I shot archery sence 1965 and have shot with recurves, with 4 wheel compound, two wheeler, round wheels, hacket cams, one cams, longer and shorter bows. With wood, fiberglass, carbon and aumimin arrows. I have shot bare bow, sights, FS and FSL. I have shot field,target, paper animal target, home made 3Ds and 3D targets and have won many local and national tournments as a Am and as a pro. I was shooting a pro at 21 and winning. I Also have taken lots of game from bear, Elk, deer and so on. Once back in the 80 I thought I would want to go back to a recurve and a friend made me a 66 lb and I could shoot the light out with it out to 30 yards. At are local range I have the highest score ever shot on it bare bow a 536 out of 560 and that was at reguler stakes not the cub stakes. After about two season and 4 to 5 deer I went back to the compound. I like killing things, pass throughs and I don't like play around with the game I hunt. I do not ever want to look back are bows and new carbon arrows today are so much better for hunting then what ever had back in past years. We are not miss judging yardage as bad and making bad hits because of 2 or 3 yards and pentration is great we are getting pass throughs on deer and other game and sticking it in the ground that we we didn't get all the time a few years ago. The only thing I can say about short hunting compound is to put a level and use it and with good from you will shoot tight groups, kill things and not have any problems.