Winner's Choice
 

What's your take on this company and the strings they provide?

I took my bow in the 22nd the have their strings and cables put on my bow, in your experience how do you feel about their product?

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I have heard they make a great string, butI heardtheir new string has a thin serving on it. You cannot serve a drop away rest in the cables, or put string leeches on.

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I just put Winner's Choice string and cables on my Reflex and really like the product. The cables have a proprietary coating on them that prevent serving being attached very effectively. However, if you go to their website, they have very simple instructions and pictures on tying a drop away rest to the down cable (you simply tie a string loop knot to the cable with the cord from the rest, and put several knots on the cable with serving thread above that to prevent it from sliding up the cable). Also, the strings can be opened up and string leaches installed (I have them on mine), just like they can be separated to install a peep.

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I have used WC strings on all 4 of my bows and have put them on several of my friends bows. Not one problem in the past 4 years. It is the only string
i will use. no peep rotation, not stretch on my oldest string. A little pricey but worth it for a great product.

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Hunohoio, thanks for correcting me. I heard that you could not put string leeches through the string in the chat, but Iwasn't 100% sure it was correct.

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I don't know that this is true or not but according to an online archery store who carries Winner's Choice products uses 8125 material?

I use my local pro shop who makes a very good string and set of cables at a reasonable price. Last string for me he used Ultracam which is ok, but I am going to ensure he uses 452 or 452X material on my next string.

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I have been using a winners choice string for 2 years now on my Hoyt Razortec and it is still going strong.

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I'm not sure if what they're made out of Coug, but I'm going to be really dissapointed if I just dropped about $80 on strings and cables made of 8125. I've heard better things about strings made of 452 and 452X.

Though I suppose it's a good thing that the money was my father's and not mine this time around! ;):D

Our deal was that if he sets the bows up with new strings and cables I'll buy the arrows this year.

His $160 for strings to my $210 for arrows. Hmm, who got the raw end of the deal?:D

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Winners choice standard strings are made of 8125. However you can request other materials such as 452, D-75 thin, ultracam, and TS1.

All of their strings are made with fibers that have been prestreched before the string is made and once installed and shot a minimal number of times they will not ever move on you again. They also serve their strings in such a way that they guarantee no serving separation for one year. Even on the very sharply turned corners on modules.

I have used WC strings and others and I still think that the WC strings and cables are a better string. They are a little pricey but once your bow is tuned it stays tuned. The peace of mind knowing that nothing is ever going to move on you is worth the extra money IMHO.

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for $5 worth of materials they sure do have a nice profit margin.

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Then add to that $5............... Research and developement costs, building costs; operating costs like electricity, heating, air conditioning, phone, water, etc...; employee salaries, unemployment insurance, workmans compensation insurance, health insurance premiums, insurance for theft, fire, etc..., machinery costs, taxes, permits, and a whole lot of other things that it takes to run a business.

You go pay for all of that and see what you have to charge for a simple bow string.

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bigbulls - you've got that right.

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We put a set on my Dad's Renegade, and the X-coat fell apart. He contacted them, and they required that he send the set back before they would send out new ones. It was almost as if the company didn't believe that they had fallen apart. We stripped the X-coat off of them, and they are fine, but with the response we got, I'll be trying some of the other string makers out there.

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anyone tried Vapor trails? Ive heard a lot of good things about them one Archerytalk.com but cant really decide if its jsut a bunch of hype. Supposed to be as good but cheaper that WC.

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Haven't tried them, but my local shop hasnothing but great things to say about them. They say that they areevery bit as good as Winners Choice, at about half the price.

Another thing to keep in mind is we have amember here who makes custom strings that are supposed to be extremely good, and not too expensive. I believehis screenname is Gibblet.

Mike

Edited for repetitive content! ;):D

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I have Vapor Trails new VTX cable and string. It is excellent quality, I have no complaints, and it has never stretched or had issues. I do think there are several people out there that make high quality stuff though. With that said, I saved a ton of money over a WC setup, but I think the same quality of VT or WC can be found in a setup from one of the smaller guys out there that are hungry for business and have both value and quality.

With that said, my next set will probably be from gibblet. I don't care about a companies overhead or marketing costs, if you offer a quality product, good support, and a great price I will buy from you. I would like to experiment with a floating yoke anyhow, and gibblet is one of the few other than crackers that I think could pull this off with good support.

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rick, you need a 3 color with a floating yoke. if you look at WC's 3 color from their custom shop - they go color 1, color 2, color 3, color 1, color 2, color 3... i can do that, or what i like is color 1, color 2, color1, color 3, color 1, .... it's twice as cool.

and hey, i got overhead, and an old lady that won't frikkin' give me any peace! i think i may trade her in LOL.

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gibblet,

What colors do you have available? I don't need a new string now because my bow it new, but when I need one in the future I'm definately going to keep you in mind.

Mike

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all of them.