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The factory string on my Bowtech Carbon Knight was starting to get pretty frayed after the 3 years I used it, so I decided to get a custom string for it. In the past I've used Winner's Choice strings and found them to be nice strings that are pre-stretched so you don't have to worry about peep rotation or the bow going out of time after a few hundred arrows. When I priced one for my current bow it came out to about $140. I thought that was a bit steep and decided to shop around a bit.
I had read about some other good bowstring makers but the name of one had always stuck out to me for some reason, Catfish Customs. Perhaps because I like to catfish a lot?
Every time I encountered a review about their strings it was always positive, so I decided to call them. It is my understanding that they are a fairly small shop located in Michigan. I can't remember the name of the guy that answered but I explained to him what bow I had and that it is first and foremost a hunting bow, but I also do quite a bit of 3D shooting. I told him I wanted a string that was resistant to fraying as I would be walking through timber with it. He recommended a BCY material string and I went with his recommendation. He took my email address and told me that I would get a billing email shortly. When the email came a short time later I opened it and found a link to PayPal to purchase my string. I did a double-take at the price...a custom red BCY material string with black serving (and d-loop) guaranteed for one year against any defects, stretch, or peep rotation for a whopping $76 bucks. Almost half the price of most other places.
Well, the string arrived a couple of weeks later and is now on the bow. The string looks great, serving is tight and I can't see a single issue with it. The lengths were absolutely spot on, in fact the poundage after the new string was put on ended up being within .1 lbs of the factory string. The bow was paper tuned and French tuned.
I got out last Friday to start sighting it in again, 3D season is here and I wanted to get my single pin HHA dialed back in. I shot 20-30-40-50-60 yards and marked my sight for each. After I thought I had everything pretty close I decided to shoot 3 more arrows at 60 yards to verify before leaving.
The POA was the orange tape. There was a left to right wind so no adjustment was made. I'm pretty pleased with the Catfish Customs string and tune on my bow. I guess time will tell if the string stretches or I see any peep rotation, but it's looking like I have a winner so far.
I had read about some other good bowstring makers but the name of one had always stuck out to me for some reason, Catfish Customs. Perhaps because I like to catfish a lot?
Every time I encountered a review about their strings it was always positive, so I decided to call them. It is my understanding that they are a fairly small shop located in Michigan. I can't remember the name of the guy that answered but I explained to him what bow I had and that it is first and foremost a hunting bow, but I also do quite a bit of 3D shooting. I told him I wanted a string that was resistant to fraying as I would be walking through timber with it. He recommended a BCY material string and I went with his recommendation. He took my email address and told me that I would get a billing email shortly. When the email came a short time later I opened it and found a link to PayPal to purchase my string. I did a double-take at the price...a custom red BCY material string with black serving (and d-loop) guaranteed for one year against any defects, stretch, or peep rotation for a whopping $76 bucks. Almost half the price of most other places.
Well, the string arrived a couple of weeks later and is now on the bow. The string looks great, serving is tight and I can't see a single issue with it. The lengths were absolutely spot on, in fact the poundage after the new string was put on ended up being within .1 lbs of the factory string. The bow was paper tuned and French tuned.
I got out last Friday to start sighting it in again, 3D season is here and I wanted to get my single pin HHA dialed back in. I shot 20-30-40-50-60 yards and marked my sight for each. After I thought I had everything pretty close I decided to shoot 3 more arrows at 60 yards to verify before leaving.
The POA was the orange tape. There was a left to right wind so no adjustment was made. I'm pretty pleased with the Catfish Customs string and tune on my bow. I guess time will tell if the string stretches or I see any peep rotation, but it's looking like I have a winner so far.
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