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Old 02-01-2004 | 05:50 AM
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mrfritz44
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Default RE: I need your advice

Same with the other guys....you gotta shoot em and decide for yourself. Pay attention to what you do with the bow.......hunt?.......3-D?......both?. I plan to hunt and shoot 3-D with my bow, so I just bought a Patriot single cam since it gave me a relatively flat arrow trajectory, was smooth to draw, was one of the shorter VFT's, and was pretty forgiving. Now I could only afford 1 bow. You get an archery lunatic like PABowhntr whose had more bows than I've taken shots and his decision was to buy 2 Bowtechs, 1 for 3-D (Liberty), and 1 for hunting (Mighty Mite). Chime in any time to correct me PABowhntr, but this is what I've ascertained through your other posts.

The Liberty is best at the smooth draw, has great forgiveness, and decent speed. It makes a great bow for repetitive 3-D shooting. His Mighty Mite is the shortest ATA bow in the Bowtech bunch, doesn't draw as nice as the Liberty, still has a good bit of forgiveness, and retains speed other short ATA bows give up. The point I'm trying to make is that he could specialize his selection more in buying 2 bows while I tried to make certain compromises across the feature board and buy what I thought was the best at doing everything reasonably.

First ask yourself if this is going to be your only bow, then ask yourself what you plan to do with it. Then, try to shoot the bows that offer the best set of characteristics for what you plan to do. If you can’t shoot them for some reason, then and only then consider what others recommend.

I am a bit partial to Bowtech right now, although I haven’t owned many bows so you can throw my partiality out the window. I just like to stick by a company that seems to support their shooters as much as Bowtech does.

Good luck in your selection,

Fritz
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