The Steelforce has 44 pounds of KE if I remember right. I would get the Summit before the Steelforce though. But is your budget really that tight and can only spring for the steelforce? If you could get up to the 300 dollar range then you could get you a real simple Vixen Excalibur and have a low cost CB with great quality. One thing that I have been watching about Excal's compared to most others is resale. Look on Ebay and most of them guys have to be getting close if not more for the Excal's when resold. I have seen some used packages on there pushing close and some times more then new prices. Most CB's do not do that.

As far as KE goes it is to debatable to give a good answer on that. One thing that is being supported and warrants credit is that it takes around 50# for a mechanical to open up and work properly. Mechs use alot of energy to open so some studies have said that 50 is what is needed on them. But I have no fact on this, just what I have read in magazines and TV and places like on here. If using a fixed blade then there is to many factors in what is needed and to many people are "right" to know. Ohio has a minimum draw weight for long bows at 40# and I bet that would be in the low thirty's or high 20 on KE maybe lower in the 20 yard and out range. A older guy I am friends with that set me up with my Martin Dream Cast recurve shot a Martin at 45# regularly and taught me alot about deer shot placement. He scolded the newer faster bows and said any guy that gets a pass through shot on a deer is dumb! He is mid 70's now and gets into a ladder stand every year and takes deer with his recurve. He toldme that the worst thing a guy wants is a arrow going through a deer. You guys might read that and think I or him are nuts but I sometimes think he is right. He said he always puthisarrow right in the heart shot zone and is pleased to see the arrow only half way in the deer as it runs off. He said a arrow thatis half way in will bounce up and down or catch on trees as the deer runs making multiple cuts and shredding up the lungs real fast. Kinda makes sense right? He is old, and old school and has said all most all of his deer drop within sight. Now this was kinda long and maybe some will disagree with it, but sometimes I think we get to jacked up on power, them old guys been killing deer a long time with slow bows!