auctually if I got the chance to trade my ExcCet for a Phoenix I would do it in a heartbeat, I wish now that I would have just waited for the proshop to get the new limbs in or another Phoenix instead of taking the Exocet, I can cock it using the rope cocker but I am streached to the limit doing so,, so to say, Im only 5`3, so it is truly a streach to cock it and just from my expierence of shooting both the ExoCet and the Phoenix I think the Phoenix is the smother shooter.. JMO