Hoyt Podium X 40
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The result: the all new Podium X Elite 37 and Podium X Elite 40. Hoyt's new, patent-pending, modular grip system allows target archers to fine tune their grip. These are the best custom bowstrings​ that you can buy for your Podium X Elite 40 GTX #5 by Hoyt. ​America's Best Bowstrings are known to be the highest.
PVC bows are archery as much as FITA compound. Posts must be archery related.
Effort and content policies are left to the voters.Theme daysYou're welcome to post anything you want within our rules. Some days are dedicated to certain themes, see below. DayThemeShare photos of your bow, quiver, treestand, etcShare stories from competitions or your club/range/proshopPlease read the wiki!maintains an active. Feel free to contribute, as it is a community document. It contains:.Archery SubredditsRelated subredditsAdditions to the above tables welcome. Hoyt Podium X Elite 37, GTX Cam set at 54lbs and 65%. Black and silver Zebra Trophy string and cables (I never really liked the Fuse one.)Axcel AX4500 sight, Merlin Tenzone 1.0 scope at the front, Specialty #3 1/16 clarifier at the back.Mybo Certo long and side stabilisers, with (I think) 350g spread out.Merlin v1 Victory releaseEaston 470 A/C Pro Fields, 125gr point, Beiter H-pin nocks for outdoors.
342gr per arrowEaston 450 Triumphs, 200gr point, Beiter H1 nocks for indoors. 515gr per arrow. Shoots a shite sight better than the Ignite I had. Actually has a rock solid back wall, rather narrow valley, and you can basically tune it to within an inch of its life.I bought it because I immediately loved how it shot. None of this 'Well, I'll tell you in a few more ends' that I had with the Chill.X and TRG-8, it was an immediate 'Oh my fucking god, take my wallet, take it all!' The bit I liked the most was that as a barebow, quite literally, the cams go up, the arrow goes forward, and the riser stays in the exact same place.
Absolutely no movement at all. Hoyt Podium X 40 with Spiral X cams at a shade over 30.5', set at 56# (red, with yellow bits)ProTours, 30', 380, 120gr tophat tungsten points. Easton g pin nocks.
Using carbon express nano xr (530 spine ones fit well on these protours) bulldog collars because i found that pins weren't enough.Carter honey (making the transition this season.) and a carter fits me too with a bunch of sugru on. Going to get a hbx when it comes out.Shrewd something wilde rest.Fuse blade long rod, doinker plat side rod. Not much weight on each (3 up front and 8 on the rear). Waiting to try the taper x from fuse but if not i really liked the easton z flex.Shibuya sight, cbe scope.Erm.
Think that's it. Outdoor:Hoyt Carbon Matrix G3 with Doinker Estremos and DS2 dampersMathews Conquest 4 with Fattys.Protour 420s with 120gn tungstens.Indoor:Mathews Apex 8 with Fattys.Easton Carbon Triumph 350s.All have Shibuya CPX 520s with Beiter scopes, Beiter launchers.3D:Hoyt Vector Turbow, Doinker 12' Fatty.QAD HDX, Axcel Armourtech 5-pin, Lightspeed 3D 500s.Recurve:SF Carbon Pro, W&W 38lb carbon foam mediums.Shibuya Ultima Carbon, Titan scope, Shibuya rest, Beiter button, CEX-2 stabs, Cavalier tab, Carbon One 660s. Currently I'm going back and forth between my Martin Super Diablo 65# with xx75, 31' arrows, and my Hoyte Grand Prix Horizon Pro 25' with Grand prix carbon 720, 50# limbs, a Cartel riser, Shibuya Dual click sight, and a Beiter stabilizer.Once a month or so I shoot my 2011 Martin Bengal 85# with a Truglo 5 pin sight and QAD fall away rest.Once in a while though I pull out a '92ish Hoyt ProForce that I fixed up and had to make a custom replacement string for. It's adjustable between 97#-120# 30-31' draw even after the string has settled. I can only use it outdoors on 40+ meter targets because it has a tendency to just destroy them. I only shot it once at 120# at a 60 meter target and the arrow splintered in the wood on the other side of the block, but if I ever need to take down a large truck or helicopter I got it covered.
Is a place to share and discuss content relating to one of mankind's earliest pastimes. Hunting, recreational, and competition archery are all welcome!
As voted on by users. RulesViolation may result in post removal. Repeat offenders are subject to banning at mod's discretion.
and apply. Every discipline is welcome! Please refrain from discriminating based on another user's style of shooting or choice of bow.
PVC bows are archery as much as FITA compound. Posts must be archery related. Effort and content policies are left to the voters.Theme daysYou're welcome to post anything you want within our rules. Some days are dedicated to certain themes, see below.
DayThemeShare photos of your bow, quiver, treestand, etcShare stories from competitions or your club/range/proshopPlease read the wiki!maintains an active. Feel free to contribute, as it is a community document. It contains:.Archery SubredditsRelated subredditsAdditions to the above tables welcome. Podium owner here, have shot pro comp.
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Prop comp feels very nimble and small in comparison to a podium which feels like a Boeing 747 which us nice in its own right. Prop comp is like a 308 rifle and podium feels like a 50 Cal. The power stroke on podium is longer, the lack of a string stopper makes it even longer.
Both are quick and stable bows. I'd say that the pro comp is slightly easier to shoot (I'm talking about both bows with spiral cams). I found the adjustable grip to be meh. I tried all different angles and none of them really clicked with me much. That said, the grips on both are really slim and slippery so you'll have to add grip tape or over grip to both. The cable guard on podium is old style thing (the hooks that the cables slide through).
I personally like the pro comp cable guard better but it apparently can chew up cables. The podium cable rod is adjustable in its angle. It allows you to change the pre-load and cam lean throughout the shot.
It's a feature that's helpful if you know what you're doing. If you don't, then you'll be in a world of pain from messing with it (I speak from experience).
Though that said, it's a good opportunity to learn everything that there is to learn about tuning a bow. Once properly set up, they both can shoot 10 and Xs till the cables wear out no problem. What they are NOT, is what you call forgiving. You mess up, it's all on you with these things because they won't baby you and will rip you apart for your screw up (though could be just spiral cams).
I can't comment to a full extent on what makes one bow better than the other. I have shot both though and to my experience I preferred the podium. It felt more stable and balanced to me as a bare bow and once loaded with the stabilizers, it was a whole different game of stability.
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The Pro Comp didn't feel as comfortable and had more vibration on the shot and seemed to lurch forward on release as well where the podium was more dead in hand.As far as the spiral cams to the GTX cams there's no question for me, GTX all the way. The spiral cams are very unforgiving and I found that you have to constantly be on your A game while shooting them, any moment of being relaxed getting thrown off due to a sound etc those cams will make you put that arrow down and have you redraw the bow. Now spiral have a great back wall and a shallower valley which a lot of people prefer, they're just not for me. My shooting style agrees more with the GTX cams. I didn't find that either one was harder to shoot than the other.
I was comfortable with both to shoot them but I preferred and felt more comfortable with the Podium. That being said, we have a couple guys at the shop that went from a Pro Comp to a new Podium and sold the Podium and went back to their Pro Comp and some kept their Podium and sold the Pro Comp. So I guess it all just depends on the shooter. I'd look into the new HyperEdge if you can find one in your range as well. I shot a Hoyt reps Hyperedge, Tony Tazza, and man was that bow amazing.
If I wasn't shooting for my shop for Mathews I'd be going after that bow.The Pro Comp I shot had the spirals and I shot a new Podium with both spiral and GTX.Biggest advice I can give you is shoot the bows if you get a chance, if you're at the range often, talk to some of the guys and see if they'll let you take a shot or two out of their bow, most will. That's how I came across shooting all the bows I have. It helps in the buying process.