Recommend me a good digtal bow scale

GrainofPain said:

I had an arrow nocked when the below pic happened. It missed my target and went through my wife's Christmas decorations. My hand got pretty banged up. I had used it about 20x prior with no issue. View attachment 7448721

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Wow, I'm glad your pet ferret and miniature goat were both safely in the washing machine

Bud, I owned and used the same stuff for YEARS. Those scales always sketched me out but I had the mind of "hadn't broke yet". The only thing that made me buy a stronger one was that I upgraded to an expensive bow and that snapped me into reality of me pulling back a 1,000 dollar piece of equipment.

Wow. Yea and it was on my week old PSE EVL34. I think I would have cried if I dry fired it

wow, had no idea so many people had issues with these.

wildtoast said:

wow, had no idea so many people had issues with these.

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I didn't either. I am liking the crane scale that raisins recommended. The price is good and it could end up saving me money in the long run...

GrainofPain said:

Before I would have recommended the HS3, but it blew up on me today.

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I recall a post here a month ago with one destroyed upon pull. Not trusting these anymore.

raisins said:

Nice. You'll love it. I've been drinking beers and also I just hate these cheap scales...so I apologize for getting overly passionate!

I don't even use the metal hookups they supply. Just heavy rope loops through both sides hooked up to the draw board parts and d loop using metal screw quick links. This allows rotation so that derails are minimized.

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I have a BTM press I have set up vertically, but would like to see a photo of your setup.....if you please. My scale is an AWS-330, which has been pretty good for a while.

The crane scales seem to be the wrong tool for the job as they don't measure both peak draw and hold weight. I agree that most of the "bow" scales seem frivolous. But I am going to try the Last Chance 2.0.