Backup????
08-24-2008 | 11:11 AM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Joined: Jun 2007
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From: Camden,MO
RE: Backup????
ORIGINAL: Matt / PA
Can you picture bumping a string or cable with a broadhead? Your neighbor dry firing it? A cam, riser,limb cracking?
These things are machines, and they get used pretty hard under violent pressures and forces.
You've been lucky, as have most of us..........but get ready to head out the door and take a few practice shots only to have your one cable snap right before a hunt will have you wishing you could just reach back into the bow rack for bow #2.
It's a risk you take if you don't at least have SOME serviceable bow laying around that is ready to go. The slow fat kid on the end of the bench who doesn't hit very good ready to play at a moments notice!
I've never had a flat tire in my life on a road trip but you can bet your butt I have a good spare tire everytime I leave the house.
Can you picture bumping a string or cable with a broadhead? Your neighbor dry firing it? A cam, riser,limb cracking?
These things are machines, and they get used pretty hard under violent pressures and forces.
You've been lucky, as have most of us..........but get ready to head out the door and take a few practice shots only to have your one cable snap right before a hunt will have you wishing you could just reach back into the bow rack for bow #2.
It's a risk you take if you don't at least have SOME serviceable bow laying around that is ready to go. The slow fat kid on the end of the bench who doesn't hit very good ready to play at a moments notice!
I've never had a flat tire in my life on a road trip but you can bet your butt I have a good spare tire everytime I leave the house.
I think some people want and some people will actually need.
08-24-2008 | 12:49 PM
#12
Typical Buck
Joined: May 2007
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From: South Carolina
RE: Backup????
I agree to a certain extent that most of us don't need a back-up bow and that most of us use it as an excuse to buy a new bow. I did!!!
If you are going on a paid hunt, out of state hunt, or as someone mentioned to another country then I would certainly take a back-up bow.
With all that said. Last year I didn't know that I had a lose broad head in my case. It did a number on my string and I had two wait two weeks before the shop got the correct string. Their supplier sent them the wrong string 3 times!!!!!! Now this didn't bother me too much because our season runs from August 15th to Jan. 1st, but if I were in a state that only allows a few weeks of hunting or on a trip as described above I would have been majorly pissed.
If you are going on a paid hunt, out of state hunt, or as someone mentioned to another country then I would certainly take a back-up bow.
With all that said. Last year I didn't know that I had a lose broad head in my case. It did a number on my string and I had two wait two weeks before the shop got the correct string. Their supplier sent them the wrong string 3 times!!!!!! Now this didn't bother me too much because our season runs from August 15th to Jan. 1st, but if I were in a state that only allows a few weeks of hunting or on a trip as described above I would have been majorly pissed.
08-24-2008 | 12:57 PM
#13
Nontypical Buck
Joined: Feb 2003
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From: Spring Grove, Pa. USA
RE: Backup????
ORIGINAL: solocamcan
Most of the guys that shoot backup bows have Bowtechs
Most of the guys that shoot backup bows have Bowtechs
08-24-2008 | 02:13 PM
#15
Nontypical Buck
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From: Martinsburg, WV
RE: Backup????
I have had a backup bow in the past, but now I figure if I have a mechanical failure, the days hunt will be done anyways, and I'll just head straight to the shop and buy a new one.
08-24-2008 | 02:16 PM
#16
Nontypical Buck
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From: SE Ohio
RE: Backup????
The nice thing about having a "Back-up" bow is that you have another "toy" to tinker with. I have a total of 4 Compounds, only two are "really" modern bows, while the other two are older, one 80's, the other late 90's. They all get some shots from time to time, the 90's bow more than the 80's bow, and my 2 sig. line bows the most. Do I NEED one??? Heck no, I have a HOYT as a primary bow, but I like having them.
