Hi guys, Dan Pickar here with Eastmans' gear lab today we got the new Matthews
Halon in. Its a 30 inch axle to axle got the new cross center cam system which is
kind of an evolved cam from the no camp but you can see they shaped it a little
bit different so it's not a perfect wheel it kind of reminds me of the wake.
If your dual bridge riser and you have your wider limb pockets and wider limbs
for more torque resistance. Should be a fun boat we're going to get set up and
take it for a test drive and see how it performs and compare it to some other
Matthews bows. That's a good place to start and we can make adjustments from
there we have a 300 spine arrow on a 70 pound bow. This is the 85% lead off so it
should be pretty close it might be a little stiff but Matthews a lot of times
I've had success with stiff arrows on Matthews bow so we're going to go, stiff.
So we took one shot out of the Halon and pretty impressive make much
due to their cross centric camp system and their zero knock travel built off of
the no cam technology from last year with the zero knock travel as well. It
makes it incredibly easy to set up and to tune apparently like I said I just
eyeballed my knocking point and my left to right on my rest and we're off to the
range now let's go shoot it at some real targets. Okay so here's a comparison
between 2015 wake and the new Halon. You can see how they kind of kept the limb
pockets they change the design a little bit but the width and the limb styles are
very similar. You can also see they kind of got away from the honeycomb type
riser and it's a lot shorter than the Wake too. And also new with the Halon
this year, is the flat back grip and that just provides a nice wall a nice
shelf to prevent torque when you're shooting this bow. So here's a side by
side comparison of the cams of the Wake and the Halon they're similar but you
can see they sit totally different and they're constructed totally different.
It's a little smaller axle to axle at 30 inches, but I think we're going to see
with these larger cams and the cross centric cam technology that it's going
to shoot actually like a 33 or maybe a 34 inch axle to axle bow. So it'll be
interesting to see how this bow shoots once we launch a few downrange.
Okay we're going to chronograph the Halon. On paper it looks pretty similar
to the Chill R which I've shot quite a bit this is 29 inch draw length. 85% let
off mod on it. This is a victory rip it's 300 spine cut to 27 and a half inches
and I think I'm right about 410 or 412 for my grains for my weight on my arrow.
So that's our specs let's shoot it through and see what we get.
3:09, wow it shoots fast. That's going to put me pretty darn near to the same
specs as my Chill R for speed 310 feet per second.
We'll shoot a couple more and see what we get. 3:14, so we shot the Halon
through the chronograph three times we got 309, 309, and 315 for a bow that's
much quieter and roughly I mean it's smaller it's 30 inch axle to axle.
I think the Chill R is 33 inches axle to axle. So a smaller compact bow,
that doesn't shoot like a 30 inch axle to axle it shoots more like a 33 or 34
inch axle to axle with this big belly on the cam. So it's it's quieter and it's
just as fast, and pretty impressive so numbers don't lie on that. 315 feet per
second on the 2016 Matthews Halon.
Okay we're out here hunting with the new Matthews Halon. We got a big 200
blosser out here about 43 yards, I'm gonna draw back send one down range.
Big buck.
We got it!