THE FUTURE OF ARCHERY IS HERE.
This picture shows the Model One from the side when it is a “relaxed” condition seated in the bow “press” used to pre-stress the limbs enough to mount the bowstring and the power cable actuators during initial assembly. The “press” is also used to change out worn strings and cables and was designed specifically to work on Model One bows. It can be disassembled in about 5 minutes so that archers can, if they wish, take it with them on hunting trips or to tournaments. It is one of our accessory options.
THE MODEL ONE COMPOUND BOW
ULTIMATE ELEGANCE
IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.
Until now, inventors thought it was impossible.
This compound bow has ZERO TORQUE. It has completely eliminated all torsional elements in the limb/pulley system. Moderating torque is no longer an issue, because there is no torque present (ever) to moderate.
It simply ceases to exist in any form.
OracleSport's patented pulley system is
the only one in the world that can honestly make that claim.
This means THE MODEL ONE provides:
Superior Performance
Greater Accuracy
Improved Arrow Trajectories
Improved Penetration at the Target
Silent Shooting
Increased Durability
All while weighing HALF of other manufacturers' bows
(2.42 - 2.63lbs)
And retailing for HALF the price too!
Plus, all OracleSport equipment is 100% Made in the USA,
and guaranteed to work perfectly with all of OracleSport's archery products 100% of the time.
And, it's just a truly beautiful archer's bow.
We are crowdfunding $77,000 to get production up and running! Please join us in creating THE MODEL ONE!
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OracleSport™
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It’s all about Archery for the 21st century and beyond.
In particular, this is about crowd funding the OracleSport LLC startup to begin manufacture of...
What follows is a detailed breakdown of what we've worked out - most importantly, what makes the OracleSport Model One Patently Different.
And of course, you can read all about where your Contribution goes,
and how you'll receive a Discount to thank you!
And more. There's a LOT of useful information here.
If you look to the right, you'll see a handy-dandy menu to help you find what you're looking for.
You'll also see a blue Contribute button to use anytime!
About the Company:
OracleSport LLC is a brand new American company that will be bringing superior products to market for archers all over the world at about half the current day prices. It’s a new business, with a totally new business model that will be able to provide some good paying jobs for American citizens. Included in the product mix will be a completely new compound bow, new arrow rest, new sight, new quiver, and new composite arrows.
OracleSport now has two patents in hand, (9,140,281 and 6,554,725) and one more in process. We will be producing product designs that eliminate the problems inherent in all other manufacturer’s products.
The OracleSport designs yield superior performance, greater accuracy; improved arrow trajectories, improved penetration at the target, quieter shooting, much improved aesthetics, and increased durability.
All this while producing compound bows weighing about half of what other manufacturer’s bows weigh, and retailing for about half of what other manufacturer’s top of the line and similarly equipped bows cost.
About the Founder:
OracleSport Founder, John Schaar, has over 30 years experience in manufacturing (materials and production), the most recent 20 of which years were for Hunter Douglas Window Coverings, a multi-national corporation with operations in more than 40 countries. He has 15 years’ experience as a competitive target archer, winning first place in more than 100 tournaments ranging from club invitationals to state, regional, and national championships. He has been awarded 6 patents for modern archery related products. He is equally adept with a hunting bow, having taken more than 70 big game animals over a 40-year span of time.
I’m about as photogenic as a dirt clod usually, but I’ve always liked this picture of me when I was about 45 years old, laying under a rock outcropping in a canyon leading up to Mount Shasta in northern California… trying to keep dry… with the rain coming down pretty hard, while on a hunt for wild boars. I’ve always thought that I was probably born in the wrong century and have always been more at home in the out of doors than most. If I went up into that canyon today, I’m afraid I might find a subdivision of houses with pink tile roofs in that spot. But, maybe I will go back and see… just in case.
Where we are now:
The prototypes have now been completed and tested. The firms have been identified that will be used for making components for us. The component costs are all known. A medium size (but adequate) building originally built for developing the prototypes is now available to use at the start for assembly and shipping, so operating costs will be at a minimum starting out. A website has been developed to attract the attention of prospective customers. The patents are mostly issued (one is still in process). The products are right, the business model is right for today’s marketplace, the stated capital requirements are adequate to get the job done, and the time is right to bring it all together. There are between 3 million and 4 million archers out there in America alone waiting to see what we will be bringing to them
(and more than that in other countries around the world).
OracleSport is poised to become the future of archery, worldwide.
And that’s where you come in. Our fundraising goal of $77,210 gets us tooled up to produce and sell the first 500 units of each product we will enter the marketplace with before the end of our first year of business. Beyond that point we will be off and running for good. Click on this link to view a spreadsheet showing what the money we raise through crowd funding will be spent on. If by chance we are able to raise more than the initially requested amount, our growth will just be proportionally faster and greater.
We promise 100% of funds raised here will be used on production whether or not we hit our goal.
So, just like Indiegogo, no refunds, only discounts and thanks!
Please click the blue Contribute button anytime!
We're going into detail now. :)
First: Compound Bow Basics, Starring the OracleSport MODEL ONE Compound Bow!
OracleSport will bring to market a series of matched archery products, covered by issued patents (plus one still in process). All of which are functionally superior to existing products, and all of which eliminate the trial and error exercises that are typically necessary with all other existing bow, arrow, point, accessory products currently being made, in order for archers to end up with a perfectly matched set of equipment that fits them properly.
All of OracleSports’ archery products will be guaranteed to work perfectly with all of OracleSports’ other archery products… 100% of the time.
(That’s something brand new for this industry).
And, here’s a brief bit of technical background for those unfamiliar with compound bows…
Compound bows are so called because they utilize “compound” pulleys mounted at the end of each bow limb to achieve mechanical advantage that can in turn be used to help archers bend limbs that are stiffer and stronger than the archers could have bent without the aid of the pulleys.
“Compound” pulleys are actually two different sized (and also usually different shaped) pulleys joined together into a single unit that rotate concurrently around a single axle. Each of the two co-joined pulleys “sides” has a groove around its circumference to accommodate an “actuator” segment. In compound bows, the “actuators” are the bowstring and the two “power” transmitting cables.
When the archer pulls back on the bowstring, one side of the pulley (the bigger side that houses the bowstring) exerts leverage on the smaller side which is further connected by an actuator (cable) to the limb on the opposite end of the bow. As the bow is drawn back the leverage applied to the smaller side of the pulley by the larger side of the pulley (by way of the power cable actuators) “effectively causes the limb at the opposite end of the bow to be bent, in addition to bending the limb the pulley is attached to, in the process storing energy that can be used to thrust the arrow out of the bow. Since the bowstring is attached to the larger side of both pulleys at both ends of the bow, at the same time, both limbs can be made to operate in a synchronized manner and the end result is typically faster flying arrows that would have been possible with a non-mechanically advantaged bow.
Compound pulleys come in a variety of shapes and sizes. All are designed to provide maximum leverage at the very end of draw. This causes the archer to be able to hold the bow at full draw with less effort than it initially took to get the bow drawn all the way back, which is a good thing. The reduction in holding force when the bow is fully drawn back is commonly known as “let-off.”
At the same time the very high leverage applied near the end of the draw causes one side of the pulley to be carrying a much heavier load than the other side of the pulley is carrying, and this in turn causes the axles that the pulleys rotate around to tilt downward on the side that is carrying the heaviest load. The twisting of the limb ends due to the application of high leverage by the pulleys is referred to as “limb/pulley torque.”
Archers have learned to look at the pulleys when the bow is at full draw to see if the pulleys “lean” one way or the other as an indication as to how much torsion may be present in the limbs.Limb/pulley torque is the compound bows designers, and compound bow shooters nightmare. Nothing good comes from it. And, the greater the “letoff” (leverage) at full draw, the greater the limb/pulley torque in the bow will be.
Limb/pulley torque, when present, causes the bow string to travel sideways while traveling forward at the same time when the string is released. The sideways movement in the tail end of the arrow disrupts accuracy, trajectory, and penetration at the target. Plus, it increases shooting noise. And archers don’t like it one bit.
Of immense importance is the fact that the OracleSport Model One compound bows’ energy compounding mechanism operates in a way that results in no (ZERO!) pulley induced torsion registering in the pulleys, limbs, bowstring or arrow
at any point in time.
OracleSports’ patented pulley system is the only one in the world that can honestly make that claim.
The elimination of limb/pulley torque in compound bows is a really big deal if you’re a serious archer.
…Even if you’re just a semi-serious archer, it’s probably still a pretty big deal.
OracleSport’s Model one compound bow is new from the ground up. While greatly simplifying the component set needed to effect the energy compounding mechanism, we created a truly beautiful archer’s bow that weighs about half of what most of the other compound bows in the market weigh, at only 2.42 lbs. for the shortest model, and only 2.63 lbs. for the longest model.
In the past 40 or so years, over 100 patents have been issued that tried to lessen the negative effects of “limb/pulley torque” on arrow flight. Most of these patents centered their attention on trying to re-distribute the existing torsion in the system in a way that (hopefully) more or less equaled out the forces pulling down on each side of the bows limbs. None of the patents issued to date even considered eliminating the torque altogether. That had previously been presumed to be impossible due to the nature of the compound pulleys involved. OracleSport found the answer!
OracleSport’s patent discloses the way to completely eliminate all torsional elements in the limb/pulley system of our MODEL ONE bows. Moderating limb/pulley torque is no longer an issue with OracleSport bows, because there is no limb/pulley torque present (ever) to moderate. It simply ceases to exist in any form.
This is going to be a really big deal in the archery world.
This picture shows the back side of the top limb of a Model One bow mounted in our stress measuring fixture. In this picture the bow has been drawn all the way back (towards the camera) as far as it can go.
The pulley actuators are all lined up perfectly parallel to one another AT ALL POINTS with the bowstring seen in the center and one “power” cable on either side of the bowstring. Stress in the limb and pulley system is maximized at this point.
Of interest is that the pulley shows no leaning whatsoever to the right or left….because there is no torque in the system at all… Wahoo!!
(This is a big deal!)
(You will also see the stress test fixture from another angle in the pictures of Model One bows taken from the side, where the bows are drawn all the way back to show total limb deflection.)
You will be able to read all about it in more much detail here as soon as the production is officially launched. It’s part of our combined book and catalog (“book-a-log”) entitled: “A Better Way” ©. You can also review the bow patent now (on line) in the patent office (patent # 9,140,281).
It’s so simple, and sooooooo sweet!
"Add-Ons?"
We will be doing these too… but in a much different way.
Add-ons are things the bow buyer buys to "add-on" to the bow after the fact to help the bow (and the archer) achieve their full potential. The current business model for the industry calls for selling bows “naked” and having buyers purchase the necessary accessories (typically made by other manufacturers) separately, usually at disproportionately high prices. Markups on the “add-ons” are typically much higher than on the big ticket items like bows.
The OracleSport business model doesn’t subscribe to this philosophy. OracleSport integrates all of the most used (and most useful) accessories right into the bows handle section in ways that are much lighter in weight as well as being aesthetically and functionally superior to the offerings of all other manufacturers.
Shows the fine milling of the pins with a small bead at the end. Pins can be overcoated with phosphorescent coatings to make them glow in the dark.
All there is to it… Photo shows a complete disassembled Model One Bow. Everything is there, bow, sight, rest, and quiver. It doesn’t get any simpler than this.
Shows the fine milling of the pins with a small bead at the end. Pins can be overcoated with phosphorescent coatings to make them glow in the dark.
OracleSport’s integrated bow sight and integrated near zero contact arrow rest (patent pending) will turn heads for their superior performance as much as for their light weights and aesthetics. And there is also a 5-arrow bow quiver that integrally mounts to the bow’s handle section. The bow quiver weighs just 5.6 ounces, with the total weight distributed about 3.8 ounces above the center of the bow and 1.8 ounces below the center of the bow. That makes the OracleSport bow quiver the lightest and best balanced bow quiver going. (When 3 or more arrows are inserted in the quiver, the top/bottom weights for the bow overall become equal.)
OracleSports bow quiver is designed to only fit on one bow (ours) and because of that can be made to fit with a zero tolerance in the recesses provided for it in the bows handle section, leaving no room for vibration induced noise, and making it rattle/buzz-free and absolutely silent in operation.
OracleSport “add-on” products have been designed to maintain side to side and top to bottom balance in the bow when it is fully equipped for action in the field. This is definitely not the case with any other manufacturers’ equipment sets. This is important because out-of-balance equipment negatively affects arrow flight and accuracy just like “limb/pulley torque” does. The instantaneous movement in the archers’ hand of the bow when it is shot, due to the bow itself being out of balance weight-wise (top to bottom or side to side, or both), is referred to as “system torque”.
Then of course there is the unwanted instantaneous movement of the bow in the archers hand when the bow is shot that results from varying the archers hand position (up and down or side to side) on the grip of the bow from shot- to-shot. This kind of movement is referred to as “bow hand torque”.
In each instance where torque from some source might register in the bow, and possibly disrupt arrow flight and accuracy, OracleSport bows will be the acknowledged best in in the world at eliminating the negative effects of torque from all possible sources on the shooting system.
All the details relating to how OracleSport goes about eliminating the negative effects of both” system torque” and “hand torque” will also be found in our book-a-log “A Better Way” © on our website soon.
OracleSport's Unique Sales Model
All OracleSport sales will be internet based to end consumers in the field. All OracleSport sales bypass distributors and retailers, and are made directly to end consumers. In effect, we will be out-Amazoning Amazon, and also underselling the big box retailers like Cabela’s and Bass Pro Shops who pay manufacturers a reduced markup to get (second tier) products to sell at a discount compared to retail stores (sometimes called pro shops).
All other manufacturers prohibit the big discounters from selling their first tier (top of the line) equipment’s. That helps placate the archery retail pro shops who would otherwise have to compete directly with big box stores for top of the line equipment too. We don’t think that we need Amazon or anyone else to sell top of the line products that are superior to all others, especially at 40-50% less than if they went through the existing, established manufacturer to wholesaler, or to retailer to end consumer, sales model.
OracleSport’s business model is brand new, untapped, and superior in every way for the archery industry.
Our business model will allow OracleSport to achieve the same per-unit profit as the existing industry business model affords to all those manufacturers using the old model. But the OracleSport business model has the added benefit of bringing prices down significantly for end consumers. We think that will be appreciated by all archers, everywhere.
And it doesn’t hurt that equipment matching is vastly simplified with OracleSport products, because all OracleSport products are guaranteed to perform perfectly with all other OracleSport products.
OracleSport products are All-American:
ALL OracleSport products will be entirely “Made in America”. We think it is important to employ citizens here at home, especially when so many highly qualified workers have been put out of work over the past few decades. Our business model will allow us to pay good wages and still realize a fair profit. We don’t have to exploit the poorest citizens in another country or desperate out-of work citizens here at home to make our business work, and we won’t be doing that.
OracleSport's entry into the market will put increased pressure on other makers of archery equipment to follow us (or lose business to other companies who do so). Because in the end, the result will be that superior archery products are made available to everyone in the world at significantly reduced costs, while employing American citizens with good paying jobs, and there will be no loss in profits to the manufacturers who go down this path. Please contribute what you can.
“This all SOUNDS great…. But what if you don’t completely make your crowd funding goal?”
Without crowd funding assistance, we would have to start off much smaller in the market, take (possibly a lot) longer, make fewer equipment sets at the start, and sell them in smaller lots to build up to our 500-set goal. Contributions by way of crowd funding will serve to shorten the time it takes us to get fully underway. Once we reach the 500 equipment set goal, we’re up and running for good. And…
$77,210 will get us all the way there.
(See cost breakdown spreadsheet)
We hope that we can gather most or all of what we need by way of crowd funding. Making a contribution to OracleSport will be breathing life into a company that’s capable of making a full profit even while saving customers money, staying in America, and paying employees a living wage; and of course bringing archery products to market which are superior to all others. OracleSport is destined to be a great company. Please contribute what you can!
Our Name
In ancient Greece, the Oracles were considered to be predictors of the future.
Greek mythology aside, at OracleSport we believe that the present business model for the archery industry is on its last legs, and is headed the way of the dodo. Like the Oracles of ancient Greece, OracleSport is now predicting a future for the industry that yields superior products at reduced prices, where products are sold direct to end consumers from the makers of the products. And, in case you were wondering, that’s how the company name came about.
We also predict that you, and any archery lovers in your life, regardless of their age bracket, will be glad you’re making a contribution today for the products of tomorrow. And the more you can contribute now, the sooner a Model One compound bow can be in your (and their) hands.
Everyone can lend a hand…..one way or another.
If you can afford it, and our message strikes a positive note, please consider contributing NOW. We of course hope that this will apply to the majority of visitors to our site. Every dollar contributed will help.
If you would like to help, but just can’t afford to at all right now, you can still help bring this great company to life by spreading the word! Please share this campaign with, not only the archers in your life, but all those you interface with on Facebook, Twitter, Google, e-mail, etc. The magic of the Internet is that so many people can be reached in a short period of time. If someone you send this to just passes it along to their family and friends, and does nothing else, we could still end up reaching more than a million people in a month. Some of them will undoubtedly be attracted to the company, its products, and/or the power of its new business model, and will choose to make a contribution.
And the next thing you know we will be a 12-years in the making, overnight success story.
And don’t forget your friends who always wanted to learn. Everyone who has never been an archer loves to imagine what it’s like to shoot a bow.
Archery is a great sport!
It’s been around since before the ancient Egyptians. It was one of the original non-track sports in the Olympics (It still is an Olympic sport). It appears in our current day Hollywood entertainment in shows like “The Hunger Games,” “Robin Hood,” “Rambo,” “The Hobbit,” “Lord of the Rings,” ”Blade,” “Arrow,” “Brave,” and most recently in ”THOR” and “The Avengers”!
An archer can start at the age of 5 and still be shooting at the age of 85. It builds strength, mental concentration, discipline, hand/eye coordination, and besides all that, it’s just so satisfying to see your perfectly executed shot end with the arrow in the middle of the bulls-eye.
In archery, with every shot executed, as you focus on the spot you want the arrow to hit, you can imagine that the target is one of the king’s deer, and you are temporarily transported back in time to Sherwood Forest…and just for that moment you’re Robin Hood or Maid Marion…. at a point in time when things didn’t seem so complex…and not even the best castles had WIFI….. or a laptop….. not even a cell phone.
And everyone can play.
So please help us share these great products, and this great sport, with everyone!
Welcome to The OracleSport Perks Matrix
Perks in each row are accumulative. Contributions at each level receive all of the perks in the related rows.
Once we achieve production status, we will issue and e-mail to each contributor numbered coupons for the perks related to the funding level the contributor has chosen. All perks-related coupons are transferrable and there is no time limit on claiming any of them. We will "register" your perk and e-mail you redeemable coupons that are pre-numbered. You may transfer any coupon to anyone else you like at any time or claim any or all of them yourself. Coupons relating to equipment discounts might be used as gifts to someone who is an archery enthusiast in the event the contributor doesn't feel a need to redeem them for his/her own use.
Click the blue button to your right to contribute the amount that's right for you!
OracleSport never sees or retains your CC information. We will never share your contact information with any other individual or entity. We only require a good name, email and phone to get you your receipt, your PERKS, and our thanks!
Some good reasons to consider making a contribution:
You can be an integral part of breathing life into a company that holds the potential to change not just one market (for certain) for the better, but perhaps many.
Every contribution results in a promise by us to honor your initial purchase(s) of up to $1000 (total in the aggregate) of any OracleSport product(s) at a discounted price. More than that, if you're not personally into archery, you can transfer your discount from us to anyone you wish (one time only please). If you know someone who enjoys archery or you know someone who knows someone who enjoys archery, this could be an opportunity to give them a Christmas present or birthday present they will REALLY enjoy, for years to come. It really is the gift that keeps on giving. No time limit applies.
There is a clever plan at work here. If everyone who contributes purchases from us somewhere down the line, OracleSport would benefit a second time. Each time, we make a sale to one of our contributors at a discounted price, more OracleSport products would find their way into the marketplace; and those products, when seen by others would result in still more sales at full prices. We would still make a small profit, less than a full one of course, on each such discounted sale to a contributor, but overall the benefits would still be synergistic, and the OracleSport brand would be building and spreading farther and faster with each such purchase.
(The Windup)
Well, this is the end of our story about the OracleSport company startup and our pitch for crowd funding assistance getting the company up and running. I hope that we piqued your interest along the way, and of course I also hope that our story will motivate you to help give us a leg up in getting the company underway in earnest if you can afford it.
I don’t want anyone to send us even one penny needed for the basics for you or your family (like food, clothing, shelter, transportation, education, medical attention, etc.) …just a fraction of whatever you may have squirreled away for mad money that might be burning a hole in your pocket…. or maybe you just hit the lottery and are looking for a worthy cause to endow…or something along those lines.
For me, this is a serious undertaking. I’ve spent a dozen years of my life, and my wife Cheryl and I have poured every spare dime into it for as long as that, totaling something over $90k over that same period. But for you, this needs to be like playing the slots in Las Vegas... Only what you can afford to spend and not miss it.
And, please, please, please….do forward a copy of this to your personal contacts on (especially) Facebook, twitter, and all the other social media. It’s worth repeating: The magic of the Internet is that so many people can be reached in a short period of time. If someone you send this to just passes it along to their family and friends, and does nothing else, we could still end up reaching more than a million people in a month. Some of them will undoubtedly be attracted to the company, its products, and/or the power of its new business model and will choose to contribute. And the next thing you know we will be a 12-years-in-the-making, overnight success story.
All because of you.
Thanks again,
John Schaar, Founder, OracleSport LLC
FAQs
Q. Prices - How much will OracleSport’s products cost?
A. Generally speaking they will be 40-50% less than other makers/sellers of comparable high-end archery products (a quick google search will give you the idea). We can sell for less because there are no middlemen in our sales chain. Each middleman has to make a profit, and that drives end-prices up. We also don’t spend money advertising in the trade magazines or on the internet, pay sponsored shooters, or host jamborees with BBQ and celebrities to draw in prospective customers.
Finally, because we don’t do the “hard” manufacturing (like CNC machining or Plastic Injection molding) ourselves, but instead partner with other companies who do that, we don’t have many of the direct-manufacturing costs like machinery, space rental, property taxes, etc. All of those things cost money that we don’t have to spend up front, and that helps us keep prices to our customers down.
We know that you would like a more specific answer like “OK, just tell me how much the Model One Bow will sell for.”
We do have that all worked out, but we are holding off on advertising it at this time because we don’t want the other sellers of archery equipment to have a specific target to shoot at when we are not yet ready to start shipping products to our customers. The prices, along with a page or so about our pricing philosophy, are included in the upcoming book-a-log that will be released as soon as we have completed this gearing-up process. (Click the blue "contribute" button to speed the moment of truth!)
Q. How fast does the Model One shoot?
A. Which Model One? The Model One is a custom-made bow as opposed to being a mass manufactured bow. We make 20 different thicknesses of limbs (for draw weight), in each of 4 different limb lengths (to scale the bow to the archer), and each limb length can be matched with one of 4 different pulley sizes, and each pulley comes with a different draw length range and let-off option, and each such combination achieves a different overall axle-to-axle bow length and true draw length, and for each draw length and draw weight there are at least 10 different arrow weights that will work out of any Model One Compound Bow that we make. Each combination achieves a different arrow speed.
Generally speaking (and I do mean generally) Model Ones will shoot about 10% slower with super light arrows than the average (if there is such a thing) “hot” compound bow from just about any manufacturer. So, if the advertised IBO bow speed for some other manufacturer is 330 FPS, the Model One would shoot that same 350 grain arrow, at the same 70# draw weight, with the same fistmele, and same 30” true draw length about 300 FPS.
The difference is due primarily to the Model One having a bit more friction in the actuators than other bows (more cable rollers to pass over). That was a trade-off we willingly made in order to get the advantage of ZERO limb/pulley torque….which NO other compound bow has.
On the other hand, when the arrow weights increases, as is typically the case with hunting arrows, especially those used on larger game, at any given draw weight for the Model One, the arrow speeds will typically be about 5% less (due to the increased roller friction) than the other bow-makers actual attained speeds with the same combination of bow draw length, draw weight, let-off %, fistmele, and arrow weight. For example, if other manufacturers bows actually attained 260 FPS with a 550-grain arrow (about the norm) the Model One would be shooting that same arrow, with the same setup conditions, at about 247 FPS. This is pretty much true of all manufacturers' bows.
In our upcoming “book-a-log”, every one of those combinations of bow axle-to-axle length, true draw length, peak draw weight, % pulley letoff, fistmele, and arrow weight will show a number of feet per second that we guarantee you will get. No other maker or seller of compound bows guarantees anything performance-wise except the mythical IBO arrow speed… which doesn’t actually exist in the field.
Q. What are my color options?
A. We put a camo pattern on all limbs and bow quivers. The pattern is basically a four-color design with the distraction”© pattern. Currently we have two variations that are “standard” for us. Both use combinations of black, olive drab, tan and brown colors. One emphasizes the green colors; the other emphasizes the brown colors.
The process used to provide the limb cosmetics involves a CNC screening machine that has more than 1000 combinations of colors that can be changed under program control, on the fly. Given the same pattern, we can provide limbs in any selection of 4 different colors you would prefer. “Special” color combinations take longer and cost more. Details are in the book-a-log.
Q. Can other manufacturers quivers, sights, and arrow rests be used on the Model One in addition to those made by OracleSport?
A. For sights, quivers, and stabilizers, absolutely. For arrow rests there are some limitations. The Model One deploys the cable re-locator right at the bows lengthwise center (to equalize cable friction in all cables all of the time). That, in turn causes mounting conflicts with some arrow rests on the market.
We provide an adapter that can be inserted at the point that most rests attach to the bow riser, but not all rests that can be mounted in that 5/16x24 threaded hole will clear the cable re-locator.
Our sales pitch says the arrow rest that comes with your bow will outperform any other you might want to mount on your Model One riser…and that’s true. The book-a-log goes into more detail on the significant benefits of the center mounted cable re-locator, AND our unique arrow rest system.
Q. What is this book-a-log you keep mentioning?
A. The book-a-log is just that. It is a combination book and catalog about modern archery products. It will be internet based, free to everyone, and it has a LOT of useful information in it. New archers will find everything in it that they need to get them off on the right foot, with OracleSport equipment, or any other manufacturers archery equipment. Advanced archers will also likely find information in it that might surprise them and also inform them. There is stuff in the book-a-log that will likely be new even to the other manufacturers of archery products. There are detailed answers to all of the questions in this FAQ section, and a lot of other questions as well. If you provide your name and e-mail address to us we will send you an advance copy as soon as we are ready to turn the key and begin sales in earnest.
Q. What is the time-frame you have for completing the gearing up process?
A. As quickly as possible without taking any shortcuts along the way.
Once we have money in hand to purchase molds for the quiver parts, it will still take a minimum of 2-3 months from the date the order is placed to receive the molds and make sure they are right in all respects. That is the item on our checklist that will take the longest time to make happen. The other gearing up items on the checklist can all be accomplished in about two months from when we start the gearing up process in earnest.
Optimistically, we could be ready to open the doors by Christmas. But, that assumes that everything goes perfectly and takes as little time at each stage in the process as possible. Murphy’s law still lives, and it may take a bit longer than that. We will definitely make it happen as fast as we can.
In the sales world there is a saying “there’s no second chance at a first impression”. We must and will take whatever time is required to make sure we get it right. Your patience is much appreciated.
J.S.
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