So I guess I'm looking for sympathy or a spot to vent or both so here it is.
Picked up a bow almost 3 years ago, a used PSE decree dream season to see if I would like archery. After about 2 years I'm totally hooked and I've learned a bit of things about what bow specs I might like so I decide to buy a brand new bow this past January.
I tried a few but the Axius ultra was already on the short list because of the specs and the fact that the Hoyts are supposed to be durable. I wanted the aluminum riser over the carbon fibre because eventually something will happen and the carbon will crack. Most likely from me being an idiot.
Sure enough it's the one I want but the one they had at the shop was a 65 lb and I want a 70 lb. I'm finally getting old I guess and order the 70 lb one instead of giving in to the lust for the one I could have taken home that day. I was told 6-8 weeks on January 23rd. It ends up taking 13 weeks and I take it home on April 22nd.
By this time I can only shoot in the garage since the range is closed from covid and I don't have everything put together yet, still need to find a sight, new arrows, and other goodies. Plus I'm still working full time, my wife works shift work and is in the part of her schedule that seems like she is working every weekend so I can't get out into the woods to shoot on the weekends. I've also sold off my old bow to buy more stuff for the new one...
Finally mid June the range is open, all the bits and pieces I ordered that took forever to ship are here. Just one more weekend of my son's spring hockey that was condensed to make up for lost time and then I can get to the range and start getting this thing (more importantly myself) really tuned up for hunting season.
Oh shit what's that? a splinter on one of the limbs. This thing hasn't left my garage. I email pics to the shop the next day and he gets back to me right away, don't worry it's covered under warranty, he gets the claim going. Probably about 3 weeks.
Here's where I messed up. When I registered the bow I missed one number in the serial number (I wrote the correct number in the owners manual so it was a typo but still got a conformation email) The distributor couldn't get the claim started because they said it wasn't registered but they never went back and told the shop I bought it from that the number was wrong. I found out 2 weeks after contacting him when I followed up and he looked into it.
I first contacted my local dealer just over 6 weeks ago about the limb splinter. Apparently he got tracking info from the distributor a couple days ago for my replacement limbs. This was two weeks after he told me the distributor had apparently received the limbs. Archery season in BC is 3.5 weeks away and runs from September 1-9. I ordered this bow last January and have not shot it outside of my garage. It's still in the shop waiting for new limbs.
I know I messed up the S/N but I'm pretty upset at the initial 5 week wait on top of the 6-8 I was told for my "durable" bow that has now been waiting over 6 weeks for replacement limbs. Why would the website accept a S/N missing a number in the first place?
Thanks for making it this far. You may now bombard me with memes involving the whaaaaaaamulance, of offer me some cries to go along with my whaaaamburger.
I guess I should have kept the old bow.
Picked up a bow almost 3 years ago, a used PSE decree dream season to see if I would like archery. After about 2 years I'm totally hooked and I've learned a bit of things about what bow specs I might like so I decide to buy a brand new bow this past January.
I tried a few but the Axius ultra was already on the short list because of the specs and the fact that the Hoyts are supposed to be durable. I wanted the aluminum riser over the carbon fibre because eventually something will happen and the carbon will crack. Most likely from me being an idiot.
Sure enough it's the one I want but the one they had at the shop was a 65 lb and I want a 70 lb. I'm finally getting old I guess and order the 70 lb one instead of giving in to the lust for the one I could have taken home that day. I was told 6-8 weeks on January 23rd. It ends up taking 13 weeks and I take it home on April 22nd.
By this time I can only shoot in the garage since the range is closed from covid and I don't have everything put together yet, still need to find a sight, new arrows, and other goodies. Plus I'm still working full time, my wife works shift work and is in the part of her schedule that seems like she is working every weekend so I can't get out into the woods to shoot on the weekends. I've also sold off my old bow to buy more stuff for the new one...
Finally mid June the range is open, all the bits and pieces I ordered that took forever to ship are here. Just one more weekend of my son's spring hockey that was condensed to make up for lost time and then I can get to the range and start getting this thing (more importantly myself) really tuned up for hunting season.
Oh shit what's that? a splinter on one of the limbs. This thing hasn't left my garage. I email pics to the shop the next day and he gets back to me right away, don't worry it's covered under warranty, he gets the claim going. Probably about 3 weeks.
Here's where I messed up. When I registered the bow I missed one number in the serial number (I wrote the correct number in the owners manual so it was a typo but still got a conformation email) The distributor couldn't get the claim started because they said it wasn't registered but they never went back and told the shop I bought it from that the number was wrong. I found out 2 weeks after contacting him when I followed up and he looked into it.
I first contacted my local dealer just over 6 weeks ago about the limb splinter. Apparently he got tracking info from the distributor a couple days ago for my replacement limbs. This was two weeks after he told me the distributor had apparently received the limbs. Archery season in BC is 3.5 weeks away and runs from September 1-9. I ordered this bow last January and have not shot it outside of my garage. It's still in the shop waiting for new limbs.
I know I messed up the S/N but I'm pretty upset at the initial 5 week wait on top of the 6-8 I was told for my "durable" bow that has now been waiting over 6 weeks for replacement limbs. Why would the website accept a S/N missing a number in the first place?
Thanks for making it this far. You may now bombard me with memes involving the whaaaaaaamulance, of offer me some cries to go along with my whaaaamburger.
I guess I should have kept the old bow.
