To all you mathews experts out there I’m wondering if the cams for my monster chill are tough enough to take the occasional knock around. An example would be pulling it up a tree and it hitting the tree. Or when it’s on my pack and I’m heading into the woods it gets the ‘once-in-awhile’ knock against bushes or small trees. Listen, I’m new at this sport and paid a lot of money and I don’t how much I need to baby my bow. Thanks!
It will be fine. They test all bows for normal wear and tear. Putting them through normal use and operation.
Thanks SharpEyeSam! Funny story is... The day I bought my bow, I was showing it off to some friends and dry fired thinking I had an arrow loaded. Well, needless to say the bow string broke and both cams were slightly bent. Understandably, that was a 70#+ load on the cams. I guess from that experience I just want to make sure I don't accidentally bend or chip my cams from being too rough in my backwoods travel.
Take this comment with a grain of salt because it was a demonstration made by a Hoyt rep, however I did see these results with my own eyes so the results are a fact. While shooting a couple of the new 2013 bows at my local pro shop the Hoyt rep demostrated the durability of the Hoyt compared to the Mathews. Before shooting the Mathews he would knock the (top) cam before the shot and the result made me very uncomfortable because the arrow missed it's target by 6+ inches... doing the samething to the Hoyt the shot was not effected at all. I found it interesting. Definitely worth testing for yourself if you're at all skeptical.
Very Interesting... Scary as well since I am totally vested with the monster chill. I did find primos bow sling which I hope will ease my worry.
I dropped my drenalin in my driveway....derailed the string, splintered the limbs, bent the idler wheel and axle.... my buddy dry fired his sbxt and it blew apart and ruined both cams and axles, as well as both limbs....but they have awesome customer service! lol I would not say Mathews are very durable when dropping or dry firing them...but try to avoid it. I dropped my alpha max 22 feet from my tree, and it was fine...had a friend dry fire my katera, and my alpha max...no problems, didn't even break or damage the strings(but I shoot viper x strings). if you want a bow that you can beat on, and not worry about, I would not be buying a Mathews, but they will handle 'normal' use for the lifetime of the bow in most cases.
I dropped my drenalin in my driveway....derailed the string, splintered the limbs, bent the idler wheel and axle.... my buddy dry fired his sbxt and it blew apart and ruined both cams and axles, as well as both limbs....but they have awesome customer service! lol I would not say Mathews are very durable when dropping or dry firing them...but try to avoid it. I dropped my alpha max 22 feet from my tree, and it was fine...had a friend dry fire my katera, and another my alpha max(now I wont let anyone draw my bows without an arrow)...no problems, didn't even break or damage the strings(but I shoot viper x strings). if you want a bow that you can beat on, and not worry about, I would not be buying a Mathews, but they will handle 'normal' use for the lifetime of the bow in most cases.
What do you mean by "knock" exactly? Just tap it with his hand? I've never seen a bow, any bow for that matter, be thrown off 6 inches at 20 yards by someone giving the cam a little knock. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that unless he's bending the axle or twisting a limb there's no way that's actually happening. Holding my bow in my hand I can't possibly hit it hard enough with my other hand to bend anything. Maybe if I whacked it on the concrete a few times I could screw something up. Hell, I've dropped my bow out of a tree before and it's still shot dead on. To address the original question - normal wear and tear of carrying your bow around the woods, up and down your tree, etc isn't going to do anything to hurt it.
I don't buy for one second that bumping a Mathews...or any other bow for that matter will change the point of impact. the guy putting on the 'demonstration' obviously had an agenda...and it is pretty crappy that he would do something like this just to prove a point....proving a point is one thing, but when you make false claims to do it, that is crappy. something was off on that Mathews, I almost guarantee it....like maybe he took a spacer out from between the cam and limb or something....Mathews makes a good product, and if all of them done that, nobody would buy one....
Didn't work on my bow. We tried hitting the cam of a demo chill at the pro shop and it shot fine. And the tech tapped it pretty hard too. Sent from my Nexus 10 using Tapatalk HD
