If 'fast' is so great, why are so many animals wounded and lost every year with firearms? I mean, even a bullet from an old 30-30 is doing a good 1500 fps more than an arrow from the fastest hunting bow. If shot placement isn't there, then speed means diddly!

If you've got the form, have done the tuning and have put in the practice hours, then more power to ya.

It's the millions of other bowhunters that don't participate on the forums to learn, don't practice, that put their bows up by the end of bow season and don't drag them out again until a few days before opening day of next season... the guys who, when you say the words 'form' or 'tuning', respond with nothing more than a blank stare... Those are the guys who simply do not need to be in the stand with a hotrod bow. (Frankly, I wish they weren't in the woods at all, but who's to keep 'em out?) They'd be far better off with a bow that's not quite as fast but is very forgiving of their rotten shooting skills.

It's not about looking back, either! It's about looking ahead at the future of bowhunting, a future that needs to see our wound/loss ratio go way down. Otherwise, there won't be any future for bowhunting. It's about encouraging manufacturers to use their technology to produce bows that are forgiving in nature while not giving up too much arrow speed. It's about producing and marketing bows for HUNTING, and not putting so much emphasis on speed bows that are so very demanding on near perfect shooting form.