Alex,

The first 82nds were built Friday, so it won't be too long before they start showing up at some dealers now...

bubba,

Out of all the "toys" I have in my possession -- to include a home archery shop better than just about all the retailers' around here -- the one thing I don't own is a chrono. Maybe some day, but for whatever reason I've just never bought one.

I haven't drawn either of the Airbornes yet, but early reports are saying the 101st with smooth mods feels very much like the Allegiance with speed mods... I'm intimately familiar with the Ally and speed mods, as I took that exact combination to the woods with me close to 100 times over the last couple years...

I also owned and shot a Black Ice for a good while. In comparing those two draw experiences, I think it's going to be what you get "used" to... To me -- personally -- I think a single-cam experience is by nature a smoother-drawing feel. I like how they "ease" into the draw cycle, stacking slowly and building to their peak before falling off... Binaries by nature stack a lot quicker.

Remember, it's the whole "tradeoff" idea... In photography, you're constantly trading off between light-gathering ability and shutter speed. In athetics, it'spower and brute force vs. speed and grace... In archery, it's butter-smooth draw force curve vs. blistering speeds.

The neat thing about watching technology advance the world of bow engineering is that we are getting closer to marrying those last two concepts -- at least closer than we've ever been.