If you really liked the
Beiter rods just watch eBay and you’ll soon find a set the right spec for you. They have quite a different hold feel to most rods (depending on whether you shot them with end weights or not). You will struggle to get that feel with other rods due to the distributed mass. Less of an issue if you shot fewer tuners and weights.
I shoot Shrewd Revel’s which are great - and a lot less pricey than some of the other “thin” rods but still crazy money. So for my second bow I bought a set of
Epic Fusion EX Plus (so the ones with the ball Bomb style damper not the
Doinker Extreme style damper). They are fatter than the Shrewd at 15mm and quite a bit heavier (which you might like if you liked
Beiter). The rods seem well made, decent finish and certainly look the part. They also hold OK and damp OK - so at the price point I’d strongly recommend them. They have a slightly dull bow reaction compared to the Shrewd. The downside on them is the dampers are OK but not a
Doinker A-Bomb. and A-bomb makes them smoother. The second downside is that the weights are a single block and quite light- so if you want a different weight you need to buy a different stack weight system. When I looked you couldn’t buy the supplied weights but maybe you can now. I have shot 340 at 30m with them so they wont hold you back.
My second suggestion would be a set of W&W HMC plus rods. They have achieved everything in this sport in the hands of a wide variety of archers... really you can’t go wrong. Frequently available secondhand too.
Lastly, I can certainly vouch that
Easton ACE and the newer Easton x10 rods are well suited to the Helix. (And I shot G3, W&W and Samick limbs out of that riser). ACE and X10 rods also come up on the secondhand market regularly.
if your first goal is shooting around 530 on a Portsmouth then realistically no stabiliser you can buy would hinder you (unless you make them too heavy etc). I shot my first 530 with an ancient Easton X7 taper aluminium longrod and a set of even older
Hoyt alloy side rods in a no-name v-bar. (And it was old in 1987). So I’d echo the don’t spend a fortune messages. But if you buy really cheap you might get stabiliser envy very quickly if you have magpie tendencies for shiny nice looking stuff (so many of us do, hence all the ridiculously good stuff on eBay)
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