Why do people buy bow's? Friends, advertisment's, Pro staff? I am 21 years old, and I read alot of the reports on here. They don't confuse me very much, they also don't affect me enough to buy a certain bow because of it. The only thing to get confused about with archery, is your own skill level, and perception of equipment. Local pro shop's can say what they want to sell a person a bow, or arrow's. If you go outside of the system, like to this BBS forum, this is where the enlightenment happen's. You can buy the best bow in the world, and beleive that you will shoot at a world class level. You could indeed do it, with supreme amounts of effort. Alot of people have to be realistic when they are looking for a bow though, the only way to be realistic is to understand what equipment you are putting in your hand's, and knowing how to use it affectively. I've seen people with alot of money, or an archery shop, buy bow after bow after bow. They will praise it up and down, then when it comes time to put the chips down on the table, it's the bow's, companies fault when they can't compete. Most every bow is as good as any other, with the acception of a few higher end companies. Not every archer is as good as every other archer.
I watch listen sometimes, to my co-worker trying to sell a bow, he will say anything to sell it. For example a person wanting to get into archery, comes into the store, he is an older gentlemin, I watch and listen as he is shown a Champion stratus, and then a mirage 33. Almost different end's of the spectrum, but delt with as though they are the same type of bow. Not knowing the brace heights, I check them out, Mirage 7" from the book, who know's what it is really. Stratus I beleive was 7 1/2". Also looking at the extreme reflex in the riser, the Mirage 33 is not a begginers bow, Im sure I would get agreement on this. But I am only a worker @ this place, I can not step in the way and say jeez man what the heck are you doing. A person with 2years experience, that sell's equipment like he has 10. Now that is confusing. I would much rather get my info on here thank you very much. I trust people on here, that I don't even know, more then people I work with. This has to tell you something. I send people to this site, to read up. You see, Jeffs reports are informative, no BULL. He say's what he likes about it and what he dislikes and thats it. Same with you Pinwheel, you tell it how it is, you see we all have seperate opinions on here, and that's the only true way, to not be blinded by lies and deception about equipment suitabliliy, and to know whats going on in the archery world today. I bought a riser because of your opinion Pinwheel, and many others about Merlin quality, and Ben has also proved to be a very good person to do business with. After all this babbling, I think the point I am trying to get at here is, this place needs the reports, the opinon's, the arguments for sake of. For all of the posts, and threads and topics, we are doing just fine, and alot less confusion on here, then I know of in the pro shops and large sports stores. Thats my thoughts, Good shooting.
Dylan

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