FS Discount Archery.......?

[Jesse_83]

Well I've lucked out and found a POC source in BC.  Just need a couple of one time things like a jojan multi.  I was looking through my dads old trad stuff and opened a box a found a young feather burner! plugged it in and it works.  Might have to try it out on the next batch.

[Grey Taylor]

Holy cow, if I'd known you were looking for POC I'd have strongly recommended against FS!
Some friends got four dozen "weight matched" POC shafts from them and my digital scale showed them to vary by over 100 grains in each dozen.
On a recent trip to their office to get some feathers I overheard a phone conversation with a customer who was apparently complaining about a wide weight range in his "matched" wood shafts.
Get pre-packaged stuff that someone else has made but for Pete's sake, don't get wood shafts from FS!

Guy

[Ron B]

Guy:

I agree with you on the POC and wood arrows. I have gotten good deals on them for aluminum shafts and basics like nocks nad fletching adhesives but go to one of the sponsors for the other stuff. I have sen a numbe of my students come back with arrows(wood, aluminum and carbon) that were a disaster.

Ron

[Dan in KS]

After many years and many vendors, Mike at the Nocking Point gets all my business.  He has just about everything you would want and his prices are great!

DB

[carpenter]

Its the Nocking point for me,great service and a great guy!

[Larry m]

FS is moving more toward baseball equipment and less Archery. If you live in the area and can place a quick call for stocked items it can be convenient. Have had similar issues as stated above on Cedar shafting. Get them home to spine and weight and find not what I expected or paid for.

[Eugene Slagle]

I've dealt with FS Discount Archery a few times & never had an issue with any of my orders although I try to order stuff from supporters of Trad Gang I too sometimes find hard to find items elsewhere.

[mudfish]

the neighbor kid ordered a Greatree bow from them because they had the cheapest price.  poor kid, they told him it would ship right away.  they never did answer any emails, he had to call and every time they would tell him it would ship next week.  it took 3 months, but he finally got it.  by then we had already called around trying to get it somewhere else and found out there were none in the country, but he never got any information other than "ship next week" from FS

[Joshua Long]

I ordered 2 strings from them.  One string came in right the first time.  Three attempts later on the second string and I just gave up.  This was over the course of several months.  Then out of the blue 6-7 months later another string comes in the mail.  Still not the correct one.  Lesson learned!

[Cootling]

Did business with them.  Won't ever again.

[PaddyMac]

I've ordered stuff from FS for years and I've never had a problem and they've been pretty competitive on pricing. (I'm just sayin'... They're $2 cheaper than everybody on Gold Tip Trad hunter shafts.) But now that I've gotten rid of my training wheels (and cams) I've found they seem less and less willing to offer the kind of trad stuff and services that I want. Wait, a minute, maybe I said that wrong. I seem to be wanting stuff they don't like to bother with. I feel like I'm trying to order a rye bun on my Big Mac, you know?

So I am naturally drifting away from them.

Shipping is a big issue for me because I live a gazillion miles from the nearest archery shop, so I have to shop on-line. Rocky Mountain Specialty Gear has a great flat-rate shipping policy, for example, and I appreciate that a lot. And some big box on-line retailers may have lower prices, but you have to calculate in that shipping charge because if you always go with the lowest price, and you have to go to multiple sources to get the lowest price, the shipping will vaporize that price advantage.

If it's close I'll always give the business to a trad-only shop, but if it's significantly different I go with the lower price.

If I had a local shop, I'd try to shop there, even if significantly higher, but there's a limit to that. (It's called my lovely wife.)

[B/W lvr]

I've dealt with F/S many times and never had any problems. Don't know if they have a staff thats trad wise or not. I know what I want, thats what I order and thats what they deliver. Frank

[RonH]

I have dealt with F/S for many years.....never had a problem with service from them.....