10 Days of ATA #2—Mathews’ New Triax Bow Combines Ultra-Smooth Draw with Blazing Speed
For 2018, Mathews introduced the Triax bow, with the tagline, “Stealth is Lethal.” We had to try this one while attending the ATA Show in Indianapolis, Indiana. This bow features a 28-inch axle-to-axle length, a six-inch brace height, and has an IBO rating of 343 feet per second. It weighs in at 4.4 pounds. The short axle-to-axle length makes the bow great for packing in, hiking through brush, and hunting from a tree-stand or ground blind.
The Triax also features Mathews’ Crosscentric Cam, which helps this bow achieve its unbelievably smooth draw and shot. In fact, we found it to be very smooth when compared to other bows. The Triax came out as one of our top picks from the 2018 ATA Show. The price of this bow is around $1,099.
Hey guys. I'm Mark Hayes from Matthew's Archery and I'm here in Indianapolis for the 2018 ATA Show and here to show you our brand new Triax from Matthew's. This bow is the result of an extremely focused goal this year for our engineering team: make the stealthiest killing machine of all time. It's vibration free, and incredibly silent. And that's coming off of a year where we won accolades with the Halon series with how quiet and vibration free that bow was...
So, we're really trying to beat ourselves there and I think we did. We're seeing that in the shops as people experience it. So the technology that went into it is, you know we're still running the cross center cam, that people that are familiar with the Halon series, that's what we've gone with there, it is the evolution of no cam technology. It's perfectly concentric, meaning the axles, the center of this circle from here to here, all the way around. But we cut the backside off to get the speed. We still got the short wide limbs, and you're seeing the industry starting to catch on. That's a technology that, one, it makes very durable limbs. Two, it's very torsionally resistant and a really stable system. So we kept that. It's very efficient and we're really happy with that system.
But what we did differently to get rid of some of the vibration, is one, we did some geometry changes to the bow. It's shorter, a little more compact. That alone makes it less vibration free, or more vibration free. Sorry. And then, the real technology was here, the EHS. This is the enhanced harmonic stabilizer and also not only the stabilizer itself, but the position, which we're calling 3D dampening. If you notice, as bows get longer risers, more "I" shaped as we call it, those are really accurate, really stable platforms, but what you lose is ... I'm gonna twist the bow. A bow can move this way around your grip, it can move front to back, it can also twist. What you're losing with the damper underneath your hand is that twisting motion. By putting it out front, we took advantage of that third axis of vibration dampening and we really made a dead in the hand bow, and I know you hear that a lot but this is truly dead in the hand. You have to shoot it to believe it.
The hunter that's gonna like this bow is, you hear it a lot, it's good for tree stands, good for ground blinds and absolutely it is, but what we're really excited to hear is our western guys, it fits on my backpack really well. It's really easy to crawl around with. Maneuverable. And that's what we like to see. It's not just a white tail bow, it's a killing machine. It's the stealthiest bow we've ever made. Thanks.