Elite bows

[Jellymon]

I've had a few elites. E35, answer, pulse. All nice bows, but not for me.  These are just my opinions and MY preferences. Others may prefer the things I don't like.

 That rock solid back wall felt nice in the shop, but in the real world caused me a ton of pin float. The tiniest movement in any of my muscles in my legs, body, arms translated into extra pin movement for me. The high letoff made it even worse. I tried every combo of draw length(1/8" increments), letoff(65-85%), stab length and weight, and sidebars and it made no difference. This is a big no go for me. I much prefer cable stops with a little give, which seems to soak up those tiny movements and makes me much more stable on target for me.

Also I like to be able to yoke tune my bows so I can perfectly tune a variety of spine, arrow length, point combos. This includes bare shafts hitting with field points at at least 30yds, and broadheads with field points out past 60. In other words, a forgiving tuning bow. The binaries on Elites didn't allow me this option, so another no go.

And finally, the cerakote/prokote they use is garbage. I don't know it it's the prep or not, but it chips extremely easily. Just moving my draw stops caused the coating to chip off to bare aluminum. This is my biggest grip with elites.

They are a quality bow, minus the cam coating. But with thier recent price increase, there are better bows for better prices out there IMO.

[idaho guy]

I've had a few elites. E35, answer, pulse. All nice bows, but not for me.  These are just my opinions and MY preferences. Others may prefer the things I don't like.

 That rock solid back wall felt nice in the shop, but in the real world caused me a ton of pin float. The tiniest movement in any of my muscles in my legs, body, arms translated into extra pin movement for me. The high letoff made it even worse. I tried every combo of draw length(1/8" increments), letoff(65-85%), stab length and weight, and sidebars and it made no difference. This is a big no go for me. I much prefer cable stops with a little give, which seems to soak up those tiny movements and makes me much more stable on target for me.

Also I like to be able to yoke tune my bows so I can perfectly tune a variety of spine, arrow length, point combos. This includes bare shafts hitting with field points at at least 30yds, and broadheads with field points out past 60. In other words, a forgiving tuning bow. The binaries on Elites didn't allow me this option, so another no go.

And finally, the cerakote/prokote they use is garbage. I don't know it it's the prep or not, but it chips extremely easily. Just moving my draw stops caused the coating to chip off to bare aluminum. This is my biggest grip with elites.

They are a quality bow, minus the cam coating. But with thier recent price increase, there are better bows for better prices out there IMO.

good info thanks what do you think of the prime?

[blackveltbowhunter]

My opinion is very close to jellymon on elites, although I never owned one. They are butter smooth on the shot, but it didnt make up for the trip to full draw or the way the bow held for me. Their latest flag ship also dropped ATA which changed the string angle and wasn't as comfortable at full draw as their previous bows. They made significant changes to them, coupled with a significant price jump however, they are still the deadest on the shot bow I think i have ever fired.

I love the centergy hybrid from prime, not as dead on shot as elite, but i like the draw cycle and the way it holds at full draw is awesome for me. Jelly mentioned yoke tuning, if you like to play with that the prime is out. But the rizer is stiff, so it seems to tune up very easy.

[demontang]

Prime is a decent bow but the 5 piece harness is a pita. I don't like yokes, cut mine out hunting once ended my season. Tuning a yoke can be a pita too. Binary cams you might have to swap shims on a select few but most tune very easy.02

[Jellymon]

Prime is a decent bow but the 5 piece harness is a pita. I don't like yokes, cut mine out hunting once ended my season. Tuning a yoke can be a pita too. Binary cams you might have to swap shims on a select few but most tune very easy.02

Im pretty sure cutting the cable on any bow might have the same result.

[demontang]

It was the yoke that caught a old snag in the sage don't think a two track would have caught it.  just somthing that pushed me away from a yoke bow.

[Bucks2Ducks]

Love my Elite E35. Highly recommend, especially if you pick up a used one for cheap on ebay as mentioned.

[lamrith]

Love my Elite E35. Highly recommend, especially if you pick up a used one for cheap on ebay as mentioned.

Yeah I got mine on here last year, $600 with QAD fall away.  bow was only a few months old too.