Nights are still solidly below freezing and the game only checks the feeders now and then…

Nights are still solidly below freezing and the game only checks the feeders now and then, meaning there’s a kind of dead period as far as hunting goes.
Which is a great chance to do some equipment maintenance.
After 4 years of regular use, I felt it was time for a string replacement on the bow.
There’s nothing at all wrong with the factory string – that alone wouldn’t have justified the change – but it’s simply getting a nice new GAS string, so I can head into this year’s hunting season with more peace of mind.
Of course, on occasions like this, the string change is finished off with the usual successful paper-tuning test using my regular arrows.

The new string, matched to my bow’s specs and my own preferences, was fitted onto the HOYT RedWrx Carbon RX4 bow.

However, the salesman who did the string change showed a very poor level of professional skill;

– on the bow fitted with 80# factory limbs, he wasn’t able to set it any higher than 72# (I’d been using it at 76# up to now)
– the bottom cam kept rotating further even after the cam stop
– and the two cams weren’t turning in sync either

He can be offended for life for all I care, but I still think it’s a deep shame that such a sloppy, botched job from a salesman can happen at all in one of the country’s biggest archery shops.

Luckily, the owner of another archery shop – a good acquaintance of mine, someone I consider a fellow bowhunter – took it in hand with proper expertise, and neatly straightened out the string and the yoke cables, which had been carelessly, hastily twisted every which way, and put them back in place.
In the end I got my beloved bow back, precisely set to 76#.

As of now, the Eleven archery shop has, professionally speaking, permanently disqualified itself with me!