Speed is great for hunting. It was at one time to get a speed bow it had to be a low brace height, short are a very extreme reflexed riser. Now days the loop has made it easer to shoot shorter bows. The new fast bow are reflexed, but with the newer cam systems we can shoot them with out them being as critical as the past bows. I'm a old pro finger shooter and have shot a lots different of bows. I was always on a bow company's pro staff and always had shot deflexed risers for years. Now that I shoot a release and a loop right away I could go to shorter bows. I still like a higher brace height and I got me a new Black ice this year and I must say it one that its a real shooter. Quit, fast, very easy to shoot, accurate, 7 1/2 brace height and don't haft to think as much about things like the distance and just make the shot happen. A few inches off can make the different s between a good are a bad hit. It is going to be one of my better shooting hunting bows. Bows have come a long way with the new risers and cam systems. With speed I can get a harder hitting and great penetrating bow with cleaner kills with out shooting a 70 are 80 pound bows like I did before for bowhunting.