You definitely got your money's worth out of that ol' timer... For what it is worth, I had a Bear Whitetail that lasted from around 1985 through 1998...13 looongg years. Then one of the limbs went.

As for your comment about my post and Hoyt's engineering.......

...try one and find out...<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>.