Len,
Maybe you should stop letting guys "try before you buy" if they're going elsewhere to buy after wasting your time!
It's not done here in Louisville and, frankly, I don't blame the shop owners.
The owner or employees will let you shoot their bows but that's it.
One shop even has cables running through each bow so you can't even remove them from the rack and draw them back.
They got tired of them being dry fired by idiots. LOL
No, I don't support my local shops as far as buying bows but that's because none of them carry my custom Bowman or Merlin bows.
Sag.