KAP Evolution II riser

Renegade_Archer

Hi guys,


Was browsing the news section on altservices and came accross this riser, its 71.06eur , and heres the thing: IT TAKES INTERNATIONAL FITTING LIMBS. If you have any newbies out there who want to get their own gear you might want to point them in this direction. This riser with limbs comes to 150.72eur... not bad at all.






Regards


Ewan

halenger

Nicely spotted...

Looks like an old Carbofast one if I remember correctly.

Did you shoot one like that all those years ago in Blackheath Ciaran? It looks very familiar to me.

Renegade_Archer

Ive shot a few carbofast bows in my time, Ive never seen(a metal one at least) that looks like this... then again the only metal Carbofast one Im aware of is the Setanta.

halenger

I'm pretty sure it was carbofast and it would be at least 8 years ago.

Ciaran would remember I'm sure. Twas when I was back at Blackheath anyhow. I'm pretty sure it was his first bow too. That or it was my Dad's first one but my memory fails me on that one. Tis definately the right colour to be one of theirs.

The Sin

No it's defo not Ciaran's first bow, I know because it passed to me and was WAY WAY crapper than that one & didn't take international limbs. I passed it on to another and it was passed recently to yet another at which time the bow decided it had enough and cracked just below the top limb pocket. A tragic loss as far as I'm concerned, that bow had an interesting pedigree!!!!

Anyone else got a tragic story of a bow/riser cut down in it's prime!?

halenger

Well I was talking about the colour and the style too. I wouldn't imagine it was international fitting limbs.

Does it look remotely like it or is it someone elses bow I'm thinking of??

Renegade_Archer

Originally posted by The Sin

Anyone else got a tragic story of a bow/riser cut down in it's prime!?

Yeah if memory serves Colton's first wooden bow gave up on him a few days after he got it... delaminated if I remember correctly..also the day after I got my hands on an Emerald Star II the bushing that the pressure button screws into came loose.

I also managed to catch my quiver in a door and break three X7s, back when X7s were the dogs bollocks.

Nigel (guy with glasses, back in the early days of WHAT) also managed to total 8 new E75s when a target fell over.

Sean Cahill also had his PSE limbs (the bottom one) crack a few days before the Euronations in 2000.

I also saw a TenStar compound break in half beside me on the line a few years back.

I also remember Bolger managed to catch a limb in the door at the 2000 EuroNations, but if I remember the limb came out OK.

Hmmm... anything else... I remember O'Leary got his hands on this really el cheapo carbon stabilisation when he was in France.. couple of weeks later the rod detached from the bottom bushing as he shot, the entire stabilisation launched towards the target.

At a dublin archers shoot in 2002 or 3 I managed to release half way through the draw, X7 went hurtling towards the target, it hit the wooden bar at the bottom, broke in 2, bottom half came spinning back and landed at the feet of Bolger's Da. Still managed 2nd place that day

At another dublin archers shoot a few years back, I managed to goose it and hit the 3 or 4 (at 18 metres.. oh yes), and hit the metal bar going down the side of the target. Put a 25deg bend in the arrow.

Managed to wreck 12ACCs in one season back in 98/99 by shooting really crap on an all-weather hockey pitch.

halenger

Erm... Fun stuff?

mr potato head

don't forget i had limbs delaminate too.... ah the memorys!
yep if any manufacturer needed to find a fault with gear the people at wilsons could always find them!

Reku

Sure I had a few carbon arrows (CXL Selects) break on me about an inch back from the tip, probably didn't help that I'd shot them through a mobile phone but that's beside the point!

Aryzel

the target in my back garden is supported with an empty beer keg, which was fine until the the target started to get soft. In one round 4 arrows with through the target and the keg snaped the tops.

Of course then there is always the fun of testing old club equipment, it might look ok but that does stop it exploding in your hand.

Renegade_Archer

Reminds me of a guy i knew in school called Philip Tompkins, he picked up a new club bow WHAT got, took a shot, and the top limb pocket came off and nearly decapitated him Sliced his wrist watch off, other that he escaped ok. He never shot again though

Aryzel

bah, you can't let almost certain death or horrific maiming stop you from archery :P