Ironically, the pro shop that I worked at did just that with BowTech. Carolina Rod and Gun in Charleston, SC. Margins were so slim that we couldn't turn a dime without charging dang near full MSRP or even slightly over that. I told my boss then that without pumping some serious money into the archery side of things and picking up some more bowlines (we sold PSE, Browning and BowTech) that it would just be a hole in the boat. He agreed and got out of the archery business all together. Haven't checked back with my old boss in a few years, but I am sure that business is just as great as it was when I worked there. For a small gun shop to stay in business that long, you have to be pretty savvy, and he is just that..... not a guy who just fell off the turnip cart you know. Is Bowtech any worse off without them.... no I'm sure they aren't.... and I suspect that they don't really care either (I know for a fact they didn't because I was in the room on speaker phone discussing the whole situation with our account rep). It is what it is.
So your basis for an argument is a guy who couldn't sell ANYTHING in the archery business and got out of it??? I don't follow your logic.
And I've been in that place many times. I lived in Mount P. for several years. Nice old-school gun shop.....but I wouldn't have bought an arrow in that place, either.
I HCA High Country jeff? Not sure what the A is for.
What the heck you up so late or early for?
I assume it's Higg Country Archery. I just read an interesting, multi-page thread on AT where people (HCA Owners)were complaining about Winner's Choice strings being touted as original equipment on their bows.......and the mfr. putting inferior strings on them. People were complaining to WC....and WC was telling them they weren't even their strings when they were sent in for warranty issues. The owner of the company (HCA)admitted to this.
Now THAT is something that would have me pissed. I'd mow my own back yard before I complained about my neghbor's yard being an eyesore.
(And I wouldn't try to ridicule him for buying a John Deere. At least he knows his engine ACTUALLY came from Kohler
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What the heck you up so late or early for?
This isn't "late", T.....it's "early"