If you want to stay with a compound Style then I would buy a Horton, but make sure it has the machined aluminum barrel and not the composite one. Seems like the problems start with the composite ones but the machined aluminum's are in my opinion top notch. The bug that is biting me lately is the independent one. You like me probably do not have a bow press so you have to wait and go to a shop and then you are at the mercy of the owners to do you right. If you get a Excal then you can be own your own. All you need is extra strings and the changer that comes with the bows and you can do all your won work from home. You have been on here posting for a while now and have read all the guys post about the Phoenix's and Exocet so those would be my choices.