I thought about putting this up last sunday but, decided to give it a week and see if I still felt the same way. I do.
Last saturday the mail lady showed up with a box from Jeff Berberick from texas. (aka Bowhunter4life). the yard chores , I was involved in, were put on the back burner and I took the box out to my shop and tore into it. A sigh of relief as we all get when we open a one pc bow and it is indeed still in one pc. lol.
Bow is a Centaur triple carbon. 60" long. 53@28 ( i draw 28.75) made in 2012 and a new sbd skinny string.
I stung it up and noticed how light the bow felt in my hand. I had some arrows that I'd been shooting out of my "Navajo Apache" all so 53 @28 and so I figured they'd be close.
In my garage I have a 12 yard shot into a 5x5 foot block target. My first three shoots were 3" right but really tight.
I replaced the soft side plate with a pc of hard leather and shot the next group right in the spot i was looking at. I went out side and shot a few more at longer ranges. Same held true. the bow was spot on and all ranges out to 35+ and super fast.
In all fairness, the arrows were only a shade over 8 gns per lb but I have no qualms shooting deer around here with them. Side note: Blacky Swhartz tested the centaur elite (not triple carbon) and with 9 gns per lb was getting 190 , I think, with fingers. I'm sure it was over 200 with the arrows I had at 8gn per lb.
After a week of shooting a few arrows everyday on my 3d range I have come to like this bow even more. One thing I had noticed about carbon limb bows I had shot in the past was that they seemed stiffer to pull. Even two bows side by side , same wt, the carbon seemed harder to draw. Not so with this bow. It is a pleasure to draw and shoot. In all fairness, the only other carbon bows I've shot have been recurves , with the exception of Joebuck's Nano longbow. Bill Dunn told me that he didn't notice it as much in his longbows as his recurves.
I put yarn puff balls on the string and a Kanati Pro Quiver I had laying around on it and took it to the range. Ive shot a bunch of arrows through this bow in the past week. The last few days Ive gone up in arrow wt. 560 gns total with 23 percent of foc. I don't really chase foc , but I do like heavier broadheads, so I usually end up with a good percentage of foc. I may try and run over to a buddies house today and shoot it through his conograph but I'm satisfied this setup will have penetration power to spare.
I'm toying with the idea of getting on the Centaur list for a new one just like this in a takedown configuration.
If you were thinking about a Centaur but not quite sure, I don't think you will be disappointed. I plan to field test this rig in two weeks at Marty's camp in Fla.
These pics are the ones that Jeff had up on the classifieds.
Topic: ONE WEEK WITH NEW CENTAUR/Thoughts and Observations Now with added video (Read 603 times)
