My "New" TimberGhost Smoke (Pics added!)

[Fattony77]

Ok, I'm finally getting a chance to sit down and tell you about my experience with Kent Roberts and his TimberGhost bows.

Several weeks ago, I contacted Kent about a beautiful bacote "Smoke" that was 54" and 51#@28" listed as an in-stock bow on the sponsor's classifieds. I finally had the money to buy this work of art.       :D    

I took him up on his offer to ink my name on it and after a short time, it was ready. Now, Kent only lives about an hour and a half to two hrs. away from me, so I asked if I could come pick it up, instead of waiting for the mail. He did me one better, and met me halfway instead.            , but I think it's just because he's a good man who cares about the satisfaction of his customers)

I have to admit that I don't notice a huge difference with the extra 9 pounds, except that I think it's helping me to really get my back into it and it feels like my release is crisper. But, the bow draws just as smooth (or smoother) than any of my other bows that are all around 50#.

For those that haven't tried a smoke, the grip on these things is AMAZING! Between the thumb rest and the switchback edge that parallels the life line, it is an extremely comfortable and repeatable grip. Coupled with the low cut, radius-ed shelf it is unbelievably point-and-shootable.

I didn't have time to get and tune any arrows for the new bow before it was time for my little vacation to OJAM (Oklahoma Selfbow Jamboree). [It's a trad only gathering for learning primitive skills with a few novelty shoots open to all trad archery (not just selfbows).]

One of my favorite shoots is the "clout shoot" where a target is set up at about 80-90 yards across a pond, and the top shooters get to choose a prize pack from donated items. I decided I wanted to shoot my new smoke in the clout shoot, but had no arrows made up. Well my friend Patrick (aka SKITCH) had a couple of footed .400 spine arrows that we put 250gn points on to get me at about 584gns, which put me right around 10gpp.

So I took my borrowed arrows, and took two practice shots at about 15yds (my first 2 shots at a target with this bow) and went off to try it out. My first 2 shots I missed, but not by a lot. So Patrick insisted that I try again. On my 3rd attempt (5th shot ever out of this bow), I missed just high. The 4th shot at the 80-90 yard target, I draw.....set my angle.....expand....release....one one thousand, two one thousand.....thump! I connected!!! Centered (for windage) and high in the multi-colored target. The arrow was in the white and the top ten arrows so far were all in the blue or better, so I didn't win anything except a HUGE amount of confidence in my new bow, but WOW!

So that is my lengthy review (so far) of my TimberGhost and the outstanding customer service that Kent provides.            You owe it to yourself to try out a TimberGhost if you're considering it, and if you haven't thought about it, maybe you should.

I'll try to post some pics later, but in the meantime, maybe Kent could post the ones that he sent me?

[Gator1]

         

Great review and outstanding service.....

[Jake Scott]

Fantastic review!!  I am so excited about my timberghost.

Jake

[Fattony77]

Thanks guys. I'm surprised anyone read all the way through that. Lol. Didn't mean to be so long winded, but I thought it was a story worth telling.

Jake, you have every reason to be! I'm STILL excited about mine.

[bruinman]

Kent is as good as they come, thats for sure. I spent a week with him at Bear Quest 7. One of the nicest guys you will ever meet.

[jt85]

Congrats Tony, I'm glad your liking your new bow I know you where excited about it and I couldn't be happier for.

[Fattony77]

Here are the pics that Kent sent me. The one with a quiver attached is a good representative of how it looks now (cuz I got the same quiver thanks to the classifieds and "squaretoparcher"), and it looks much better in the natural light.

https://www.dropbox.com/sc/zksepsf7g8km4lp/jNrsh6ASIo
https://www.dropbox.com/sc/hqv1b9dix1m9etg/uoRL3BveK0
https://www.dropbox.com/sc/44ne9qlj0cg8wxb/otps8F34ZU
https://www.dropbox.com/sc/dnarikwkb5k2rwz/P1iWlr6CMw

[Fattony77]

I still haven't got the hang of posting the pics directly to the post. Maybe I'll get an Imgur account later and try again. I'll also take a few pics of my own and get them up over the next couple of days.

Anyway, thanks for looking and the kind words.
-Tony

[beaunaro]

Kent has my new recurve close to being finished.
He has kept in touch and apologized for getting behind.
I've been careful not to rush him...last thing one wants to do with a bowyer, right?

Kent is indeed a great guy to deal with.

Hope to meet him one day.

I will have to learn to upload and post pictures soon too.

[Fattony77]

 

 

[SKITCH]

Here ya go buddy!!!  Had a chance to check out this bow this weekend....very nice!!!        




   

[Fattony77]

I finally did it! I posted real pics!

I just took some more, so as soon as they upload to photobucket I'll post them too.

[Fattony77]