Are you good with established bow companies producing bows with problems ???

The auto industry has recalls or bad models every year, no reason to believe another industry that uses mass production would not have the same issues.

 

It's not always a clearly defined line between low quality and a new product that simply has some bugs that need to be worked out.

Personally, I find
good value in new products that utilizes older technology. For example, it would be hard to find a poorly designed single cam bow from any of the major manufacturers. The technology and design is mature but still relevant. Because it's older tech, single cams are usually priced at half the cost of a new "flagship" that may or may not need some refinement.

 

No, I don't go over my bow with five calipers and a three hour check before I use it, I just grab it, look it over for anything obvious, gather up my stuff and go. It hits what I aim at and I've not lost any animals or had any tune issues or shot placement or other problems. It does what I need it to every time I have ever taken it out and my last bow did also. The only problems I've had in years were just related to me not using them very often and age. String stretch messing with cam timing, etc...

I've always heard these horror stories, rumors and whatnot but I've always been fortunate enough to not experience any of them with the exception of Bear bows back in the 90's.

 

A couple thoughts on this post:

What are you basing these problems off of, single cases, every bow, 10%... if the problem only affects 1% of the bows of the line, is it really a large systemic problem? I've been in manufacturing long enough to know that no matter how perfect you try and make everything, things happen. Designers have thousands of hours of testing and yet you can still find a specific manner in which there is an issue that was never accounted for.
We have to realize they sell tens of thousands of these bows (if not more, I've never seen sales numbers) and we only see tens of people with an issue. Not only that, how many of those issues are caused by the consumer, there's a small percentage of the overall issue there as well.

These companies are designing high complex products that have to be meticulously assembled with parts that have tighter than machining tolerances, then given to amateurs to run wild with. I'm not saying the issue lies in the consumer, I think it mostly lies within the design.

I know you say you're looking at it realistically, but are you?

 

I totally agree!

 

from 1972 to present have bought 5 bows, all worked great no complaints and still have 4 of them. guess I lucked out.