That's where things get annoyingly confusing.

I'm sure there are some TV personalities who use what they use because they truly believe in the product or help in it's promotion in some way beyond a logo on the TV screen..........sort of a chicken and the egg thing where maybe they were using it for years that LEAD to that logo on the screen and they might actually STILL use it even if it wasn't helping pay the bills.

Then you have the pimps like the Fitzgeralds for example (I just needed an example, sorry Fitz fans) who have gone through probably a dozen bow sponsors in the last 15 years and each one is the "best" while they are paying the bills. Their show can sound like a one of those old time travelling medicine salesmen.

At the other end you have the actual gear Manufacturers actively seeking these personalities themselves as part of their marketing strategy. It's no coincidence that you see T/C arms in basically 95% of all on screen gun hunts. [:-]

The true "Non Personality" related Pro staffer is a completely different animal and I guess since I see or have seen every single level and type of affiliation that there is from the inside I see all the very distinct levels and shades of "staffdom"

Staff affiliations area very confusing and convoluted area of our chosen sport and the media that surrounds it and I wouldn't blame anyone who just lumpedeveryone who has a logo or trademark attached to their name into the same pot of stew.

Many of them (TV "pros") are on a different level...the basement...and their bottom line is directly impacted by how much they talk up a product and shmooze that company in order to receive advertising dollars, unlike "staffers" on a message board that receive no direct monies from simply recommending a product (unless those that inquire may later ask them personally, "where to buy it??" and they recommend their contact and get some sort of commision, which I would think is usually, very unlikely)

I would think that most here would easily recognize someone going a little too far beyond the call of duty to put money directly in their own pocket in a scenario like that.

While they may fractionally perpetuate their own potential to stay employed with a company that's doing well by recommending something...theycertainly aren't the advertising ho(s) that many TV "pros" are.

People probly assume i shoot bowtech, but i dont

I think that bowtech makes a great product but i also believe that a bow is only as good as the person shooting it.


Just found my new sig,

A bow is only as good as the person holding it.

Yeah, but let's be fair, Matt....

I'm sure there are somemfr. stafferswho use what they use because they truly believe in the product or help in it's promotion in some way beyond a"Staff affiliation" logo..............

As I am.....

Then you have the folks pimping the "Product of the day/week/month/year" BECAUSE of said affiliation.....when they had a different view of what was "best" just last year.....last month.....or....whenever....

To me.....this is true in this aspect, as well.

Interesting??.. Na.. not really.

I really could care very little what another man/woman shoots or uses.. to each his/her own.

Would it affect the weight of there posts..??

Maybe. But I doubt it since I never ask what anyone uses anyway.

All in all.... did I really have to answer this Q..??

Not really.. but I'm bored and hungry for the season to begin already.[&:]

Yes and YES

I would find it interesting for sure! but I might view his/her post differently depending on the subject.

No, it would not because I shoot what I like to shoot.

Doesn't matter much to me what others promote, I shoot what I shoot because I enjoy it, or I have been successful with it...

You guys don't have to worry about me being a promoter of any brand bow...Nobody wants an OF that still shoots fingers....

I shoot what I shoot the best with bottom line, just becuases someone states this is great or that is great, it may be for them or they may be paying paid to state that either way doesn't have bearing on me