Deer hunter,

I shot Mathews for over six years before switching to BowTech this year. BowTech's dual cams --more appropriately called a binary cam system --are actually slaved together, meaning that each cable anchors to the opposite cam. Typically, older-style dual cams anchored to the opposite limb tips.

The reasoning behind this is that BowTech believes that any imbalances in the system will sort of "self-correct" and the cams will remain in sync with each other. Keep tabs on the axle-to-axle length -- but more importantly the brace height -- and you'll pretty much be good to go. Of course, you're going to need to do that much maintenance even with single cams, so what I'm saying is that there's no more timing issues with BowTech's binary cam system than there is with Mathews' solocam system.

After shooting both company's offerings pretty extensively, I can tell you a few bonuses you'll inherit if you do decide to pick up the Tribute. It's pretty much universally acknowledged that BowTech puts on some of the finest factory strings on its offerings right out of the box; Mathews, on the other hand, is pretty much universally acknowledged for putting some of the worst factory strings on its products. There's many a custom string maker out there who stay in business largely due to people needing to immediately replace their inferior strings on a bow they just plopped down close to $700 for.

In my opinion, BowTech's grips are much better than Mathews' stock grip as well; though I've seen one or two who liked it, I'd say for every one who does there's ten who opt to replace it with a grip by Tronjo or one of the other various Mathews aftermarket grip providers.

Other than those two gripes, Mathews does make a very good, quality product. I wouldn't have shot them so long if I didn't believe that. It just got to the point where BowTech started turning out a product that was so much superior -- to me -- that I started pursuing that relationship.

I pointed out just a couple of differences between those two companies because you specifically included the solocam in your line of questioning; hopefully, the insights will help you some. As always, I ultimately suggest you shoot any and all bows you're considering buying.

If you have any other questions, feel free to ask; I'll try to offer any assistance I can.