its here after around a 40 week wait

[hutcho]

the new bow is here!.. so here is the story of my day

I had a feeling that Australia Post would deliver the bow today. So even though I am flat out at work, I nipped out at lunchtime and drove home.

Open the letterbox and there is a small parcel and a "article awaiting collection" card rip open the parcel and look at my monster bow caps, damn they look better in real life than the pic's - and they looked good in the pics. :D :D :D

Jump back in the car and scoot on down to the post office -get to the front of the queue and the lovely lady at the post office check my ID, goes out the back and looks around a bit, then comes back and says " the delivery dude is not back yet, and if you look at the card you see you can pick it up after 4pm" (its 12.30 by then) AAARRRRGGGGGHHH so close but so near. :-(}} :-(}} :-(}}

Knowing that I am flat strap at work and won't get to the post office after 4.00pm, I ring the wife (who I must state clearly in a public forum is the best wife ever - I got Australia's good one :mrgreen: :mrgreen:) who agrees to leave her work early so she can pick it up and drive it to me at my work so that when I do finish I can run out to see Jase and Rory to get a rest, stabilier peep and what have you (already have a Spott Hogg, Hogg it) before they close.

[hutcho]

Well it never rains it pours.

Had a busy afternoon, finally get away from work and its 20 to five and the ArcheryShop shuts at 5.

Jump in the car get out to the shop - expecting "Vicki the legend" wife to meet me there - thanks to a last minute phonecall pointing her that direction rather than her meeting me at work.

Get to the shop and its after 5. and they are shut :-( :-( therefore no rest, peep or stabiliser :roll: Now I have to wait until Tuesday (did I mention Monday is a public holiday here in Canberra and the shop doesn't open on weekends) Oh well

Get home and 2 hungry and tired kids want dinner. Friday night is pizza night so I have to make dough, etc etc. Still haven't seen the box let alone the bow.

Dinner & dishes sorted by 7.30 get the box out of the wifes car grab a brew and open it up (the brew and the box). :-):-)

First impresssions,

glad I changed from the spring to the autumn camo as that looks awesome,
damn its light,
Draw it back. far out I might have got mike the builder to set it a bit high, but damn its smooth.
OK now let it down......nope........ nope...... heck there it goes :oops: (luckily no dry fire) OK. do it again several times and yep still smooth with such a great let of and solid wall front and rear.
OK lets put the Spot Hogg Hogg it I got of the kids for Christmas yep, looks great. can't stop there
mmnn need an arrow rest, what have I got, hey thats right my 1991 Hoyt Spectra lite hunter that I decommissioned still had a stuffed plunger and magnetic flipper rest. heck that'll do.
So in the best impression of Emmett Lathrop Brown I get the tools and away we go - I know it an't gunna be pretty, but at least I can shoot the sucker.
Grab the practice butt, heck what arrows can I use- empty the spares quiver and find old carbon express 250 spine -might be a bit light and look too short.
grab a handful of 55/75 goldtip heritage with feathers (my longbow arrows) that'll do donkey I say to myself.
let loose a handful of shots and my thoughts are " it seems to shoot fast for a 300fps IBO bow, sounds a little louder than my longbow, but thats expected. seems to roll back towards me on the shot, a stabiliser will fix that.

Was it worth the wait, on first impressions Hell yeah!!!! I am really looking forward to getting bits on it and shooting a round or two with it and then taking it out after some ferals.

Now for the man law component.

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[sparra_gump]

Good to hear mate don't ya just hate the whole "the delivery dude is not back yet".


SG.

[hutcho]

sparra, I was fairly pissed when she threw that old chesnut my direction but going postal doesn't acheive anything (bad pun I know)

I figure I waited this long, and I can't shoot this weekend as I am heading away for a 30th so I reckon not having it ready is the lesser of two evils - could you imagine having waited this long and having it sorted and sitting at home calling out to you to take it out and play with it.

[Ben Kleinig]

Wow! Is Monster Bow a seperate entity to Oneida? If they make the 100th sequel to "Lord of the Rings", I reckon they'll have a Monster Bow knocking the Orks off!

Anyway, aren't new toys great! All the best with it, and I hope to see some trophy photos with the new Monster Bow!

Cheers,

Ben

[EcoMuse]

I cant work that bow out...is it one string or two??

Oh and I love the finish, looks sweet!

[hutcho]

Ben - They are not associated with Oneida. I think there might have been an association in the past but at the moment, nothing to do with Claude Pollington.

Eco - 1 string, the cables that tie the power limbs (closest to the riser) both join and finish on the same limb so it passes over the back of the other limb (starts at bottom limb - goes to top limb and across the top limb before joining the bottom limb again, top limb is the reverse of that.

You can sort of see if where the bow is sitting on the kids lap, the distance between the cables is more than enough to shoot blazers without interference and you can grip the bow without the cable touching your arm -even during the shot.

the way it is set up there is no cable guard so no torque associated with that, and its true centreshot top to bottom and left to right. when you shoot it there is no rear input from the bow, you think about touching the release aide and the arrow is in the target. - well from the 20 or so shots I got out of it tonight.

The camo is smick.

Cheers

Pete

[XTfreak]

Nice looking bow sir...
Bill

[aussoldat]

looks great, you will have plenty of fun with that one.

[howie]

Wow, you got two bows for the one price, recurve limbs and the rest compound. Hope you have heaps of fun with it.........

[spiderbait24]

i love the look of those bows mate, does it have let off, if so how much.

[Sparra]

Nice looking bow sir...
Bill

You think??? ...I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder...Good luck with it but not for me i'm afraid....
Cheers...Sparra

[peter h]

Hi, Hutcho, did you buy the bow as new or was it a bow you had then had it " monsterised " ? the reason I ask is that I have a Discovery Intensity bow bought about 1999 which looks like a longer version of yours, in fact yours looks like the original Discovery except the power cable set has changed, in fact it looks like a far more effecient cable set up as the old style went thru cables a bit quicker than normal but not as quick as the early Oeinida's. I loved the way these bows shoot but I mothballed it when the company suddenly stopped trading. These bows were "invented " by the original Oienida guy who sold out to Pollington, then redeveloped the Discovery bows enjoy it as it is very unique.regards Pete.

[Jake (Nomad)]

what the hell is that? it looks like a compound bow with recurve attachments!!! i wonder if you can go the full monty and turn it into a longbow!!! :) haha, good bow mate, neva seen one lik that before though. let us know how she shoots!!!

Jake

[baconbuster007]

looks like an oenida???? i think they make bows similar? Is it nice and accurate to shoot mate?

[Sneaky Pete]

Congrats on the new bow- I love new toys. The question has never occurred to me until looking at your photos, but are these bows classed as a compound, a recurve, or something else?

[Sneaky Pete]

Oh yeah- and I LOVE getting those little parcel slips in the mailbox!

[hutcho]

its a compound, and I bought it new, my dad had a firebrand discovery that was great in principle but poorly executed. These have fixed all the things wrong with the firebrands.

Danny - let is adjustable from somewhere near 0% to 92%

Currently it is set at 92% let off and somewhere between 65-75lb.

only put a few arra's through it at the moment, gotta get a rest and a few other bits and bobs.

I reckon the look grows on you, but then I am a bit biased seeing as I bought one!..

[Sticky]

hi mate
Belive it or not ive see you pull that bow back. I was there when you brought that bow into archery suppliers. My two brothers and I were getting our bows paper tuned. From the picture i realise where i had seen the bow. How's she shooting ?

[hutcho]

hi mate
Belive it or not ive see you pull that bow back. I was there when you brought that bow into archery suppliers. My two brothers and I were getting our bows paper tuned. From the picture i realise where i had seen the bow. How's she shooting ?

very sweet.

I have put close to 1000 arrows through it and it is just easy to shoot.

Did you get your's paper tuned in the end?

[XTfreak]

You think??? ...I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder...Good luck with it but not for me i'm afraid....
Cheers...Sparra
I was being polite:D
Bill

[Sticky]

Ye my bow got paper tuned fine but my oldest brother is still having trouble with his, and his bow is the most expensive ..lol

very sweet.

I have put close to 1000 arrows through it and it is just easy to shoot.

Did you get your's paper tuned in the end?