Field & Stream No B.S. Bow Review

[RadSav]

Never happened radsav no proof.

I know, right!  Wonder how much Hoyt paid him to take that video down.

[kodiak 907]

This so called No BS Review is a load of BS Review. That Title needs to be fixed.

[hughjorgan]

We have had PSE, York, ProLine, Sims, Martin, Jennings, Onieda and Hoyt go on us in the past.  Some cam failures, some riser failures, but usually limb failures.  Never shoot enough Mathews to have it happen, but I see plenty of those each year at the local shop to know it happens.  I shoot BowTech a lot!  I know it does happen, just never experienced it myself.  Maybe I've just been lucky   Unless the limbs break most of the modern bows I see have that problem is from guys drawing with their fingers as in the video above.  No compounds are exempt from that...None! 

Luckily for me only one (Onieda - '87) went when I was at full draw on an animal.  Have had a couple go while Carp shooting though.

That would suck to be at full draw on an animal and have the bow blow up on you. Only have had Martin traditional bow fail and a bow tech which had a cam fail. Been shooting hoyt since and haven't any issues yet.

[RadSav]

My hoyts way down at number 10 WTF is wrong with these people.  If they had shot more than 100 arrows out ofbthat bowtech it would have been in 360 pieces.

You got to quite living in the past buddy.  

This ain't the old Strothers/Strasheim Bowtech!  Hasn't been for quite some time   Once the pickle fork left the building it's been quite the transformation.   For the better!

They still have the same crappy customer service!

They must not like you! 

I've had nothing but great customer service from them.  Though I have never needed anything major repaired or replaced.  Couple issues with cable guards and that's been about it.

[hughjorgan]

Pretty sure it was more had to do with the dealer than bow tech itself.

[RadSav]

I know one dealer that got all snooty after Bowtech did not approve free bow donations to a shoot they were sponsoring.  He sent letters and nasty emails telling them what jerks they were for not giving him free stuff since he had been a dealer for a few years.  Not at all saying it was the right thing, but service repairs through that shop were never the same afterwards.  This has been a good number of years since and the dealer no longer deals with Bowtech.  But it does go to show that sometimes end consumers can be targeted, by no fault of there own, if the dealer they go to has not formed a good relationship with the manufacture.

I do know that up until Savage brought in their own people customer service at Bowtech was hit and miss.  One person would rave about the service and others would complain non-stop.  About the time they dropped the pickle fork things started getting better and more consistent.  Although that could be because the new limbs and new riser have had so few issues they have a much easier work load

The other issue is speed.  If they followed other popular business plans and just remained satisfied with average speeds I expect failure rates would be almost eliminated.  But Bowtech prides themselves as being on the cutting edge and cater heavily to those who are never satisfied with average.  350 - 360 puts a tremendous strain on materials and construction.  Sometimes it takes a few years for materials to catch up to new bow performance levels.  I know we have now reached a point where we have reached the capacity of what the string materials can handle.  I think that is one reason Hoyt started using such a high BCY-X strand count.  And even then some of these cam designs are taking strings to the breaking point rapidly....That could be another reason the NoCam Mathews might not be such a bad idea.  That bow should be really easy on strings!

[D-Rock425]

I'm pretty exited about all the new 2015 bows this year to me it seems like everyone stepped it up a notch.  Ive only had time to shoot a couple of the new hoyts but plan on shooting most of them in the coming week.  Been way to busy trying to set up a 3-D range for this weekends shoot.

[RadSav]

I'm pretty exited about all the new 2015 bows this year to me it seems like everyone stepped it up a notch.  Ive only had time to shoot a couple of the new hoyts but plan on shooting most of them in the coming week.  Been way to busy trying to set up a 3-D range for this weekends shoot.

I think most Hoyt fans should be equally as excited.  IMO this is the best advancement year for Hoyt since the Tech Riser came out.  Sad they didn't drop another five or six ounces and go back to the old grip on the aluminum risers, but still a great lineup this year.  Bear has done some cool things in their mid range, Mathews is interesting, Bowtech really hit a home run, PSE has some cool new stuff, I hear Martin fixed some of their issues...finally something more than new names, new logos, new paint jobs and name changes!!!