2010 Hoyts

The 2010 Hoyts are out. I'm not all that impressed, although I'll admit I rarely am. With that said, last years flagship bow, the AlphaMax, did impress me when it was released. I subsequently bought one, and am very happy with it. Now it is the 6th or 7th bow in the catalog!

The Carbon Matrixx looks too complicated in design. The rest of them are tweaked AlphaMax's.

I haven't seen any prices yet, but I've heard rumors of anywhere from $1200-1600 for the Carbon Matrixx. Sounds a little crazy to me. It seems like for the past 5 or 6 years, the prices of 'last year's models' stays the same, and 'this year's' just moves up from there. Last year the AM32 cost me $800. Matthews were about the same. This year I see the new Matthews is MSRP $959, and the Hoyts are rumored even higher!

Who is buying these bows?!

too rich for my blood . i have the same PSE for the last 8 year . and it still does its job

I was just reading on another site that the new Hoyt's MSRP from $900-1650
bucks....thats right $1650 for their top of the line....there nuts I may look into a BowTech

Don't get CRAZY!! The AlphaMax has to remain at $800-900. I'm not even looking at the new top of the line ones. The Carbon Matrix just looks too weird. Too many things to go wrong.

That Hoyt Carbon Matnix MSRP $1650 bucks, they are nuts. I wont spend no more then $850 for a bow.

I love my Hoyt vulcan and thats cheaper then the Alpha max. THe Alpha max is fat my uncle has one thats how I got the vulcan......

I just did some research and found out why Hoyt went to the carbon riser.

Initially I, like everyone else, thought it was for weight, despite the fact that it trimmed only .1lbs from the bow. The reasoning behind this move was for the stiffness of carbon tubes vs. aluminum.

It's commonly known that aluminum risers will flex, even minute amounts, under the torque of full draw. While this may not be the end of the world for most of us, riser flex changes the specs of your bow, and affects nock travel, hand torque, cam lean, etc. This leads to difficulty tuning and maintaining your bow's specs. A riser that doesn't flex is interesting.

Although I wonder about the durability of the carbon riser, it is a daring leap for Hoyt to take. I just hope that the riser turns out to be as durable as all their previous designs.

If your shooting in the 240-300 fps real world speeds, you probably can get away with whatever your shooting.. My old PSE, I wound up doing carbons, then new accesories and got a few years more out of it.. When I got offered the Bowtech kit at a great price cause it was the end of the season, I hopped on it, swapped my higher grade stuff over, & put those accesories on my sons bow.. The technology of the bows is now at the stage of diminishing returns- in order to get more performance, the cost of research & development goes up significantly.. Shop for a leftover/last year model once the new models hit the stores..