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Offline threeunder

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Your backup bow
« on: January 25, 2013, 09:43:00 AM »
Like many, I have a goto bow.  But I started wondering about backup bows.  If you subscribe to the "if it can go wrong it will go wrong on a trip away from home theory" I'll bet you do.
What I'm wondering is whether your backup to your main hunting bow is exactly the same, a little different (maybe a pound or two more or less draw), or maybe even drastically different.
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Re: Your backup bow
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2013, 10:12:00 AM »
Mine is 4 inches longer and a pound lighter in draw weight.
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Offline khardrunner

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Re: Your backup bow
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2013, 10:14:00 AM »
Don't have one... my Schulz is all I got
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Offline Frenchymanny

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Re: Your backup bow
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2013, 10:26:00 AM »
I have 4 bows that I shoot about the same, so any can backup the others.

I truly enjoy the Big Jim take down system, it makes packing 2 bows a charm

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Offline Bjorn

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Re: Your backup bow
« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2013, 10:27:00 AM »
I have 3 64" 50# ACS CX, if I'm traveling I just bring extra limbs.
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Offline Running Buck

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Re: Your backup bow
« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2013, 10:32:00 AM »
The problem with backup bows is you buy one and it shoots great. So, you buy another and another and   well you know the story.... I keep everything at 52lbs 60" -62" so they all use the same arrows and shoot to the same point of impact.
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Re: Your backup bow
« Reply #6 on: January 25, 2013, 10:35:00 AM »
I have a few that are all around the same poundage, one of my favorites is a Zipper with 2 sets if limbs, both very close in weight.
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Re: Your backup bow
« Reply #7 on: January 25, 2013, 10:50:00 AM »
I have several ACSs as well.  Always take two complete bows on out of state trips. Same configuration, about 2# weight difference.  They pack small. Doesn't make any difference which one I pull out of the case. They shoot the same.
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Re: Your backup bow
« Reply #8 on: January 25, 2013, 11:01:00 AM »
I've got two that shoot (ABOUT) the same.  So close that 'they' drive me crazy    :knothead:   trying to figure out which is the go to and which is the back up...
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Offline Surewood Steve

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Re: Your backup bow
« Reply #9 on: January 25, 2013, 11:35:00 AM »
If I had a wife for every "back-up bow" I own, I'd be Solomon!!!!
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Offline Hoyt

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Re: Your backup bow
« Reply #10 on: January 25, 2013, 11:48:00 AM »
So far I've refrained from the backups..did it with guns and all but about 3 just collected dust.

I do have another recurve other than my Sasquatch, a Quinn Stallion. It's about 7# lighter and same length..64".
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Re: Your backup bow
« Reply #11 on: January 25, 2013, 01:16:00 PM »
my 72# Brackenbury is my all around back up but once I get my new Stealth I'll be alternating between hunting with my two Stealths so the one not in use will be my back up.
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Re: Your backup bow
« Reply #12 on: January 25, 2013, 01:55:00 PM »
Varies somewhat.  I make sure the back-up shoots whatever arrows I have for the primary accurately and with good flight.  I currently have the luxury of two bows of the same model & manufacturer only a pound apart but enough years between them that there are notable differences.  But they shoot similarly enough.

For many years my back-up bow was a Bear Kodiak Hunter because it was rugged and reliable.  

I also have a practice of hunting with a bow and then often choosing a different one for the next season.  Though I have favorires that tend to come up in the rotation more regularly.  I never change within four months of the opener or then until the end of the season.  Obviously the prior year's bow makes a good back-up.  Keeps the stock circulating.   ;-)
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Offline Flying Dutchman

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Re: Your backup bow
« Reply #13 on: January 25, 2013, 02:09:00 PM »
My bows shoot all about the same and I have three, that will do!
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Re: Your backup bow
« Reply #14 on: January 25, 2013, 04:01:00 PM »
My main bow is a Kanati R/D longbow. My backup bow is also my bowfishing bow and it's a Browning Wasp recurve that's a couple pounds lighter in draw weight than my Kanati. I have altered (added material to) the strike plate on the Wasp so that it has the same point of impact as my Kanati.
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Re: Your backup bow
« Reply #15 on: January 25, 2013, 07:25:00 PM »
I do not have a back up.  Probably should, with my history of breaking anvels with a rubber mallet.
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Re: Your backup bow
« Reply #16 on: January 25, 2013, 07:45:00 PM »
Primary is a #51 Toelke Chinook T/D with classic grip.  Back up is same length, grip, quiver.  Just a few pounds lighter and one piece instead of two.
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Re: Your backup bow
« Reply #17 on: January 25, 2013, 08:03:00 PM »
My first bow is 52@28 62" Pronghorn Longbow my back is a 51@28 62" Pronghorn Longbow.
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Re: Your backup bow
« Reply #18 on: January 25, 2013, 09:55:00 PM »
62" Widow PLIII, 54#@28" is my go to bow. 62" Widow PLV, 53#@28" is my back up....or is it the other way around? Been on two different hunts in Quebec where one of my hunting partners need his back up. So far I have been good, but I am a clumsy old fellar!!
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Offline Ibow

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Re: Your backup bow
« Reply #19 on: January 26, 2013, 07:54:00 AM »
I've used old Widow MAIII's in the 46-48 pound range for many, many years but just recently started using an 40 pound A&H ACS for no other reason other than to keep things interesting and broaden my horizons a bit.  

We'll have to see how it goes for a while but I know that every time I walk past my bow rack and look at that 92' 46@28 MA, I almost feel like I have to say, "Sorry ol' buddy".   :)  If the ACS "sticks", I don't know what I'll do for a back up. Those old Widow MA's were pretty much interchangeable.
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