Hi guys Dan Pickar here with Eastmans' Bowhunting Journal. Today we have the
Hoyt RX-1 Ultra.
It's a Redwrx line from this year. This is the Ultra so it's 35
inches axle to axle. I think the standard one's 32 inches so it's a little bit
longer. Six inch brace height. IBO is 330. They've changed a lot this
year a lot of minor things and some major things too.
Fhe first thing I'd like to note is that the width of the limb pocket on the top
is a half inch narrower than the limb pocket on the bottom. So we're a full
half inches wider with our limb pocket down here which is new with the hyper
cam system and the split cable system and you can see the split off the mods
down here. This decreases the need for the reliability of a flex guard up here.
So there's no flexible cable guard anymore. It's just simply two rollers
attached directly to the riser and that's all you need. So that's pretty
cool but I also like from Hoyt this year too is is the offset stabilizer port. You
can see it's offset of center shot so it's offset to the left of the bow and
the whole reasoning behind it is to counterweight your sight and your quiver
up top and you can put any sort of stabilization system or just a regular
stab out the front or the back counterbalance your quiver and your
sight so and that will give you a nice stable platform. Regarding the rest on
some of the cable driven rests this is actually designed to tie in right in
here and this split of the cable but for example the Trophy Ridge Drop Zone I had
some clearance issues with this part of the riser and the cable just making
contact with it. Technically I don't think that it matters but it bugs me. I
don't like my rest cable coming in contact with my riser. Ror that reason I
prefer a limb driven rest on a Hoyt and so that's why I went with the Hamskea
on this one and you can see there's plenty of clearance
past the riser down to your lower limb here. All right new this year is the
X Act grip and I like it a little better than the traditional Hoyt grip.
It's a little more thin a little more streamlined but it's really comfortable
and it kind of has a flat back to it right here and so that's also
improvement from Hoyt this year that I really do like. So this is a six inch
brace height. Very comfortable draw cycle. It's one of the easier ones of any
Hoyts that I've ever shot to hold. New this year they're up to 85% let off so
that plays a big role into it but it feels like I could just sit here all day
and hold this this bow back so very comfortable. Very easy draw for 70 pounds rather.
This is a 28 inch draw so it's an inch shorter than what I normally shoot
but that's right in there. So yeah nice on the shot. Dead in the
hand. Can't really ask for any more from a new bow these days. So we'll shoot
another one and then we'll run it through the chronograph and see what
kind of speeds we're getting out of it.
Okay got the chronograph all set up.
We have a Bloodsport Punisher 300 this arrow with a hundred grain tip weighs
431 grains. I just weighed them at the office. So once again 70 pound limbs 28
inch draw let's see what we get. First shot haven't shot a through the
chronograph yet so let's see what it does.
279 not too bad.
Let's do one more just for consistency sake.
284 for a little bit of variance 5 feet per second difference but right around
280 feet per second. So that's pretty good and it's kind of to be expected. 28
inch draw 70 pound limbs and a 330 IBO alright guys that's the Hoyt Carbon
RX-1 Ultra. I forgot to mention too the carbon riser super nice to the touch in
the cold weather that's why I do really enjoy the carbon fiber riser. Be sure to
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