Pleasently Surprised
So last weekend I helped a fellow HBC member set up his new bow, He got it at Wholesale in Edmonton, had a shop set put a loop on it and put his old acc on it .... He decided to get new arrows and new accesories so he asked me to help him out ... got some Beman MFX arrows (Easton slimtechs with a differant label and 2/3rds the price) a new Whisker Bisquit, and I gave him a sight I had lying around ... at the end of the day the bow was re-tuned and re-looped for the new accesories.
70 pound Fred Bear Truth 2 flings Beman MFX 340s weighing in at 439 grains 275 feet per second (according to my F-1 Chrony) generating about 73 pounds of KE hitting power. It is a fairly silent bow as well with 2 string stoppers. I am personally not a fan of the string stoppers on that particular bow as they seem to not capture the string all the time after the shot ... very similar to the original 2008 bowtech Airborne factory stopper(the string wont always come to rest in the stoppers cradle ). It is a fairly easy bow to work on as its a single cam design however I reccomend replacing the factory string with a quality hand made string as the serving will separate very quickly with the agressive lobe on the cam(something I reccomend anyway for any new bow ... as you typically gain performance over factory string)
This is my first expiriance with a Fred Bear Truth 2 bow and was pleasently surprised as in the past Fred Bear bows have been piles of junk better suited for boat anchors in my personal opinion (extremly hard to tune properly and in a few cases not well cast or machined whichever the case maybe ... holes tapped crooked etc....)
For someone wanting to get into Archery cheaply I will adding this bow to my list of reccomedations Based on Steves new bow .... I hope he didnt get lucky and all are good
A true Archery Nut
Willing to help and answer archery related questions to the best of my ability ...all you gotta do is ask