'Alternative' Compound bow

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Liam
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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 4:20 pm Post subject: 'Alternative' Compound bow

What the hell is this ebay item Alternative compound? Shoot through riser? Never seen one of these before, looks like some cheap tat to me but I'd be happy to be proved wrong. _________________ Why not?

Club: Long Eaton Field Archers
Bow: Karel Osage Orange Hungarian Reflex Bow 50lb @ 28"
Sight: Not Brilliant
Arrows: Sitka Spruce 11/32's @ 31"
Accesories: 2 Funny gloves with not enough fingers on them

Jabberwocky
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Location: Wolverhampton, UK

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 4:28 pm Post subject:

Alternative sporting services make there own bows. I have only seen a few of them and have never shot one so I can't comment on what they are like, but the build quality seems pretty good and the people I have seen using them seem to be reasonably happy with them. You just don't seem to see a lot of them about.

Club: Wolverhampton C of A and Severn Valley Yeoman Foresters
Bow: Samick Masters(target), Mathews Switchback(field)
Sight: Sure Loc
Arrows: X10 (target) ACC Superlite (field)
Accesories: Lots of Beiter Stuff

JimN
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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 4:35 pm Post subject:

More information here. _________________ Jim Bring me my Bow of burning gold; Bring me my Arrows of Desire;

Club: Black Arrow Field Archery Club
Bow: Internature Viper AFB (45# @ 28")
Sight: Staring maniacally
Arrows: 31" POC
Accesories: Silver patent leather slingbacks

Ratfighter
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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 5:45 pm Post subject:

They are actually quite highly regarded, not particularly fast but pretty accurate. Steve Kendrick was shooting a development one that was made up of layers bolted together, now that WAS strange! _________________ MERLIN ARCHERY CLUB GETTING RATTIER BY THE MINUTE

Club: Merlin Archery Club
Bow: Merlin XS x2
Sight: Axcel 3000 Viper Scope
Arrows: Navigators & Gold Tip Ultralight Pro's
Accesories: Apollo launcher, CC Porter release, Merlin Triad stabiliser

Bows now sporting my own strings!!!! yummy!!

Bushy
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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:45 pm Post subject:

not for me I'm afraid will stay with the allegiance been playing with the new bowtech today forgot what it was called the new version of the guardian _________________ "Rules is Rules - If we didnt have rules, where would we be? Thats right, France! And if we had too many rules where would we be? Germany!"

Club: Black Arrow, Forest Bowmen, Merlin Archery Club, University of Derby Archery Club
Bow: KG Kudos, Apex Limbs 51lb on fingers
Sight: depends on levels of alcohol
Arrows: Easton Navigators
Accesories: Beiter 28" long rod

Liam
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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 5:08 am Post subject:

Doh!! It never even occured to me to me that it would be associated with Alternative sporting services, still dont think its for me though, I like to stick to tried and trusted names _________________ Why not?

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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 9:06 am Post subject:

Liam wrote:

I like to stick to tried and trusted names

If everyone did that there'd never be any new brands, and the likes of Merlin wouldn't now exist

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My shoes are too tight, but it doesn’t matter, because I have forgotten how to dance.

Club: Cambus Archery Society
Bow: SF PRO riser, with SF Carbon limbs
Sight: Sure-Loc Quest-X
Arrows: Easton Navigator FMJ 460 spine
Accesories: Merlin Triad Stabilisers

Liam
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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 11:49 am Post subject:

Your right, but I'll still let others try before I buy _________________ Why not?

sambow
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:25 am Post subject:

Alternative eXact are cracking bows I have been shooting one as an experiment over the last two months. If you can live with you bow arm being close to the cables and you can avoid EVER touching the cables with your bow arm (it will demote your gold to a 4 horizontally) shoot though bows are great and very easy to set up/tune. Providing I remember not to let the cable touch my arm I find they group much tighter with my eXact than my cable guard bows. I am considering converting my other bows to shoot through.

Club: Rugby Bowmen, Forest of Arden
Bow: Oneida BE 2, Merlin Supernova, Hoyt Protec
Sight: Challenger
Arrows: Carbon Impact Ultra Fast 550, Fat shaft 5000
Accesories: Truball BT Gold & Carter Atension

Hoyt Nexus with SF SHC 32Lb Limbs