Hope and Faith Sarrels of 2014

Good luck with Faith, chinook907!

Bisch

[Bud B.]

Black bear look out!!!

[threeunder]

Wiating patiently to read about your adventures with Faith Chinook!

[South MS Bowhunter]

Tim any stories yet?  

[chinook907]

Thanks for thinking of me guys.
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Have done some stumping with the Faith bow and also some gear prep.
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I may be needing my one-man tent so I set it up on the deck to air it out and make sure all the pieces were still there.  Packs down real small.
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It's a tiny little thing and weighs less than 3 pounds.
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I was surprised to find that the shock-cords within both tent poles had fatigued and no longer stretched back.  It's still workable but I'll get some shock-cord and replace the old ones.
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It's something I should have checked out before, but I've had a lot of life going on lately and its been enough just to be prepared for the next day.
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[chinook907]

Lots of good stumpin' around the house.  The tall grasses are just another thing to thread an arrow through.
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You might be able to see my fletching low and left  of the little spruce near the center ?
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You can see it now.
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And another stump and arrow from my vantage.
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Zoomed in now.
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[chinook907]

I'm thrilled how well the bow shoots for me and I have a lot of confidence with it already.  Can't wait to get up above tree line with a little piece of Texas.
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Until then  

[59Alaskan]

Goo luck!!!

Hope to see Faith lying on a bear soon

[Bud B.]

What'r you shootin' out of her Tim?

[chinook907]

Alaskans and a 200gr head. The arrows I shoot out of my widow work pretty well

[elkken]

Hope arrived in the Pacific Northwest today ... arrived in a bomb proof container that weighed about 30 pounds ...

changed the shelf material to new Velcro and put a seal skin side plate on her ... I was a bit concerned about the 54#'s as I have been going down in weight the past few years, I was pleasantly surprised at her smoothness to my 28" draw and had no issues shooting about 70 arrows out in the back yard. She shoots good and I like the feel of the grip in my hand even though I am a high wrist guy.

I'll keep you posted on our progress and take some pics too !

[South MS Bowhunter]

Ken,

Your right whoever put that "Time Capsule" together sure didn't won't any chance of damage.

But I would suggest that a 4" PVC pipe would have been just as good as the present 6" and saved on shipping cost.

Since I was shipping out to Ken early and no one had Hope for August I went with normal ground shipment to save $$$ and it still cost $38 with insurance for $500.

It would have run about $50 for priority.

Ok done venting  

Go get them Ken!

[elkken]

Yes John ... I ship a lot of bows and stuff trading on the classifieds and maybe that packaging could have been a bit different, but it is going LOTS of miles to complete the full journey and better safe than sorry I guess.

I sure did have fun this afternoon shooting Hope ... not sure what arrows ect I will go with yet but working on it    

[fnshtr]

When Hope was delivered to my house... I thought someone had delivered a bomb!

I really enjoyed shooting Hope and wish you all the luck in the world. Very nice bow!

Yeah... go get them Ken!

[elkken]

I just noticed that no one is signing the Hope bow when they are done ... I do believe the last time I had a Hope bow, a year or so ago, we all signed it ...      

[elkken]

Is 7 1/8 about right for brace height ... ??

Originally posted by elkken:
I just noticed that no one is signing the Hope bow when they are done ... I do believe the last time I had a Hope bow, a year or so ago, we all signed it ...                    

I kmow you signed the Stalker from 2011-2012! I did too. It is mine now.

Good luck with the Sarrels!

Bisch

[elkken]

That Stalker was a great bow too ! I shot a turkey with it and a bunch of 3D targets at our annual "Rock Shoot" that the Traditional Bowhunters of Washington puts on each April.

I think I'll sign the Sarrels before it leaves Washington.

[elkken]

 

I settled on CE 250's ... BH's yet to be decided, changed the string out for a skinny string I had on my 60" 54# Tree Stick and the bow went dead silent. I am going to end up using my St Judes string from Lefties R Us auction winnings ... Allen is making it now        thank you Allen

I also added on a GN quiver

[chinook907]

Well I made it into the mountains finally a few days ago.  

The Sarrel's Faith bow sure looks good in the rocks.
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And I guess the model is the Blueridge so I felt I should take a pic of it up high in the crow and blue berries.
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