Hi! Welcome to the forum. Lemme see what I can contribute. 1st off, can you spot me a couple of hundred til I hit a scratch off?? LOL. well, maybe I can save you a couple of hundred. The two crank type cockers you will have to deal w/ for an Excal are the Excal "Crankaroo" or the 10 pt Accudraw, which is regarded as the better of the two. The Excal gets taken out of a pouch and mounted for each cocking. The Accudraw bolts on the stock. It's the $200 we are talking about, Crankaroo about half that. Problem is they are both slow and noisy. Won't matter what pound pull bow you put them on, takes the same revolutions to cock, then you got to wind it back up. The rope cocker will do nicely. I've got an Emax, it has 100 ft lbs of k.e. at 328 fps the way mine is set up. It sits alot, lol. I would not buy one of them if I were you. They are a brute to cock, shoot too hard, are hard on servings, and just plain more bow than anyone in NA needs. The Stryker will be half of that again. 45 yds is cool for elk, moose, coyotes turkey ect, but a skosh far for deer. I won't go over 35 yds myself. Can you do it? Probably but not every time. I like my Phoenix the best. Do some reading on the Excal V-zone, which is right on the money from 10 -50 yds on any bow that shoots between 240 fps and 360 fps. They take away a need for the flattest trajectory you can get[arguably] good luck, hope I helped a tad, how bout just a hundred? lol We have lots of fun here!