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New bow! Yay!

Oneida Lite Force Magnum, set at 67#. The Mack Daddy of cool toys. "It just says, OK, mate, I _AM_ the shit." (Andrew Day)

I'm now gonna be shooting this thing barebow, so bits of it don't apply. But it's still the boss.

These are thumbnails - clicking to see the full image is highly recommended.

The bow as it is - notice the riser mounted cams (more detail below), the nice short stabiliser (none of this silly 54" Beiter stuff), and generally how cool it looks. :-D

Also, the little bolt between the stabiliser and the riser - much like PSE, this lot are too bloody cheap to put a bushing in. :-[ Muppets - it's three bucks worth of stainless steel, does it really take that much effort in order to let us use stabilisers the way they were designed, and not have to sort something to screw it into in order to avoid screwing up an expensive riser?

OK, the cams. You pull the string, it pulls on the cables closest to the riser, this rotates the wheel that has the cam on it. At a certain point, the cam (kite shaped thingie) has rotated such that it is hidden by the bit of metal that holds the cam. At this point, or near to it, it stops. Then you execute back tension, or do whatever you have to to shoot the damn thing.

Just thought I'd prop it up against a door frame so you had some idea of scale. The doorway is standard width, the stabiliser (X-Ring Hydraulic, designed for dual cam bows, no longer available as the company has gone under in the best Barings Bank fashion...) is 11" long. Also note the fixed pin sight - de rigeur for these things. There are very few people who shoot compound unlimited with Oneidas, but those who do tend to do very well indeed (q.v. Sven T. Reichelt, aka Metrodix). They're a bit more common on the 3D circuit, and what self-respecting 3D'er shoots scope?

	These are thumbnails - clicking to see the full image is highly recommended. The bow as it is - notice the riser mounted cams (more detail below), the nice short stabiliser (none of this silly 54" Beiter stuff), and generally how cool it looks. :-D Also, the little bolt between the stabiliser and the riser - much like PSE, this lot are too bloody cheap to put a bushing in. :-[ Muppets - it's three bucks worth of stainless steel, does it really take that much effort in order to let us use stabilisers the way they were designed, and not have to sort something to screw it into in order to avoid screwing up an expensive riser?

	OK, the cams. You pull the string, it pulls on the cables closest to the riser, this rotates the wheel that has the cam on it. At a certain point, the cam (kite shaped thingie) has rotated such that it is hidden by the bit of metal that holds the cam. At this point, or near to it, it stops. Then you execute back tension, or do whatever you have to to shoot the damn thing.

	Just thought I'd prop it up against a door frame so you had some idea of scale. The doorway is standard width, the stabiliser (X-Ring Hydraulic, designed for dual cam bows, no longer available as the company has gone under in the best Barings Bank fashion...) is 11" long. Also note the fixed pin sight - de rigeur for these things. There are very few people who shoot compound unlimited with Oneidas, but those who do tend to do very well indeed (q.v. Sven T. Reichelt, aka Metrodix). They're a bit more common on the 3D circuit, and what self-respecting 3D'er shoots scope?