ARE YOU FAITHFUL ?
 

Just wondering if most bowhunters/shooters are faithful to one bow maker or do you change from one maker to another? And do you remember which bows you used to shoot? My first post I ever posted I said I was going to hang up the old wht. hunter bow and I was trying to decide to go with Mathews or Bowtech, well, to tell you the truth, I hung up that old bow along time ago, I apologize for the fib, but I wanted your take on which bow everyone liked or disliked without being partial cause you knew I shot a mathews, and I did get alot of different opinions. I have been shooting my mathews(featherlite) for 8yrs. now and have taken alot of bull elk, 2 bear, and 1 muley buck, so, its like my right hand man you could say. But I think its time to replace it as there are alot of nice bows on the market now, still undecided...
Heres the bows I have owned in order, I'll see if I can get it right-- Jennings Starlite, Bear Wht. HunterII, PSE PhaserII, Golden Eagle, High Country Trophy Hunter, and my old faithful, Mathews Featherlite.

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I've had the same bow (hoyt) for 8 months and still no regrats. Just waiting to get my first bowkill with it[:-]

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Good grief.... There is no way I can remember all the bows I've shot since 1955. I know I shot homemade selfbows until I got my first storebought bow - a solid glass Bear recurve, 45 pounds. Then I had some nameless wood/glass recurve that I shot for ages. My first compound was a Pearson, circa 1980. Don't even know what model it was but it had the deer hoof logo stamped in the wheel hangars. And that's when I went nutzoid!

Several wood riser Brownings, a Bear, Onieda, several Martins, umpteen jillion Hoyts (well, 10 anyway), McPherson, Pearson - again.

And at the same time I had the compounds going on, there were still sticks: several each of Martin ML-14's and Howatt Hunters, some Pearsons, Shakespeares, Bears, York, Hoyts, Brackenbury (first custom 'curve), Bighorn, Saxon (2), Robertson, Bill Stewart... Lordy!

Now I've got a homemade r/d longbow, a few selfbows, still got a few Hoyts and a Martin laying around, a Chek-Mate on the way.

You wouldn't believe how many of those bows I'd love to have back. And how many I'm darn glad to be rid of! :)

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Hmmm.....

Browning Mirage Hunter DC to....

Hoyt MT Sport to....

BowTech MightyMite to....

BowTech Liberty (and I don't plan on switching anytime soon) :D

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Started with Bear, then Darton, Golden eagle and now the best of the best--- Hoyt!

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I would love to try out a different bow.....but I don't have the cash flow that some of these guys must have. When I get a bow, typically it has been about a 5 year comitment each time.

I would be really interested in trying out a bowteck or parker....but no sence in going and getting any hopes up when I know I am not going to get one.

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I'm fickle. Started with a Damon Howitt recurve. Then I shot PSE for around 26 or 27 years and then switched to Darton for the last 4 or so.[:o] I hunted with the same PSE Lazer Magnum for almost 20 years. I then switched to an SR1000 for a few years, .... and now the Darton. No need to change right away.

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I started with an old PSE a friend gave me but my last two have been hoyts and the next one probably will be also.

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Bear recurve, bear magnum hunter, golden eagle pro-revolution, and presently a bowtech bkII and custom made kota recurve.

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My first bow was a pse but I can't remember which model it was, I was only like 8. My second bow was a pse youth model bow but can't remember the model name either, and I used this bow for 3 years. Unfortunately I did not harvest anything with it [:'(]. then I switched to a Golden Eagle Carbinehawk. I shot that bow for 7 years. I now own an 03 bowtech patriot sc. I have never owned or shot a bow I didn't like though. ;):D:D