A while back I attended the Whitingham shoot in N.J. It was the first 3 D shoot that I had ever attended. While I was there I meet a fellow named Ray Iglesias( Julio's cousin)
I bumped into him on a course and knew right away he was a good shooter and a hell of a nice guy. He was shooting a Morrison wood riser with a set of Hex 5's. I believe and I was either shooting a Fedora or a Silvertip.
We hit it off right away and have made it a point to shoot together at the various shoots this past year. Well unbenounced to either of us we where both working on setting up are own vision of the perfect ILF hunting rig.
This is where it gets strange, I had narrowed my selection to an all Pheniloic riser from Bob Morrison and for limbs I was not decided. It was between the BFs and the Top end Borders.
I also battled on configuration, I was torn between going with a 15 inch riser and a set of long limbs or a 17 inch riser with a set of medium limbs in either configurations making a 60 inch bow.
I went with the 17 inch Riser and a set of BF's mainly because of my closeness to John Wert and the great reviews of them. Plus I could drive to meet John and play with different sets till I got exactly what I wanted. I know have 2 sets of BF's. I would like to have a set of Borders also someday.
So you can imagine my suprise when I showed up at the first shoot and my buddy Ray had a 15 inch all Phenolic Morrison Riser with a set of Border Hex 6's with the BB2 tech.
Rays been shooting it lights out this year winning the Long Island trad shoot this year with a 260 something and placing in the top 5 at the Muzzy shoot where Fred Eichler placed 3
Ray comes from the Garden State where you can shoot like 300 deer a year
so he gets a lot of practice
So you can imagine how curious I was about Rays bow and how pleased I was when he showed up today to have some fun
so let's start
First off these bows are configured different
Rays
15 inch Morrison Phenolic riser
Long limbs
7 1/4 inch brace height
60 inch bow
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Mine
17 inch Morrison Phenolic Riser
Medium limbs
7 1/2 inch brace height
60 inch bow
Both bows pull with in a pound of each other 52/53 #'s @ 28
They both shoot one of my 530 grain hunting arrows ( 400 spine cut to 29 inches , 100 grain insert , 125 grain point )
They bare shaft the same arrow perfectly.
Ray did the pulling and I ran the chrono and told him when he was at the same draw each shot