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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Whitetail Chaser on March 16, 2008, 11:13:00 PM
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UPS is supposed to deliver my new PAX Black Widow tomorrow. Of course I cannot wait!!! It will be Kingwood with the Asbell grip. I will post pics up as soon as possible.
Some questions for you widow guys: How well does the side-mount quiver work on these bows? I got the bushings installed so that I can use a Thunderhorn Sidewinder quiver. Are these quiet and do they stay put?
Thanks!
Brett
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Congrats! You'll love it.
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I too have a PSAX in KIngWood, with the asbel grip too! I use the Blackwidow 5/7 quiver and its the best quiver IMHO, strong and no movement at all.
Injoy your new bow mate, put up the pics after playing.
AK
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Congrats on your new bow. I'll be looking forward to the pics. :thumbsup:
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Deffinatly post pics.I've been shopping around myself.tradrick
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Good-oh, you'll love it!
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It's on the UPS truck, headed for my house.....sometime today!!!!!
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I really like the side mount thunderhorn quiver. I had it on the past 3 Widow takedowns I've owned. It was very solid, quiet and unfortunately heavy. I shoot with no quiver on the bow now. That said, the weight may be a very nice addition to the one piece which I'm sure is a bit lighter than the takedowns. Make sure you get some pics on here ASAP...Mike
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:coffee: Waiting ......
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Congrats on the new bow....King wood is sweet
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You'v got to post lots of pic's, I'd really like to see the kingwood.
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Here are pics (I hope).
(http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t230/brettmccown/bottomlimb.jpg)
(http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t230/brettmccown/toplimb.jpg)
(http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t230/brettmccown/pariser.jpg)
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Duuuuuuude!!!! Thats a deadly looking instrument. Congrats.
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Sweeeeet!!!!!
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First impressions:
The grip is awesome as I expected. The PTF that I demo'd was the same. The Asbell grip really fits my hand well.
Shooting is great. It was really windy out in the field next to my house, so I couldn't do too much testing. All in all, shot really well.
Noise-Here is where things get tricky. I tried my normal yarn puffballs, but the bow was still loud. Put on 2 spiders and two puffballs. Got much better. I am still not quite satisfied with the noise level. Plenty of time to tinker with that. I have only owned the bow for about 4 hours now.
Even if my shooting is awful, at least I have a pretty bow!!
Brett
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Man thats purty!!
Put a quiver full of arrows on it and it will quiet down considerably.
John
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Congrats on the new bow, and yew it is a looker.
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That is real sweet looking. Congrats.
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I wonder how it shoots SWEET! ;)
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Gorgeous bow... Is that even how you spell gorgeous? Ha!
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SO sweeeeeeeet! Gotta love a '"widder"
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Whitetail Chaser
WRT the noise. Don't be afraid to put the brace height at the high end of what BW recommends. I have my 60 inch SA bows all set at 9 inches and it works wonders for getting rid of the noise. The loss in performance will be so negligible that you won't be able to measure it. But the loss in noise will be dramatic.
Let us know how it works out.
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My Widow showed up today as well!
I bought mine used out of the clasifieds. PMA-II.
Congrats to you as that is one fine bow!
Todd
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Sweet looking wood there Whitetail Chaser. Awesome looking, specially the limbs.
Regarding the noise. I set my bows at 8 5/8 brace height, put one pair of catwhiskers (cut in half) and place one at 9" and one at 13" from each loop. My arrows are about 10gpp and my bow is as quiet as most every recurve I've shot...Mike
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Congrats on VERY nice looking bow. :thumbsup:
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Whitetail Chaser,
For a quieter recurve; try Trad Gang Bow Hush/Hush Puppy stuff, 3River pads at the limb recurves plus brace height tweaking, the combination of which should make your pretty bow pretty quiet!(like a self-bow LOL!).
It worked wonders on my old Morrison 'curve ('99 model)!
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Now that is a looker of a bow mate. Try this thraed mate...
http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=056415;p=1
Just some tinkering form my end...
Enjoy your new bow.
AK.
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One way I found to really cut the noise is to make your own string and pad the loops. If you make a 14 strand string put 28 strands in the loops. This, and playing with the brace height, got my SAIII whisper quiet.
Patrick
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Just when I've convinced myself to go one more season with my 18 year old MAII, somebody has to post pics of a new Widow. Thanks a lot :)
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I know theyre not the prettiest things but maybe you can try limb savers.I used them with great success on a Bamboo viper and Zipper recurve.I put mine where the string meet the limb and did not observe any difference in accuracy or speed.Again, thats a very nice bow you have there.
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Finally ! ....well that looks like it was well worth the wait. She's a dandy :thumbsup:
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Hi Brett,
We expect to see that pretty thing at the Moses Lake shoot in April. With all that rocky terrain over there, it will probably get a few "character" marks. :bigsmyl:
Like that Kingwood! :thumbsup:
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I second the higher brace height. I use the bow hush and hush puppies and started with 8 1/4 brace height, turning one turn at a time until I got to 8 5/8, or roughly one turn above 8.5. Now the bow is sooooo quiet is really is amazing.
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Im gonna say try the limbsavers. Works great on my bows. I dont think they are two ugly. No uglier than bush buttons. I also put them where they just touch the string at brace. I got a widow on order that I think I am gonna try the smaller limb savers on. Also alot of noise is caused from the string wax. That should settle out the first couple shoots in the summer hot weather. I still wax the loops just not as heavily as the rest of the string.
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Beautiful bow. Enjoy it
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Very nice bow! Enjoy! :thumbsup:
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I usually set my braceheight between 83/8 to 85/8,on my widows and put my silencers measuring from where the string contacts the limb, first one at 81/2 in. second at 111/2 inches, Bows are quiet shooting arrows 9grs and up. Tested in my basement to avoid any outside problems. If its queit indoors I doubt if it's noisey outdoors.
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knockout bow! good pick!
I have a pair of Ironwoods and already want a Kingwood......
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WHAT A BEAUTY!!! I LOVE THAT KINGWOOD.
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Beautiful bow!!! I bought from a guy who didn't like the way it shot-harsh and noisy- both sets of limbs had 7-71/2 brace ht.- changed them to 9" and didn't even use silencers after that.Sold it before I got to use it!
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Congrats.Ive been shooting a widow for 15 years,the performance is out of this world. you will love it