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ORIGINAL: DropTine249
I was at one of my local bow shops, they carry the new Ross Cardiac. This bow shop is where I buy, scents, stands, things like that. Not bows.
I held the Ross, listened to the guy shoot it, its quiet, 320pfs OBI. Even the guys at the shop where I do purchase my bows said that the Ross is an amazing bow.
Im told that the gentleman whom founded Ross bows was a bow designer for Mathews, Hoyt, BowTech and some other company. Its said that he basically decided to go out on his own instead of making others rich and hes made an extremely good bow.
Anyone have any experience with Ross bows ? Its light, fits in my hand well(didnt shoot it because there wasnt one set to my draw lenght and I was pressed for time). Thanks for any info !!
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Ross bows are GREAT bows. I really like them and I'm going to do my best to answer your questions here.
As far as the 320IBO on the Cardiac, I have yet to see anyone touch that. It's just something about a single cam, they aren't nearly as efficient as a hybrid cam, but they are deadly quiet and very light. Combine that with smooth drawing and you have a heck of a hunting bow.
As far as the founder of Ross designing bows for other companies, that's not right. Andy (the owner) was actually in the music buisness before deciding to build bows. Now they may have a designer or something that worked for all those other bow companies, that I don't know.
Ross this year, however have had some major problems. More specifically, manufacturing trouble. Some Left Handed shooters still don't have bows they ordered back in early '07. I don't see them having this problem again in the near future, I think they were just overwhelmed with customers this year. Which unfortunately, I think they've lost a few of those customers due to the manufacturing trouble.
Another plus is that they use Winner's Choice strings and cablesstraight from the factory. That's usually a $100 upgrade right there. However I wouldn't be surprised to see that come to an end as well. Most bow companies after a few years find out they are losing too much money outsourcing their strings so they decide to go in house with them.
If they do this, I hope they don't turn out a crappy as Hoyt's FUSE strings. Bowtech on the other hand makes pretty good strings straight from the factory from what I've seen/heard.
Hope that helps.
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