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Title: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
Post by: moleman on May 10, 2013, 10:32:00 AM
I found a stock bow available through one of our fine sponsors, but before I can buy, I gotta sell a bow or two, which means choosing a sacrificial bow or two.....this aint gonna be easy.
How many of you have been there and made the sacrificial choice?    :banghead:
Title: Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
Post by: Mudd on May 10, 2013, 10:43:00 AM
It's never easy.... NEVER!!!!
Title: Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
Post by: Bud B. on May 10, 2013, 11:38:00 AM
Find someone with a need and you'll not have to make a choice. If someone in the classifieds posts a WTB, it's an easier decision to make.
Title: Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
Post by: Alexander Traditional on May 10, 2013, 12:19:00 PM
I've done it once or twice and and usually end up regretting it. Now I have to really know that I just don't shoot or really like a bow to get rid of it for another.
Title: Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
Post by: britt on May 10, 2013, 12:45:00 PM
I just traded a Lost Creek that I thought I would never get rid of. But I got a sweet deal. A bow that fits me alot better.
Title: Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
Post by: Wannabe1 on May 10, 2013, 01:29:00 PM
I got it easy now, I only have one bow!   :bigsmyl:
Title: Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
Post by: PowDuck on May 10, 2013, 02:21:00 PM
It's not easy. That's why it's called a sacrifice.

An act of slaughtering an animal or person or surrendering a possession as an offering to God or to a divine or supernatural figure.

I've got a couple sacrificial lambs in my closet right now. Just waiting for the St. Jude's auction to be over. Got to reimburse (justify) the money I spent on two take-downs recently.   :thumbsup:

Just pick the one(s) you haven't shot in a long long time.
Title: Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
Post by: SportHunter on May 10, 2013, 02:28:00 PM
It's not easy at all, I just recently picked out three of my keepers to sell to fund new projects. All great performers but I'm using hill style bows soo much I don't see myself going back.  

My choices were a Saxon American, Quinn Stallion and a Kohanna Windwalker. All three great shooting bows but that's the way it goes. Good luck with your choice, so what are you selling, hopefully nothing I must have    :pray:
Title: Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
Post by: gregg dudley on May 10, 2013, 04:02:00 PM
I thought you were going bowfishing.
Title: Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
Post by: DennyK on May 10, 2013, 06:58:00 PM
I've only got two bows so none of that sacrificin' for me!
Title: Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
Post by: old_goat2 on May 10, 2013, 10:54:00 PM
I usually buy a new bow then pick one!
Title: Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
Post by: T Lail on May 11, 2013, 09:56:00 AM
thats why I only have two bows now.....the crying got to my wife !!!!!!  :biglaugh:
Title: Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
Post by: Killdeer on May 12, 2013, 06:22:00 AM
That's why I have so many bows. I usually make the mistake of shooting the Chosen One "one last time" before it leaves me. It ends up back in its spot because it shoots well or has memories.

Killdeer   :knothead:
Title: Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
Post by: e alexander on May 12, 2013, 08:06:00 AM
I let two go yesterday. They go to the 2013 elk hunt fund!
Title: Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
Post by: Cyclic-Rivers on May 12, 2013, 08:14:00 AM
I just keep the Sacred bows and window shop.  It certainly is a lot cheaper that way.
Title: Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
Post by: Uncle Buck on May 12, 2013, 08:27:00 AM
look at it this way, eventually everything you own will belong to somebody else.

God bless,
Buck
Title: Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
Post by: pamike on May 12, 2013, 08:28:00 AM
i have sacrificed a bow only to buy it again later......some i regret and some i just needed a push to get rid of since they really were not the right bow for me (but i liked something about them).  Definitely getting harder as the stable gets refined!!!
Title: Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
Post by: Red Beastmaster on May 12, 2013, 01:15:00 PM
I spent 25 years working up to 65# and then back down again. Getting rid of light or heavy bows along the way was not hard at all.

Now that I have settled on 45#-47# bows I have no logical reason to sell one off. Yes, it is  painful to part with a bow that is in my new wheel house.

I recently sold an Abbott just so I could get another one in a different wood combo and length. That decision took over a year for me.
Title: Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
Post by: Shawn Leonard on May 12, 2013, 02:01:00 PM
One of the hardest things I have ever done recently. I wanted a new Caribow and normally would just buy one, but I really wanted to shoot just one bow and have one back up. I decided to part with an RER and a couple others that hurt. Glad I did though, I am shooting the new Tuktu EX very well!! Shawn