Need help finding a bow maker....

Dave, that is a 99 Hoyt Aspen with Carbonite limbs. It's rather compact. It has a 60-70 lb draw, with an adjustable draw length from 26" to 30", and it is currently set at 27" (IINM; may be set at 28"). It has BRAND NEW string & cables & string silencers, which I just spent about $100 on IIRC - hasn't even been shot yet with the new string. I killed a deer last year with it - the one and only deer I've ever shot with a bow.

The reason I mention all this is because I *may* be willing to part with it cheap after I test the new Liberty and make sure it works well for me. The Hoyt bow has a quiver mount & quick release quiver, an adjustable spring-loaded arrow rest, a very nice Copper John Dead nuts sight (with 3 or 5 extra pins to go with it), limb dampeners, etc. The only thing "wrong" with the bow is that there is some rust on the screws that hold the rubber grip onto the riser, and elsewhere in a few places on some allen screws. You may want to put new clean screws in some places.

The bow shoots very well for me. I even have some arrows that shoot well with it, if you are interested in arrows - they are Easton 10.0 gpi, 29" 340 flex carbon shafts with inserts, nocks, and 4" QuickSpin vanes. I recently cranked the draw weight on the bow up to its max (70 lbs).

If I told your wife anything, it'd just be about how much you were able to save the marital household by the great deal you got. :)
 
FF - Keep me in mind. I am also looking at buying another recurve to start back down that path...

As hard as it is to explain having many rifles to the wife, explaining many bows is even harder...but luckily I have developed a pretty good line of BS that works - or at least she is nice enough to pretend it works.
 
P.S. On that Hoyt model, they don't make it anymore - I think it was discontinued in '00 or 01, so you probably won't find too much about it. Good bow however. I bought that bow brand new in the summer of 2004 - yes, it had sat on the shelf in the sporting goods store for 5 years. :eek: The price with quiver and all was marked $700, then marked out with $350 beside it, then again marked out with $175 on it, so I snapped it up. I hunted with it for 3 years, and then as I say, have put a new string/cables on it in July or August 2007.
 
Range report update - Huge thumbs up

Ok, shot it for the 1st time today (well, I shot 2 shots only a couple weeks back, but today first real practice session).

Lemme tell you, this bow shoots like a house afire!

First off, in the 1st 10 minutes just warming up before I had a chance to move my sights, I got an inkling the bow was consistent when this happened at 15.5 yards:

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2nd time this year I've doubled up. :mad: :p

So I quickly started shooting to different targets with each shot, and after about an hour of practice, I was doing this, again, at 15.5 yards:

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Not incredible, but I'm pretty sure the misses are me, not the bow.

So I cannot tell you how pleased I am. This bow is incredibly light and small, and shoots like it going out of style. VERY fast too - I'm gonna have to chrono to find out for sure, but the arrows get to the target nearly instantly. And these are 10.0 gpi arrows - roughly 490 grains total weight. They are Easton carbons, roughly .303", with 4" Quik-Spin vanes and 100 gr field points.

On the Quik-Spins: Yes, the fletchings quickly "wrinkled up" from going through the biscuit, as you can see in the picuture there - BUT, wrinkled or not wrinkled, they shot very well. The arrows fly straight & true, like a dart. They thump hard, penetrating the will-stop target deeply. The bow seems relatively quiet and completely vibration-free. Not much more you can ask for in a bow.

I will say this one caveat about the Liberty: Due to the rubbery handle set back from the riser (which creates a levering effect to the riser), ANY twist to your grip that twists the bow left or right will affect your shot, and it's easy to do. But, OTOH, due to cables being on BOTH sides of the string, it's easy to visually see that you're doing this and re-align. You have to use a loose grip on the handle so as not to twist it, then it shoots fine - a tad more important on this issue than with other bows.

Highly recommended - so who else is gonna get a liberty? :D :p
 

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Hold the Phone...

We hit a bump in the road - don't go run out and buy one just yet. Bit of a manufacturing flaw/defect discovered.

The top left limb is just a tad "lower" - bows out less than the top right. This causes the top cam to tilt left which is exacerbated with the draw. This offset cam in turn causes the cam stop/cable stop arms coming off the cam to "miss" the cables - it slips by allowing you to draw too far if you're not careful. It clicks when it does this as the arm slips by the cable. So bad limb situation by maybe 1/8". It's got a full lifetime warranty, so I'll be sending back under warranty service.

Probably want to wait & see whether they make this right before jumping in - though I'm sure they will (I hope so anyway).
 
Hmmkay, now (when I draw straight back), the cable stop is working well to line up and stop the cam - it's about 4/5ths lined up and 1/5th off, but that 4/5ths is enough to make it catch in the groove on the arm and sink in good and tight. The cam is tilted ever so slightly - barely enough to notice. I think I was drawing cock-eyed previously to make the problem worse. So I'll probably wait until after this hunting season to send it in for warranty work, so it will be awhile before I can report back on warranty service. But I *will* be able to report back on hunting success, or lack thereof sooner.

Oh, on the chronograph:

-My heavier arrows, Easton 340 flex, 10.0 gpi, which weigh 485 grains total, shot 251 fps.

-My lighter arrows, Easton Epic 400 flex, 8.7 gpi, which weight 403 grains total, shot right at 270 fps.

So not just superfast..... This is a 65-75 lb bow, and I've not adjusted it, and I honestly don't know what it's set on, but judging by how it feels to pull it compared to my other bow, I'd guess that right now it's set in the 65-68 lb range.

More on performance: With those heavier arrows with the quik spins, outstanding accuracy. But with those lighter arrows with Blazer vanes, for some reason I get inconsistent accuracy - I'm getting vertical stringing with those, over 10-12" - needless to stay, I'm going to stick with the 340s/quik-spins.
 
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LOL

You sold me on it long ago.
I just don't post since I can't even think about affording one for a long time.
 
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