From: Jinkster
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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One was custom ordered back in Dec. 2016 but the other?...was one I was drooling over and came as a last minute surprise decision where the bowyer worked with me to make it happen.
The Custom Ordered One:
Is a Borders Hex7.5 Limbed Covert Hunter.
The Last Minute Decision Surprise One:
Is a 25" Borders Tempest Riser Equipped w/ Hex7 ILF Limbs.
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From: Jinkster
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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and the risers sure are...
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From: Jinkster
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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well sorted...
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From: Jinkster
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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But I needed to focus on getting the one I'll be shooting at TBOF next weekend assembled...
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From: Jinkster
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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It's 21" Phenolic/Shedua riser is quite the handful...
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From: Jinkster
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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But thankfully it's got a real nice grip...
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From: Jinkster
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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and a wild unstrung profile...
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From: Jinkster
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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The first 5 arrow 15yd group looked promising...
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From: Jinkster
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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But it did even better with lighter spined arrows...
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From: Jinkster
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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and not too shabby at all from 25yds...
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From: Jinkster
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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Seems I'm getting it back far enough...
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From: Jinkster
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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to get those big hook limbs opened up properly...
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From: Jinkster
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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And Borders CF laced Phenolic seems to give the bow plenty of character...wish me luck! ;)
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From: timex
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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if bows were horses that would be a clidsdale in A Budweiser add in a playboy mag...good looking BoI is
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From: ga bowhunter
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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beautiful bows, always wondered about the benefits of huge hooks like that bet its very smooth and fast guess that's the benefit lol closest thing I've owned would have been a ballistic by John Fazio I believe stringing them hooks would be a challenge
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From: Greencb
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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Nice looking bow!
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From: Kwikdraw
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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Beautiful bows Bill, makes me covet!
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From: Clydebow
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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Great looking riser.
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From: mgerard
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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Bill the Covert is sweet and sexy. The Tempest is butt ugly. Eye of the beholder, eh? What are the specs? Looking forward to the reviews.
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From: Scooby-doo
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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Lighter spined arrows!!!!! Wow you have seen the light and realized you don't need to shoot 400 spine out of 45-50# bows?? LOL! Shawn
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From: The Whittler
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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Jinkster, good for you. Both great looking bows. You are a hard guy to keep up with, now go set up that new Tempest and wear yourself out. :-)
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From: Rick 3
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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Beautiful bows! I really like that Covert! The layered Phenolic is awesome! I just ordered a static RER but those Hex 7 limbs are nuts!
Good Shooting!
Rick
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From: Pdiddly
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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Looks like Border has been pulling a few pages out of Marc Moriez's Chex-Mate Hunter II's on the riser design and recessing the limbs. Smart move...
Nice bow Jinxster!
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From: jk
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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ga Bowhunter / Ralph.. I shoot a Fazio-designed Arizona-built longbow that has serious hooks but is easy to string... perhaps equal performance to the bows Fazio built in NM but a lot less decorative.
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From: Scooby-doo
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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Rick the hooks on a border are not static they are actually a working part of the limb, one reason they get a lot of performance out of them. Shawn
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From: Jinkster
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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So?...I'm out and about this morning headed to Bass Pro for Limbsavers and such and meanwhile?...my phones sounding off incoming email....and it's Sid both congratulating me on getting the bow set-up and rough tuned rather quickly and?...
It seems while I was fully prepared to just shrug off this "Slight Rock" it had mid draw and roll with it?...Sid had read my post and he wasn't...where after a volley of emails he suggested I shim the rock out of the limbs with folded up business cards or whatever I had and then get back where they'd figure out a more substantial solution alluding too some sort limb base packing?
So?...I was only a couple miles away from the shop so I swung by and picked up some plasti-gauge shim stock and went to work getting this rock thing sorted out....
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From: Jinkster
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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Where I found that one piece of the white .025" shim between the lower limb and riser took a vast amount of the rock out?...adding a piece of .012" Black shim stock to it for a stack of .037" made the draw perfect where I experienced that (and may God help me) "Let-Off Sensation" with zero rocking.
So I opted to go with 3 layers of the Black .012 shim and did so in a graduated step up from .012" too 2 layers of .024" and finally 3 layers of .036" all glued together and trimmed with a hole in the right spot then glued that to the wood riser limb pad itself...
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From: Jinkster
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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then rolled the black rubber liner back into place and viola!...my own graduated limb pad pack and the bow draws awesome!
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From: Jinkster
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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I also manged to get the Limbsavers installed at Mid-Limb position where along with String Leeches and Fuzzy Velcro pads between the limbs and where the string leaves the bow?...with 470gr/12.4GPP arrows?...outside of some pristinely tuned Longbows?..this rig is one of the quietest bows I've ever shot...
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From: Jinkster
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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and BTW?...this is the custom feature I requested when Sid Sr. offered to throw in Celtic Knot Graphics where I asked if he could incorporate....
"The High Cross"
where Sid Sr's response was..."Consider It Done!"
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From: MStyles
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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Looks great!
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From: RonG
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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Congratulations Jinkster, they look menacing,
Nice groups, are those limbs 45lbs.
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From: Jinkster
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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Thanks Folks! I can't set this thing down and?...
RonG:...
"Nice groups, are those limbs 45lbs?"
at 38#s?....I don't have to....I can shoot it all day long...as much as I want and?....
Not Hurt Myself! LOL! ;)
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From: crookedstix
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Date: 25-Feb-17 |
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Does Frisky work at Border Bows? I think I see some turquoise in that limb lamination picture...
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