hey everybody this pj riley from lancaster archery out here with a brand new bow we wanted
to tell you about this is a great day i'm real excited about this bow this is the brand new pse
levitate and what we have is a high performance carbon bow this is actually a carbon bow that i
really like shooting and john dudley this is of course a bow that he had a lot of input in on with
pse they worked together and he basically went through and picked out all the little issues
that people have had with carbon bows over the years and he fixed them and so what i can tell you
is this is an incredible shooting bow i'm going to tell you about that in a second because john
dudley he kind of issued a special challenge to me on how i set up this bow and what the experiences
was going to be like it was pretty eye-opening for me i couldn't believe it
but before we get into that and talking about this great bow from top to bottom
we're going to give you the specs let's check those out the pse carbon levitate measures 32 and
one-quarter inches axled axle it's got a brace height of six inches ibo speed rating of 348
feet per second got a mass weight of 3.6 pounds adjustable let off from 80
to 85 to 90 percent for draw lengths we've got a rotating mod that goes from 27 and one half to 31
and one half inches and draw weights is going to be available in peak weights of 60 70 80 pounds
all right so the pse levitate what are we looking at here well let's start at the top here
we've got a brand new cam this is the e2 cam now pse has had the wildly popular evolve cam for the
last couple years bow hunters especially really love that cam because of the draw cycle the um the
let off you can get up to 90 percent uh so it's a super popular cam so what pse did with the e2 cam
is they just tweaked it a little bit they found out they were losing just a little bit
of performance especially as you went down in the draw lengths there was some drop off in efficiency
so with the e2 cam they they fixed that and one of the things that they did is they widened the cam
right here at the bottom where it goes into the axles so if you were to look at the e2 versus
an evolve cam you would notice that this stands a little wider one of the things that allowed them
to do was these the yokes here are not angled in so much and so what they found is when the yokes
were angled in they were losing some efficiency in the draw cycle because the the yolks weren't
pulling straight down they were pulling at an angle so these you can see the yoke on this
side is pretty much perfectly vertical and this one leans in but it doesn't lean in as much so
that's one of the things they did widen that cam at the base there just to improve the efficiency
there we went to quarter inch axles so that's another robust feature that they added in there
and what john dudley was telling me is there's a new beefier bearing system in there so if you've
been around bow hunting for a while you may have had issues with bearings going bad in a cam pse
got the beefiest bearings that they could find which hopefully they're hoping that that will
eliminate issues with the bearings going bad so as we mentioned the levitate comes with a
rotating mod for adjustable draw length and right at the end on the draw stop there you can see
where this screw is that there are three positions that's where you're going to adjust the let off
you can see i have it in the outermost position that is 90 percent two other positions are 85
and 80 percent now all of that moving forward take a look at this limb pocket here so we know one of
the things to increase the shooting performance of a bow to make it stable to reduce vibration
just to get the best shooting experience is to make this limb pocket wide get these limbs
wide limbs and get them spread out that's what everybody's going to these days but you didn't see
that on the carbon bows they tended to be skinnier well pse this is the same width limb pocket and
limb stance as they have on last year's aluminum bows so it's just a great system there with that
limb pocket to limb system now the biggest perhaps the biggest improvement we have here is this riser
so this riser is 100 carbon and it is now made from a proprietary style of carbon that pse is
calling dead frequency carbon it's a new type of carbon that they have come out with it's all
hand laid here in the usa so you know that that is coming from usa workers and this dead frequency
carbon i don't know how to explain it other than you just don't feel it in the hand carbon
doesn't really vibrate like aluminum does but you almost always feel that thump when you shoot
a with a carbon riser you still feel some response in your hand from this but it's different
it's quieter it's softer it's not the same kind of vibration that you feel from carbon bows
so in doing that they just increased the shooting experience of a carbon bow you know by leaps and
bounds by my opinion that's one of the things that i had issues with with carbon was that hand shock
and um you heard the specs on the weight 3.6 pounds bare so one of the things that
bow manufacturers were doing to kind of combat that hand shock in carbon bows
was to make them heavy which that defeats one of the two main purposes of a carbon bow right
there's two main things you're gonna get a carbon bow for it's impervious to uh temperature changes
i mean i took a carbon bow to the arctic it was minus 40 degrees nothing changed on it so super
cold weather you want a carbon bow and then the other thing is weight carbon is super light well
if you just add a bunch of weight to it to make it heavier to kill the vibration you just defeated
the purpose of carbon so at 3.6 pounds this thing just doesn't have that thump that you're used
to with carbon bows and i'll especially tell you about that in a second here what dudley had me do
but back to more features of the bow another thing john dudley wanted to do was he wanted to solidify
this cable arm normally they're in a dogleg pattern so that you can fine-tune
that cable arm to to affect the um side pressure of the cable here the load on the cables
well pse designed this so that the cables would be in the optimum position and then dudley didn't
like that dog leg because one of the things that happens with that dog leg is it comes loose
and then if it starts moving back and forth now you're affecting the bose performance so we have
a straight cable arm and it is tapped right into the riser there so this thing is not going to move
then you got your roller arm here it rolls on the rod and your cables as they go through it
they roll through rollers as well this is kind of a standard grip that we're seeing on a lot
of bows now it's narrow it's got nice edges on the side there it's just in a good position for
hand position super comfortable grip so something else you're going to notice in the grip is this
threaded hole right here and there will be so what i can say is there is something coming out
in the future that this will pertain to for right now it's just a threaded hole in the grip
so another thing pse did here was one of the issues with carbon bows was having bushings
into the riser for mounting stabilizers so you could take your side rod you could mount a bracket
on the front and run a side rod that way but some archers like to mount that side rod off the back
of the boat just gets that rod into a different position and a lot of carbon bows didn't have
that connection well pse added one here on the string stop you can see it right there you've
got a bushing so you can put your connection point on there and run your side rod off it
just gets that weight lower of course you do have the front bushing as always for that stabilizer
now pse continuing something they've had on their bose for the last couple years is this
device right here this is the precision bus tuning system so this um on a lot of
bows with this type of device you're gonna see that this harness up front here is one single
string and then it connects to a cable here but with pse this is actually a split yoke they cross
over one another to get into that tight stance here against the cams but this is a split yoke
so what you can do is you can do some of your yoke tuning to try and deal with left right paper tears
you can use the precision precision bust tuning system for that all right so this weight challenge
that john dudley hit me with so i will be honest that normally when i set up a bow i like a long
front rod and a side rod on my current hunting bow i have a 15 inch front rod 10 inch side rot
so john dudley said hey this is a carbon bow this is meant to be hunted with in a light fashion
he hunted with this bow this year up at high elevation above 11 000 feet for several weeks
where weight is a consideration you don't want to lug around a big heavy bow
so he said that i could set this bow up and keep the total weight under 5 pounds i couldn't believe
that when he was first saying it was before i had the bow in my hands but i said okay
i'll try setting it up like that so when the bow came in i got a trophy ridge five pin sight here
this isn't a light sight but it's not a heavy sight this is probably average weight for a bow
sight and i got a six inch shrewd rev-x stabilizer with one ounce up front kept it nice and simple
kept it light the total weight of this bow set up as is with the qad drop away is 4.85 pounds it is
under 5 pounds so i was amazed that i was able to get that weight well how's it shoot i wasn't sure
about how it was going to shoot and this thing is just a dream to shoot i don't feel all the issues
that i was expecting to with that lightweight it draws nice it holds nice you know it still has
that uh evolve cam-like draw cycle where you know you come you get over the hump and come back into
a nice valley it's even though they made this cam a little bit more aggressive you can see right
there it's definitely a little more aggressive than the evolve it's not one of those aggressive
cam that you feel uncomfortable at full draw because it wants to pull your shoulder forward
i have this set at 90 percent let off and this is one of those bows where you come to full draw and
it feels like you have to push to get that string to go forward it's super comfortable at full draw
and then i shot it out to 50 yards and the accuracy was just on point i
was able to stack groups in at 50 yards it just performed way better than i was expecting it to
don't feel that hand shock i will tell you you do feel some uh i'll say reaction
from the bow when you when you release the string you definitely can feel something in your hand but
it's not a harsh shock that goes all the way up your arm it's just kind of like a dull thump you
know the bow went off i would not consider that to be vibra the normal vibration when you shoot
a bow that's got a lot of vibration you know it this is not that bow so that dead frequency carbon
really killed it one of the other issues that we hear from carbon is that they're loud bows because
they're so light but again dead frequency carbon this bow is super quiet it's just a little blip
if you're not shooting the bow and you stand back from it it's just amazing how quiet this bow is
so my impression of the pse levitate is that they have taken now the high-end
carbon bow to a new level we haven't seen anything like this i don't believe um ever with carbon bows
so it is an incredible shooting bow the psc levitate if you like this video give
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