How Forgiving is the Bowtech Alliance33?
The next generation of arrow rests
First… A disclaimer…
“Forgiveness” is a relative term in Archery. There are so many factors that will make one bow “the best bow” anyone has ever shot.
I fully realise that the following is subjective and will definitely be impacted by many factors.
That said…
Read below and make up your own mind!
The Bowtech Alliance33
The reason I decided to try the Bowtech Alliance33 as my “daily driver” was simple: the bow specs was very close to my previous favourite bow: The Bowtech Reign7.
It was everything the Reign7 gave me and more! You will remember when the Bowtech Reign series was released a few years ago, Jim Burnworth took a sweet, 115yd shot on a mature Kudu with the Reign 7 on video (see here)
I was looking for a bow that gave me all of that, and what I got was exactly that, and more!
Anyone that has seen my and my Red Dirt Bowtech Alliance33 will confirm that one of my first statements about this bow is:
This bow is a much better bow than I am an archer!
Forgiveness
I keep on shooting this bow and find myself thinking time and again that I shot a bad shot, but it ends up, if not spot on target, pretty darn close!
Now… a bad shot is a bad shot, and no piece of equipment will make I terrible shot great (except, maybe, a tremendous amount of luck!) but there are times when the situation forces your form a bit.
In that moment as the animals walk in, adrenaline is rushing through your veins and your heart rate is spiking to the max, we just grip the bow a bit tighter, and hold on a bit stronger.
So I wanted to see how much of an influence hand torque will have on the accuracy of the bow…
The Test
The setup was super simple. I simply torqued the bow left and right to the level I felt comfortable that the string will not climb of the main cams when I release.
Now for the most part, target archers try and create this forgiveness by torque tuning the arrow rest and sight so that they get a sweet spot where the difference is marginal at best.
In this case, It was my standard HHA NYTRX hunting sight and a Ripcord IMS mounted Arrow rest.
From the paper tears, you can see exactly how far I could push the torque, although, on the shots, I expect I didn’t quite push it to the maximum, considering how the arrow angles stayed fairly close together.
The Results
Although not fully surprised, I was a bit impressed with how close the arrows penetrated to the actual aiming point. So even though I torqued the bow quite a bit and my aim should have been way off… it was only slightly skew.
The Bohning Alpha Vanes was doing a spectacular job on aligning the arrow flight quickly!
I think if you torqued the bow AND shot in the heavier crosswinds over distance, the arrows would fair quite a bit worse… but 20-30yd results was actually quite good.
Now I have no more excuse: If I missed a target, its because I missed… not the bow
Sweet Regret
This test also resulted in my best… but also my most expensive “Robin Hooded arrow” 🙂
Perfectly split in three between the fletches, and the nock was driven into the shaft in front of the arrow point. Goodby Black Eagle Rampage 300! You served me well!
