A hunting set-up over 280 with a 400 + grain arrow is pretty fast sounding to me.But if you can't put the arrow where it needs to be, speed is USELESS!!! I don't shoot well enough to be overly accurate with one of these short BH speed bows, and my shoulders wouldn'ttolerate pullingmuch more than 70# too many times, soI'm for the most part gonna need to be satisfied w/ what I'm getting 276-278 out of my Trykon XL with a 415 gr. arrow at 29."