What is the Black Bear, how does it shoot, I got turned off to howard hill bow because of the shock, is this one better with that, sounds like a nice bow??
A lot has to do with the shock issue that I can think of.
1. Hand shock is relative to perception, everyone is different. Asktwo people if there there is hand shock, one can say yes, the other no.
2. The way the bow is held/shot.
3. The bows tune including arrow weight.
IMO, the Hill bows do have some hand shock, but there are always trade offs. IMO efficiency of the HH bow is only lost on hand shock since these bows are extremely quiet even without any string silencers. The quietness coupled with the stability of these bows more then offsets the handshock issue to me anyway.