An observation...and questions.

[raideranch]

I hunt hard and I'm hard on my equipment but I try to take care of it so it will last.  While hunting I'm not thinking about the bow but afterwards I will clean it up.

[Bonebuster]

My guess is Fred was putting the bow through some trials for the camera.

I`m sure he wasn`t worried about the cost. He was a clever guy, and he was hoping others would notice the "abuse" his bows could take. After all, the videos were actually an advertisement that you actually WANTED to watch. Look, how after all these years, his "advertisements" are still in use. Clever guy.

I never abuse my bows, but they certainly get used.

[kibok&ko]

Originally posted by bolong:
Money is too hard to come by for me. I treat mine a little better than that.

just the same ...

[Lenny Stankowitz]

I don't necessarily baby my equipment, but I do take care of everything I own.  It's just the way I was brought up.

I learned very early not to use a butter knife as a screwdriver...I guess that's just stuck with me.  

[David Mitchell]

Don't forget that Fred was the chief field tester for his products.  If he babied them he would not know what they could stand up to and the guys who bought them might be harder on them and he wanted to be sure they would take hard use.  That being said, if you own the company, cost is not a big factor for you. It's all research/development and advertising expense.  You can write off the costs.    

[twostrings]

I try to take the best care of my bows I can while still utilizing it to the best of my ability. Do I baby it? nope. Would I use it as a walking stick, or throw it around? Definitely not.

[Mudd]

If I owned the company that made the bows I used, I doubt I'd give a second thought to how I used it. There'd always be another one ready to step up and take its place.Just my opinion and maybe Fred's too?

Anyway that's my take on Fred's mindset.. and I doubt anyone can prove it to be a wrong idea/thought..lol

God bless,Mudd

[Don Stokes]

Just shooting a bow is approaching abuse of the materials. Dan Quillian used to say that a bow is 90% broken at full draw. If they won't hold up to a little walking stick use or tossing around, they would never make it while being used for their intended function. A scratch here and there doesn't hurt them, unless you buy to resell. I don't.

Reminds me of pulling into Big Pine club in south GA one day, to find Dan standing behind his van and examining his longbow. He had leaned it against the back of the van, and forgot it when he got ready to go to town. He had backed up and run right over it. It was undamaged, still strung. That's tough! Dan was a bow abuser, too- guess that's where I picked up the habit. The day I met him, before he moved his business from his house to a real store, he had a jumbled pile, literally, of longbows and recurves, both strung and unstrung, on the living room floor in front of his fireplace. I was looking for a takedown recurve for flying out west to elk hunt, but he handed me a Bamboo Longhunter to try, and I took it home with me. I still have it, even after all these years of my abuse. A good bow can take it.

[Bonecracker]

I missed a really, really, big buck in Montana one day! I bet I threw that bow as far as that deer ran! I know, I know, it's the Indian not the
DANG BOW!!!!LOL!      

[NorthernCaliforniaHunter]

Tacky thing to do, regardless of how many you own. My $.02