ORIGINAL: OHbowhntr

Dave,
So you find it "acceptable" for a 3 yr old bow to blow up???? Must be a BOWTECH mentality that comes with the admission into the "cult." Sorry, and I know and like a lot of you BT guys, but this stuff is just not what I'd consider acceptable. This may be why I'm shooting Hoyt and Reflex line bows, which may not draw quite as smoothly, and may not be quite as fast, but with welll over 20,000 shots on 2 of my bows, and probably 30,000 + on a bow I sold last fall, I must expect MORE out of my bows. My old bow that I sold last fall was a 2000 Reflex Bighorn, it had LOTS of shots, never failed me, only went through 2 sets of strings, it's been dropped from trees, and used and abused, and it's still shooting great today, in a newer bowhunters hands.[:-] WHOA, and 8 actually real close to 9 year old bow and someone still shoot it????? A lot of the members on this forum are probably shooting bows that are 2005 and older, and they're NOT OLD, they may not have the newest, latest, and greatest technology, but they are still good shooting bows that get the job done. For the record, my #3 bow is a 1999 Hoyt that I've put a couple thousand shots on myself since getting it back in Feb., and I've logged a RH with it, and it shoots nearly as well as my #1 (Trykon XL) and #2 (Reflex Highlander) and I don't have ANY FEAR shooting any of them quite regularly, and shooting them a LOT!!!! Hell, at 63#, that Old Stryker II zips those 420gr arrows out there in the mid 260's!!!!