I'm just finally getting around to posting pictures of my Chek Mate after getting it back from Chek Mate to have quiver inserts and a string tracker insert added. I wanted to give a BIG Thanks to two of the board sponsors. Chad Weaver of recurves.com listed as Chek-Mate bows in the sponsors list handled getting my bow sent back to Chek Mate, he was a great guy to work with and it went without a hitch. Troy Breeding of Sticks & Feathers who I get my shafts from then helped me to work out a brain cramp and get my arrows flying like darts. I'm looking forward to some nice April days in the turkey woods. Good Luck to everyone chasing them this spring.
Doug
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Why'd you go ahead and ruin it with sights and a string tracker?
What is a string tracker....?
Jeff,
Because I tried for 3 years to shoot instinctive and was just doing an injustice to the animals I was hunting. Some people shoot very consistent instinctive but I wasn't one of them.
Mike,
The string tracker is the device on the front of the bow. The string attaches behind your broadhead and allows you to track an animal that moves off before dying. I use it for turkeys since they can fly away.
Thanks,
Doug
Doug I commend you on making a responsible decision with your equipment and knowing your limitations. If more hunters did so our image would improve greatly.
Mike there is a real good thread on here about string trackers and Guru wrote an article for TBM on them recently I believe.
Very Cooool set-up bud...Good Luck this season
Very nice Doug! :thumbsup: Traditional AND effective.
All the pics are the right size too. ;)
Thanks guys,
I'm really looking forward to turkey season. And Thanks Charlie for keeping any eye on me, somebody needs to. ;)
Doug
pretty cool bow, to bad the native americans didnt have cool gizmo's like that for there bow's...course they could still out hunt me lol. nice bow ncrecurve, n good luck in the turkey woods this season!
Great looking setup. I am going to have inserts installed on my next bow for the Kwikee Quiver bracket. They aren't the best looking quiver but they are SOOOO functional and I really like being able to take it on and off easily. Good luck out there, I am still looking for my first turkey with stick and string.
Looks good. I'm just beginning to wonder if we are going to get ANY warm days in the April season. This global warming is killing me.
That's agreat looking set up for turks!! Them suckers are hard to put down with anything less than a "perfect shot".....a sight and a string tracker are good measures to getting it done.
Good for you
The season started Saturday and I started out in the dark set up 100 yards from a gobbling bird and 80 yards from 3 poachers. None of us ended up getting a shot. I guess if I had lived 200 years ago as a Native American my name would have been "boy who was eaten by bear". Without glasses I probably would have shot a buffalo that turned out to be a grizzly. LOL. Waiting for the wind to lay down some so I can try them again. Good Luck to all of ya.
Doug