I shot my new Osprey for the first time today and I love it. It was indoors over 20 yards at a 60cm face. I'll be shooting it in the woods later this week.
Believe it or not my first arrow went into the gold and I thought " Keep them there". Alas not all the following arrows went to the same bed but I rarely went outside the red just the odd bad release etc. I was shooting my XX75 ali's so not too sure if they are perfectly matched to the bow but they seemed to shoot well for my first time with this bow.
The bow felt very smooth to draw at 38lb and although I had initial concerns about the low, longbow type grip once I started shooting I forgot all about that. The arrows flew with a fairly flat trajectory but of course over 20 yards that is to be expected. As to the handshock that some have voiced concerns about I felt none whatsoever and neither did the other six members who shot it.
I had a lot of members admiring the bow and asking to shoot it and they all said what a lovely bow it is.
When the bow arrived it did not have the string silencers so I rang KG and they were very apologetic and offered to send some to me post haste but I'm not too bothered about that as i told them that I usually make my own with wool and that's what I did. The bow is practically silent.
I really love this bow and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it but of course, as with any bow I would say shoot one first.
The only other thing worth mentioning is that KG send a leather shelf cover with two small pieces of leather lace that fit under the rest and upright part to improve clearance. There is a video on their website showing how these fit. I did fit them but found that I was shooting left at first so I removed the lace from under the upright part of the rest. (I'm sure there is a better name for it than "upright part" but you know what I mean).
Once removed the arrows flew as straight as an.......arrow?
The window is cut to centre so I think that the closer to centre you can get the arrow the more forgiving the bow is to spine differences.
So it is smooth, quiet and silent. A pleasure to shoot with no hand shock and I'm well chuffed with it.
Anyway that's my lot.
Happy shooting.
Believe it or not my first arrow went into the gold and I thought " Keep them there". Alas not all the following arrows went to the same bed but I rarely went outside the red just the odd bad release etc. I was shooting my XX75 ali's so not too sure if they are perfectly matched to the bow but they seemed to shoot well for my first time with this bow.
The bow felt very smooth to draw at 38lb and although I had initial concerns about the low, longbow type grip once I started shooting I forgot all about that. The arrows flew with a fairly flat trajectory but of course over 20 yards that is to be expected. As to the handshock that some have voiced concerns about I felt none whatsoever and neither did the other six members who shot it.
I had a lot of members admiring the bow and asking to shoot it and they all said what a lovely bow it is.
When the bow arrived it did not have the string silencers so I rang KG and they were very apologetic and offered to send some to me post haste but I'm not too bothered about that as i told them that I usually make my own with wool and that's what I did. The bow is practically silent.
I really love this bow and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it but of course, as with any bow I would say shoot one first.
The only other thing worth mentioning is that KG send a leather shelf cover with two small pieces of leather lace that fit under the rest and upright part to improve clearance. There is a video on their website showing how these fit. I did fit them but found that I was shooting left at first so I removed the lace from under the upright part of the rest. (I'm sure there is a better name for it than "upright part" but you know what I mean).
Once removed the arrows flew as straight as an.......arrow?
The window is cut to centre so I think that the closer to centre you can get the arrow the more forgiving the bow is to spine differences.
So it is smooth, quiet and silent. A pleasure to shoot with no hand shock and I'm well chuffed with it.
Anyway that's my lot.
Happy shooting.