A Gift from the post office!!

[anw0625]

Been waiting for 4 months to receive my osage bamboo backed longbow from rudder And this is what I received!! :(

 

 

[Mudd]

I am so very sorry for the loss of what could have been your bow of a lifetime.

How was it packaged? I'd really like to know so I can be sure to avoid that method of packing.

God bless,Mudd

[anw0625]

In a triangle box with bubble wrap.  It looked like that someone at the post office kicked it.  I heard of going postal but come on this was someone stuff.

[Nor'easter]

Obviously the bowyer did a lousy job of packing.  Hope it works out for you.

[LongStick64]

Ugh that stinks. Hope it was insured.

[Michael Peschek]

Sorry for your loss. Hope everything works out okay for you. My bowyer packed my bow in some 3 in plastic pipe, seems like that would have been the way to go.

[Broken Arrows]

Call Jim at Rudder bow he will make it right I live
15 miles from him and know well.

[Larry Surtees]

Sorry to see and hear about it.  There have been quite a few posts lately about bows being received that are damaged during shipment.

[anw0625]

I have talked to Jim and they are taking care of me:)

[Paul WA]

It has to be deliberate to look like that...PR

[BobCo 1965]

Unreal!!!

[pow-bow]

Rudder bows is top notch.  I have nothing but good to say about them and their serice.  Anyone looking for some raw materials for bow building should give them a try.

[Ray Hammond]

Paul WA

For it to be deliberate would require some semblance of intelligent thought at the post office.

I can assure you, when Monty Browning retired they now are without that asset.

[wingnut]

Well stuff happens in shipping sometimes.  But if you use good shipping tubes and pack well it doesn't happen very often.  The triangle boxes spliced together are just not a good way to ship a bow.

Mike

[Froggy]

Playing Russian Roulette shipping a bow in those triangle boxes for sure...

[Eric Krewson]

It all depends on how the box goes down the conveyor. Nothing survives being cross ways. I had several bows broken in half, even a massive osage stave. I insured the bows, payment was swift and hassle free. Didn't insure the stave, didn't think a mack truck could break it, my loss.

[Muleyslayer]

Nothing against the great bowers out there but for the money a 20$ peice of pipe would save them some cash and there recipiant a broken heart! Again nothing against this bower or others but this isn't the first time and when you wait 4mos. or 14mos. this stinks.

[Wannabe1]

Well I'll tell you one bowyer who gets it right! Marty from Apex Predator shipped the bow I got from him in a 3" PVC tube. They would have had to run that sucker over to break the bow inside.  

Sorry about your bow but, glad it is going to be taken care of.

[Craig]

Was that the triangle priority boxes, If so they blend too easy. Do what wingnut said.

[Bowferd]

I've had a lot of bows come to me in those triangular pieced together boxes and have been fortunate that what was retained inside was still intact.
Any worthy Bowyer should know better.JMHO!