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Do you have a spare bow?

Do you have a back up bow?

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I have a recurve. My backup is a pse brute force. Then if I can’t hit anything with either of those I also have a crossbow. The pse was on clearance at cabelas. It replaced a Mathews fx. Even though the brute force was a budget bow I feel it was a step up from the Mathews. The only thing I don’t like about the brute is the limbs are past parallel. My next bow will accept the use of the bow master press.
 
I have 2 bows set up exactly the same. I don't consider one a primary and one a backup as I shoot / hunt with both, I alternate between them.

Having 2 bows saved my hunting vacation one year. I was trying to shoot a turkey that was behind me and I had to duck and shoot at a weird angle. Bottom limb / cam hit the seat of the treestand and it folded that cam over like a pretzel which then derailed the bow. This was a Saturday morning & my week long hunting vacation started Monday. I climbed out of the stand, headed directly to the shop and left broke bow with them. Headed for the house, picked up second bow & lunch and was back in the stand within 2 hours. Killed a buck that week.
 
Only cause I needed a good excuse to justify something new when my wife asked. Now my "old" bow is there as a "backup". Kinda like Robin is to Batman, it's there but it will never be the hero that it wants to be.

-Chuck
 
I usually have a backup but don’t this year blew my budget on Muzzleloaders.............. I’m running lean but that’s ok.
 
Never owned more than one bow at a time until this year when I decided I needed a backup as sort of a season saver should my primary bow get injured. Then my ocd kicked in and now I own three bows!
 
MattMan81 said:
I see this mentioned here and there. A Spare or back up Bow. I never really heard of it until I came on here. Just curious how many people actually do.
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A as in singular? No. But I may have some backup bows


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Yeah I definitely like to have a backup for just in case. Although my current backup doesn’t have a rest on it, but that will be corrected this week. And I just bought a backup bow off AT in a fit of weakness. So I’m joining the multiple backups club!


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Cant vote because you don't have the correct answer. I would love a back up bow but I cant justify or afford it. My wife is left handed so I could use her bow in a major pinch. I don't go on trips so if my bow did fall or somehow break I could be up and running rather quickly. I have an insurance policy with a zero dollar deductible so it wouldn't cost me anything either unless I derailed it then if might but if was because it fell out of the stand or I dropped it I am covered.
 
Didn't, do now. Got in a pinch last year right before the season, from now on I always will.

It would help if there was a bow tech within 200 miles that I trusted to do good work, still searching for that.
 
I used to have several "backups" when I shot compounds, then I stopped buying the latest and greatest every year in favor of last years flagship. Wait a year and you'll be able to find extra limbs, cams, what have you and then you'll have spares should something break. I've cracked limbs on both compounds and recurves during the season and its as easy as a limb swap to get back in the game and not miss much, if any time.
 
I have a Switchback XT as a back-up but also use as a bowfishing rig occasionally. I keep the Halon in pretty much tip-top shape. Too expensive anymore to have two unless you have recently upgraded and kept your old one.
 
Like a lot of others, I kept my previous setup after buying my new one. It's untouched from when I hunted last, as I wanted it dialed in in the event it was ever needed. I picked up a used one from a guy I worked with a while back and converted it to a bow fishing setup, but kept all the old items if I ever needed it, someone else needed a setup, or when my son grows into it.
 
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