Okay finally got a little time to share some thoughts on the new riser.
Like I said before, I really love the grip. It is as good a grip for my hand as I have ever tried. I have a couple I like quite a bit on different bows, but none I like any better. It sets very solid in my and with no unwanted contact area. it is very repeatable and comfortable. I like the way my thumb sets very relaxed in the grip shape in the left side with my index finger just making contact with the thumb. Index finger rides nice on the flat of the back of the riser. The only thing I would change on the grip for me would be a minor change to right side of the riser's back where my bottom fingers land. I tend to hit right on the edge line near the ends of my lower fingers. That feels a little odd when carrying with a tighter grip. If it was a little more full on the right side near the back or had a little more radius on that edge, it would just feel a bit better for my fingers to grip. A smaller hand would likely have the fingers on the back of the riser and a large hand would likely have the finger joint hit the edge and wrap nicely. It is just a small personal hand fit thing. No negatives to me on the shot, but someone with my hand size, who likes to grip more firm on the shot, may not like this edge.
I like the shelf a lot. Just the right height for me. Some may like an arrow right on their hand, but I like to keep the feather base from running on my hand if I have a low nock or arrow slide down. I really like the way the shelf is narrow at the belly and wider at the back. This kind of shelf cut gives me a lot of clearance in the area where my arrows tend to rub the shelf when I shoot split. At the same time the wider shelf at the back of the riser gives plenty of arrow support to keep the arrow on very well when tipping the bow to the left or moving it around fast.
Site window was good, and I like that the bow has a narrow limb profile with a narrow riser at the top limb. This gives me better vision when shooting spit with a little cant. I used to shoot split with more cant, but now shoot a lot more 3under and fairly vertical. when I do shoot split now, a lot of shorter riser bows bug me because they have wide limb butts and short site windows. I end up with the obstructed view now with the shorter risers. This one works fairly well for me split and 3 under.
The riser is set forward in comparison to some bow. I really like that and how stable the bow feels. It really points well. The bow really shot well for me.
I do have just a minor esthetic item. I kind of thought the riser shape was a bit plan on the low part of the grip and riser area. More on the bottom of the grip transition area particularly on the left side. It just looks a bit plan in shape. Maybe a bit of a change in the shape just to give it a bit more detail and contour as the grip transitions to the riser particularly on the lefts side heading back to the back of the riser and below the grip.
I wasn't as thrilled with the limbs as I was the riser. The bow shot well for me for accuracy and pointed real well. Performance was decent for the limb type. Draw was decent, but felt just a hair heavier than my other bows of the same weight range. Felt more like my 53 then 51# bow. The bow felt nice in the hand on the shot. I played a bit with some strings, silencers and other tuning, but never got it as quite as I would like. I really didn't have a lot of experimenting time due to the sub zero temps and winds we had part of the week I had the bow. Hard to say what I may have been able to do with it with one my my SBD strings if I had time to try out some different silencer setups. Part of the sound I heard particularly shooting 3 under made me wonder if some limb pad material could be worth trying out. Had the bow been whisper quite for me, It would likely be lost in the mail right about now. :D
Last year I shot all three limb designs at the expo. I liked the working recurve limbs the best. I would really like to shoot those limbs on this riser, but I am not sure that is an option for this riser.
I would love a bow with this riser, recurve limbs and 58" long that will draw to 29" or a little more. That is exactly the bow I am looking for right now.
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