Mathews Triax Bow Review from the 2018 ATA Show
For 2018 Mathews introduced the Triax, labeling it as “Stealth is Leathal.”
This bows features a 28” axle-to-axle, a 6” brace height, has an IBO rating of 343 FPS, and weighs 4.4 pounds. The short axle-to-axle makes the bow great of packing in, hiking through brush, and hunting from a tree stand or ground blind.
The Triax also features Mathews’ Crosscentric Cam helping this bow achieve and unbelievably smooth draw and shot when compared to other bows. We put this bow to the test and compared it to the Halon 32. The Triax came out on top as one of our top picks from the 2018 ATA show in Indianapolis.
The price of this bow is around $1,099.00. This bow is one of 5 bows we picked for best bows of ATA 2018. Check out our top bows from the 2018 ATA show here.
Mark Hanes from Mathews Archery:
This bow is the result of an extremely focused goal this year for our engineering team, and that’s was to make the stealthiest killing machine of all time. It’s vibration free and incredibly silent… and that’s coming off a year where we won accolades with the Halon Series with how quiet and vibration free [those bows are]. So, we’re really trying to beat ourselves there and I think we did. We’re seeing that in the shops as people experience [the Mathews Triax Bow].
So, the technology that went into it you’ll notice is centered around the cam. People that are familiar with the Halon Series, this is the evolution of no cam technology—it’s perfectly concentric, meaning the axel is the center of the [cam] but we cut the back portion down to deliver speed. We still have the short, wide limbs that you see other manufacturers in the industry starting to catch on. That’s a technology that, one, makes very durable limbs, and, two, it’s torsionally resistant and a really stable system. So we kept that basic technology because it’s very efficient.
So what we did differently [on the Mathews Triax Bow] to get rid of some of that Halon vibration was a bit of geometry changes to the bow. It’s shorter and a little more compact that alone makes it more vibration free, but the real technology upgrade was in the EHS. This is the Enhanced Harmonic Stabilizer and not only the EHS itself, but the positioning of that stabilizer which we are calling 3-D Dampening. If you notice, as bows get longer risers, more “I-shaped” as we call it, what you lose is the twist around your grip. What you lose with the dampener underneath your hand is that twisting motion. By putting the [dampener] out front, we took advantage of that third access of vibration dampening and really made a “dead-in-the-hand” bow, and I know you hear that a lot, but the [Mathews Triax Bow] is truly dead in the hand. You have to shoot it to believe it.
[And while this bow is good for tree stands and good for ground blinds] the hunter that’s going to like this bow is the Western guy. We’ve heard a lot of feedback, “It fits on my backpack well; it’s really easy to crawl around with; maneuverable.” And that’s what we like to see: [the Mathews Triax Bow] is not just a whitetail bow, it’s a killing machine. It’s the stealthiest bow we’ve ever made.