going to Archery World.
Post by: bhawley76 on February 05, 2014, 07:31:08 AM
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Post by: TONTO on February 07, 2014, 07:18:55 PM
Home made.:tup:
Post by: Jason on February 07, 2014, 07:21:13 PM
Post by: PolarBear on February 07, 2014, 07:24:55 PM
GET SERIUOS, GET A HOYT!
"SERIUOS" or serious hunters don't get hung up on brands, only what performs better for them. A brand means nothing if you can't shoot worth a crap at an animal within range. :twocents:
Post by: sagewalker on February 07, 2014, 07:29:32 PM
GET SERIUOS, GET A HOYT!
"SERIUOS" or serious hunters don't get hung up on brands, only what performs better for them. A brand means nothing if you can't shoot worth a crap at an animal within range. :twocents:
So what do you shoot PolarBear?
Post by: PolarBear on February 07, 2014, 08:09:46 PM
Post by: RadSav on February 07, 2014, 08:20:27 PM
"Never a one single logo" That's my motto ;)
As I sit here and type I see two Savora's, two Hoyts, four Bear, Two Bowtechs, a Martin and a Sims. All with blood on them! How does a guy possibly decide :dunno: And I haven't even looked under the bed yet :chuckle: They are all sexy little vixen. I'd hate to make one of them feel bad by choosing just one.
Post by: MLBowhunting on February 07, 2014, 08:24:54 PM
Post by: PolarBear on February 07, 2014, 08:27:26 PM
Post by: RadSav on February 07, 2014, 08:28:30 PM
Show me pics of the Savoras. Please
The two on the wall or the two under the bed :chuckle: Not sure you can handle the sweet nothings they will be speaking to you if you listen ;) It's like a peep show. You can look, but why if you can't touch :o
Post by: MLBowhunting on February 07, 2014, 08:29:53 PM
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Post by: lostbackpacker on February 07, 2014, 08:41:09 PM
Post by: sagewalker on February 07, 2014, 08:44:32 PM
Post by: Jellymon on February 07, 2014, 08:53:02 PM
Get serious and catch us if you can refuse to follow!
Post by: sagewalker on February 07, 2014, 08:57:45 PM
I think one of the newer bow companies should use this slogan. :chuckle:
Get serious and catch us if you can refuse to follow!
:yeah:
Post by: huntnphool on February 07, 2014, 09:07:50 PM
Post by: RadSav on February 07, 2014, 09:21:51 PM
Post by: Greg Mullins on February 08, 2014, 08:39:42 PM
Post by: gonehuntin68 on February 08, 2014, 08:56:24 PM
Post by: sagewalker on February 08, 2014, 09:12:40 PM
Post by: Smossy on February 08, 2014, 09:13:50 PM
Post by: sakoshooter on February 08, 2014, 09:21:40 PM
Thanks to Radsav and my lady, I'm questioning my favorite now. :bash:Smossy, the best on the market is the one you're shooting. Don't worry about everyone else's opinion. Any bow out there today is a good bow and in the right hands is super accurate and will kill animals. Practice with good form is key.
Post by: NOCK NOCK on February 09, 2014, 07:11:27 AM
Post by: Smossy on February 09, 2014, 12:52:19 PM
I have a Hoyt and a Bear lolThanks to Radsav and my lady, I'm questioning my favorite now. :bash:Smossy, the best on the market is the one you're shooting. Don't worry about everyone else's opinion. Any bow out there today is a good bow and in the right hands is super accurate and will kill animals. Practice with good form is key.
Post by: earlmarne on February 09, 2014, 01:08:09 PM
I really want to get my hands on a cpxl though
Post by: Bean Counter on February 09, 2014, 01:16:40 PM
Thanks to Radsav and my lady, I'm questioning my favorite now. :bash:Smossy, the best on the market is the one you're shooting. Don't worry about everyone else's opinion. Any bow out there today is a good bow and in the right hands is super accurate and will kill animals. Practice with good form is key.
:yeah: x3. I bought one of the first bows I shot and have only sampled a few. Its a PSE.Not necessariliy my "favorite" but its what I know and am used to. I guess its just a different way of looking at things.i don't have a favorite car, gun, or camera, either. Its really about just using whats in my hands the best I can.
Post by: Annette on February 09, 2014, 02:04:24 PM
Post by: RadSav on February 09, 2014, 02:07:20 PM
I bought one of the first bows I shot and have only sampled a few. Its a PSE.Not necessariliy my "favorite" but its what I know and am used to. I guess its just a different way of looking at things.i don't have a favorite car, gun, or camera, either. Its really about just using whats in my hands the best I can.Thanks to Radsav and my lady, I'm questioning my favorite now. :bash:Smossy, the best on the market is the one you're shooting. Don't worry about everyone else's opinion. Any bow out there today is a good bow and in the right hands is super accurate and will kill animals. Practice with good form is key.
Two of the worst bows ever made were the Bear Polar LTD and the original Bear Whitetail hunter. 30-35% let-off, sounded like a car accident when you shot them, IBO speeds would probably be around 200, wheels and cables strapped to and wound around everything, long, heavy, very difficult to tune...and yet they were wildly popular when I started bowhunting. Mainly because they were cheap and you could get them at the local Western Auto or Sears store. And almost nobody used an arrow rest other than the stick on plastic Bear Weatherest when shooting these bows.
We'd seen pictures in magazines of the Jennings T-Star, PSE Citation, Martin Cougar II and the Herter's Perfection. But none of us had actually seen one in person, let alone shoot one. No one I knew used a sight, peep, release or stabilizer. Your choice of quiver was either a Bear or a Kwikee. And your choice of broadheads was either a Bear Razorhead or Bodkin. Arrow choices were Acme cedar with feathers or Bear Metric Magnums with Marco vanes. And when it came to draw length choices you had to choose between 30", about 30" or pretty much 30" :chuckle: We didn't know our equipment Suc*ed! It was pretty cool stuff around the few of us that actually shot compounds.
We robinhooded a bunch of arrows with that equipment. Shot carp, suckers and sharks by the hundreds. We all killed deer with them. Most of us killed elk with them. And when I killed my first bear the whole club got together for a celebration that included the local newspaper reporter and photographer. To us this equipment was SWEET! And we had some of the best times of our lives shooting these bows!
Every single bow I see today performs better and is easier to shoot than those old six and eight wheelers. And my goodness! The choices of what you can add to them is endless. We'd have lost our minds with such choices. Way too many people worry about the logo on the limb, the IBO rating and the social status of what bow they shoot. And in the midst of it all we so often forget what being an archer is all about. Shooting a bow is about poetry in motion. Few things on earth more beautiful than the arc of a perfectly tuned arrow. Few thrill seekers experience the high you get when you watch that first arrow strike perfect in the lungs of a deer. And the snarl of a bear taking an arrow makes even the most seasoned of bowhunter a little weak in the knees.
I don't care what bow you shoot...This S*&t is fun!!!
Post by: Smossy on February 09, 2014, 02:10:54 PM
Well said. :tup: This year will be the one!I bought one of the first bows I shot and have only sampled a few. Its a PSE.Not necessariliy my "favorite" but its what I know and am used to. I guess its just a different way of looking at things.i don't have a favorite car, gun, or camera, either. Its really about just using whats in my hands the best I can.Thanks to Radsav and my lady, I'm questioning my favorite now. :bash:Smossy, the best on the market is the one you're shooting. Don't worry about everyone else's opinion. Any bow out there today is a good bow and in the right hands is super accurate and will kill animals. Practice with good form is key.
Two of the worst bows ever made were the Bear Polar LTD and the original Bear Whitetail hunter. 30-35% let-off, sounded like a car accident when you shot them, IBO speeds would probably be around 200, wheels and cables strapped to and wound around everything, long, heavy, very difficult to tune...and yet they were wildly popular when I started bowhunting. Mainly because they were cheap and you could get them at the local Western Auto or Sears store. And almost nobody used an arrow rest other than the stick on plastic Bear Weatherest when shooting these bows.
We'd seen pictures in magazines of the Jennings T-Star, PSE Citation, Martin Cougar II and the Herter's Perfection. But none of us had actually seen one in person, let alone shoot one. No one I knew used a sight, peep, release or stabilizer. Your choice of quiver was either a Bear or a Kwikee. And your choice of broadheads was either a Bear Razorhead or Bodkin. Arrow choices were Acme cedar with feathers or Bear Metric Magnums with Marco vanes. And when it came to draw length choices you had to choose between 30", about 30" or pretty much 30" :chuckle: We didn't know our equipment Suc*ed! It was pretty cool stuff around the few of us that actually shot compounds.
We robinhooded a bunch of arrows with that equipment. Shot carp, suckers and sharks by the hundreds. We all killed deer with them. Most of us killed elk with them. And when I killed my first bear the whole club got together for a celebration that included the local newspaper reporter and photographer. To us this equipment was SWEET! And we had some of the best times of our lives shooting these bows!
Every single bow I see today performs better and is easier to shoot than those old six and eight wheelers. And my goodness! The choices of what you can add to them is endless. We'd have lost our minds with such choices. Way too many people worry about the logo on the limb, the IBO rating and the social status of what bow they shoot. And in the midst of it all we so often forget what being an archer is all about. Shooting a bow is about poetry in motion. Few things on earth more beautiful than the arc of a perfectly tuned arrow. Few thrill seekers experience the high you get when you watch that first arrow strike perfect in the lungs of a deer. And the snarl of a bear taking an arrow makes even the most seasoned of bowhunter a little weak in the knees.
I don't care what bow you shoot...This S*&t is fun!!!
Post by: RadSav on February 09, 2014, 02:24:49 PM
I have loved all my bows...Jennings split T , Bear, Hoyt and Mathews. Most all of them have had the Kudlacek wheels and strings on them except the Mathews. We were shooting the split limbs and pre-stressed string system back in the 80's before many of you were born...lol
I remember exactly where I was when the club news letter came in and the lead story was of the amazing Washington lady bowhunter who had taken the first branched antler elk in the state. Annette and Smokey were bowhunting icons to us in the secluded Oregon coast Blacktail Bowhunters club!
The first time I stepped foot on Long Island chills tore through every part of my body. This was sacred ground! I was telling myself, "This is the same ground Doug Kittredge, Annette and Smokey have walked!" The bow I was carrying, the arrows I was shooting and the broadheads in my quiver didn't matter at that moment.
That was a GOOD day!!
Post by: Annette on February 09, 2014, 03:58:13 PM
I have loved all my bows...Jennings split T , Bear, Hoyt and Mathews. Most all of them have had the Kudlacek wheels and strings on them except the Mathews. We were shooting the split limbs and pre-stressed string system back in the 80's before many of you were born...lol
I remember exactly where I was when the club news letter came in and the lead story was of the amazing Washington lady bowhunter who had taken the first branched antler elk in the state. Annette and Smokey were bowhunting icons to us in the secluded Oregon coast Blacktail Bowhunters club!
The first time I stepped foot on Long Island chills tore through every part of my body. This was sacred ground! I was telling myself, "This is the same ground Doug Kittredge, Annette and Smokey have walked!" The bow I was carrying, the arrows I was shooting and the broadheads in my quiver didn't matter at that moment.
That was a GOOD day!!
Ummm don't know what to say..... Thanks for the kind words:~}
Post by: RadSav on February 09, 2014, 05:50:55 PM
Post by: demontang on February 09, 2014, 06:42:16 PM