Peregrine Longbow Review

Peregrine Longbow Review by Pete Ward
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Bocote Riser, Pau Amerello accent.
Highly figured Quilted Maple limbs with Bamboo cores.
Black Beaver Tail shelf and side plate padding.
Fast Flight String, Rubber Cat Whiskers.
Thunderbird Epoxy Endurance Bow Finish is standard on all Cari-Bows.

The Caribow “Peregrine” longbow is a new model from Abe Penner’s shop at Cari-bow Archery. This highly Reflexed longbow has a lot of great qualities that make it a bow that is very easy to like. Each bow comes with a bow sock, nock point installed, arrow rest and silencers. It is ready to shoot when you open the box. I always recommend a stringer for your safety and the bows well being. Every Cari-bow comes with an appropriate stringer.

The first time I shot the Peregrine I was at Elk camp and had taken the new bow with me to set up during the afternoon breaks. The first set of arrows from it shot left, but in a good sized group giving me hope that I would have some arrows with me that were spine matched for it.

After only 2 more trials I had a set of arrows that were giving me 3” groups of 6 at 20 yards. I am impressed at how quickly I could get onto this new bow. The recurve style grip seems to fit me like it was custom made for my hand. The feel after the shot with the Peregrine is dead in the hand and the only noise is from the string leaving the glove. Quiet and shock free are understatements when describing how the bow shoots.

After shooting about 3-dozen arrows it became quite obvious to me that I can shoot this bow without any adjustment to my grip or form. The thumb rest is standard on the Peregrine, providing you with a consistent and repeatable grip every time you pick up the bow.

With any clean release the arrows were headed to the mark and giving me great groups. I took a notion to see just how some broadheads would fly and matched the 325gr target points with 200gr Ace’s and 125 gr. steel adapters in the 45/60 carbons and 100 gr. brass inserts. As luck would have it the first broadhead was dead center. The next arrow shaved a fletch.

At this point I am very impressed with the bow.

Normally I would not hunt with a new bow until I had a lot of arrows thru it but this bow is different. I shot a few more broadheads with the same consistent accuracy and by now I knew that this bow was a great shooter. I made a good guess at what arrows would fly and got lucky after only 3 different setups. It took an hour of shooting for me to decide that there was no reason not to take the new bow after elk on the first day I shot it. I have never hunted with a bow that I did not spend a lot of time with before. I had no Idea of what the chrono numbers would be but I could see it was quick with the heavy arrows I had matched it up with, and it would easily do its job if I did mine.

For the next week I hunted daily with the Peregrine. I do like it a lot and when I found myself taking it down from the hooks every day I realized just how much I like it. The Peregrine is a special bow for me that has an attraction that is a lot more than “eye candy”. It is one of those bows that you take to right off the bat, and seem to keep going back to time after time. The elk hunting was not very good but the time out and away from work was.

As the season progressed I switched bows often and even when I took out “ old reliable” I found myself questioning my choice of bows that day. This new bow on the rack has made a big impression with me. I kept going back to it.

The hunting season is well underway and I recently took a trip with a friend for a Moose/Elk hunt. Donovan is always interested in trying the test bows I receive and the noon break was as good as any time to let him try out the latest bows I had received.

We tossed out the target and began to do some fun shooting with several bows. He took to the Peregrine like a long lost friend and began to shoot it like it had been his go to bow on the first shot. He tried several other bows and kept coming back to the Peregrine. Donovan was really shooting it well and before the day was out he took it for the evening hunt, leaving his own bow in camp. The next day he also hunted with it again, and on the following weekend when we went out again he hunted with the Peregrine. After answering as many questions as he could think of about the bow I realized that he was in contact with Abe about ordering his own Peregrine. The bow won him over just like it did me.

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