Was looking for a new bow shop every since Cory Miller sold XXX Archery (the new owner charged me a lot of money just for the opportunity to screw my bow up badly). It took Michael at May's Archery about 40 minutes to fix all the issues that the new owner of XXX Archery (Ranier, OR) left my bow with.
Mike (owner of May's Archery) allowed me to ask him tune questions and took the time to show me tuning tricks that I have been trying to learn for awhile now. He was really patient with me, easy to talk with and actually talked me through what he was doing (and why) when I asked if he would walk me through it. He showed me how to sync my cam.s and tune my rest (all issues I was left with after Blake at XXX Archery "tuned" my bow), gave me his take on arrow spine and how my bow will react to over-spining and was willing to discuss how much FOC he builds into his arrows (all valuable information for me, as I build my own arrows from bare shaft). I get tired of hearing bow tech.s saying that "paper tuning a bow is fruitless". From experience, that's a load of BS, and I am suspicious of any shop that doesn't paper tune my bow before it leaves their shop. I was really stoked when Mike said (without any input from me) that he paper tunes all the bows that leave his shop. And then after he finished with my bow, he shot an arrow through the paper- it was a perfect bullet hole with 3 vanes outlined perfectly even on all sides. At this point, I'm wearing perma-grin.
When I got my bow home from May's, I had just enough light left to set the gang adjustments on my sight and check the bow for accuracy after Mike's tune. My bow went from not being able to group 4 arrows in a pie plate's diameter at 40 yd.s (thanks for nothing BLAKE at XXX Archery), to grouping 4 arrows within a .50 cent piece diameter at 40 yd.s. This is the most accurate this bow has been since it left the PSE factory at birth.
My confidence is back, my bow is deadly accurate, and sweet-shooting again, and I'm ready for Archery season.
Honestly, I feel really lucky to have found this bow shop. The fact that the owner of the shop is not only a bow-whisperer, but also a great guy and EZ going is just icing on the cake. This is a top-notch shop, with an honest owner. Driving 2 hr.s each way to get to this shop is a deal I'll make every time (and intend to). I'm getting my next bow and all the kit from here, and intend to pick Mike's brain on arrow builds next time I buy arrows from him. read more