Washington I am looking at the same bows as you. I am leaning towards the allegiance for a couple of reasons. It has been out for a few years and bowtech has made improvements to this bow and tweaked it until it should be perfect. They realized changes needed to be made from the earlier models and they made them. While the guardian is going to be angreat bow I don't think bowtech has all the bugs worked out or as finally tuned as the allegiance. The guardian is going to have to be an awesome bow for me to choose it. I think in a year or two the guardian will be tweaked by bowtech and should be one of the best butright now I don't think it is. This is just my thoughts. There is nine pages in the tech forum.