Hunting the North

I've been visually comparing these two bows and they seem virtually identical in looks and price with the exception that the Admiral has binary cams and the Iceman has a single cam. My question is what are the pros and cons of the binary cams vs the single cam?

piketon_hunter#9

some say the binary cam tends to "load up" before you reach the anchor point of the draw.. ive used them for long enough that i like the feel of the binary cam better.. also they say it is easy to get your bow out of tune with the binary cams if you adjust the draw weight yourself... that aside, have you shot them both?

luke/r

Binary cams tend to be faster and seem to have a hump in the draw. Single cams draw nicer and are a little slower but not that much slower anymore.

Greg / MO

Changing draw weight on a binary has no more potential to affect the tune of your bow than any other cam-style system out there, single cams included.

Hunting the North

Thanks for the info!

piketon_hunter#9

maybe out of tune wasnt a good choice of words.... ive heard that if you adjust the draw weight too much on one limb and not enough on the other that it can cause damage to the limbs, cracking or breaking them

MeanV2

I honestly can't wait to get my hands on a New Iceman. I plan to be using it on Turkeys this coming spring. The short A to A and smooth drawing single cam should be an advantage chasing Turkeys whether in a blind or not. The Iceman undoubtedly will be one of if not the best single cam bows on the market in 09.

On the other hand I have always preferred dual cam bows, and the Binary cam is at the top of the class. I set my Cam position, Cam timing, walk back tuned, and sighted in my Airborne 82nd in late summer. I then practiced continually with it and logged over 300 hours in a Blind and/or Treestand. I encountered temps ranging from 80 plus degrees to 24 degrees below zero. Moisture conditions ranged from hunting the dry high plains of NE in Oct., to pouring rain in IL. and snow on occasion in both states.

It is still dead on in tune, timing, and accuracy. I have Never had a problem tuning, timing a Binary cam bow and keeping it that way.

It really boils down to what YOU like the feel of the best. Go spend sometime shooting them both and it should become obvious which you prefer. There really is No wrong choice as these 2 will No doubt be 2 of the best selling bows in 09.

Dan

MeanV2

Adjusting weight is a simple matter of turningout the limb bolts 1/4, 1/2, or a fullturn at a time. You would really have to be not paying attention to what you were doing to mess up the limbs by adjusting the weight.

Dan