My wife bought me a Magnatec new in 1999 from the local archery dealer as a Christmas present. I'm pretty sure they were introduced that year as part of thier new 2000 model line up maybe. It was a good shooting bow a little on the heavy side, and I think it had a 35 or 36 ata. I was still very new to archery being 22 years old back then and it was the 2nd bow I ever owned at that time. If I recall it still had a Magniesum riser compared to aluminum or carbon that's used mostly today. Overall it was a good bow, and I wish I would have held on to it however back then I kinda got the itch to upgrade every couple of years until the wife put an end that.