mddoss

I am considering buying the Bowmaster portable bow pressfrom cabelas. Does anyone have any experience with it or can they recommend me a relatively cheap alternative? I want to buy something soon so I can do all my own work. I have been bowhunting for 3 years now and look forward to saving some money and learning how to tune my own bow and friends bows
Thanks for any advice.



Matthews Icon
29" Draw

High Country Archery TSSR (just bought it!)
fully adjustable
cobra sights
qad ultrarest

gzg38b

I have a Bowmaster and it's great, especially for it's portability. I've changed strings, cables, installed peeps, tuned my bow, etc with it. It is definitely slower than a bench style press, but it works. And I love that I can take it with me to deer camp or on hunting trips. And it's the cheapest press you can buy that actually works.

The pros:
Small, lightweight, and portable.
Presses the limbs from the limb tips, just like shooting a bow. There's no excess pressure on the riser.
Works great on solid limb bows and non-parallel split limb bows.

The cons:
Slower than a regular press - definitely use a wratchet socket wrench. Much faster and easier on the hands that way.
If you forget to use the little leather limb protectors, you can damage the finish on your limbs.
The split limb adapters suck for split limb bows and bows with large cams. I couldn't use it on my Dad's Trykon because the cams were too big to clear the split limb adapter bracket.

If you have a solid limb bow, go for it - you'll love it. Split limb bows with large cams and parallel limbs, I'd probably buy something else.

mddoss

I have a solid limb bow (matthews Icon) and a split limb (HCA TSSR). the split limb is not parallel and the cams are not very big.So it will probably work for my bows but I plan on switching to a parallel limb in a couple years. what about the Ratchet lok bowpress from Cabelas. It says it works on parallel limb bows also. It looks to me like the strap from the ratchet is going to get in the way when trying to install a peep???? Any thoughts?

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bow_hunter44

I have a Bowmaster press and have been using it for years. It does work.
Currently I use it on my Hoyt Vectrix and my Black Ice. The split limb adapter is required for both bows (only the Vectrix is a split limb). As mentioned before, using the Bowmaster is a bit cumbersome. I have to take my suppressor completely out of the Vectrix when I press that bow, and I have to loosen my suppressor on the Ice. A rachet and socket is the ONLY way to go, unless you have cast iron hands. I will be getting an official bench press one of these days, but until then the Bowmaster does get the job done.