Now that we have seen the offerings I thought that we could revisit it. I'll start off with saying that I see three big winners this year. That would be the Hoyt XTEC, the Bowtech Liberty, and the Mathews Outback. That isn't to say that there aren't other fine new offerings out there, but these three seem to have really peaked interest this year. It's interesting too that these three really are in slightly different segments. And it is interesting to me how these segments keep getting chopped up finer and finer. But the other big trend that I keep seeing is that speed isn't selling alone. The market now expects speed so parity needs to be achieved on speed but the differentiation occurs on other attributes like draw cycle or riser length or how quiet and vibration free a bow is. All in all the market is becoming more demanding and the manufacturers are responding.
For me I guess the story with Bowtech is most telling. Because on paper I figured that the new Patriot single would be the bomb, instead the folks took a look at the draw cycle on the Liberty and said yes. And we saw this last year too with the Patriot dually and the harsh draw cycle and folks moving towards the Extreme VFT for speed.
How do you folks see it?