Robhannig4
FNG
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- May 8, 2020
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Help! I’m disgusted to even have to post this but I finally picked up my new Mathews VXR 28 two days ago and absolutely love it. I handed my old bow over to a family member who is new to archery and gave him my old release. In my haste to get my new VXR tuned I needed a new release and picked one up at a Cabela’s near my house (big mistake). After about 100 arrows I was in a full draw with an arrow nocked when the Cabela’s bought release crumbled into several pieces causing me to lose my grip. The remainder of the release which was still attached to the D-loop traveled forward at an obvious, very high rate of speed contacting my QAD drop away rest and destroying it immediately. By the time I realized what happened the arrow was long gone and I saw pieces of the release landing about 40’ from where I was standing. The worst part is the strings came off the cams and made an awful sound. I can’t tell anything is obviously damaged on the limbs and cams but I am concerned there is serious damage that I cannot see. My first course of action is to see if Cabela’s is willing to right this problem but I am not very hopeful. I am curious what everyone thinks about the bow and what I should do next? Again the whole set up is two days old and the POS release was only 1 day old! Thanks for your help and advice!
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