Got to shoot it a bit on Friday night at the shop before I headed down to PA and it is definitely a shooter. For accessories it will be wearing a doinker carbon elite 11.5" stabilizer, sword acu-site micro 3rd plane w/ .010's, GKF TKO Target w/ .010 blade and a new style STS. It is 70lbs and set right now at 30 3/8" dl. I already have pro 22's made up weighing in at 353 grains, so I imagine it will be pretty quick coming in around 315+ fps. Once I get to really develop a feel for it and get it all tuned and dialed in, I will post some thoughts later this week and I will post how fast it is going as well, we have a chrono down at the shop. I don't know what the heck I am going to shoot out of it for the NYS ASA shoot next month, probably some GT 30X's or 2512's or something really wide like that should slow it down enough and cut me a few extra lines as well.

Also am going to give these new Zebra strings an honest shot. I will put up an honest review on them once I have a few thousand shots or so and before it gets some nasty's installed. If they really suck I won't sugar coat it.

First impression is that the true 65% letoff with a nice valley and solid wall is what I have been dreaming of for a while. This is going to be nice. The grip on this is also the best factory grip I have ever felt and rivals the shrewds I have been shooting for so long. The other thing I REALLY like is that the bow has more mass weight than anything I have owned in the past, which is nice for us HC 3D guys that can't really add v-bars or side bars. I am a big believer in a proper ratio between holding weight and bow mass weight to minimize range of movement and slow down pin float, this is nearly impossible to obtain legally within HC rules and still have the bow balance neutrally in your hand. I am able to accomplish this with my Apex 7 and I never have been able to do this in the past with a bow that was legal for HC. It just seems to float sooooo slow and hold sooooo solid.

It seemed just a tad bit jumpier in the hand than my previous bows however it was nekkid then with no STS or other accessories at the time other than a used TM hunter rest I bolted on and eyeballed so I could shoot it a few times. It will be a bit more fair of a comparison once all accessories are on it later this week.

Congrats, I hope you kick butt in the 3D world with it.

Nice bow RJ. Sounds like it's going to be a great shooter. I see you picked up a liberty recently too. Is that going to be your hunting bow come fall?

nice bow bro. looks good. now don't go signing that contract saying all you can shoot is zebra's. well, we can work around that too. i can make 'em look just like zebras - as i do that for a few contract signers - but shhhhhh!

I have got to shoot a few APEX7's now and I know I realy like it. Come this next winter I might just have a new 7 myself. I would also get a extra set of limbs in the 80 pound range. Yes it would be a heavy hunting bow, but its fast and quiet plus very accurate.

Yeah, the shop gave me one of the Liberty Bows to field test this summer/fall. This is not the bowtech/diamond Liberty, but the short 20" ATA one that a few have posted threads on here about. I do plan to hunt with it however it will not be my primary hunting bow. I plan to use the XT for most of my hunting work however will be using the Liberty Bow for blind hunting and a couple of treestands where I have tight quarters and know the animal will be within 30 yards. It is a great shooter for hunting, and I look forward to posting a full review on it later this spring/summer.

Haha.....there won't be any contracts direct with any bow manufacturer this year I don't think. I need to put on a good showing at some of the big shoots later this year to make that happen and I am a ways away from that happening because of all the changes taking place w/ the coaching right now. I have been told that I am not supposed to aim at anything right now and I haven't aimed at anything in over a month for the most part........all blank baling. [:-] Hopefully by end of June I will be back on some 3D courses, it is killing me to not be shooting foam right now thats for sure.

Awesome, can't wait for the review...very interesting design in that bow.

Nice bow!

Congrats on your purchase, thats a very nice bow. I'm sure it will shoot just as good as it looks which is awesome.

Put it through the chrono tonight. With 30" cams, at 70lbs and a 353 grain arrow I got 309fps out of it. Tomorrow I go to the range to fine tune draw length and shoot it a bit and get it bare shaft tuned and paper tuned and hopefully sighted in for 20 yards. I will report more once I have a chance to put a few hundred arrows through it on a good tune. I have blank baled a couple hundred with it already and it does feel good. Now with all the accessories on it it is pretty dead in the hand on release, almost as dead as my previous bows. That extra holding weight is helping me with a clean shot execution a lot as well.