I’ll have to say that is one weird looking crossbow😊.

 

 

Weight?
I’m guessing 10 lbs.

 

Keep it coming. Interested in your entire evaluation!

 

Looking forward to the video

 

yep, the 2 hottest bows to even come along in the history of crossbows and are The Tenpoint nitro 505 and his one.

To this point we have really heard very little about the Ravin model.

 

I am interested to know how many shots you have on the crossbow and how the string/ serving has held up? Thanks

 

I would like to hear about the strings/cables as well. Any recoil with the shot?

 

I wonder if they actually fixed anything yet from being the 500 Lemon intro?

 

LOL ... a voice of reason in the wilderness of marketing.

 

Couldn’t care less. I need a 500 fps 10 lb. hunting crossbow like I need a hole in my head. It does make for enjoyable reading though 😊

 

I agree Ravin’s R500 rollout was really bad. That said, I have a close friend that I’ve purchased a myriad of vertical bows & crossbows products from and was in Monday to purchase and have him setup my Grandson’s new high end Mathews vertical bow. He is pretty much their top Technician in overseeing the archery dept. and I asked him about the R 500. Of the almost dozen they’ve sold not any have come back for service other then a few nock issues. He said they average 1 Ravin string change a week & so far no R500’s have come back for that or maintenance issues requiring them to work on or send back to Ravin, I’m not giving up on this one yet. For me I really like the design but certainly not the price. For sure they won’t get any cheaper.

 

the Ravin will win the the speed bow trigger feel/pressure for sure

 

I bet it'll also have minimal recoil with outstanding accuracy.
But the retentive cocking/decocking system is it's achilles heel.
Nonetheless, buy the electric version and all of that cycle time becomes a non-issue.

 

Meh!! If I'm not in the market to buy something the actual release date doesn't concern me one bit!

 

Duke,
You're preaching to th choir my friend. As I have said several times in the past, if I were interested in a 500 fps crossbow, the TP505 would be my preference.

But I'm Not interested in a 500 fps crossbow from any manufacturer because it's waaaaay overkill for my type of hunting. Besides, in my opinion, the OracleX and it's successors will obsolete them way before they ever get really popular.

 

Exactly; "faster shoots flatter" won't mean a thing soon.

 

I thought I had made my decision regarding the debate between the R500 and TenPoint 505, but the antidry fire system on the TenPoint is holding back from purchasing one (the $3000 price tag is playing a role as well).

 

No matter what anyone says(even BB 1 who I respect greatly) I think there’s a lot of pluses for the R500 in terms of tune ability, ease of working on it, compactness of the design and ability to adjust LOP & Comb for a perfect cheek weld. I,m watching carefully on string & cable west which will dictate a lot. The 505 seems heavier & doesn’t fit me near as good when I pull it up whereas the R500 is perfect. I’m primarily a western hunter and down the road will have one or the other. Don’t fish or bird hunt anymore so cross bow shooting & hunting is my thing. Gonna be selling my E Bike, trailer & accessories cuz I simply don’t use it like I thought & hopefully those $$ can stay in my hunting fund. Diesel prices are driving me nuts with a typical fill cost $130-$140. It’s $5.39 here now and the station owner said it will easily hit $6.00 plus in another month.

 

Funny ... I was just sitting with my banker yesterday and we started talking cars for some reason and she said the exact same thing, diesel for her Mercedes used to be a buck now it's 5 bucks.

 

We are all different to some degree and past a certain point in our lives an individual is different from year to year. Just no way around it🙄.

 

the electric motor is not an issue for hunting. I think most folks should be able wind this thing up and down one time for a hunt. Then leave the electric motor at home or in the truck for fields shooting only.
The motor is totally out of the picture for hunting Just too much weight any angle you look at it from.

 

The Ravin 500e can now be added to your cart on the Ravin website. Must be available.

 

I keep waiting for you to post more vids on Rumble... One day all the hunting/gun/fishing/trapping channels are going to wake up to find out that LibidiotTube shut them all down... It's coming.

 

480 fps with a 490 gn arrow? Really?

 

Yes really that is what my 505 chronos at with 488 grains.

 

Over achieving. Their site shows 485 fps with a 445 gn. Nice when that happens. Like the siege owners who got the havoc limbs.

 

Lucked out and got 2 of those as well

 

506 fps with a 400 gn is still impressive.

 

Curious as to the actual weights of these 2 . ravin shows 8.4, TP shows 7.9 with accuslide

 

Fully loaded with oracle X sling quiver 3 arrows with heads mine is 12lbs..

 

the r500 definitely looks easily tunable. A few good cell phone pictures before you replace cables etc and that should be it. Looks real easy but you would want a press.
I was studying it in Bass pro. Time will tell.

I would love to have one but will prob gravitate to the r505 becuse of how much i like the vapor 470

 

I’m giving the the R 500 plenty of time & won’t make a decision until next spring or so. For hunting the crank would be great, range work the E Option for target shooting and verifying hunting arrows. For now my R 29 backed up by the R 15 works fine String/cable longevity and minimizing any lateral nick movement are the items I’m paying particular attention to.