I'm blogging so I must be on nights?

Night shift is here again, time to catch up and as usual tons of things have occured in Rat Cave.
Firstly I suppose and update on the LX,
Boy is that bow good to look at, the only thing that hates it is the chrono. At 60lb I'm manging 278 fps and whilst never a speed bow, I was disappointed. The SDM strings look awesome, the Bob Lambeth side plates look brilliant and although chunky, don't seem to lend themselves to torquing the bow. The bow shoots fantastic groups, draws smoothly and is really the business.
As Christmas is coming I tohught I would move some surplus things on and although I would like to mov ethe Hoyt on, at the moment, it is my only 3d bow, so it will have to stay. But what about the Martin I hear you ask. Well it finally turned up, the customs stung me for £62 to add to the pleasure and Parcel force decided to not bother sending it to me from Nottingham, so we went over and collected it. The bow looks the part and is in good nick. I quickly threw a rest on it and unfortunatley the draw force curve is extremely harsh, a bit too harsh for me. I wound 5lbs off the bow and was able to pull it without losing the arrow off the rest but by this time, the speed advantage has gone. It was a worthwhile experiment and saved me a small fortune by trying a secondhand one but I don't think it is for me. So at the moment the position of Ratty's 2008 3d bow is vacant, the position of spot bow is filled.
My blank baling has progressed to shooting and aiming. I tried my first session at Merlin last week putting the whole package together. I had had the Mathews set up but with only enough ancilliary bits to furnish one bow and with a field shoot looming, I went to swap the bits back over onto the Trykon. Now the day had already got off to a bad start, when I broke Ruthy's favourite cup, it got worse when I shot my super peep into oblivion when I tohught it was in the string and it wasn't. I should have known but the next thing was the rest, It had been swapped over one too many times and gave up the ghost. So one superpeep equivalent (£13) and a trophy taker (£45) later I went down the range and three shots later my Copper John windage unit fell to pieces, The icing on the cake was, after purchasing matching double bow cases, I opened mine (black or course) to find one of the internal straps was broken! So I'm now on the lookout for a new sight (not Copper John as lifetime warranty doesn't actually mean lifetime, it means production cycle warranty).
More on the weekend tomorrow, I'm off home to bed
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segolden · Moderator

Well, ain't that just the way things happen, if something goes something else follows. Guess your bows are like mine, Bro, want their own stuff and won't take handmedowns.

Glad to see you're program is progressing, hope there's been some improvement noted. You've confirmed what other LX owners have said, that it's it's designed to thread needles, not break the sound barrier. I'll probably put a Trophy Taker on my new Phoenix after I mess with it a while, always liked that rest. What kind of penance incurred when you broke the cup, or was it just bad Karma?

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