New Bow Advice

[snohohunter]

He loves it and having a great time with it.  You can get the set up there for a good deal, but you'll want to put a string suppressor on it and upgrade the sight.  He just gave us credit for the sights that comes with it.  Still made it a good deal.

I tried to find some reviews for the Cheetah...here's one from Cabelas - http://www.cabelas.com/prod-1/0046361417862a.shtml  - - Just scroll to the bottom of the page.

[DeKuma]

Certainly a good price.  Looking at a few others tonight and maybe this weekend, but $$ for feature, the Martin is hard to beat.  Looking forward to shooting the Blackhawk with the correct module.  Bill at NP says it is a fantastic bow.  Certainly feel solid.

[boneaddict]

I'll ping hornseeker and let him quote you something.   I think he has prices on his website.

[boneaddict]

http://www.sapphirearchery.com

[snohohunter]

Certainly a good price.  Looking at a few others tonight and maybe this weekend, but $$ for feature, the Martin is hard to beat.  Looking forward to shooting the Blackhawk with the correct module.  Bill at NP says it is a fantastic bow.  Certainly feel solid.

I have a Parker Frontier and love it - great bow.

[yajsab]

All good advice.  Try Sportsman and shoot the discount/discountinue bows.  There are some good bows on clearance.

[Intruder]

I pretty much went through all this stuff you are about 5 months ago.  I ended up getting a closeout Bear.  Not necessarily recommending it but I looked at bows from 200- 800$.  When push came to shove I ended up looking for what was considered a couple years ago a middle to upper middle of the road bow.  I felt it was more important to spend the money on a great rest, great broadheads, quality arrows, quality site and a quality release. 

[DeKuma]

That is exactly whatI am thinking as well.

May go look at Simpleshooter308's Diamond Triumph he has listed in the classifieds.  Sound like a good deal, but I know nothing about the Diamond Line.

[bankwalker]

Certainly a good price.  Looking at a few others tonight and maybe this weekend, but $$ for feature, the Martin is hard to beat.  Looking forward to shooting the Blackhawk with the correct module.  Bill at NP says it is a fantastic bow.  Certainly feel solid.

I have a Parker Frontier and love it - great bow.

thats a nice shooting bow.

parkers are very nice bows. they arent as big on being the next big thing and usually are a year behind on the tech of other bows. BUT they get it right the first time imo and its worth them waiting a year to come out with stuff that other companies already have

[DeKuma]

Any thoughts from the experienced on the Diamond Triumph?  Says he is getting about 312fps out of it at 28"/68# which would translate to some good KE.
Know nothing about the draw cycle or noise/vibration though.......

[boneaddict]

That seems a bit fast but cool if it is real.

[DeKuma]

That seems a bit fast but cool if it is real.

That is what I thought.  IBO is 315fps I think it was, so to get 312 the bow would have to be extremely effiecient.  Going to go to Vanwnkles in Everret today and look at the Diamonds they have.  Should give me a good idea if I want to make the drive to Lacey for the bow he has..

[bankwalker]

i dout he is getting those numbers out of that bow. maybe most like 270-280fps and thats being generous.
if he is using the correct wieght arrows anyway. he could be shooting extremely light arrows to get those numbers.

[DeKuma]

That is what I was thinking too.  He says it was chrono'd at 68# at 29dl and is getting 318 I think he said.  If you drop 10fps for every inch in length decrease it would be in the 290-300 range at the numbers posted I think.

Still 280 is respectable for a hunting bow and much faster than my Hoyt was shooting.

[yajsab]

Diamond is basically Bowtech. 

While on your way to Lacey, stop by Sportsman in Fed Way.  They have two or three Bowtech models on the clearance rack just waiting for someone to pick up.  One of them is the commander.