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Archer Xtreme

Carbon Carnivore Sight & Carbon Helix Quiver

By Bill Krenz

The average bowhunter today has been hunting with a bow for nearly 20 years and is typically counted among the most avid participants in the entire hunting community. He’s seasoned and discriminating, particularly when it comes to his equipment. In other words, he is extreme.

Brand new for 2011 is Archer Xtreme, a passion-driven archery company focused like a laser on developing performance gear for today’s experienced archers. Founded and headed up by longtime bowhunter, bowhunting guide and 15-year archery-industry veteran Mark Garcia and 10-year outdoor-industry veteran and AXT Vice President Travis Howick, Archer Xtreme is right on the brink of introducing an ingenious lineup of new sights, quivers, stabilizers and more.

“Even our goals are extreme,” says Mark. “By sparing no effort or expense in creating advanced product designs and in utilizing the very latest in cutting-edge materials, we aim to offer only the very best products for today’s experienced, discriminating archers. In addition, we plan to present those products so that retailers will find them among the most profitable archery accessories to stock and sell.”

Archer Xtreme will be debuting its entire 2011 product line at both the Mathews Retailer Business Show in December and at the industry-wide ATA Archery Trade Show in January. In the meantime, we were able to obtain prototype samples of two of Archer Xtreme’s headline new products. Those samples included the remarkable Carbon Carnivore Sight and the company’s new Carbon Helix Quiver.

Top-end archery sights continue to get better and better. Perfect evidence of that is the 2011 Archer Xtreme Carbon
Carnivore. The Carbon Carnivore is a new sort of archery sight that is stronger and more precise, while also being lighter, more vibration-free, more adjustable and more feature-laden.

The Carbon Carnivore looks almost like an alien spaceship with its blend of advanced metals, 3K Carbon material and fiber optics. Unlike most sights whose components are made from economically expedient extruded aluminum bars, the core structure of the Carbon Carnivore is fully machined from solid 6061 T6 aluminum billets. State-of-the-art carbon components are then added to that incredibly precise metal superstructure.

“And rather than simply use run-of-the-mill carbon,” says Garcia, “we choose to utilize 3K Carbon. That’s woven high-modulus carbon that is five times stronger than simple carbon. It’s also far superior at dampening vibration. With the Carbon Carnivore we added a revolutionary 3K Carbon ridge to the sight’s mounting bracket and also constructed the sight’s crucial sight-pin housing entirely of 3K Carbon material.”

The result is a dual-material sight that is stronger, more precise, lighter and more vibration-free than ever before. At the same time, Archer Xtreme engineers pulled out all the stops in creating a best-quality sight with brighter, more dependable fiber-optic pins and improved adjustability.

Each pin in the Carbon Carnivore is fed by 11 inches of .019-diameter extended fiber-optic cable. To protect that cable in the field, AXT engineers also developed the sight’s Fiber Harness Bracket System, a shielded clear-tube system that routes, guards and protects the fiber optics. Integral to that system are Stainless Steel Center Core Pins that surround and safeguard the fiber all the way out to the pinhead. At the back of the system is an integrated LED Sight Light should even greater pin brightness be desired. Because of that sight light’s strategic rear mounting, there’s no chance at all of game-spooking glare. To accommodate the fastest bows, Carbon Carnivore pins can be adjusted all the way down to zero pin gap.

The fact is that all of the adjustments on the Carbon Carnivore have been especially well thought out. Individual pins conveniently micro-adjust for your setup’s arrow speed with a built-in adjustment tool. Micro-drive gang adjustments with tool-less locking knobs then adjust all of the pins as a group for windage and elevation. Second- and third-axis adjustability is provided, and laser-engraved hash marks make monitoring the scope of your adjustments an easy matter.

Rounding things out, the new Archer Xtreme Carbon Carnivore is adaptable from right- to left-hand use by reversing the sight’s mounting bracket and moving the bubble, and is available finished in either Blackout Carbon or Mathews Lost Camo.

The Archer Xtreme Carbon Helix Quiver is no less remarkable. It’s a new-age bowquiver that discriminating bowhunters will likely love.

The Carbon Helix is a problem-solving bowquiver. It’s lightweight and yet very strong, with two 3K Carbon support rods. It’s also extraordinarily quiet before and after the shot. Those advanced 3K rods dampen vibration like never before, and Truss X Dampeners between the rods further that action. On top of that, a clear and slightly rubberized Vibration Absorbing Coat covers everything.

Carbon Helix is quick-detach and mounts to any bow with a unique Quad Lock System that incorporates a four-position radial lock, one-hand operation and rock-solid mounting. The quiver is adjustable vertically and is perfect for both fixed and expandable broadheads. An upper and lower gripper arrangement is provided, and the inside of the hood features a soft rubber over-molding that holds and protects broadheads. Both grippers securely hold arrows of all sizes, from the smallest carbon shafts to the largest aluminum. The Carbon Helix holds five arrows arranged in an arched configuration so that the arrow shafts comfortably clear sights and arrow rests. Showing great attention to detail, the first-position arrow pulls out straight back toward the archer to minimize movement in the woods. The gutsy Carbon Helix Quiver will be offered in Blackout, Realtree APG, Mossy Oak Treestand and Mathews Lost Camo.

Today’s best archers are indeed extreme. Today’s newest archery company for those archers is Archer Xtreme, a Montana-based company developing the best gear possible. For more information, log onto archerxtreme.com.

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