I bought a used XR from Kevin at RER Bows, and it arrived this morning. Neither his pictures nor mine really do it justice, but manlaw dictates pictures, so here are a couple.
Sorry, that last one is a crappy cell phone shot. That one was the first three arrows at 15 yards before any kind of tuning or anything. Kind of hard to see, but the arrows were inside a 2" group centered on the target!
The bow is 58" and 47# at 28". Limbs are yew veneers over a bamboo core. They have some of the nicest yew I've seen. The riser is cocobolo and canary wood. I wasn't familiar with canary wood, but it is similar to myrtle in appearance with a bit more of a reddish cast...very nice.
The first few shots were kind of loud, but I discovered the serving was too big for my ICS Bowhunter nocks. I reserved it with smaller serving, raised the brace height at tad, added the bow bolt quiver, and she quieted right down. And let me tell you, this bow slings an arrow! WOW! I am shooting the same set-up as for my Orion recurve, which is 50#. After fiddling with the nock height for a bit of a nock high issue, I paper tuned it, and it is shooting bullet holes with 550 grain arrows with no loss of speed.