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Title: keep your eyes out
Post by: demontang on May 09, 2015, 04:43:03 PM: Local archery Shop was broken into weds. He lost all his hoyt carbon bows, a bowtech boss, and all his prime bows. If you see someone with bows for sale let grizzly archery know.
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Post by: MLBowhunting on May 09, 2015, 05:41:23 PM: Wow that's terrible.
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Post by: raydog on May 09, 2015, 06:42:34 PM: Are new bows like guns and have serial #s or some way of IDing the stolen bows?
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Post by: RadSav on May 09, 2015, 07:14:02 PM: If the shop kept the paperwork, yes! Though they are easily removed most of the time. Should show up in Canada in a few weeks!

I think we should bring back public stoning for drug related/motivated theft.
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Post by: demontang on May 09, 2015, 08:05:31 PM: They took the papers on the bows and he already trash the boxs so no serial #
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Post by: buglebuster on May 09, 2015, 08:23:12 PM: Poor mike :bash: Hope Those Worthless Trash Get caught!
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Post by: Band on May 09, 2015, 08:36:07 PM: I hope he has insurance to cover the loss! Can't imagine trying to eek out a living with an archery shop and then having that happen. :(
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Post by: mountainman on May 10, 2015, 07:12:58 AM: Did he keep invoices/packing slips? Should be seials there?
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Post by: fishngamereaper on May 10, 2015, 07:16:28 AM: :bash: That's to bad...sounds like someone knew what they where doing. Random tweekers wouldn't take paper work.
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Post by: RadSav on May 10, 2015, 07:31:45 AM: Not sure why shops are so eager to trash their bow boxes. Bow comes in with a box it should go out with a box. I even see a lot of shops that trash the manual packages too. Never understood it!

That is not to say I blame the guys at Grizzly. I really like those guys! Absolutely terrible. I'm sure he has insurance, but that doesn't make up for the feeling of being violated. Or all the time it will take to go through the insurance hoops and ladders.
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Post by: JBar on May 10, 2015, 07:32:11 AM: Manufacturer should have record of bows shipped to him. Invoices should show ser# also. Mike is a great guy sorry to hear this happened to him. I always stop in when I'm over there to chat and support his business.
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Post by: JBar on May 10, 2015, 07:34:39 AM: Quote from: RadSav on May 10, 2015, 07:31:45 AM
Not sure why shops are so eager to trash their bow boxes. Bow comes in with a box it should go out with a box. I even see a lot of shops that trash the manual packages too. Never understood it!

That is not to say I blame the guys at Grizzly. I really like those guys! Absolutely terrible. I'm sure he has insurance, but that doesn't make up for the feeling of being violated. Or all the time it will take to go through the insurance hoops and ladders.
Empty boxes take up a lot of space :dunno:
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on May 10, 2015, 09:00:15 AM: Quote from: JBar on May 10, 2015, 07:32:11 AM
Manufacturer should have record of bows shipped to him. Invoices should show ser# also. Mike is a great guy sorry to hear this happened to him. I always stop in when I'm over there to chat and support his business.

This is my thought as well. The manufactures he bought the bows from should have the serial numbers for the bows that he received from them.

It seems really weird to me that they would take the paper work from what I am sure was different shipments of different bows from different companies. That the people who took them would have taken that much time to try to find and remove that much paper work from the shop to cover there tracks.

Bum deal I have only met the people there a couple times but they seems like nice folks.
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Post by: Karl Blanchard on May 10, 2015, 10:42:35 AM: Mike doesn't even have room for the bows in that little shop let alone boxes. I think the paper work is all attached to the bows hanging on the rack if I remember correctly. Can't keep it with the box if the box is in the dump. Mike is a great guy! We all need to support our local shops like Grizzly. He should be fine, he has me for a customer after all. Seems like I pay his lease some months :chuckle:
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Post by: jdb on May 10, 2015, 11:23:38 AM: I was there and helped him secure the door for the night video surveillance said in and out in 15 seconds
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Post by: jordanramos_79 on May 10, 2015, 11:30:29 AM: Mikes shop is right next to the gas station. Is it possible their cameras could have caught something? :dunno:
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Post by: hughjorgan on May 10, 2015, 12:24:11 PM: Just stopped by his shop to BS with him last weekend while I was on that side of the mountains. Always try to support the small shops. Hopefully Mikes insurance will cover his loss.
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Post by: bowtechian on May 27, 2015, 08:57:42 PM: Needs to go get a 100+lb chessie that sleeps in the shop
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Post by: 2labs on May 27, 2015, 09:06:23 PM: Quote from: bowtechian on May 27, 2015, 08:57:42 PM
Needs to go get a 100+lb chessie that sleeps in the shop

:yeah: made the mistake of trying to pet a chessie in the back of a truck once, they're not Labs!
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Post by: bowtechian on May 27, 2015, 09:10:59 PM: Their nice when the master is around but when no one is home it's like having a Rottweiler in protection mode
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Post by: h2ofowlr on May 27, 2015, 09:13:49 PM: Seems bow thefts are on the rise. I guess the cost of new bows these days is motivation for the crack heads and greedy.
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