outdoor life bow review.
 

Just finished reading the outdoor life bow review and Iwas thinking. Does the review actually remain un-biased whentwo of the five panel members work for a specific bowshop and the entire review is also done within that same shop? This shop is also not allowed to sell certain manufacturers bows which are some of the one's they are reviewing. Before I go any further I want to make the disclaimer that in no way am I puting down ANY bow here and as of now I do not have any opinion on this subject which is what prompted the question. Now, two of the reviewers work for a shop that isn't allowed to sell bowtech because of a nearby competitor. In this particular review the guardian finished 4th behind the drenalin, x-force and black ice. My question I guess is...Do you think the fact that the shop isn't allowed to carry bowtech had any bearing on the outcome?..and...If the other local shop (who doesn't carry Mathews but has bowtech) would have been on the panel would the results have been flipped? Like I said, it was just something I was thinking about and personally don't have an opinion. I just was curious as to what everyone else thought.;)

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Read it. Good information but information you have to take with a grain of salt. I like that they point out pros and cons of each bow. But I firmly believe the best bow is the one you like the most.

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I do find that odd because on the bowsite.com head 2 head blind bow test the results were quite different and i would consider this test more credible that any others i have read about.

http://www.bowsite.com/BOWSITE/features/articles/equipment/2007headtohead/

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I agree 100% chucker. It was a very informative read and I loved it. The pros and cons were great as well. Personally, I think any of those top 4 bows could have landed at #1 and it wouldn't have been a surprise.

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It's just like when Petersen's Bowhunting review bows they like every one of them. Idon't know how you can like every bow that you shoot.

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Wow...that is a lot different. It's funny that the Mathews scored so high on grip and hand placement on bowsitebut in outdoor life when they asked the testers for their cons they said that the only thing they didn't like on the Mathews was the grip. It's also wierd how bowsite got 320 fps out of their x-force with a 350 grain arrow but outdoor life got over 340 fps with the same weight arrow? Thanks for the link, I think it was very informative.;)

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I read the article over the weekend. My first thought was that the Black Ice had more "stars" than the Drenalin yet the Mathews won. Thats when I started to wonder about just how biased the testers were. I just bought a new house so I'm not buying a new bow this year anyway, so who cares! LOL!

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They didn't test a Ross this year either.

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You really can't put much creed into somebody else's analysis of a bow - b/c if they're immersed deep enough in the bow culture to be able to be doing in-depth "head-to-head" analyses - chances are, they have a few bows hanging on the hooks at home. When you have ownership, you have loyalty. Also, a lot of these guys are employed by magazines with advertising dollars at stakeand/or they work at shops who only sell certain makes/models... Lots of competing interests there.

So, after you're finished discounting for A, B, C and D - you wind up with nothing.

The bowsite thing is just as biased, really. You honestly mean to tell me when those guys picked up the bows (even if they WERE REALLY blindfolded) - that they couldn't tell from the shape/feel of the grip which bow they were shooting?Come on. I've never even shot most of those bows, and I could tell them apart as soon as they hit my hands.

Then, they conveniently left out 4 of the best bows of '07 (Vulcan, Iron Mace, Envy, Ally). Really, if you're gonna go "head to head" you should at least include all of the competition.

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I shot a ross cardiac the other day and liked it but I think I am still going with the drenalin but I sure do like that cardiac it made it even a tougher decision