ORIGINAL: awshucks
Welcome to the forum! I'm sure you will get alot of opinions here on your questions, here's mine:
1. Excal Phoenix [similar new stuff to be available soon, untested yet]
2. Most of us use rope cocker's which cut effort in half, can shoot a Phoenix all day.
3. Poker chips to 40 yds
4. Don't know, but get good accuracy w/ two bows from 290-330 fps
5. I favor 431 gr GT L II's at $5.75 @
All good info. Just to be on the same page, what is a moderate budget figure. Some would say 300, some would say 600? Just curious what numbers you are talking about. As far as the sweet spot you mention, it is just like the others you mentioned. When you put on B-Heads they all have to find the right head that works the best. CB's company's have taken most of the guess work out of finding arrows, not like the vertical crowd where you have hundreds of choices and no one can give you a clear answer on which to use. So finding the right head can take some work sometimes, but not a big deal IMO.