Krisken, You are not alone on this subject. I love speed bows and wont have the slow ones anymore. I hate the arguement of you will only miss faster with a speed bow. [:@] Well I will say you only miss slower with a slow one. I shoot much much better with a faster bow than with a slower bow. I had or still have but will never shoot again a browning mirage sl hunter because it is too slow and I can' t stand it. I now have upgraded to a faster much faster bow the Darton maverick. I have a 32 inch draw and my arrows ( well not as fast as yours) but is moving along pretty good. I shoot an arrow that is 400 grains at just over 300fps. Smoking to me!!!! I could and did shoot a 444 gr arrow with this bow at 278fps but changed to the lighter for a faster setup. I am more accurate with it and have much more confidence with this setup lighter and faster promotes confidence TO ME GUYS. I have no problem shooting and hunting out to 45+ yards for deer NO PROBLEMS at all. I have practice tons at this range and I consider it a duck shot.

Now with regards to missing or hitting its the guy behind the bow not the bow or the speed a bow is capable so that is not a valid arguement. So one missing or hitting with a certain bow lets just say we can hit with the preverable bow be it a slow one or a fast one. I will take a faster setup any day of the week and twice on sunday. THis is me my opinion only. I feel better with it and this is what gives me confidence. And isn' t that the most important thing?

I don' t mean taking an arrow that is potentially dangerous to the bow itself and shoot it but a relative weight arrow for the bow like 5.5 - 6 lbs is great. I shoot my bow with a 29.5 inch arrow Pse carbon force compitition Pro arrows with a 100 gain head and 5 inch feathers and a nock insert and nock. total arrow weight is really 398. something so close enough to say 400 gr.

Well I have No problem slaying deer at anyrange like the one I took last year at 35 yards. I used a mechanical too shockwaves 100 and blew right through and killed the dirt on the other side.

Well kind of a tangent but I will take speed over slow any day of the week and damn proud of it.

Brian