Glad to see some more responses. This was really an attempt to get some discussions going like we used to have. Remember PABowhntr's ideal components for bow design thread?

For those that are so manly, or for those that take this as a veiled dis of their sponsor, I guess draw cycle doesn't matter.

The last two deer I have shot, I was "caught" at 1/2 draw for way too long, then had to finish and get off a good shot quickly. Just another reason I dislike the "hump and drop off a cliff into the valley" type cam(s). I get a kick out of the experts on AT who regularly spit out the "smooth like a single cam" lines when they are dissing the binary cam bows. The two worst draws I have felt were the Firebrand Discovery(yes, I was dumb enough to try one for 10 days, and sent it back), and the Pearson Dagger with Kineticam. The Newberry Hybrid was almost as bad as the Pearson, IMO. My current old Bowtech Pro 38 Dual Cam has a late peak, but it is very smooth and drops smoothly to 65% letoff. I am amazed by the performance of the bow considering the smoothness of the draw. As far as getting used to it, I know that when I had my Patriot Dually, I really didn't think the draw was bad at all. It got up to peak fast, but just stayed there as long as possible. If I shot that for about a week straight, then picked up my Darton, I had to be careful not to break off the draw stop on the module though.\

I'm still not sure why cams are designed with a late peak "hump". It would seem to me that if the cam came up to peak weight earlier, and just maintained it, the bow would actually be able to store more energy and shoot faster. Maybe it has to do with acceptable preload or something like that.