2023 Diamond Edge Max - Budget compound bow review 

Love to hear it! Thanks for the great comment.

Congrats! That is a great bow.

Glad you liked it!

They are nice for sure! Good technology too

Congratulations!

Great bow for sure!

Same

Both are great! Shoot both and see which feels more comfortable to you

Such a cool photo! And yes, great bows

Facts

PSE has some good options, as well as mission

I'm not sure. Maybe 4 ish for a full turn?

Haven't shot the bear but the diamond is super nice!

Usually you have to go to an archery store and have them set it up etc

They are very similar, so whatever is cheaper 🤷‍♂️

@@BowDisciples Thanks for your opinion on it!

Maybe around 400 grains with a 125 tip

@@BowDisciples Thank you.

Would love to check it out!

Update: My new 2023 Diamond by Bowtech Alter RH 70 lb bow had a bad right nock tear, even at 7/8" center shot. The top cam had okay mild cam lean towards the cable guide side at brace, but the lower cam had way too much cam lean towards the cable guide, and both axles already had more shims on the left side. So in the first tuning session I was able to correct the tear by swapping the lower limbs. As stock, the right side limbs are stronger, both top and bottom, to counteract cable torque cam lean at full draw. Because of the scooped out riser at the burger button area (for extra fletch clearance), this bow needs more than the standard 13/16" center shot, 7/8" with the limb swap. The arrow shelf is kind of shallow so to get cock vane down shelf clearance with my Bodoodle rest I had to raise arrow height to the top 1/3rd of the burger button hole. This limb swap worked but I didn't like out-of-line look of the bottom cam at full draw, even with flipping the cables/cable guide. So in the second tuning session I returned the limbs to stock configuration (stronger limbs on right to counteract cable tension cam torque at full draw), moved one thin white right shim to the left on the top axle, did a major moving of shims to the left on the bottom axle, returned the cables/cable guide to stock configuration, and set the center shot to 1". This corrected the right nock tear, results in 1 degree top cam lean to the cable guide side at brace and 1/2 degree bottom cam lean to the cable guide, stronger limbs doing a better job at cable-torque counteracting, better inline looking cams at full draw, but the arrow pointing a little to the left at brace relative to the limb bolts and stabilizer. Of the two tunes, I am liking the second one better. Mine might be a one off with the limb pockets a bit out of alignment, but I was able to tune correct it out and the pluses of this bow (smooth easy draw, swappable performance/comfort mods, excellent valley, firm limb stop wall, 85% let off by my measurement, forgiving brace height, good quality strings, good ATA length, modern looks, wide range draw weight and length, and steady aiming make it a keeper.

@@drmitofit2673 Thanks so much for the great comment, I'll try to get to it.

@@BowDisciples My only other criticism of this Diamond Alter bow is that the final 2023 Diamond manuals have not been released as of yet and the bow is supplied with only a very skimpy generic manual. No look up tables (although draw length in inches is etched into the cams), no explanation of A vs. B cable routing on the cams (although similar to PSE's grow-with-you system with B to reach the lower end settings), no explanation of how A and B settings change draw length (B effectively lengthens the cables thus decreasing draw weight and decreasing draw length), no look up table to see if changing the 70 lb max bow to the B setting will give you a 60 poundish max bow, no explanation of how to swap comfort vs. performance mods (although I figured out that A and comfort are the stock settings and that you would swap top and bottom modules rather than actually flip them over), and no max limb bolt turns warning (although there are sight windows that go "empty" at 10 turns out as well as handy limb pocket/riser scale markings to show you that they are equal). I always mark the 12 o'clock maximum-in limb bolt heads to be precise.

@@BowDisciples Just for completeness, I wanted to report what I think is the tune issue with my RH Diamond Alter which had a bad nock right tear as stock.... and my corrective solution/fix. Day one when I put the bare bow flat on my kitchen counter, the Alter had an out of square rock meaning the limbs were not parallel. It is not unusual for this to be 2 mm or so, but this was more pronounced at 4.5 mm more than any other bow I own. My previous two tunes corrected the right tear (lower limb swap vs. stock limbs cam shimming and long 1" center shot), but ignored the out of square limbs. With an equipped bow you can test for square by laying the bow spanning the kitchen sink so the sight and rest don't touch down. The Diamond Alter and several other Diamond models have a composite limb pocket that has a tongue and set screw system that allows the opportunity for limb pocket shimming. I lowered poundage 10 turns out, pressed the bow, slipped the string off the cams, and completely detensioned the limbs. I then backed out the lower limb pocket set screw, loosened the lower fulcrum set bolt, and fit a slim 0.020 shim from my 3/16" shim kit between the left side of the tongue and the riser, captured by the set screw. I reassembled, cranked up the bow to shooting poundage and then tightened the limb pocket set screw and fulcrum set bolt. This reduced the out of square from 4.5 mm to less than 2 mm, pivoted the lower limb tips to the left, moved the string to the left, got my center shot back to normal, and now the string at brace splits the grip axis like it should. Limbs are not swapped as on first tune. Stock stronger limbs on right side to counter cam torque at full draw. More cam shims on left side of axles. Upper and lower cam lean near zero at brace. Shoots really good now with no right tear, very accurate, no hand shock or bow twist upon release, and string/grip/arrow in much better alignment. Just thought you should know in case you test this Diamond Alter bow and have tuning issues. Mine could have been a one off, out of alignment. It was easily correctable and the bow is a great shooter with many great attributes.

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Yup!

Awesome! Good choices

That is wild 😂

Let's gooo

Haha I do the same generally

@@BowDisciples my cousin has a golf cart and I love shooting over at his place because of it. 😂

@@TheBeefSlayer Nice! haha