ORIGINAL: Rob/PA Bowyer
The Switchback is very smooth to draw, it's quiet and handshock free. The smooth draw however is the reason for it's lack of speed compared to many other of the bows I shot. It's plenty fast but just doesn't compare to some others. The Switchback XT was actually slower yet and I'm not a big fan of short, short bows...the Switchback was about as short as I wanted to go and with the XT not being better, I dismissed it from the line.
Rob hit the nail on the head. The XT is very impressive. Very smooth to draw, no hand shock, quiet, not to mention a beautiful bow. My buddy got one, we both shoot 60# bowsbut I shoot another brand with a harder single cam. He seemed to be having some trouble dialing in at longer ranges, so we did a quick walk back test. Hestood 10 yards from the 50yard targetput his 10 yard pin on a spot and let one fly. Walked back to 20 yards from thetarget, put the same 10 yardpin on the same spot and let it fly. Walked backto 30 yards from thetarget, same pin on the same spot at the 50, and let it fly. Well, I kind of expected to see a flat shooting bow, but there was a substantialdrop between his 20 and 30 yard shots. My bow only had a few inches drop between the 10 and 30 yard shots, and didn't start droppingsubstantially until I took one at 40. We never did chrono either bow, so I don't know what our speeds are, but he needs to be a whole lot moreaccurate at range estimation than I do to still hit the boiler room clean...