All they had to do is point out that High Country's advertised speeds are achieved shooting arrows at 3 grains per pound of draw weight instead of 5. But I accept their reasoning for not listing HC bows. If they really wanted to keep everything on the up and up though, they'd also list the bows with their AMO speeds.

Even though the bow manufacturers like to act like there is such a thing as an 'IBO Standard', there is no such thing. It's nothing but a cobbled together rating system going by what someone can get away with under IBO rules. They could even go 80 pounds with a 34" draw if they wanted to and still call it an IBO rating, because it's IBO legal for competition. A whole bunch of mfrs have been fudging their IBO ratings anyway, something they could not do if they actually went by their true industry standard, ASTM 1544-99.

I heard about the blow up too, but what I heard was the bow was being demo'ed in a dry fire machine when it went to pieces.

Anyway, my opinion.... In view of all the product liability lawyers getting rich these days, I think High Country is being extremely stupid by doing that 3 grains per pound stuff.