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<DIV>Thank you for sharing your experience so that others do not have to go through the same.</DIV>
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<DIV>At the risk of sounding snooty <IMG src="http://mail.yimg.com/a/i/mesg/tsmileys2/33.gif"> had you attended my archery class at Kings College Saturday I would have answered your questions about your bow and saved you the aggrevation of dealing with the compound bow crowd. That said I would be more than happy to help you with this challenge. I will be at the Elfsea fighter practice Wednesday night and at our archery practice this Sunday. </DIV>
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<DIV>If I can be of help please let me know.</DIV>
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<DIV>Don Sebastian Frobishire (Arc D' Or)</DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Randy Shipp <randyshipp@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> steppes@lists.ansteorra.org; Barony of Elfsea <elfsea@lists.ansteorra.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Mon, June 20, 2011 5:23:18 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [Elfsea] All Star Archery review<BR></FONT><BR>Greetings,<BR><BR>Having wasted a significant portion of my afternoon on a failed search<BR>for help with my bow, I decided to salvage some usefulness from the<BR>exercize and post about my experience. Hopefully, this will help<BR>someone else who might find themselves in a similar situation.<BR><BR>I took my American style longbow into All Star Archery (and Marine<BR>Electronics) in Lewisville this afternoon. I also brought four cedar<BR>shafts, randomly selected from a box of shafts my dad had laying<BR>around. When I walked
in, I said, “I’m hoping you can help me. I<BR>have this bow, but no arrows. I want to be sure of a few things<BR>before I spend a bunch of money on supplies.” Before we could get to<BR>what information I wanted, the guy said, “We don’t see many longbows<BR>here,” (which is understandable), “and we won’t have any supplies for<BR>it.” Okay, I get that. “Well,” I said, “I mainly need to figure out<BR>the true weight of the bow at my draw length in order to get the right<BR>shafts.” At this point, I expected to get help measuring my draw<BR>length, then we’d string my bow, put it on a bow scale, and off we’d<BR>go. Instead, I got, “Well, it says 50 pounds on the bow.” “Right,” I<BR>said, “but it doesn’t say at what draw length.” “Well,” he said, “if<BR>you draw it to, you know, about the right amount, it’ll be around 50<BR>pounds. If you draw it
more or less, that’ll change, so there’s no<BR>way for me to know. I guess if you want to string it, I can draw it<BR>and tell you about what it is...” This is the point at which I should<BR>have just said thanks and left. As it is, I talked for another minute<BR>or so, just to confirm that this was as helpful as it was going to<BR>get.<BR><BR>Either this guy did not understand what I was asking, or they did not<BR>have a bow scale (otherwise, why wouldn’t he offer that instead of<BR>some guesstimate?). Either way, this is not archery expertise.<BR>Having heard all that, I didn’t even proceed to my next question,<BR>which was whether they had a spine tester for verifying what the<BR>shafts I have are. The entire experience was very much like buying a<BR>computer or camera at a big box store. They’re fine for reciting<BR>specs from the side of the box, and they probably have an OK<BR>selection, but as soon
as you start asking about video chipsets or<BR>f-stops, they have no clue.<BR><BR>Save yourself the trip and avoid All Star Archery for traditional<BR>archery questions.<BR><BR>Yours,<BR>--Antoine<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Elfsea mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Elfsea@lists.ansteorra.org" ymailto="mailto:Elfsea@lists.ansteorra.org">Elfsea@lists.ansteorra.org</A><BR>http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/elfsea-ansteorra.org<BR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>