I have been shooting off and on since I was a kid. Just targets. Finally, when I decided to take my hunting to the next level, I decided it was time to get a modern bow.

I spent a very long time researching different manufacurers, and different models. The manufacturers reputation for building a quality product and backing it up with a lifetime warranty was tops on my list. Enter BowTech.

I was going to buy my BowTech from the local pro shop. The same day I decide to go down and purchase my bow the pro shop tells me that they have just raised the price on their Bowtech's. Well, that doesn't set so well with me! So I drive accross town to the new and very large outdoor store that had just opened a few months earlier (sorry, won't mention the name of the store). I am mesmerized by all of the BowTech's they have in stock. They mention BowTech's $50.00 rebate on all thier bow's. I end up paying $70.00 less for my bow than I would have spent at the pro shop. I am feeling pretty good at this point. The thought of saving $ dulling the guilt I feel for not buying from the little guy (not to mention being slightly pissed about the increase in price at the small shop).

I have them set up my bow with some accesories that I had purchased previously and with some stuff I bought at their store. We do a really half ass paper tune and I am out the door (the whole time I feel as though I am being rushed). As I am walking through the parking lot I notice a small scratch on the top limb of my bow. I shrug off my initial thoughts of wanting my new bow to be "perfect". I get home shoot a hundred or so arrows and go to bed with a sore arm. The next day I shoot another hundred or so arrows but notice my string leeches are gone (partially because the guy at the store put them on wrong, but thats another post). I also notice that my "scratch" has turned into a crack.

Great! My leeches are gone and my brand new bow has a cracked limb. O.K. I'll call the store and ask them what to do about it. They tell me to bring it in and they will handle the warranty stuff with BT. I'm feeling better but still sick over the whole thing. I get to the store and the guy's from the archery dept. are out hunting and won't be in untill that afternoon. Bummed I have no one to talk to to find out wheen I might get my bow back, I leave my bow at the store. I call back later and the guy says it will be three days. Good, I can still go shooting 3d with my buddies that weekend (I made plans to take the weekend off the day after I got my bow).

Three days later I call back and end up speaking to different guy. I ask him if my bow is in and he tells me it won't be in untill next week! I tell him that the other guy said it would be in today. Then this fella starts to give me the third degree on whethor or not I dry fired it! I tell him no and if I did I would say so! The things got a lifetime warranty on it. Why would I lie? Those types of things happen and I'm not to proud to admit when I do something wrong. How can I be sure it wasn't dry fired accidentally by somebody looking at it before I bought it? A couple of weeks before I was in that same store and watched some guy dry fire a Hoyt and the salesperson put it right back on the rack! That should have been a warning sign for me.

So anyway I pitch a fit and the guy reluctantly says that he'll take the limbs off of another bowif my replacements aren't in from bowtech. I figure that will at least keep me on track for my weekend. The next day I come in and my bow is still in pieces. I screw aroun telling the other guys that someone said he would put the limbs from another bow on mine if BT's didn't arrive yet. Finally I get a guy to slap'em on. I ask him about my new limbsavers that I bought from them when i bought the bow (I think since the bow was'nt even a week old he should have put on new one's). He said he pulled them off and can stick them on my new limbs. Anyway they look like crap. My bow is still quiet but I am sure not as quiet as it could have been had he put on new ones. I ask if we can paper tune the bow. He says he allready did. Not feeling right I go home shoot my bow and can't hit anything with it for 2 weeks.

Just when I think I might take it in and have it tuned or checked out I realize me center serving is totally loose and my nock is moving up and down. The guy at the shop reserved it for nothing and it shoots better but still doesn't feel like it's tuned right. Two days ago just slightly bumed the grip on a chair while going outside to shoot a cracked it into two pieces.


This was not the fun experience it should have been! My new bow has been a pain in the ass and I have lost my confidence in it being a sound piece of equipment to take hunting. Especially if I go to alska next year bear hunting (my aunt and uncle own a lodge Icould never afford iit otherwise). I should have gone to the little guy and could have probably saved myself alot of grief. I do not regret buying a BowTech however it could have happened to any brand of bow and they backed up their warranty but what's next?

Sorry so long
Kirk