99% let-off???
11-05-2003, 11:49 AM
#12
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 9,175
RE: 99% let-off???
When I first saw the title of this thread I thought " crossbow"
It' s stuff like this that puts me in a serious anti-technology mood.[:' (] I' m going to go hug my longbow.
11-05-2003, 12:07 PM
#13
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Illinois
Posts: 1,862
RE: 99% let-off???
I guess it takes a ' real man' to handle something that' s different from the norm!
That bow, and any other bows like it, will be responsible for putting people with bows in the field who should not be there.
With some manufacturers and retailers, greed for the dollar has become more important than the preservation of the sport.
11-05-2003, 12:21 PM
#14
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 25
RE: 99% let-off???
I don' t believe it will put people in the field that do not belong. We have two in the shop that I shoot for and you do have to hold it back because there is no valley. Very stout force curve also. The way the riser is designed there is no feeling of torque at all believe it or not actually shoots pretty good alittle bit of hand shock but nothing that can not be tamed with some sims products. Very interesting design though. One side of the axle is larger than the other and the string actually lays down on a groove cut into the axle. I shot a 60# 27" draw with a gt 55/75 arrow (around 375grains did actually weigh it) 258fps.
11-05-2003, 12:36 PM
#15
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Illinois
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RE: 99% let-off???
sigep1967:
Apparently, you do not understand that there are people in the field today that do not belong, not because they know the truth regardless of the hype, but because they believe the hype. They know little about bow gear and the limitations of it and believe the gear does the work for them.
Hell, right here on this very website you have shooters proclaiming that it will be only because of their choice of bow, a particular type of rest, a popular string, and other various types of non-lethal gear that will be responsible for killing a deer for them.
Apparently, you do not understand that there are people in the field today that do not belong, not because they know the truth regardless of the hype, but because they believe the hype. They know little about bow gear and the limitations of it and believe the gear does the work for them.
Hell, right here on this very website you have shooters proclaiming that it will be only because of their choice of bow, a particular type of rest, a popular string, and other various types of non-lethal gear that will be responsible for killing a deer for them.
11-05-2003, 12:41 PM
#16
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 25
RE: 99% let-off???
c903
I understand that but until you get your hands on one and feel the force curve you will not understand what I am saying. I don' t believe a first time bowhunter will like it very much. It does have 99% measured let off but it really doesn' t feel like it when you are holding it. Unless the shop dampens the vibration before letting someone shoot it a first time bowhunter will not like it! They will not understand about having to put all of the assecsories on it to dampen the vibration when a PSE Ar Hoyt or Bowtech doesn' t have to have it.
I understand that but until you get your hands on one and feel the force curve you will not understand what I am saying. I don' t believe a first time bowhunter will like it very much. It does have 99% measured let off but it really doesn' t feel like it when you are holding it. Unless the shop dampens the vibration before letting someone shoot it a first time bowhunter will not like it! They will not understand about having to put all of the assecsories on it to dampen the vibration when a PSE Ar Hoyt or Bowtech doesn' t have to have it.
11-05-2003, 01:02 PM
#17
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Imperial, MO
Posts: 140
RE: 99% let-off???
sigep1967, Len,
If it handles half decent then what is it that has kept it from catching on? Is it the company, lack of advertising or just the public waiting for those “select few” to try it and like it before their money is spent on a gimmick? I can understand why so many may not care for it but in this age of modern technology there is nothing else like it. I would have to believe that it fits at least a small niche.
If it handles half decent then what is it that has kept it from catching on? Is it the company, lack of advertising or just the public waiting for those “select few” to try it and like it before their money is spent on a gimmick? I can understand why so many may not care for it but in this age of modern technology there is nothing else like it. I would have to believe that it fits at least a small niche.
11-05-2003, 01:14 PM
#18
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 25
RE: 99% let-off???
Very new company so not much exposure yet. Now don' t get me wrong it is a very well built bow comes standard with WC strings and cables and laminated barnsdale limbs. He also has a very fast dual hatchet cam bow that is very nice. The workmanship is very good also.
11-05-2003, 08:27 PM
#19
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Baltimore Maryland USA
Posts: 1,385
RE: 99% let-off???
sigep1967:
Good observations and you' ve got you facts straight. Don' t let some of the posts bother you. Sometimes we have posts that " do not belong" .
Frank:
The owner/designer stopped by the store a few months ago and left us a bow to demonstrate. Like sigep1967 said, he' s a small company with some interesting ideas and progressive designs. Very good quality but limited advertising/finances.[:' (]
Good observations and you' ve got you facts straight. Don' t let some of the posts bother you. Sometimes we have posts that " do not belong" .
Frank:
The owner/designer stopped by the store a few months ago and left us a bow to demonstrate. Like sigep1967 said, he' s a small company with some interesting ideas and progressive designs. Very good quality but limited advertising/finances.[:' (]