I bought on in Dec. and liked it over the other good ones, Hoyt and Mathews. I thought that it had a very smooth draw, but I will tell you that it is wicked. What I mean is that if you catch yourself getting comfortable with the 80% let of and creep forward, it will take off on you. During the first 1 month, I was worried, but now it only happens ~2 times out of 150 shots. Might be a combination of my muscles tuning and I shorted my draw length by 1/2 ". After 3 months, I wouldn't trade it for the world. I ordered the smooth mods for hunting. I will let you know how I like them. I had a blast with this bow at my first ever competition, 3d. With my last bow, I was horrible. With this bow, I took a money pot at 43 yards by hitting a ping pong ball twice, but the first time it was on the arrow and the second it glanced. I shot a 295/300 on paper at 20 yards and 293/360 3d. Not sure how good this is but it feels really good to me. There were about 30 shooters and I was told that the typical average is ~280 at this club on 3d so I guess that i was just above average. Distance was not a problem at all. Furthest was 47 yards. I had the most problem with the 0-10 yard targets. I could not believe that you had to use your ~60-70 marks for the ~5 yard target. Needless to say that I did not score well at all at this range. What a blast. If you decide to spend the money on one of the speed bows, I am positive that you will love it.