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Old 07-05-2008, 07:24 PM
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Default disappointed in my ex-desert stryker...

i bought a desert stryker last summer and when i got it everything was great....shot it almost everyday for2-3 weeks leading up to opening day.....and then 2 days b4 opening morning i was shooting it and when i pulled the trigger it didnt shoot for like 5 seconds so i cocked it again and shot it and it shot smooth as silk...........so,i figured that i may have not had the bolt all the way in or something like that so i shot it the next day like 9-10 times to make sure their wasnt something wrong with the xbow and it shot smooth everytime...........opening morning (i had been patterning a very nice 150 inch 10 pointer all summer)i am in my tree stand and just as i had planned 10 minutes after day break here comes the big ten and 4 other younger bucks.....he stops broadside at 25 yards,i squeeze the trigger and nothing happens...after like 10 seconds i start bringing the xbow down slowly to see what is going on and then it decides to shoot,luckily i didnt have any fingers in the strings way!......it shot 10 yards under the deer and that was that.......i felt like throwing the xbow........does all this sound bad enough???........well its not,i called bowtech and sent it in and got it back 1 1/2 months later and 1 week after i got it back the exact same thing happened again with a 130 inch 8 pointer.....sent it back for the second time,they re-did the trigger again,i got it back and sold it asap for half of what i gave for it.
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