hey everybody this is pj reilly from lancaster archery got a revised version of a bow that's
been out for a while we wanted to tell you about this is the 2022 version of the darton spectra e
so last year darton had sent me the spectra e and i didn't like it so much me personally i didn't
and they totally revamped this bow for 2022 and it is an awesome shooting machine right now
just up front we'll tell you a wider limbs stiffer riser here bigger axle they just
did a bunch different limb angles they did a lot to improve the shooter experience with this bow
we'll tell you about that in a second but let's give you the specs for this bow first
the dart and spectra e measures 32 inches axle to axle it's got a mass weight of 4.9 pounds
a brace height of 6 and 7 16 inches it's got an adjustable draw length
from 25 and a half inches to 31 inches ibo speed rating of 335 to 340 feet per second
and it's available in peak draw weights of 40 50 60 and 70 pounds all right so as we mentioned
darton did a lot to improve the shooter experience with this bow and first and most noticeably what
they did is they came out with a little bit more parallel limbs than they had in the past
previous models the limbs were more inverted this way which tends to produce a little more
hand shock by going to more parallel limbs they smooth that out so you don't feel that handshake
all and also along with that they came up with a wider limb pocket and wider limbs that also
helps with the stability where darton really did a lot to improve the shooter experiences with this
riser here so they're all different grades of aluminum and this riser is made of aluminum
that's classified as 7075 t6511 that's a lot of technical jargon that doesn't you know that's
irrelevant but what we need to know as end users is that that grade of aluminum is pre-stressed
and pre-stretched so for the strength to weight ratio and the stiffness to weight ratio this is
among the highest level of aluminum in its class and so what darton is saying is they've basically
all but eliminated riser flex there is a little bit in there but not much so that just produces
consistency it eliminates any hand shock in there so this bow now is just a pleasure to shoot that
was one of my complaints last year was i didn't think it was a pleasant experience this one is
so in case you haven't seen it before dartin on its any of its bows that have the e at the
end this one's the spectra e what they're talking about is this unique you're only going to see this
on dart and bows is this little pulley system right here darton calls this their e-system so
what it is is it takes your split yoke comes up on each side of the limbs here on the outside
comes down goes through the roller and then comes right back up and wraps around the cam right here
so what you have now pulling down you have three points of contact pulling on the axle
which by the way darton upgraded this year to a quarter inch axle so they went to a bigger axle
by having three points of contact here pulling down it just evens the load on that axle and
the bearings inside so it just makes for a more forgiving setup you don't notice this e-system
in the draw cycle other than it's a very smooth draw cycle you might think with the cam paying out
some string here and it going through the roller and then taking it back up after the
shot you might think that you would feel all of that somewhere in the draw cycle but you don't
it's got a real nice draw cycle typical hunting compound you know you're going to
have a lot of effort at the front and then it's going to come back
and sit nicely we've got a couple of options here for your string stop and for a limb stop
first off we're going to see right here on the rotating mod this is your draw length mod you've
got this big flat paddle right there i mean that thing is awesome this is what's coming around and
contacting the cable that's your draw stop that in and of itself is nice and solid i tend to like a
solid back wall i know some archers like a little sponginess in there with that big paddle when
it comes around and hits that cable it's nice and solid but if you like even more rock solid
we have a limb stop and so what you would do is once you set your draw length this limb stop sits
in an open channel here you would just set the timing for it so that it came around and struck
the limb at the same time as the cable stuff or as always if you wanted a little more aggressive feel
you could put this a little short of that then that's going to reduce some of your let off
which is a nice option if that's how you like your shot to activate it's good to be able to do that
all right coming down the bow darton has provided two burger holes here that's for rest security
if you want to do that coming on the back i only have one bolt in there but if your rest has the
distance you can put two bolts in there and then you never have to worry about things moving up and
down you know bow hunters were out there sometimes our bows take a beating you can pound it on rocks
drop it whatever if you got two bolts in there that thing is not moving the grip it's a real
nice grip there kind of leans forward i like that grip with my hand in that position i think
it just holds and aims incredibly well which this bow does it's a machined part of the riser
so there's nothing extra added on there these are just decorative plates on the side there but it's
a nice grip nice and flat on the back here thins up at the top of the grip here right where the
webbing of your hand would be nice and flat here rounded edges real great for getting your hand in
position and of course one of the things that i love about these dart and grips is this channel
in the front here just good for making sure your hand is in the right position every time
i can reach down there and touch that find that channel make sure my hands in the right position
stabilizer mounts if you like to run just a front bar we've got one here darton has added a beefier
bushing up front there just to improve that stabilizer to bow contact sometimes if those
things are thin they can come off especially in hunting situations it's not easy to get
them loose darton beefed up that bushing there so you get a nice solid contact and of course you've
got a rear mount in the back if you like to run a side rod off the back of the bow as well every one
of these spectra ease is going to come with the shock dampeners in the limbs there again just to
do some more to eliminate vibration and quiet this thing down all right so like i said the shooting
experience that darton changed with this bow is just incredible i didn't care for it as much last
year randy kitts the new owner of darton he saw me at a tournament this summer and he said hey come
on over here i want you to shoot this bow it was this one that they had reworked he said just shoot
it and tell me what you think and it was like night and day i didn't think it was the same bow
he said that's the new spectra e we've changed it uh focusing really on that shooter experience
let's be honest most folks when they come in to buy a bow you're gonna shoot it just at
five yards and see how it feels this one feels as good as any of the bows then performance wise i
was able to get it tuned very quickly and then i was shooting this out to 40 yards behind the shop
it was as accurate as any bow i've shot it held nice it aimed nice again that draw cycle is nice
for a hunting bow you may get stuck in that full draw position for a minute or two you know waiting
for game to do what you want so it's a it's important that that's comfortable back there
and this bow is at that max let off so it's just a real nice shooting bow at the shot you don't
feel anything the bow doesn't want to jump out of my hands great shooting experience from the folks
at darton all right so that is the 2022 version of the darton spectra e great revised version
of a bow that's been in darton's lineup for a while we're glad to have it at lancaster archery
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