I've been wanting to try taking off the wheels for a while now, and found a bow on the book of faces for a song, so just sent off my payment and should have a sage range master heading my way shortly. It's a 66" Sage range master, From the small amount of research I've done, looks like this bow was built in the early 60s, before sage was bought by Shakespeare, nothing too special, but should be good enough to learn on. I was attracted to the length as a beginner as the internet tells me longer bows are more forgiving, particularly at longer draw lengths, and my draw length should be around 29 inches. Bow is sold as 39# @28, so a little higher # than what I was aiming for for the first one but I'm in my late 30s and I'm no bodybuilder but I think I'm strong enough to learn on this bow, can always buy a 20-30 lb sage next month if this turns out to be the wrong bow for me to start with. I will try to video myself and post on here/tradgang from the beginning, as I'm sure there will be form mistakes to correct.
I do NOT plan on hunting with this specific bow at the moment, though I would like to hunt with trad bow(s) in the future. Not sure if I'll hunt at all next season with trad equipment, it all depends on how much practice I get this off season and how comfortable I feel with it. I'm keeping my compound and HC mini, and will hunt with them as archery hunting has already been hard enough with that equipment.
Next step is buying some target practice arrows to shoot and a glove/tab (and a forearm guard). And a quiver I guess, though I can do the same as my practice compound arrows and use the box they came in at first if need be. If anyone has recommendations for those items I'm all ears.
I am going to try 3 under to start with, though I'm sure there will be some split finger attempts and such as well as I start learning to shoot fingers and figuring out what feels good to me.
Thanks, I'm not sure what questions I will have yet, but please feel free to treat me like a complete newbie, I have thick skin and would rather be directly told that I'm doing something wrong/making poor choices now while it's easier to correct than in the future. Perhaps I've already learned bad form from teaching myself to draw a compound and it'll show up even more without the training wheels, like I said, the only real way for me to know is to video myself and get your feedback.
I will add some photos when it arrives, these ones from the seller basically just establish that it's a bow. It's been refinished so I'm not expecting a beauty.
Edit-: I won't be offended if it turns out this bow is a POS, I didn't spend much on it so feel free to share your opinions, good or bad. I was somewhat wary of buying a refinished bow- hiding cracks or delams or whatnot but it was cheap enough to go for it.
I do NOT plan on hunting with this specific bow at the moment, though I would like to hunt with trad bow(s) in the future. Not sure if I'll hunt at all next season with trad equipment, it all depends on how much practice I get this off season and how comfortable I feel with it. I'm keeping my compound and HC mini, and will hunt with them as archery hunting has already been hard enough with that equipment.
Next step is buying some target practice arrows to shoot and a glove/tab (and a forearm guard). And a quiver I guess, though I can do the same as my practice compound arrows and use the box they came in at first if need be. If anyone has recommendations for those items I'm all ears.
I am going to try 3 under to start with, though I'm sure there will be some split finger attempts and such as well as I start learning to shoot fingers and figuring out what feels good to me.
Thanks, I'm not sure what questions I will have yet, but please feel free to treat me like a complete newbie, I have thick skin and would rather be directly told that I'm doing something wrong/making poor choices now while it's easier to correct than in the future. Perhaps I've already learned bad form from teaching myself to draw a compound and it'll show up even more without the training wheels, like I said, the only real way for me to know is to video myself and get your feedback.
I will add some photos when it arrives, these ones from the seller basically just establish that it's a bow. It's been refinished so I'm not expecting a beauty.
Edit-: I won't be offended if it turns out this bow is a POS, I didn't spend much on it so feel free to share your opinions, good or bad. I was somewhat wary of buying a refinished bow- hiding cracks or delams or whatnot but it was cheap enough to go for it.
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