ATA Show and Bear Booth

[Bowwild]

I spent about 6 hours at the ATA trade show this morning and early afternoon.  I had several meetings and didn't get to look at many of the thousands of booths.  However, I did go to the Bear booth..twice!

The new Bear Custom Kodiak is fantastic looking and even better in the hand! The charcoal riser with red strip and compass is very striking.  The feel of the grip is a bit thicker than the Supreme which I think makes it perfect!  I ordered a B Takedown with limbs and an A riser without limbs on my way home from the show. I hated to buy the limbs with the B bow (52#@28") but I don't want to be limbless for 10 months while I wait on my order from Rose Oak.   These were RH so I didn't shoot them.

However they had a LH Super K with Green Glass. The bow felt great, was smooth drawing and I like the green glass. However, I wasn't that impressed with the Bubinga in the riser -- too mono-tone for this exotic wood lover.

I also watched lines of folks shooting foam disks from recurves with flu-flu arrows. The machine was a multi-stack thrower that cost $8,000 with 162 discs. The machine through a pair up at the same time and two archers shot together.  Everyone got a big kick when someone drilled one.  The machine is made in France and they are supposed to have a US distributor in a couple of months.  If a club could afford such a machine it would be VERY popular.

[OldSkoolArcher]

Great to hear you were impressed with the New TD Riser!
Did they tell you any lead time until your handles were done?

[stevewills]

first time in 10 years i havent gone...

[Bowwild]

When I ordered my bows I was told 8 weeks...or a little longer. When I ordered an A Supreme Riser this past spring they also told me 8 weeks. It was closer to 12.

According to ATA officials attendance was within 200 people on the first day of the entire 3-day attendance last year. There are two things that are a nuisance about the show to me:

1. Parking is a mess -- lots of it, but if you are driving a full-size 4-wheel drive PU you can't get in all the garages.
2. Lots of people at the show are working on their celebrity by signing stuff in the isles. But they are easy to ignore.

[Burnsie]

A couple buddies of mine have been there since Wednesday, but they are there on business and focused on the wheelie side.  I like walking through those kind of trade shows, Indy is only a couple hours away, I need to make it over there one of these years.