The Craze is a great bow to get you into shooting!!! Good choice brother
Congrats and welcome to the addiction
Congrats and welcome to the addiction
Well we got back from checking out a few places and a few bows today.
H&H were super helpful and taught us a ton of info. We really wanted to throw money at them but didn't seem to fall in love with any of the bows.
Heartland Outdoors was a waste of time and gas. If we hadn't gone and eaten at Teds the trip would have been a total loss.
The guys at Oklahoma Archery were both knowledgeable and helpful. In the end they won our business buy having something that we really liked, letting us try several different things and adjusting a few bows up for each of us to try out, answering tons of our probably stupid questions and just being friendly.
In the end we both ended up with the Mission Craze. It seemed nicer than the Diamond Edge. I loved the Mission Ballistic but Couldn't talk myself into spending that kind of cash yet. The wife also found a Hoyt Ruckus she went back and forth on but decided the Craze was just smoother for her.
If anyone else is reading this thread and thinking about getting into archery like we were make sure you go and talk to the guys at the H&H archery counter and the guys at Oklahoma Archery. H&H archery was truly nothing like their gun counters so even if your a skeptic give them a try. AVOID Heartland at all costs.
Just out of curiosity what happened at Heartland? Also, I'm interested in getting started with a bow. If you don't mind me asking, how much did a start up rig cost you?
At heartland my wife got a lot of help but she felt like she kept getting pushed into a bow, the guy was nice enough and truly did help her and kept adjusting bows for her to get her set up so he was good there. After she did her setup and was trying to decide between a hoyt rucus and the mission craze it became my turn. As I tried to ask questions and get a feel for things I just didn't get many answers. I am left handed and since they only had 3 kinds of left handed bows in the shop I for sure getting pushed into what was in stock. Worse yet it was like I was expected to buy one but I never got to even pull one back. The guy never even offered me a practice release or cut the zip tie off the bow so that I could pull it. the part that pissed me off was the guy asked us to excuse him for just a moment, no problem, maybe has to pee. He went into the employees only room for a good 5 min. came back out and looked around for 20 seconds, and then went back in. He was in there long enough that I convinced my wife to just leave which is never an easy task, and long enough that I could get our 2 year old packed up and out the door without him ever knowing we left. Oh and I forgot about the 4 other customers that he stopped helping us so that he could help them. Piss poor customer service all around.
As far as out the door price we were $1120. That includes 2 mission craze bows, 2 packages that include a sight-whisker biscuit-quiver-peep sight- and truglo stabalizer, 1/2 dozen junior arrows for the wife, and 1/2 dozen gold tip arrows for me, 2 realeases and we couldn't just take the cheap releases, we had to have adjustable and the wife had to have pink. Plus you can never forget .gov gets their cut in that.
To top it all off and seal the deal Oklahoma archery gave us a small cut arrow that the little girl could play with. They didn't have to do that as we were about to buy a $2 junior arrow for her to keep her happy and they could just enjoyed the extra profits. little things like that are why they got our money
Some people may think this is risky, but if you can get someone to check out a used bow and make sure it's okay, I'd suggest getting a used bow. They are so much cheaper.
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