Coug,
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that the only thing that the 2 companies have in common is their R&D guy Kevin Strother(sp?) who designs their cams etc.........and from what I gather he's pretty darn good at it.

I see where you are going with this one Coug (you're a tricky one!)......but I don't think one thing had to do with the other in this case.
I think Oregon bows was a bad company who had a really good R&D guy......simple as that. A good design does not MAKE a company's success.
I'd be willing to bet that if BowTech didn't have Kevin Strother one of the big name manufacturers would......and maybe we'd be discussing the speed of Mathews bows right now.<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>