Opinions on Samick?

[wihill]

I decided I didn't want to burn something wrong into my brain learning on a bow that's a bit much for me right now, so I was looking into more budget friendly takedowns.  I thought I could start with a set of low poundage limbs, and work my way up to the bow I have now.

As I don't have a lot to spend right now, I noticed that Trad Tech has some Samicks for reasonable cost (Leopard and Mountain Stalker).  The bow I have now is 58", and I like how fast it is to point, but I suppose the difference between a 58" and 60" isn't that great, I don't think I'm drawing much over 27" anyway.

I haven't found anything bad about the Samick brand from searching around, just a lot of people saying their a good beginner's bow.  

Anyone have anything else to add?

[sweet old bill]

They make more bows than any other firm.

Now do they make a good product ? it depends, I have carried them in my shop without having a lot of major problems. The distributor makes good on most problems.

Except one and that effected me and due to there own mfg problems I no longer carry there products.

The problem was I ordered a Hawkeye bow with two sets of limbs, one set of 50 and one of 45...the bow came with the 50 lbs on it. I shot the bow for about a month and the limbs delaminated. I called the distributor and he said to return the limbs. I did and I had put the 45 lbs limbs on... in less than a week the 45 limbs blew up same problem.

Now all I had a bow handle.

A month went by waiting for limbs, as the mfg was changing from building in Japon to China.

The new limbs arrived and they were left handed, I called and they said send them back, I did a week later another set showed up and guess what they also were left handed limbs. It turned out all in stock were left handed. It took almost 4 months to finally get a set of limbs.

I then cancelled the 2nd set of limbs.

I called the distributor and told them that the problems  have made me the end customer not want to stock, or sell any more of the Samick products set.. to long a cycle on problems and not being able to talk to any on, with the MFG in Japon and the product being built in China.

Now I still have the Hawkeye bow with a set of 50 lb limbs on it, so if you hear of anyone selling just a setof RH limbs in the range of 40 to 50 lbs let me know. I sure would like a backup set. The bow itself shoots a good arrow.

Bill

[jesse cales]

i just bought a samick stingray.its one of the best bows i've ever shot.reminds me of a ptf widow.