Here's the basis for my inquiry...I currently shoot a 12-year old Horton Super Sport. It's 150 pounds, shoots about 240-250 fps. The thing a love about it is that it has a solidwood stock, very small and extremely lightweight @ 5.5 pounds. It almost like a carbine crossbow which serves me very well inasmuch as I am severely afflictedwith rheumatoid arthrits in my hands, shoulders and other places. So, small andparticularly lightweight is more important to me than any other feature.

That said, I know the limitations of this crossbow and I will never take a shot beyond 20 yards--TOPS! Regrettably, many of the deer hereabouts like to stay outside that range for some strange reason. The thing that intreagues me about this bow (Stryker) is that it could perhaps have some of the attributes that I love in mylittle horton bow, but with the speed to reach out accurately to say 35-40 yards.

The easy answer would be to say, "Well, just get an excalibur". While very fast and a fine product, frankly, I find them way too long, wide and lunky. I likewisesome find the new Hortons to be fairly compact, but way too heavy.So, if something comes down the pike that can give me what I need (light, comapact and with speed) I am definately interested. Until that time, I'll just continue to use my 12 year old Horton Super Sport.

Incidentally--kudos to the Horton Crossbow people..Last spring, I gave my bow to a fellow to have him refinish the wood stock as it has got pretty scratched and banged up over the years (it really was/is a beautiful bow out of the box). This fellow dissembled the entire thing and then had some personal problems and could not finish the project. I got the bow back but it was in a zillion parts and I had no idea what went where, if things were missing, etc. I packaged the entire thing up and shipped it to Horton in Ohio where they re-assembled it for me (don't know if they had to add missing parts) and sent it back to me in 5 days--all free of charge including return shipping!! Thanks Horton.