A friend of mine asked me to go to a archery shop in Jeff City yesterday. I had never been there but had heard a lot about it so I tagged along. I have decided to get back into archery after a few years off and I wanted to look at some bowtech and mathews bows. The bows in this shop all had tape around the string and cables that said "please ask for assistance". I waited for a guy to come over and I asked him if I could draw the bow. He said that they did not like for people to draw the bows but I was welcome to shoot it if I liked. I told him I really wasn't comfortable shooting it, I was just wanting to compare draw cycles between the two bows. He wouldn't budge so I just put the bow back and looked around at the other stuff while my buddy shopped.
I can see the guys point and know dry firing a bow is fairly hard on them but this is the first time I have ever been in an archery shop that wouldn't let you draw a bow. Is this common nowadays? The shop here in town let me rub all over the mathews he had on the shelf. I will probably keep that in mind if I buy a new bow.

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