Favorite brand of bow?!?!?

[Bean Counter]

Thanks to Radsav and my lady, I'm questioning my favorite now.

Smossy, the best on the market is the one you're shooting. Don't worry about everyone else's opinion. Any bow out there today is a good bow and in the right hands is super accurate and will kill animals. Practice with good form is key.

  x3. I bought one of the first bows I shot and have only sampled a few. Its a PSE.Not necessariliy my "favorite" but its what I know and am used to. I guess its just a different way of looking at things.i don't have a favorite car, gun, or camera, either. Its really about just using whats in my hands the best I can.

[Annette]

I have loved all my bows...Jennings split T , Bear, Hoyt and Mathews. Most all of them have had the Kudlacek wheels  and strings on them except the Mathews. We were shooting the split limbs and pre-stressed string system back in the 80's  before many of you were born...lol

[RadSav]

Thanks to Radsav and my lady, I'm questioning my favorite now.

Smossy, the best on the market is the one you're shooting. Don't worry about everyone else's opinion. Any bow out there today is a good bow and in the right hands is super accurate and will kill animals. Practice with good form is key.

I bought one of the first bows I shot and have only sampled a few. Its a PSE.Not necessariliy my "favorite" but its what I know and am used to. I guess its just a different way of looking at things.i don't have a favorite car, gun, or camera, either. Its really about just using whats in my hands the best I can.

Two of the worst bows ever made were the Bear Polar LTD and the original Bear Whitetail hunter.  30-35% let-off, sounded like a car accident when you shot them, IBO speeds would probably be around 200, wheels and cables strapped to and wound around everything, long, heavy, very difficult to tune...and yet they were wildly popular when I started bowhunting.  Mainly because they were cheap and you could get them at the local Western Auto or Sears store.  And almost nobody used an arrow rest other than the stick on plastic Bear Weatherest when shooting these bows.

We'd seen pictures in magazines of the Jennings T-Star, PSE Citation, Martin Cougar II and the Herter's Perfection.  But none of us had actually seen one in person, let alone shoot one. No one I knew used a sight, peep, release or stabilizer.  Your choice of quiver was either a Bear or a Kwikee.  And your choice of broadheads was either a Bear Razorhead or Bodkin.  Arrow choices were Acme cedar with feathers or Bear Metric Magnums with Marco vanes. And when it came to draw length choices you had to choose between 30", about 30" or pretty much 30"   We didn't know our equipment Suc*ed!  It was pretty cool stuff around the few of us that actually shot compounds.

We robinhooded a bunch of arrows with that equipment.  Shot carp, suckers and sharks by the hundreds.  We all killed deer with them.  Most of us killed elk with them.  And when I killed my first bear the whole club got together for a celebration that included the local newspaper reporter and photographer.  To us this equipment was SWEET! And we had some of the best times of our lives shooting these bows!

Every single bow I see today performs better and is easier to shoot than those old six and eight wheelers.  And my goodness!  The choices of what you can add to them is endless.  We'd have lost our minds with such choices.  Way too many people worry about the logo on the limb, the IBO rating and the social status of what bow they shoot.  And in the midst of it all we so often forget what being an archer is all about.  Shooting a bow is about poetry in motion.  Few things on earth more beautiful than the arc of a perfectly tuned arrow.  Few thrill seekers experience the high you get when you watch that first arrow strike perfect in the lungs of a deer.  And the snarl of a bear taking an arrow makes even the most seasoned of bowhunter a little weak in the knees.

I don't care what bow you shoot...This S*&t is fun!!!

[Smossy]

Thanks to Radsav and my lady, I'm questioning my favorite now.

Smossy, the best on the market is the one you're shooting. Don't worry about everyone else's opinion. Any bow out there today is a good bow and in the right hands is super accurate and will kill animals. Practice with good form is key.

I bought one of the first bows I shot and have only sampled a few. Its a PSE.Not necessariliy my "favorite" but its what I know and am used to. I guess its just a different way of looking at things.i don't have a favorite car, gun, or camera, either. Its really about just using whats in my hands the best I can.

Two of the worst bows ever made were the Bear Polar LTD and the original Bear Whitetail hunter.  30-35% let-off, sounded like a car accident when you shot them, IBO speeds would probably be around 200, wheels and cables strapped to and wound around everything, long, heavy, very difficult to tune...and yet they were wildly popular when I started bowhunting.  Mainly because they were cheap and you could get them at the local Western Auto or Sears store.  And almost nobody used an arrow rest other than the stick on plastic Bear Weatherest when shooting these bows.

We'd seen pictures in magazines of the Jennings T-Star, PSE Citation, Martin Cougar II and the Herter's Perfection.  But none of us had actually seen one in person, let alone shoot one. No one I knew used a sight, peep, release or stabilizer.  Your choice of quiver was either a Bear or a Kwikee.  And your choice of broadheads was either a Bear Razorhead or Bodkin.  Arrow choices were Acme cedar with feathers or Bear Metric Magnums with Marco vanes. And when it came to draw length choices you had to choose between 30", about 30" or pretty much 30"   We didn't know our equipment Suc*ed!  It was pretty cool stuff around the few of us that actually shot compounds.

We robinhooded a bunch of arrows with that equipment.  Shot carp, suckers and sharks by the hundreds.  We all killed deer with them.  Most of us killed elk with them.  And when I killed my first bear the whole club got together for a celebration that included the local newspaper reporter and photographer.  To us this equipment was SWEET! And we had some of the best times of our lives shooting these bows!

Every single bow I see today performs better and is easier to shoot than those old six and eight wheelers.  And my goodness!  The choices of what you can add to them is endless.  We'd have lost our minds with such choices.  Way too many people worry about the logo on the limb, the IBO rating and the social status of what bow they shoot.  And in the midst of it all we so often forget what being an archer is all about.  Shooting a bow is about poetry in motion.  Few things on earth more beautiful than the arc of a perfectly tuned arrow.  Few thrill seekers experience the high you get when you watch that first arrow strike perfect in the lungs of a deer.  And the snarl of a bear taking an arrow makes even the most seasoned of bowhunter a little weak in the knees.

I don't care what bow you shoot...This S*&t is fun!!!

Well said. This year will be the one!

[RadSav]

I have loved all my bows...Jennings split T , Bear, Hoyt and Mathews. Most all of them have had the Kudlacek wheels  and strings on them except the Mathews. We were shooting the split limbs and pre-stressed string system back in the 80's  before many of you were born...lol

I remember exactly where I was when the club news letter came in and the lead story was of the amazing Washington lady bowhunter who had taken the first branched antler elk in the state.  Annette and Smokey were bowhunting icons to us in the secluded Oregon coast Blacktail Bowhunters club!

The first time I stepped foot on Long Island chills tore through every part of my body.  This was sacred ground!  I was telling myself, "This is the same ground Doug Kittredge, Annette and Smokey have walked!"  The bow I was carrying, the arrows I was shooting and the broadheads in my quiver didn't matter at that moment. 

That was a GOOD day!!

[Annette]

I have loved all my bows...Jennings split T , Bear, Hoyt and Mathews. Most all of them have had the Kudlacek wheels  and strings on them except the Mathews. We were shooting the split limbs and pre-stressed string system back in the 80's  before many of you were born...lol

I remember exactly where I was when the club news letter came in and the lead story was of the amazing Washington lady bowhunter who had taken the first branched antler elk in the state.  Annette and Smokey were bowhunting icons to us in the secluded Oregon coast Blacktail Bowhunters club!

The first time I stepped foot on Long Island chills tore through every part of my body.  This was sacred ground!  I was telling myself, "This is the same ground Doug Kittredge, Annette and Smokey have walked!"  The bow I was carrying, the arrows I was shooting and the broadheads in my quiver didn't matter at that moment. 

That was a GOOD day!!

Ummm don't know what to say.....   Thanks for the kind words:~}

[RadSav]

Thank you for allowing me to grow up with positive role models!  Not sure I would have grown up with the same appreciation of the sport had my role models been Micheal Waddell, Jimmy Bigtime or any of today's major logo pushers 

[demontang]

Ive had a lot of brands in my hands and I have to say at 31" draw my insanity cpxl is the smoothest shock free one ive shot.