Potential Reezen Problems?

[Leftridge]

I am a die hard mathews man and so are all my huntin buddies. I talked to two of them and they have been at the shop all week playing with the reezen 6.5. We all shoot Dxts and they were comparing them. They said DXT hands down better bow. We shoot open handed on the handle and they said it has massive jump when you release. It will jump out of your hand if you try it open handed. They were not pleased at all. I will be there tomorrow to try it out but so far not sounding good.

I definately love my DXT hands down better also. I didn't really notice any hand shock but the draw cycle is WAY stiffer and it just doesn't have that magic when you shoot it like my DXT does. I could deal with a "stiff" draw like that in an IBO bow of 250 like the monster but not in a rig like this.

I do LOVE the valley and hold weight of the Reezen which is about 14# compaired to my DXT which is 33#

[DXTroughneck]

in the reezen's defense it is supposed to be more forgiving then the DXT. And i can atest to that. I love my Dxt but not just anybody can pick one up and be effective in tight groups. The short ata makes it less forgiving. I heard the reezen was suprisingly forgiving, but like i said i will find out tomorrow.

[rocky]

I definately love my DXT hands down better also. I didn't really notice any hand shock but the draw cycle is WAY stiffer and it just doesn't have that magic when you shoot it like my DXT does. I could deal with a "stiff" draw like that in an IBO bow of 250 like the monster but not in a rig like this.

I do LOVE the valley and hold weight of the Reezen which is about 14# compaired to my DXT which is 33#

This statement confuses me, If your DXT is 80% letoff, how can the holding weight be 33 lbs?
Even if it was 70% letoff, the holding weight should be close to 21 lbs.

[Leftridge]

This statement confuses me, If your DXT is 80% letoff, how can the holding weight be 33 lbs?
Even if it was 70% letoff, the holding weight should be close to 21 lbs.

Don't know friend, just going off of what the easton bow scale says when I used it with both of them..Is the holding weight same as let off?

[rocky]

That would be slightly more than 50% letoff, so I suspect you goy a bad read on the Easton scale somehow.
It would be nearly impossible ( if not impossible) to retard the DXT cam enough to lose that much letoff.

[canny]

I called Mathews today to chat with my boy Ryan and the first thing he said was "What's this about you having problems with the Reezen blowing up arrows?" My reply "What the **** are you talking about?" so apparently someone has told them the same thing...... How in the World do such rumors get started and then spread across country in mere hours? Unbelievable!!

To clear the record.... I have had no arrow failures with the Reezen. The arrow that we did comment on is still in one piece and stuck firmly in the wall because I misjudged where to tell "SPUD" to line up...... End of Story.

Thanks for clearing that up...Thats just what I heard and I thought I'd seek some clarification.

[rocky]

Don't know friend, just going off of what the easton bow scale says when I used it with both of them..Is the holding weight same as let off?

To answer your question,(missed it earlier), if you have a 70 lb bow, with 80% letoff, the holding weight would be approximately 20%.
20% of 70 lbs is 14 lbs.

[Leftridge]

To answer your question,(missed it earlier), if you have a 70 lb bow, with 80% letoff, the holding weight would be approximately 20%.
20% of 70 lbs is 14 lbs.

I'll plan to call easton tomorrow and ask whats up. I just had my wife read the scale at 16% set at 69# but when I let down it shows the letoff to read 33 so maybe you are right or I'm not using this dang expensive scale right...

[rocky]

I'll plan to call easton tomorrow and ask whats up. I just had my wife read the scale at 16% set at 69# but when I let down it shows the letoff to read 33 so maybe you are right or I'm not using this dang expensive scale right...

If you pull hard against the wall, you will increase the holding weight, but as you relax, the holding weight will decrease and then increase slightly(hysteresis) before accelerating.
This is why Mathews use to comment that their 70% letoff bows were P&Y eligible.

[WCB]

I take it these bows don't come in a 65% letoff model?

[rocky]

I take it these bows don't come in a 65% letoff model?

I can't answer that, don't know.