Ha! Just got my first proper comment and it is just the type of thing I have been looking for:

This comment was posted by Anonymous

Hi there, 
I just found your blog. I once shot a revolution, but then I sold it and bought a Hoyt Nexus. That is, because (now I don´t want to frighten you) I know 2 guys who had the same riser, and theirs broke. The crack was located at the first long hole above the grip at the outer plate.

Before that, the screws which connect the rubber pieces and the three aluminium plates, cracked too and we replaced them with stronger ones.

Have you ever heard of problems like that?

Greetings from Germany


If you read the first post on this blog you will get some info and early problems with the Revolution. I will  try to get some more information as to when these risers were bought and if they were fiddled with.

Any questions or requests

Now I know people are reading this blog, but don't know if you are finding it helpful informative or just a load of tripe. So come on guys give me just a little bit of feed back, put me right if I have it wrong or if you want some more info on the Revolution I might be able to help or know a man who can. As I have said all comments will be posted as long as they are not offencive and I would be happy for my son to read them.  

I did it I went and put a clicker on...

Oh well I went and did it I put a clicker on my bow and my what a hateful beastie it is. But having been asked to be part of the league team I thought I better do all I can to improve my scores.

 I have seen lots of people struggling to get through the clicker but never appreciated just how bad it can be, well hello. 

I got my clicker setup with some help from another member at our club, never having used one before I needed a few tips. He then got me shooting with it and the first half dozen or so were fine and I was thinking 'what is all the fuss about', well yeah you can guess what happened next. I found out just how inconsistent my draw is, first I pulled one through the clicker then the next three or so I stopped short and just stood there straining to get though the clicker just like all those people I have watched in the pasted and thought 'what's all the fuss about'. 

So that was yesterday and today I have an aching shoulder and a stiff back from only shooting about five dozen arrows......oh the joys I have to come.

But in the long run I am sure it will improve my archery and as they say "what ever does not kill you makes you stronger"...to which my son always responds "what about farts dad?".

Little update

Not shot for a while, I have been asked to captain our league team this year, but because of a clerical cock up...not my fault we are not in it this year. So we will use this year to get our team sorted and hopefully bring a few new faces into it for next year. Also in June we will be having an open western that normally has a good turn out so that should be fun.

Getting more views but still no comments, I will approve all comments good or bad but will make sure there is nothing I would not want my son to read.

What to do....

Hmm... struggling for consistency my biggest problem is height, a clicker would solve the problem I am sure but I really don't want to go down that road, I have seen too many archers up at full draw struggling to get through the clicker. But it would help with my consistency so what to do what to do. 

Hello again,

I went out and shot an Albion round on Wednesday my second long round of the year so far and I was quite pleased, my score was 607. Last season I had managed to get to a personal best of 701 but then I did not shoot for about eight weeks and that put me back a bit and the winter set in and well you know how it goes. But now it is a new season and I am going to get my first class classification this year ( I think). I managed to get some groups of three four and on one end five arrows out at 80 yards, which is nice because now I can start to get my sight setup properly. I see so many people adjusting  their sight almost every end and sometimes every arrow, what is that about?

You cannot get you sight adjusted unless you have a group, otherwise it just does not work and all you do is chase your arrows around the boss. Once you have a group (all your arrows don't need to so close that they are touching as long as they are all in an area maybe a foot in diameter that's a group) you are shooting consistently and  then you can adjust your sight so that they are centred around the gold.