Hoyt Trykon Jr Compound Bow

The Hoyt Trykon Jr is the rare youth bow built to be kept rather than outgrown. Its Versa Cam & 1/2 delivers nine inches of draw-length adjustment - 17 to 25 inches on a single cam - and a draw-weight span that reaches a real 40-pound ceiling, so one machined-riser Hoyt at 2.7 pounds follows a young archer across years of growth. The 65 percent let-off keeps the holding weight manageable for small shooters, the catalog 255 fps IBO is modest and honestly right for a controllable youth platform, and the whole bow is engineered to teach good form on a rig the kid can succeed with early. Having watched which bows keep kids coming back to the range, I come down on the side of control every time, and the Trykon Jr is tuned for exactly that. It is a discontinued 2007-2010 model, so pricing is used-market today; buyers wanting the lightest 10-pound floor should seek a 2009 or 2010 unit. An excellent bow for the parent who wants to buy once and let a growing young archer grow into a real Hoyt - particularly strong as a first bow that lasts several seasons and then trades up to the Trykon Sport. Buyers who need to start a much smaller child should look at the Diamond Nuclear Ice, and those wanting one bow to span child all the way to a full adult draw and weight should also look at the Mission Menace... read full review