How do you guys wait for your bow!

Wudstix · December 31, 2013, 10:39:00 PM

Impatiently, with restraint. Is it here yet, is it here yet!!!!!!

Thumper Dunker · December 31, 2013, 11:10:00 PM

Do not have to wait any more I'm playing with it got it this after noon. Just waiting for the batteries in the camera to charge up some so I can take pictures. I'm like BJorn forget about it Shoot one of my other bows. I still go nuts . No way could I wait more than a few weeks.

SARarcher · January 01, 2014, 03:39:00 PM

My widow should be shipping this week or next I believe. The wait has been tough but almost to the promised land.

Happy new year!

joe ashton · January 01, 2014, 04:17:00 PM

I have a rocking chair on the front porch and I just sit there patiently, watching for the UPS truck.

habujohn · January 01, 2014, 08:44:00 PM

I always have a bow to shoot while I wait for my next one. However after getting my VyperKhan longbow a long, long time ago I have not had a desire for a new one. That is a first for me as I had never gone more than three years without a new bow.

VictoryHunter · January 01, 2014, 08:48:00 PM

It will be June before my next one is finished by then I will have forgotten about it until it arrives in the mail!

D. Key · January 02, 2014, 09:04:00 AM

Be patient Grasshopper. Just occupy your time with something else. Don't wish your life away, for sure.

Buy a Toelke. Dan usually ships in less than 6 weeks without a long wait. I've got a new Chinook on order and just block it from my mine. Wait...is that the UPS truck outside. Gotta go.

cahaba · January 02, 2014, 09:57:00 AM

I just shoot my favorite bow on hand and try and forget that I even have another bow on order. It gets tough if I really get to thinking about a new one and when the bowyers going to call.

Altiman94 · January 02, 2014, 10:57:00 AM

The one custom bow I've ever ordered came in March of last year. I only had to wait about 4 weeks for it, but I made sure I kept my other bow around until the new bow came.

January 02, 2014, 10:59:00 AM

Stay busy!

bartcanoe · January 02, 2014, 11:50:00 AM

I have no idea. I just ordered a Kingfisher from Chad Holm, and I'm already chomping at the bit to see it and shoot it. Although, I'm talking about a wait of weeks not months. I can't imagine what a months long wait would be like.

David Mitchell · January 02, 2014, 01:52:00 PM

I like to order from Howard Hill Archery--never had to wait more than 3 weeks. I can stand that for the most part. :D

Bladepeek · January 02, 2014, 03:49:00 PM

I've been waiting quite a while now for an RER LXR that I will pick up at the Trad Expo in Kalamazoo the end of this month.

No problem. I go hunting to take my mind off the wait

flinthead · January 02, 2014, 05:41:00 PM

I have never ordered a bow. Buy from stock or buy used. Only bought one new recurve and it was on Hummingbirds rack at ATAR. There are a HUGE number of used bows out there, and the money saved amounts to about half of the new price.Just one opinion, Thanks, Roy

Chromebuck · January 02, 2014, 06:48:00 PM

Just keep calling the bowyer every week until he decides to do your build now so you quite bothering him.

Really, the longest I've ever waited was one year for a Jack Kempf and it's pretty amazing how fast a year goes by anymore. Like others have said, don't obsess about it and just focus on other things. Of course every bow I've had built I usually incorporated several changes by time the build notification arrived.

CB

moththerlode · January 03, 2014, 06:41:00 AM

On my wait I just bought another (Liberty), that took far less time. Had em both show up in the same week. The wife was a little confused on that one.

Keith Zimmerman · January 03, 2014, 08:32:00 AM

Longest wait for me is for my Allegheny Mountain. Paid in full. Then he goes out of business. Still waiting for most of my refund....

Dave Lay · January 03, 2014, 09:47:00 AM

I guess Im in the minority, im just not going to order a bow that has a 10 month or more wait time, so much can change for me in a years period, I have a couple widows I waited 8 weeks on one and bought the other off the rack at Nixa so no wait on that one, I am totally happy with the bows i have, I cant imagine waiting 2 years on a bow..........

Bowwild · January 03, 2014, 10:59:00 AM

The waiting for me is a bit difficult for the first few days. After that I simply forget about the bow. I waited about 10 months for a Schafer, 10 months for a Rose Oak, and 15 months for a Snakebit. I waited 25 months for a Habu.

Ironically, I ended up buying another fellow's brand new Habu about 2 months before my name came up (the 25 month wait). I didn't go ahead with my order -- I didn't need two of em.

I'm in the hopper for another Rose Oak which I hope will come up in February, March, or April.

For me wait times have been really close to right on the money.

Builder · January 03, 2014, 01:55:00 PM

I've had several new bows over the last twenty years, longest wait was a 59R from John McCullough, a little over four years.
When he called I could barely remember ordering it.
Have had six or seven new Blacktails, learned when I receive one to order another, the year goes by quicker that way.