chuffalump
Well-known member
After a couple of doldrums years with my recurve I'm thinking about buying a compound to switch things around a bit. The idea isn't to move away from recurve, although that may happen, but to jolt my brain out of some of its bad habits. I can swap between my recurve, horsebow and the compound.
Obviously I wouldn't want to spend a fortune for something that may only be a change of pace. On the other hand, some quality would be nice.
I was looking at the PSE Stinger but have an illogical dislike of single cam bows. Maybe the lack of symmetry bothers me. I then looked at the Kinetic range. Cheep with reasonable reviews but no sign of a manufacturers website at all. I suspect that this means they are the low end side of a well known manufacturers range or, more likely, a Chinese brand.
So...they may be reasonable value for money but what about spares and repairs? New cables and strings? New cams? Limbs (in the worst case)? Can we assume that the archery shops have the contacts to get hold of these?
Anyone had experience with replacing OEM bits on budget bows? Are compound parts in general pretty reliable? Maybe most people never have to replace anything except string and cables which you can get custom made?
Obviously I wouldn't want to spend a fortune for something that may only be a change of pace. On the other hand, some quality would be nice.
I was looking at the PSE Stinger but have an illogical dislike of single cam bows. Maybe the lack of symmetry bothers me. I then looked at the Kinetic range. Cheep with reasonable reviews but no sign of a manufacturers website at all. I suspect that this means they are the low end side of a well known manufacturers range or, more likely, a Chinese brand.
So...they may be reasonable value for money but what about spares and repairs? New cables and strings? New cams? Limbs (in the worst case)? Can we assume that the archery shops have the contacts to get hold of these?
Anyone had experience with replacing OEM bits on budget bows? Are compound parts in general pretty reliable? Maybe most people never have to replace anything except string and cables which you can get custom made?