So four weeks after paying them SMG finally responded. A week later the bow was sent my way and another week later it arrived at my home. It´s a beautiful thing, a work of art. When strung it´s barely larger than the arrows I use with it. It´s light and well balanced, the grip is sturdy. It´s got a very subtle twist in the limbs meaning that rather than being centre-cut with a shelf it´s off-side limbed, making it a non-ambidextrous bow with less trouble from the archer´s paradox but more visually appearling than a centre-cut bow.
The limbs are the width of my thumb. It´s amazingly thin. The buffalo horn is awesome.
Unfortunately it´s also 5lbs heavier than what I ordered (Ordered 50 got one marked as 55) and it might be measured at a different distance (they say 31.8 inch) or heavier than that because it´s bloody heavy. I can barely draw it the 28 inches to my mouth, nevermind my usual 32 behind the ear. I actually can´t even shoot it. I can draw it back three times before my arms just blood fail me. It´s about 45+ lbs at 28 inches. I´m naturally quite slender and I´ve been going to the gym and I´m just going to draw and hold the bow for 10 times a day for a week so I´ll manage but this isn´t what I´d expect from such a company.
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In short, I´m rather torn on this thing. On the one hand it´s the most beautiful bow I´ve ever seen by quite some distance (TBF most people at my range shoot compounds, olympic recurves or english longbows) On the other hand the service from SMG has been dogshit. I also can´t actually say anything about the bow´s performance as I don´t think it´s wise for me to shoot it anytime soon. I do expect it to be very fast though with the thin limbs. It will also be very silent with the rubber string stops.
I´m afraid I can´t recommend anyone to buy the bow from SMG. I´d recommend throwing some extra money towards Freddy Wong and getting replied to within a day and hopefully a better attention to bow weight.
Thanks geoarcher.
