Well..came home today and saw I had a wooden box sitting on my deck..thinking what is that?
OH CRAP the journeyman bow is here..oh yes that is cool, after getting my screw gun out and unscrewing the box open..I wasnt expecting to find what I found...DANG what a sweet looking set of limbs and then I uncovered the risers...Dang more sweetness, bolted the lefty riser to the limbs (53#@28")and added the cork material to the limbs before bolting her down and strung her up with stringer from box..drew her back..pure smoothness to my 27" draw..drew her back to 28 then 29" and pure smoothness all the way..grab 5 Axis 500 shafts with 5"RW feathers cut to 28"BOP and 175 field points and that I just finished fletching this morning and shot her and other than the twang from the supplied bowstring..she shot smooth and pretty darn quick, put her down and admired the craftsman ship that was put in making the bow..I took off the rest material that came with it as I didnt care for it and added a fuzzzy velcro with a leather bottom plate and spaced it out so the feather would go thru the gap and I decided to make a spare string that will accompany her on her next travel date..I grab some new XS2 material from brownell and twisted up a new skinny 8 strand with padded loops (and in my excitement I made a sexy pink and blue string by mistake as I was gonna make black and blue..LOL ) and served .30 diameter serving and put some small wool puffs that I made the other day at 14" down from nock and with a 8" BH as the other string was about 7.75"BH and I grab 5 shafts and went on the deck and shot her 5 times at my bag target about 17 yards away in the dark and WOW!!!! real quiet in the dark at 930pm with the new string and silencers and real quick as I can see it fly away but not where I impacted..went down to the target and 5 arrows touching...nah what a fluke I thought so I went up and did it again and same scenario 5 arrows touching, basically I did a blind bale as it was pitched black and my porch light just popped as I turned it on heading out to shoot, sometimes when its dark and quiet you can really feel the vibrations and noise level on a bow, sometimes this is how I tune for silence and Im sure you guys are saying..yeah right no pictures, didnt happen..LOL well when I get a chance this weekend Im gonna take some pics and do more shooting and show you what this bow can do and as of now other than broadhead tuning I would take it out tommorow and hunt with her if my state deer season was open which I wish it was instead of sept. 15 since I would love to hunt with her BAD....Im gonna do more testing and shooting and gonna scale her with my easton electronic scale..right now Im loving the bow and I love this lefty riser immensely..I want to own this particular riser in general...somehow it just melted to my hand...so you guys that get this bow after me..dont break my riser..LOL cant wait until this weekend to put her to her paces and a shout out to Jared the fantastic and wonderful creator of this bow..you really put the time and energy and knowledge to craft this powerful and awesome shooting masterpiece and I really need to talk to you real soon about this bow...thank you immensely for allowing us mere humans to try out your creation, it really blew me away and all the misconceptions I had of what this bow was gonna be like and after owning about 500 bows of all types and makes and styles and many of them high end bows over the years, this bow has made my top 10 list in a matter of a few hours and Im gonna have to do something about it quick...Im gonna string the righty riser up as well this weekend and shoot her as Im glad Im able to shoot either hand and take some pics and especially of the new and sexy string..LOL and Jared thank you again for allowing us to try out your bow..you really knocked it out of the park
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