Great Buy: Barnett TS380 The Barnett TS380 crossbow. Unconstrained by human draw strength, crossbow design keeps getting faster, cooler, and weirder Jeff Wilson Nothing else we tested this year came close to that accuracy, and it was the fastest bow to boot. 7-inch groups at 50 yards with this bow, destroying a couple of bolts in the process. The bows have all used the same 400-grain finished arrow, and the R29X is the fastest of them yet-and also the most accurate that I’ve tested. The bolt is supported in the bow via a traditional nock and a rest at the front of the bow there is no contact with a barrel in between, and that’s a recipe for excellent accuracy. That makes sense because, like many high-performance crossbows, it’s impossible to cock a Ravin by hand. Ravin does not publish draw weight figures, and instead publishes the required cocking effort (more on that system in a bit). The design is so good-and so unique in a number of ways-that only one other manufacturer (TenPoint) can seriously compete with it.Īll the Ravin crossbows use the same HeliCoil system, which allows the cams to rotate 340 degrees for crushing power in a compact package. Now Ravin can add our 2020 Editor’s Choice for the R29X to its cabinet of blue ribbons. The R15 won our 2017 crossbow test the 2018 R10 finished runner-up (narrowly), and 2019′s R26 won again. The first R15s launched with an ad campaign promising rifle-like accuracy at 100 yards-and testers could mostly back it up. If you test gear for a living, it’s rare to see something that’s as influential as the Ravin crossbow design has been. After it placed so near the top in both speed and accuracy/forgiveness, there was no catching it.īest Crossbows of 2020 Editor’s Choice: Ravin R29X The Ravin R29X crossbow.
This bow scored at the top of the pack in six of our eight test categories: draw cycle, noise, vibration, fit and finish, handling, and value. When it comes to the VXR 28, Mathews only messed with a few things, and those adjustments were improvements. We like to see innovation-but sometimes things just work and you shouldn’t mess with them.
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The series is so good, its bows have won or taken second place in all of our tests since 2016. The early Halons were scorchers on the chronograph, but the recent iterations have been as notable for their quietness and lack of vibration as their speed. But because the limbs are beyond parallel, the overall axle-to-axle length is compact. The bow sports buss-cable yokes affixed inside the limbs, creating that signature beefy, caged riser. The Crosscentric Cam debuted on the 2016 Halon and has shown up on the Halon 32, Triax, and Vertix bows. The company once synonymous with SoloCam bows has been riding a five-year wave of dual-cam success.
Best Compound Bows of 2020 Editor’s Choice: Mathews VXR 28 The Mathews VXR 28.
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