i'm looking into buying a new bowech tribute and was needing to know if the dual cams takes alot of maintance, i have only shot one came bows and have never had to do anything to the bows ,but have heard that dual cams can be hard to keep in time. i just need a little help on clearing this up. also does bowtech make any new single cam bows if so where do i find those at. thanks

I can't help with the Tribute question but if you want a single cam bow made by Bowtech check out the Diamond line. I love my Victory!

I can't speak about the Tribute, but my Martin is a dual cam and so far I haven't had any difficulties with it in regards to tuning and maintainance.

Considering the quality of the product Bowtech is producing, I can only imagine that their bows are a breeze to work on.

Deer hunter,

I shot Mathews for over six years before switching to BowTech this year. BowTech's dual cams --more appropriately called a binary cam system --are actually slaved together, meaning that each cable anchors to the opposite cam. Typically, older-style dual cams anchored to the opposite limb tips.

The reasoning behind this is that BowTech believes that any imbalances in the system will sort of "self-correct" and the cams will remain in sync with each other. Keep tabs on the axle-to-axle length -- but more importantly the brace height -- and you'll pretty much be good to go. Of course, you're going to need to do that much maintenance even with single cams, so what I'm saying is that there's no more timing issues with BowTech's binary cam system than there is with Mathews' solocam system.

After shooting both company's offerings pretty extensively, I can tell you a few bonuses you'll inherit if you do decide to pick up the Tribute. It's pretty much universally acknowledged that BowTech puts on some of the finest factory strings on its offerings right out of the box; Mathews, on the other hand, is pretty much universally acknowledged for putting some of the worst factory strings on its products. There's many a custom string maker out there who stay in business largely due to people needing to immediately replace their inferior strings on a bow they just plopped down close to $700 for.

In my opinion, BowTech's grips are much better than Mathews' stock grip as well; though I've seen one or two who liked it, I'd say for every one who does there's ten who opt to replace it with a grip by Tronjo or one of the other various Mathews aftermarket grip providers.

Other than those two gripes, Mathews does make a very good, quality product. I wouldn't have shot them so long if I didn't believe that. It just got to the point where BowTech started turning out a product that was so much superior -- to me -- that I started pursuing that relationship.

I pointed out just a couple of differences between those two companies because you specifically included the solocam in your line of questioning; hopefully, the insights will help you some. As always, I ultimately suggest you shoot any and all bows you're considering buying.

If you have any other questions, feel free to ask; I'll try to offer any assistance I can.

All very true....but have they gotten their recent limb problems worked out?

Sorry mobowhuntr, but I just started visiting back here again after being on AT for a while and don't know if you asked a serious question or just joking. This is a big pain in the butt on AT where lots of bow brand guys are bashing other brands and the Bowtech limb breakage question is a big one. All that said, the shop I help at picked up Bowtech this year and I shoot the Equalizer. Only 1 pair of limbs have had to be replaced and that was because the shooter didn't tighten his module screw and it worked out and cut into the inside of the limb before it was caught. Bowtech replaced them no questions asked. So it wasn't what I would call limb failure so there have really been no limb problems. From all that I've seen data wise all companies are about the same when it comes to this. Okay, off my soapbox. I really liked Greg / MO's response and second it. The string and cables are quality I feel and I've had zero movement/stretch/peep rotation so don't feel you have any worry on the cams coming out of synch. All in all I had a hard time switching from Hoyt but am really happy with my Equalizer.

mobow, while there may have been some instances, the general consensus from those who are actually "in the business" is that there's no more limb problems with BowTech than with any other manufacturer.

For a while, there was indeed a plethora of threads on a certain site, but most -- at least a lot of them -- were found to be fabrications and falsehoods.

Feel free to PM Rack-Attack on here; he used to be on here all the time a couple years ago, but he opened up his own archery shop. He's one of the top dealers for several bow lines around the New York area; he would have no reason to hide anything concerning a defective product. His livlihood depends upon loyal customers. Yet I've seen him post on here numerous times that he has no more percentage defects with BowTech limbs than with any other brand.

Uh.....wow.......um........I certainly wasn't bashing anybody.....It's been a real, true to life problem we've been seeing at our shop lately, and from what I've heard there, we aren't the only ones been having that problem.....sorry dude.......

I hate when people, loyal to a certain bow company, immediatley think someone is bashing that company when they pose an honest question......CNTRL-ALT-DLT

edit......simultaneous post......Posted this one before I even saw Greg's....not intended to you Greg....

mobow, don't know who your response was meant for, but I took your question as serious and tried to respond to it in kind; I didn't think you were bashing.

After some of theridiculous and heinousstuff that went on over on AT though, I think some people are just a bit sensitive to the topic.

No prob.