We always talk about the best bows we have and how great they are.So what is the least favorite bow you have owned.and please tell why.And you can't say a compound!
For me its my Bear Grizzly.... Now I know what your gonna say.... Its one I bought through Cabelas... My 1st new bow I bought about 10years ago. Mainly bc I wanted to get a Grizzly. It has alot of hand vibration and it just doesn't shoot as well as my Bob Lee's.
Would I ever sell it? No way... It was my 1st new bow and I already learned the lessons of selling my old Bear bows that my grandfater gave me.
But in the other aspect.. Ive killed quite a few deer with it.....
PSE gamefisher.
Heavy, loud, and vibration.
I have 4 PSE's and I have learned PSE is not warranty friendly from the one manufacture defect I tried to get corrected on a PSE Sequoia
It's that one that comes up for sale at a killer price and I'm busted !
Kodiak mag, I dont remeber the year but is had handshock like nothing I have ever shot.
I have a LH 1956 Kodiak. Sweet looking bow but very hard to shoot.
doug77
It would be for me too Doug. But I shoot mostly right handed to begin with...lol
My least favorite is those that I could just fall in love with that belong to someone else and there's not a snowballs chance in a very hot spot they'll ever price it to me at a price I can afford..lol
God bless,Mudd
PS: It definitely is the summer doldrums!!
yea im with you guys on the unattainable ones. never fails that i find one when i cant buy it. as far as hardest to shoot,my horsebow is finicky about release way more than others, and my short bend through handle is very picky about arrows, although once you got an arrow tuned its a great shooter.
Haven't found a worst bow yet, I am still looking to find one I don't like. Some are just harder to shoot than others.
If I had to pick I would say all recurves. I don't like the large grips or the heavy bow mass. At the risk of being sacriligeous to some, I really don't like the look of the black widow recurves with the giant horking risers on them. I have heard they shoot great and some guys love the mass. Different strokes for different folks.
I once bought a self bow at the Deer and Turkey Spectacular in Lansing, paid $200 for it. A few weeks later the grip that was laminated to it fell off and could never tune that stinker! Could have been operator error on the tuning but want to think different. :biglaugh:
i'll second the pse recurve the metal one horrible grip slow and loud,many that i would not own again but don't want to mention!
Martin ML 10. A real pooch. Almost made me give up on traditional equipment.
Any bow that stacks on my 32"+ draw..... (so almost all of them)... :saywhat:
For me it was the Martin "Stick" ...because of that bow [ my first Long Bow ] I put off shooting longbows for another at least 10 years. :knothead:
Wish I had jumped right back into the search, but kind of thought that was the way they must all shoot. :wavey: :coffee:
Gene, I have to concur. The Martin ML9 Stick was the worst bow I had. Probably because it was too short for me! :biglaugh:
I really hate that bow my buddy has!!! It is so crappy and ugly and noisy, and the worst part of it all is that he owns it instead of me :biglaugh:
No really I have been lucky to not own a bad bow!!!
Any of the Hill "D" shapes. A Jerry Hill especially, I still have a loose tooth from the shock of one of them. LOL
A broken one....
I had a Byron Ferguson Patriot longbow that would knock the fillings out of your teeth with the handshock. I thought if I had one of those bows I would be able to shoot like Byron, quite surprisingly that turned out not to be the case! :biglaugh:
Martin ML-10 = arm shock
:scared: :eek: :saywhat:
I found a partially finished self-bow in a neighbor's attic when I was younger. It was all done save for the finish and the handle.
The neighbor had no idea where it came from... may have been there when he moved in... so he let me have it.
I stained it orange, lacquered it up and laced up some leather on the handle and took it shooting.
Then hung it up.
I didn't know what stacking was back then, but this bow stacked... bad.
Maybe that's why it was left in an attic.
But it sure was pretty with that orange finish. Almost looked like those old Game Getters.
Wish I knew where it was, just so I could share a picture. Lost in one of my many moves, no doubt.
I know I'll get flack for this but the bow that had the worst manners of any I have ever shot is the "Little Delta Bow". It is famous and I was privilaged to hunt with it and shoot a nice boar hog. But dang it hurt to shoot.
Mike
The bow I shoot great but can't make quiet.
The bow that is to spine sensitive and unforgiving......
The bow that's beautiful but is more effective as a club because I can't shoot it.......
All of the above might be great for another archer....It's all subjective....
Keep it coming and don't be afraid to mention those recurves. :laughing:
Oops, edited this post - don't want to offend anyone!!
Some kinda 69" Jerry Hill longbow. There are still trees falling in the amazon from the hand shock that monstrosity produced. I was actually happy when it delaminated.
An old bear, recurve limb tips and hand shock. I was 16 and took my first deer with it.
Funny thing at the time I loved it. Didnt know about performance or handshock or arrow speed. nuff said :archer:
A NEW ONE I BOUGHT AND THE GLASS SPLIT AFTER 100 OR SO SHOTS.....BOWYER IS MAKING A RETRY...
I can't shoot a recurve to save my life, but both of my tries were on Bear Kodiaks and I have heard other people having trouble with them here.
The martin stick would turn howard hill off archery!!!
I'm with bohuntr, the Ferguson Patriot, gave me the worst case of tendonitis ever, from the shock.
I've got to add the Browning Explorer I. My first stick bow and last Explorer I.
It would be the Acs cx bow.Only bow I have ever owned I could not shoot.Fast but my release is just not good enough for those noodle limbs.Fast don't mean anything if I can't hit what I want to with it. :(
Never owned one but I shot a Jerry Hill bow once and just the memory of it still hurts my elbow today. :scared:
I love the way they look but I can't shoot it worth a dime, Saluki Turk. Give me a Hill any day.
I've been lucky to have some nice bows. That way when I picked up a Martin ML14 at a sale and tried to shoot it I knew longbows weren't supposed to feel like that. I think the arrow was in the target and it was still vibrating.
I traded for a Sley t/d....beautiful bow and the craftsmanship was over the top. But I couldn't hit the ground under my feet with it. Got it on a Monday and traded it off that Friday. Funny thing is the guy that bought it was shooting softball sized groups at 20yds with it right off the bat
I've been pretty lucky with my bows. I had a second hand Northern mist superior that had a weirdo narrow wedge grip that I never could feel comfortable with. Don't think anyone could have. Also, when I first started shooting trad bows, I got my hands on a PSE coyote. I shot it well enough, but went through 2 sets of limbs before I gave it up. They did replace them promptly and without much question each time though...
well it would have to be a fedora had the limb split in the core.
Worst one for me was the first tradbow I got - a Martin Mamba.
Probably didn't help that I had no idea what I was doing, what brace height I should have used, and using the wrong string for the wrong arrows...
My arm was black and blue for months, even with the arm guard.
It was an old Pearson the would shake your teeth out. I believe though that it was just that particular bow because I have had some Pearsons that shot really great.
Martin ML-10. First longbow I ever bought. The hand shock was awful. It almost turned me off from ever trying another longbow again. Fortunately the next one I bought (Pacific Yew) was and still is a pleasure to shoot.
PSE Impala.That bow proves you get what you pay for!
The one I shoot great, but can't have!! (for whatever reason)!
For me the worst is the one I can't afford or the one that you have to wait to long for!!!. To each there own, many likes and dislikes.
I own 4 custom bows and have 5 others ordered and out of the 4 i own my least favorite is my Bear Paws Bow although i still like the bow.
Actually it's the most beautiful bow i have ever seen but it just seems a lot slower than my other bows, but i still like the bow.
The older bear Grizzlys are really hard for me to shoot so i don't care for them that much.
my pse blackhawk takedown recurve
the one i want more than anything but can't afford or seller won't sell!!!!
i hate those bows!
Anyone with Wheels
A Jerry Hill Wild Cat Deluxe. It had terrible hand shock. It seems like it would still be vibrating for several minutes after the arrow hit the target.
Moab it just never felt right when I was shooting.
A forward handle longbow, yea yea, I know they shoot great, but I just can't make my eye like them.
"In the eye of the beholder...."
Indian archery recurve bow, dont really care for the look of laminated bows or big handles, cant shoot off a rest either just seems un natural
ive had 2, i wont be bashfull, both were pse recurves, the first was the kingfisher, ackward and bulky, not to mention the fact that the limbs cracked and warped 2 months in, and after waiting for 5 weeks for a new set the local shop pulled limbs from one on the shelf and waited on the factory to send some, and to top it off a pse rep at the ia deer classic claiming to not have a clue there was a problem with those bows, when everyone i knew with one was on the second or third set of limbs due to cracking and warping, the second was a pse kudu, was out frogging/ bowfishing pulled back 3/4 draw and the top limb snapped at the taper and i had a fat lip for a week, lesson learned as to what brand i wont purchase