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Post by ff1126 on Apr 1, 2013 22:53:45 GMT -5
Just dropped my bow off at archery shop to get a new string and cables. He is going to put a new peep and loop on for me too. Total cost was $144. Just wondering if I got rolled??? Its for a Hoyt bow and it is a custom string. What do you think???  |
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Post by ms660 on Apr 2, 2013 1:20:10 GMT -5
Just dropped my bow off at archery shop to get a new string and cables. He is going to put a new peep and loop on for me too. Total cost was $144. Just wondering if I got rolled??? Its for a Hoyt bow and it is a custom string. What do you think??? Sounds like a good deal to me . Is he going to tune it after the install? Hope your shooting X's when you get it back. |
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Post by sakorifle on Apr 2, 2013 5:42:22 GMT -5
just priced getting the job done on the hoyt viper xt 2000, in England
They are asking 60 pound which is 91.34 dollars then i will have to pay shipping to them as there are very few bow shops over here, they will make there own strings for that price.
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Post by oggie on Apr 2, 2013 17:47:58 GMT -5
I have never put on a string and cable for that of money usual cost is between $60 to $90 thats with paper tuning it.
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Post by trapperdave on Apr 4, 2013 17:28:16 GMT -5
my strings cost less than 20 for FF  yet another perk of traditional lol |
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Post by scrub-buster on Apr 25, 2013 19:47:49 GMT -5
Good one Trapperdave. I buy my strings by the spool.
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Post by Russ Koon on Apr 30, 2013 11:23:48 GMT -5
Price sounds right in the ballpark as normal pricing from a decent pro shop.
Last string I bought was about three years ago, and the string and bus cables for my Mathews was, IIRC, about $90 to my door, for a Vapor Trail string that looked very good and shot nicely.
Unfortunately, I didn't get to assess its durability, as the bow was stolen a couple weeks later.
Add to that the price of the peep and loop, and the shop rate for installation, and a few percent for sales tax and inflation during the last three years, and the total seems right.
If the job was done correctly and the string quality proves to be average or above, I'd say you were served well and should be satisfied with the deal. Maybe not a steal, but certainly no gouging.
Final tuning tweaks should always be done by the shooter. The best to be expected from even the best shops will be to duplicate the settings that you had when you brought the bow in, or to set everything to exact factory specs. That's probably going to be satisfactory for the average shooter, but if you have some slightly unusual form or fit issues or technique that differs from the average, you may need to change a few details to zero things in, just as you would to regain target accuracy with a good rifle after having a good gun shop mount a new scope.
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Post by nodog on Jun 23, 2013 14:39:21 GMT -5
Takes 5 minutes to put on a set. If the set was 60 bucks that leaves 80 left. Given that you will return to the shop for adjustments and given that it won't be given the attention needed to make it perform at it's peak, from now on buy a press and learn to do it yourself. You'll be way better off.
If your like 99% of Americans these days who don't know a allen wrench from a star drive, your getting a heck of a deal and will never know different anyways.
If you don't have to return 3 times to the shop so that all is right, you got a good deal.
When you get the bow back measure the ATA, if it is what it's supposed to be the shop did more than just slap on a set of strings. Takes adjusting the strings to get the ata right.
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