Rickym said:
Yeah and A LOT of shooters are judgemental towards Mathews shooters before even giving us a chance to introduce ourselves. I see it all the time at 3d shoots... Those people are no better than the Mathews shooters you speak of....
It's hard to introduce yourself to other people when most Mathews shooters I've encountered have their nose stuck so high in the air they would drown in a light rain shower. That is UNLESS they see another Mathews shooter. Then it's like they are "in the club". I know this because that is the way it was when I use to have Mathews bows. The other guys would say hi, talk to you, etc on the range. The very next shoot that I went to after buying a non Mathews bow...it was like a switch was flipped. I walked by a group that I had even shot with on a few occasions and had a good time with, and would talk to every time I saw them on the range. After they saw I had a new bow and I said hello to them on the range, they literally turned their backs and pretended like I wasn't there! The only difference was the bow I had in my hand. From that day on, when I would see them they would turn their back to me. I had to more the less force them to say hello to me. I guarantee you if I went back to a shoot with a Mathews in my hand, it would be like a light is switched and they would act like I was an old friend they haven't seen in a while. How do I know? Because it actually happened back earlier this yr when I was playing around with a Mathews C4 as a target bow. When they saw what I had, that's exactly how they acted. Later in the yr when I was shooting the Strother Moxie...they were back to that back turning thing.
I'm reminded of a Proverb. "A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly".
I honestly care not what brand bow somebody else is shooting. Just don't try to act like you're high and mightier than me or anybody else just because we don't shoot a bow from the same company you do.