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How often do you buy a new bow?
10-18-2006, 01:21 AM
#3
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Posts: 1,345
RE: How often do you buy a new bow?
I voted the last option. Not my "very first bow", my second actually...but I've had it for more than 5 years and see no real benefit to or 'upgrade' from a 310IBO that, at one time, I could pull 5 arrow out with one hand on a 40yard target. I've gotten a lil rusty in college.
It's a good ole Mathews Feathermax.
It's a good ole Mathews Feathermax.
10-18-2006, 07:04 AM
#7
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Hoosier Country, Baby!
Posts: 1,710
RE: How often do you buy a new bow?
I haven't had to worry about it, this is only my 3rd year bowhunting. I did buy a new bow my second year, but only because some idiot broke into my garage at our old house and took both mine and my Husband's new Parker Mag. [:@]*one week before season opener mind you!*
I like what I am shooting now, and I couldn't care less if I have the most "up to date" product on the market. If it works, it works, no reason to change IMO. I'd rather spend my money on accessories, camo,and stands.
So,
I like what I am shooting now, and I couldn't care less if I have the most "up to date" product on the market. If it works, it works, no reason to change IMO. I'd rather spend my money on accessories, camo,and stands.
So,
10-18-2006, 07:19 AM
#8
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Albany, NY
Posts: 4,679
RE: How often do you buy a new bow?
Ummm. I have a sickness of sorts. I have owned8 different bows that were mine personallysince January 2006. If you include all the bows I bought just to sell probably 30-40 total this year. I only have 4 now though. [8D]
10-18-2006, 07:26 AM
#9
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Howard PA USA
Posts: 2,221
RE: How often do you buy a new bow?
I buy a new one when I want a new one most of the time. Usually it is about every 4 years or so for my compounds. But now that I have gotten back to shooting a recurve once again I have found that I buy a new recurve more often. I really like my Check-Mate Hunter II and don't see anything replacing that in the near future. The only upgrades I see doing to her may be an heavier (Hunting) and lighter (target) sets of limbs for her.
10-18-2006, 07:53 AM
#10
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 5,716
RE: How often do you buy a new bow?
I usually buy a new one when something better comes along.
Around 1988, I got a hand-me-down recurve bow, some junk arrows and put a haybale at the top of the yard. You could probably catch the arrows coming out of that thing. I weighed about 32 pounds, so you can imagine. I played with it about every day anyway, and did manage to bag a rabbit and a tweety bird.
1990'ish, I got a hand-me-down Bear Whitetail Hunter. It might've been a Whitetail II. It was painfully slow and big and I wasn't very accurate with it. I could barely draw the blasted thing, but I managed. It fired Lincoln Logs and was quite a contraption. BUT, a lot of deer fell to the Bear Whitetail bow, and it has an integral part in the history of the compound bow as we know it. I still regret giving that bow away.
Around 1993, I saved up and got my first new bow,a plastic, round-wheeled PSE (metal cables) that spit arrows at about 200 fps at 60#. This was also my first exposure to the mechanical release. I got my first few deer with this bow.
In '97, I traded that off for a dual cam Pro Line that was a whole heap faster, shooting in the 250's. I had the New Wave, you guys that have been bowhunting for a while remember when that bow (or its cousin, the Riptide)was all the rage. This is, in my opinion, the bow that took compound archery to the next level. (or the High Country Supreme). I got a lot of deer with this bow, but it was big and over the next couple years, bows got a lot faster and a lot smaller, so I upgraded fairly quickly.
Sometime around '98, the Solo Cam was born, and they were a lot more hunter-friendly than my behemoth New Wave, so in 1999, I did some research and I bought what I thought (and still think) was the best one-cam hunting bow ever made, the Jennings Airmaster. With my hunting setup, I'm still shooting in the low 290's at 77#.
I haven't bought a bow since. The cam 1/2's have been out for a while, but I've played with them and found out that I wouldn't really gain much by buying a new bow.Besides, Idon't like switching bows. So, until something that's a whole lot better comes along, I'll be hanging on to the Jennings.
I do like theBowtech Allegiance, but I can't see spending that kind of money on a bow. I'll probably pick up a used '06 or'07 Allegiance sometime in the next couple years, because I truly believe it's a better hunting bow than the one I have.
So, I've upgraded bows after 2, 3,4, 2, and 7 years. That works out to every 3.6 years.
Around 1988, I got a hand-me-down recurve bow, some junk arrows and put a haybale at the top of the yard. You could probably catch the arrows coming out of that thing. I weighed about 32 pounds, so you can imagine. I played with it about every day anyway, and did manage to bag a rabbit and a tweety bird.
1990'ish, I got a hand-me-down Bear Whitetail Hunter. It might've been a Whitetail II. It was painfully slow and big and I wasn't very accurate with it. I could barely draw the blasted thing, but I managed. It fired Lincoln Logs and was quite a contraption. BUT, a lot of deer fell to the Bear Whitetail bow, and it has an integral part in the history of the compound bow as we know it. I still regret giving that bow away.
Around 1993, I saved up and got my first new bow,a plastic, round-wheeled PSE (metal cables) that spit arrows at about 200 fps at 60#. This was also my first exposure to the mechanical release. I got my first few deer with this bow.
In '97, I traded that off for a dual cam Pro Line that was a whole heap faster, shooting in the 250's. I had the New Wave, you guys that have been bowhunting for a while remember when that bow (or its cousin, the Riptide)was all the rage. This is, in my opinion, the bow that took compound archery to the next level. (or the High Country Supreme). I got a lot of deer with this bow, but it was big and over the next couple years, bows got a lot faster and a lot smaller, so I upgraded fairly quickly.
Sometime around '98, the Solo Cam was born, and they were a lot more hunter-friendly than my behemoth New Wave, so in 1999, I did some research and I bought what I thought (and still think) was the best one-cam hunting bow ever made, the Jennings Airmaster. With my hunting setup, I'm still shooting in the low 290's at 77#.
I haven't bought a bow since. The cam 1/2's have been out for a while, but I've played with them and found out that I wouldn't really gain much by buying a new bow.Besides, Idon't like switching bows. So, until something that's a whole lot better comes along, I'll be hanging on to the Jennings.
I do like theBowtech Allegiance, but I can't see spending that kind of money on a bow. I'll probably pick up a used '06 or'07 Allegiance sometime in the next couple years, because I truly believe it's a better hunting bow than the one I have.
So, I've upgraded bows after 2, 3,4, 2, and 7 years. That works out to every 3.6 years.