Not sure how they'll top the Lift, but it'll be interesting. Meanwhile go watch MFJJ review on the Hoyt RX-9. Ha!
$2,300 (w/ tax) naked ouch could buy a lift 33 and outfit it so the cost of the naked hoyt **Edit yep - pieced together a nice yet realistic setup off the Scheels website Lift 33, black gold sight, integrate rest mathews quiver and bee stinger stabs $2319 and if you didn't buy a $400 sight and $300 rest and $180 mathews quiver...... it'd be a lot cheaper
Yeah it is a tad ridiculous for a bow you have to press to adjust most anything coming in at 2300 clams.
I'm over here recommending the Mission MXR to all my friends wanting to get into Archery still. The juice is not worth the squeeze IMO on many of these bows for average folks. I saved three years side cash to upgrade to my V3x 33 that I got a year after release for a steal. It's insane truthfully where things have gone.
my current bow (admittedly I want to upgrade because everyone knows newer IS better) is a 2014 Bowtech Carbon Knight I got slightly used for $400 9-10 years ago. I think I agree with Tynimiller, while I would love to have the newest and best I'm not a good enough archery to realize the difference between a 5-10 year old bow shooting 275fps with my arrows and a brand new one..... also shooting 275fps with my arrows. I fall victim to wanting to the new hotness, so hot right now, and I look at the new bows at the store and shoot them about once a year. so I judge no one who has it, I take the Charles Barkley approach to this stuff, you don't have a gambling problem if you can afford it
Amen to that. I have gotten 2 bows in the last 4 years. But only because the current vxr just felt better than the vertix. I have no plans of getting a new one anytime soon
I went from a 2009 Bear Game Over, to a 2011 Mathews...to my 2023 Elite Omnia lol. I see no point in buying anything newer, this this is lightyears better than what I had and I can't see anything else being better now. I'll wait another 10 years
I have my 2013 Hoyt carbon element, I bought it new in 2015 at half price. Shop just wanted to get rid of it. I thought the $1500 price tag was crazy, but $2300 for a bare bow is just not reading the room.
I shot that Elite Omnia - was first Elite I ever shot and if I had the cash on hand I would have bought it, amazing bow then I saw the Elite Ethos.... amazing products I want, but would make me hit less livers? would I hit the 10 ring more often? I think (and I know Sota hates it when I say "average archer") the average archer might be better off spending a little bit comparatively speaking on better accessories for their current bow than buying a new bow. again, if you can afford the new hotness with the best new accessories I'm not talking about you. Would I be better off to drop $1,500 on a bow, or... $200 on better stab set up for better holding balance on my current bow?
Ti's true, fancier bows don't kill more deer. I know a guy who buys a new Mathews every year but has yet to shoot a deer with it. He has target panic like no other, can hardly draw back on a live deer anymore.
I have killed deer with every bow I have owed accept for my very first back in 1988-89/ Golden Eagle talon predator . Hoyt Raider High Country Extreme Parker buckshot PSE something Bowtech Ally Bowtech Destroyer Elite 32 Energy Parker 30+ Elite 31 Impulse Mathews Vertix Mathews VRX
Man I really have a hard time with deciding. Honestly, if there was an elite dealer around here I would likely be shooting the new one. I do love my vrx but those elites I had were so smooth
In truth had I not gotten a sweet deal offer by a local shop on a V3x 33 I'd still be shooting my E32 Elite. @Vabowman hit on it and I know many will argue detailed draw machine measurements say that Mathews newer stuff should feel as smooth or better on the draw cycle than that Elite did but I disagree. To be honest, every Elite I've grabbed and drew over the past half decade almost always fits me goldenly on draw - just feels right. I think some bows draw cycles just fit people better, Elites are awesome drawing bows and I'll say my Mathews so far I'll say seems more forgiving in the sense that shot to shot it seems to fit me amazingly well in that standing, sitting, kneeling and experimenting with grip this past year consistency on shots seemed almost unphased. My E32 (granted older bow than my V3x) was very much impacted by the slightest change in grip.
New Mathews bow drops tomorrow morning. Without divulging any info I'm not supposed to, they took the Lift and improved some of the things people have been asking for the past few years. I'm a big fan. I got mine set up last week and took it hunting this weekend. I had a big doe at 30 yards I kind of wanted to shoot, but she was a little spooky because she caught my wind, and I didn't want to risk it.
