ORIGINAL: bigcountry
I have owned 4 bowtechs.
My 03 patriot was trouble free. But only had it one year.
My 04 liberty was trouble free for 3-4 years, but then had a limb start splintering. But I shot that bow I don't know how many thousands of shots. It was fixed. Bowtech helped me but the dealer totally screwed me. It was the last dealings I had with him.
My 07 commander is an awesome bow. Cams straight as an arrow, fast, dead quiet. I can't figure out why this bow sells poorly.
My 08 guardian has had some issues. With all my good luck with a great company, I wasn't expecting this. Cable rubs at full draw, cam lean. Just very out of character for a bowtech in my experience. So I sent it back, and get back this bow with new limbs with bright chrome pins in the limbs, cable now rubs on opposite cam. But shoots well. Bow has some string buzz my commander does not. Kinda indifferent about the bow.
I would say the reason all these high number bowtech shooters don't have trouble, is fairly obvious to me. They don't own one long enough. If you only keep a bow 1 maybe 2 years, thats nothing, any company can pull that off. Even PSE. I have kept bows up to 10 years.
Not trying to be adversarial. But lets say I wanted the opinion on a truck. One guy said he buys a new one every year, but treats it rough and never had a lick of trouble. Another explains he had a toyota pickup with 600K miles and had it for 15 years. I mean which one would you have faith in?
I understand what you're saying about how long they have owned the bow, how much they shoot ect... I included those as factors inmy original post. Your 04 Liberty and the 08 Guardianboth have good info.One bow lasted 3 yaers beforea problem, the other had trouble early on.
I'm a typically a weekend shooter, except duringJune & July when I might shooteveryday.Most of the bows I've owned have not stayed with me very long, typically 1 year, so I have not had many issues.
However, I owned a Mathews LX for 3 yaers that never had a problem. In contrast I had a Mathews Switchback XT that ate through the cable serving in a month; Mathews fans wanted to say that was typical of a one cam bow,
bull. That was a factory defect that Mathews expected the consumer to solve / repair at the consumers expense.
I also had a limb splinter on an 07 Allegiance after 4 months; I'm sure Bowtech would have repaired it under warranty, but the dealer did not get it resolved quickly, 2 weeks later I (luckily) got the unrepaired bow back as the dealer was going out of business. I drove to the next closest Bowtech dealer about 1 hour away and ended up trading the Allegiance (still unrepaired) to a Hoyt (I was not a happy camper at this point in time). That dealer was going to charge me for putting the warranty replacement limbs on the Allegiance because I did not buy the bow from him, I understand him charging for his time, but that's not how to get a repeat customer. Naturally, I purchased the SWAT from a different Bowtech dealer, also about 1 hour away; I told him the story about the Allegiance and he said he would not have charged me on the Allegiance, even though I did not buy the bow from him. I ordered the 2nd SWAT from him a few days later.