New bow ………………………

[richard roop]

#159018

Bought a new bow (new for me, it’s used) at a shoot last week-end.

63″ Sabo Hunter @ 60#.  Needs a decent string that doesn’t have 500 twists on it & still to low a brace height and I’m going to install my usual Bear Weather Rest, string silencers,  and my super secret vibration dampeners.

Anybody have any history with one of these bows ?????

[richard roop]

#159037

Getting it set up and so far am impressed.  Brace height shot in at 7 1/2 ” and my usual attachments.  Haven’t run it thru the Chrono yet but my point on with it is consistent with my newer bows. Very little hand shock and really quiet.  I think that I got me-self a winner.

The old classics are not to be denied !!!!

[Kees]

#159051

Here’s a link I found with some information on the Sabo:

https://leatherwall.bowsite.com/TF/lw/thread2.cfm?threadid=327381&CATEGORY=3

Super secret vibration dampers?  I make mine from my wife’s left over yarn, placed at the 1/4 from the top and 1/3 from the bottom points of the string.  It seems to work rather well.

~Kees~

[richard roop]

#159052

Good info ………………. Thanx !!!!

My Super Secret Vibration Dampeners are sold at Wally World in the baseball section as ‘choke rings’ for bats.  A drop of Neetsfoot  oil on the inner surface and slide ’em down to the fade-outs at the riser.  I wipe off the excess oil with Isoprol  (sp?) Alcohol. I used two on the top & two on the bottom.  I also installed a set of the OMP rubber baby buggy bumpers at the limb tips.  For string silencers I’m running cat whiskers, one normal sized mid-point on the string and two smaller ones spaced out on the other end of the string.  A guitar picker turned me on to that silencer spacing with more information on string harmonics that I likely need. (Willie Jack / American Dream ) I have no problem trading speed for silence since in my mind, every bow’s a hunting bow.

I’m liking this bow more & more.

[Pat Mosiuk]

#160191

I think bows are a lot like rifles. In the last 10 years,  it seems like everybody wants the fastest shooting hunting weapon. I still use a Lee Enfield .303 for whitetail. Same reason traditional archery appeals to me now. I don’t think you need a light arrow going 300+ fps using enhanced optics to harvest an animal, but that is my opinion. Many fine, successful compound bow archers out there. In the end, it’s a personal decision, but either way, it gets people out of the house into the great outdoors!

[Pat Mosiuk]

#160242

Is there a hard and fast rule on bow length? I’ve been doing some research before buying my first receive bow. I’m 6’2″ , draw length 29.5″ . Will I need a really long bow? Thanks!

[richard roop]

#160245

You should be good anywhere between 60″ & 65″.  Too short and it can get kind of touchy to shoot & finger pinch. Too long and it an get unwieldy.

FWIW; ………….. Almost all of my bows are 60″ / 60 lbs @ 28 with a 29″ draw.  Several reasons. All of my bows shoot the same arrow, 2213 w/145 grn. point.  Saves on separate sets of arrows for one thing. For another, I can more better compare one bow to another.  Apples to apples.  And last but not least ……………. it limits the number of bows I can buy on that damn ebay site.

[Kees]

#161025

Wait, you can buy bows on Ebay?  Now why didn’t I think of that?  :>)

~Kees~

[richard roop]

#161037

And arrows, too !!!!

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