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Author Topic: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows  (Read 239 times)

Offline moleman

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Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
« on: May 10, 2013, 10:32:00 AM »
I found a stock bow available through one of our fine sponsors, but before I can buy, I gotta sell a bow or two, which means choosing a sacrificial bow or two.....this aint gonna be easy.
How many of you have been there and made the sacrificial choice?    :banghead:

Offline Mudd

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Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2013, 10:43:00 AM »
It's never easy.... NEVER!!!!
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Offline Bud B.

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Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2013, 11:38:00 AM »
Find someone with a need and you'll not have to make a choice. If someone in the classifieds posts a WTB, it's an easier decision to make.
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Offline Alexander Traditional

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Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2013, 12:19:00 PM »
I've done it once or twice and and usually end up regretting it. Now I have to really know that I just don't shoot or really like a bow to get rid of it for another.

Offline britt

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Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2013, 12:45:00 PM »
I just traded a Lost Creek that I thought I would never get rid of. But I got a sweet deal. A bow that fits me alot better.
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Offline Wannabe1

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Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2013, 01:29:00 PM »
I got it easy now, I only have one bow!   :bigsmyl:
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Offline PowDuck

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Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2013, 02:21:00 PM »
It's not easy. That's why it's called a sacrifice.

An act of slaughtering an animal or person or surrendering a possession as an offering to God or to a divine or supernatural figure.

I've got a couple sacrificial lambs in my closet right now. Just waiting for the St. Jude's auction to be over. Got to reimburse (justify) the money I spent on two take-downs recently.   :thumbsup:

Just pick the one(s) you haven't shot in a long long time.
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Offline SportHunter

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Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2013, 02:28:00 PM »
It's not easy at all, I just recently picked out three of my keepers to sell to fund new projects. All great performers but I'm using hill style bows soo much I don't see myself going back.  

My choices were a Saxon American, Quinn Stallion and a Kohanna Windwalker. All three great shooting bows but that's the way it goes. Good luck with your choice, so what are you selling, hopefully nothing I must have    :pray:

Offline gregg dudley

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Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
« Reply #8 on: May 10, 2013, 04:02:00 PM »
I thought you were going bowfishing.
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Offline DennyK

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Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
« Reply #9 on: May 10, 2013, 06:58:00 PM »
I've only got two bows so none of that sacrificin' for me!
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Offline old_goat2

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Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
« Reply #10 on: May 10, 2013, 10:54:00 PM »
I usually buy a new bow then pick one!
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Offline T Lail

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Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
« Reply #11 on: May 11, 2013, 09:56:00 AM »
thats why I only have two bows now.....the crying got to my wife !!!!!!  :biglaugh:
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Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
« Reply #12 on: May 12, 2013, 06:22:00 AM »
That's why I have so many bows. I usually make the mistake of shooting the Chosen One "one last time" before it leaves me. It ends up back in its spot because it shoots well or has memories.

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And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

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Offline e alexander

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Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
« Reply #13 on: May 12, 2013, 08:06:00 AM »
I let two go yesterday. They go to the 2013 elk hunt fund!

Offline Cyclic-Rivers

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Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
« Reply #14 on: May 12, 2013, 08:14:00 AM »
I just keep the Sacred bows and window shop.  It certainly is a lot cheaper that way.
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Offline Uncle Buck

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Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
« Reply #15 on: May 12, 2013, 08:27:00 AM »
look at it this way, eventually everything you own will belong to somebody else.

God bless,
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Offline pamike

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Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
« Reply #16 on: May 12, 2013, 08:28:00 AM »
i have sacrificed a bow only to buy it again later......some i regret and some i just needed a push to get rid of since they really were not the right bow for me (but i liked something about them).  Definitely getting harder as the stable gets refined!!!
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Offline Red Beastmaster

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Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
« Reply #17 on: May 12, 2013, 01:15:00 PM »
I spent 25 years working up to 65# and then back down again. Getting rid of light or heavy bows along the way was not hard at all.

Now that I have settled on 45#-47# bows I have no logical reason to sell one off. Yes, it is  painful to part with a bow that is in my new wheel house.

I recently sold an Abbott just so I could get another one in a different wood combo and length. That decision took over a year for me.
There is no great fun, satisfaction, or joy derived from doing something that's easy.  Coach John Wooden

Offline Shawn Leonard

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Re: Choosing a sacrificial bow or bows
« Reply #18 on: May 12, 2013, 02:01:00 PM »
One of the hardest things I have ever done recently. I wanted a new Caribow and normally would just buy one, but I really wanted to shoot just one bow and have one back up. I decided to part with an RER and a couple others that hurt. Glad I did though, I am shooting the new Tuktu EX very well!! Shawn
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