Hey there.... I just got back from the bow shop. I needed some new string silencers, since I was never happy with the "cat whiskers" kind (they kept sliding all around on me). I got frustrated andcut them all off the other day and tried to make my own string silencers out of some brown yarn from my wife's crochet stuff. Bad move... They didn't work too well either and frayed all apart after about the third shot! [:-] D'oh!!!

So, I brought my old '96 PSE Edge 1000C up to the bow shop to get it looked over and upgraded a bit with some new string silencers.

This is how my bow looked before: (Cat whiskers, X-ring stablizer, etc...)

The guy was really cool (also a lefty bowhunter like me) and loved my old bow saying that it is an "old school classic" that will just keep on shooting and stay in tune forever. He did comment on the X-ring stablizer though (i.e. what the heck is THAT? no no no no... get thatmetal piece of junk off of there!) I explained that I bought it at Wal-Mart and didn't know better at first. Anyway, long story short, he looked my bow over, and it's still 65#'s and still setup true and squarely aligned. But just needs to be quieted down a bit. So, he upgraded my old bow with the new styleString Leeches (my old slow bow will shoot these String Leeches for 1000-2000 shots before I have to replace them). And, he recommended a newS-Coil stabilizer from Limb Savers which will seriously take out any "twang-g-g-g-g-g" that is still felt in the old bow.

Here is what my old tried and true classic PSE-1000C bow looks like now:

This old bow is still going strong and I love shooting it. It is still accurate and so comfortable too. The guys showed me a brand new Hoyt lefty bow and I drooled over it. They told me to eventually upgrade to a new bow and make this old PSE a backup. Stick with a 35" or 36" ATA bow and not get a tiny ATA bow as that is what I am not used to at all and would require a bit of a learning curve to shoot it accurately.

Butch A.