Bowtech Destroyer 350 Purchased

[Hink]

I finally bit the bullet and replaced my 10 year old Browning Tornado. So I don't have a great reference point to compare it to so take my report with a grain of salt. The bow is extremely quiet when fired with the factory string dampener and string loop and circle peep added. I attached my trophy ridge sights when I got it home and a couple of adjustments and arrows later I was in a snuff can lid at 10 and 20. I fine tuned the sights a little from there and shot some groups.

The bow draws smooth and I'm not sure what I was expecting from a speed bow but my old Browning didn't draw as smooth. I got tight groups right from the start with the hostage rest and they've gotten better in a couple of days. Probably due to shooting more.

The bow is touchy if you jerk and arrow or creep up into the string with its 6 inch riser but I've only had to flubs that were like 5 inches off target in several sessions with it.

There's no need to say that its fast as in whew that is quick. I think its going to make me a good deer killer. When I was shooting with dad on Saturday evening I remarked to his comments about my shooting. I told him that I was willing to give most of the credit to the bow as it was very easy to shoot it like that.

The bottom line is that its a fun to shoot bow and very easy to get set up and ready to go.

[ncboman]

congrats on the new bow.

What's the brace height, A to A, and weight?

[dave-t.]

Congrats on the bow. I also shoot a bowtech, and love it. Good luck this season.

[Hink]

BH = 6 inches
A to A = 32 3/8 inches
Draw Wt = Max 62.3 lbs
KE = 95.22 FPE
IBO = 344 as set up
Overall bow weight is not listed but feels around 4.5lbs set up with stabilizer. Naked bow is light.

[dave-t.]

How do you plan to set up your sight pins considering you have all of that speed to work with?

[GF.]

Pins? At those speeds, 1 oughtta cover it!

I do like my BowTech; it's reasonably quiet, it's plenty fast enough for me (even at 7 grains/pound instead o' 5) and best of all, I shoot it pretty damn well, if I do say so.

6" brace height seems like it might be a little too much of a good thing, but if anybody can make a tolerably forgiving speedbow, I'm thinking it's BT....

[Hink]

Dave it's way to early to go there yet at least for me. It's going to take more shooting and finding a sweetspot for lack of a better word and learning what's within reason. I don't know if a two inch h/l or three would feel fine. I'm used to setting a pin and setting a pin and shooting between pins lol.

So far I've just been walking out to 20-25 yds and concentrating on good form. My hunting range has been twenty and in for years. This is kind of like buying a 300 win mag to hunt on a three acre farm.

[dave-t.]

Hink I have felt the same way, and I'm only shooting a 318fps ibo bow. I don't hunt past 20yrds either, but the equipment is capable. I have a buddy with a PSE shooting into the 350's, and he has a one pin set up to 40yrds and makes use of it in the stand.

I would have to know the exact distance before I would shoot past 25yrds.

[GF.]

You ever get the sense we're going round and round and round with this?

According to some studies done by the military, we humans are generally quite poor judges of distance (owing to having our eyes too close together). So we tend to have an error rate of +/-30% or so, IIRC...

Let's tell ourselves we;re really good, though, and cut the error to +/-20%.

At 25 yards, that could be 20 yards or it could be 30 yards. So the question is, is even a 350-fps wonderbow going to be fast enough that your 25-yard pin is neither too high at 20 nor too low at 30? I'm sure a 3500 fps manglum would be fine in between 200 and 300 yards, but arrows shed velocity a lot faster - especially the light, fast ones, right? +/-3 inches high or low seems within reason, seeing as we generally hold to that standard with our centerfires, but I'm with you, Dave - anything that isn't dead-nuts #1 pin really needs to be measured unless you're just one hell of an instinctive shooter - pins or not :p

I've got a 23 pin and a 28 pin; they overlap, but I still HAVE TO know which one to use. Holding so that the one is as high as I can stand and one is as low as I can stand and expecting the arrow to land in between them has led to some, ahhhh, unexpected results. Fortunately only on foam.

I guess I'm just not sure that we'll ever see a bow fast enough to really change the game beyond 30 yards or so, and JMO that's a good thing. Past 30 yards is rifle range anyway....

[Bushman]

My new North American Whitetail magazine came in last week and it has the Gear Guide with 14 of the new bows shown including your new Bowtech. What happened to the single cam bows that were all the rage just a year or two back? Every one of the 14 bows pictured is back to the dual cam design. Was that just all marketing hype about getting out of tune and what ever else they were touting as new and improved with the single cams?

[GF.]

Bush -

I think the single-cams really did provide some tuning improvements when they came along about 10 or so years ago, but a couple of things have happened since. One is that the technology for keeping dual-cam bows has improved, so that the tuning & timing advantage of the single-cams is at least reduced, if not eliminated.

Second is that cams have always been faster, and I’ll bet those bows you were looking at start at IBO speeds of 325 and up…

Third is that IIRC, NCB said something about single-cams creating additional wear and tear on the servings or something like that. I’ll let him explain it himself though, because I just exhausted my expertise on that topic :D