re: Mathews Getting Demolished for New Bow

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What's the complaint with the new Matthews

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28" ATA and 321 IBO for the Creed XS.

I'm a little disappointed myself. I have no desire to own a bow with an ATA shorter than my draw length. My 2006 model SBXT has an IBO of 315. It would be hard for my to spend 1k and gain 6 FPS. With that said, I'll shoot it and then form a real opinion of the bow, but the specs don't leave me to believe that I'll be impressed.

The Chill R looks ok to me. 33 ATA, a hair over 6" of brace height, and an IBO in the 340s. The main complaint is that it's another version of the MR6, but the Chill's draw cycle/shootability was head and shoulders above the MR series bows and I'd imagine the same is true of the Chill R.

The fact is, bows aren't going to get much better than they are now without a radical change.

ETA I don't know why people are surprised. Outside of the Reezen and Helim Mathews has had the same pattern of releasing a bow and then releasing a shorter version the next year.

05 Switchback-06 SBXT
07 Drenalin-08 DXT
09 Reezen 7.0 and Reezen 6.5
10 Z7- 11 Z7 Extreme
12 Helim
13 Creed-14 Creed XS