Lending a bow out

[ncboman]

friend of mine got in a bind last xmas and sold his almost new hidollar Mathews. Come to find out he hasn't replaced it and wants to get ready for bowseason.

Since I have bows to excess, I figure I'll let him use one of mine until he gets hooked up again.

I've done this before ...

and never got the bows back. :rolleyes:

[Altjaeger]

Its like anything else. Only do it if you can afford to lose it with no hard feelings.

[Smokey]

Altjeager said it right. Better to not volunteer it than to loose a friend.

[Bill Gunn]

I've given 2 bows away, that I didn't use anymore, to new hunters.
Never expecting them back keeps the blood pressure down :p ;)

[ncboman]

I doan figure to lose any friends over it. I haven't before, just never got my bows back. They're still using em.

One, a whitetail II, I loaned a friend and the next year he bought a more modern bow but he liked the old bow so much he just kept using it ... and still is. I asked him about it a few years back and ... well, I doan like seeing a grown man cry, which I thought he was going to do if I persisted. lol

Since this is one of my prized Parker feathermags, I intend on getting it back ... sometime. :D

[LampLighter]

I'm gonna ask around and see if I can borrow an xbox. :D

[dave-t.]

I'm sure you know what you're getting into.

I have a buddy who I would loan just about anything I have, except money. I've seen how he is with his money, and not only is it not worth adding tension to the friendship over it, the money wouldn't last long enough to be appreciated. Oddly enough, other not so good friends I would loan money to.

You just have to know who you're dealing with, and what you're willing to put up with.

Since this is hunting, I say cut the guy a break.;) If he's good for it.

[ncboman]

Well, after weeks of prodding I finally got my bow back ...

but NOT the way it left.

lessons learned again. :banghead:

One of the things I was specific about was "Don't change anything to do with the arrow to string hookup!!!

Grrrrrrr .... :mad1:

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

I have three sons. Nothing I have ever makes it to the "loaner to friends" stage.

Alan

[ncboman]

that's the way it is with my tools.

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

One time I spray painted a red streak across all of my tools. Wouldn't you know they all did the same thing about that time! Same paint too.

Alan

[ncboman]

How'd all these boys go to the same school? :hmmmm2:

[GF.]

Lampy's back??? :itsme:

I've been lucky.

I left my truck with a buddy one time so it wouldn't get towed during a 'snow emergency' while I was out of town. He ended up putting about 500 miles on it, I think. And in the process, he washed it, un-froze the locks on the topper, cleaned out the bed and brought it back to me with the tank full. And the oil changed :cool:

Thing is, all my buddies are as picky about their stuff as I am, and we all treat each other's stuff better than our own. That's why it's a small group ;)

I did 'loan' one of them my old Martin compound about.... 20 years ago? He's still got it, but I don't believe I ever expected or desired that he'd return it, so heck, if he's OK shooting that old warhorse, it's fine by me. Besides, he recabled it at one point and probably has more invested in it than I do by now...

The thing is, we tend to do things for each other without being asked, and that's because they're things that any of us would gladly do, but none of us would ever ask for help with. Not directly at least. So "Hey, can I borrow you and the truck to pick up some sod" really means "I've got a whole stinking lawn to put in and I'm hoping you don't have any plans for the weekend because it's gonna take 4 trips and I need you to help me lay the stuff, too...".

JMO, if you'd have to put your name on it to be sure you'll get it back, you shouldn't be bothered by saying "no".

[DaveHawk]

With 3 boys I have nothing sacred except my wife LOL I'm looking at 2 new reels with missing handles, head lamps and therma cells go missing, knives too. My bows are mine and they do not get lent out unless I am along on the hunt period. I sent Jarrod to home depot to pick up a new 18V drill kit and told him it is mine he LOL

[GF.]

Wives, pipes and toothbrushes, eh, Dave?

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

I completely missed Lampy's post! I didn't know he was a gamer?

Alan

[ncboman]

look closely at the date of LL's post.

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

Been a day late and a dollar short for so long I don't notice stuff like that any more.

Alan

[GF.]

That was the first thing I checked, NC, and it still got right past me! So the 7/29 part was close enough... I just can't keep track o' what year it is...

Your fault entirely, for resurrecting the thread exactly a year to the day from the last post..... :aetsch:

Sorry to hear about your troubles with the set-up, though. Maybe he went ahead and did what you told him to not to, and was just hanging onto it until he figured you'd have forgotten about it....

Somehow, I really doubt that anyone could change a thing on one of your bows without your noticing...