I too have been looking for a new bow. My son is ten and I just bought him a new Alpine Micro so I thought I'd better get myself a new one so we can shoot as father and son. I bow hunted for quite a few years in the late 70's through the early 80's but once I moved to Washington state and one has to chose a specific weapon for each animal hunted I migrated toward the rifle crowd for a while but the bow hunting bug is biting again and man it's biting hard this time.
Yesterday I finally went to shoot some of the bows I have been reading about on this site. I am right handed but left eye dominant so I shot a bunch of right handed bows left handed but there were a few left handed among them (Liberty and the Justice). Some of my findings suprised me; especially when we brought out the chronograph. The draw length wasn't perfect on all of them either.
I shot the Allegiancea week or so agoand man is it a rocket launcher. The draw wasn't nearly as smooth as the Liberty but the wall was solid as a; well wall. I also shot a right handed Patriot that day and the wall was so firm that when I hit it each time the arrow would bounce off the arrow rest. I have noidea why butI suspect it had something to do with being the wrong hand for me but it was the only bow that exhibited that trait. They all seemed about the same really without the bennefit of a chronograph that day.
Fast forward to yesterday......................................... ...............................................
I went back in to look the bows over and upon drawing them all I decided I liked the shorter bows much better than the longer ones since this is going to be a tree stand bow predominantly. I initally focused on the Mighty Mite, the Justice and the Defender. I went back to shoot them and noticed the bows felt differently when being drawed with an arrow on the rest and a release than with fingers at the counter.
It was tough to decide so we brought out the chronograph. Here are the results fromshooting through the chronograph. The chronograph was supposedly broken (reading low) but then all readings will be low and it seemed to work fine for us.
All bows were set as accurately as possible to 62 -63 lb pull with a mechanical pull down gauge andone arrow with a field tip was used for all testing. The slowest bow was the:

Liberty at 250.2 FPS average

Tom Kat at 251.2 FPS average

Justice at 259.5 FPS average

Mighty Mite at 262.7 FPS average

Defender at 272.7 FPS average

And for the heck of it I shot the new Browning Illusion at the same draw weight and it shot 278.2 FPS

I wish now that I'd shot the Allegiance through the Chronograph.

Anyway these were my findings. I still plan to shoot a Switchback (different dealer) and the Hoyt V-TEC and Vipertech but for right now it looks like for speed andsmoothness in a small package the Defender would be my choice. It really drew back smoothly with an arrow on the rest. I guess I look at it a dimimutiveAllegiance. It has the same limbs, same cams with a shorter riser and I was suprised it was faster than the Mighty Mite and Liberty.

So what am I missing? If I had to order a bow today it would be the Defender (so far).

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