Since we are giving our opinions here, I will give a small portion of mine.
First off, there was a time when I would buy the magazines to read bow reports by Emery and Norb. But, after I had shot 50 different bows, set up 1000 different bows, and shot in hundreds of 3-d and 600 rd. tourneys, it became very apparent to my feeble mind that draw force curves, hysteresis, and measuring tolerances were absolutely meaningless to me! And it was obvious to me that these things were basically meaningless to others, as well.
How many reports of Norb and Emery can you find that say a certain bow tested very high in their testing, yet not one top shooter in any type of archery competition could get them to perform to a desired level.
You need look no farther than the early days of really competitive 3-d, when high country dominated. Burly, Ulmer, Chappel, and some others shot those bows fairly well, I would say. If you would have checked tolerances on those bows(and I did) you would have sworn that they would not shoot two arrows into the same target, let alone the same 12 ring.
Some bow company`s had tolerances that were infinately better, yet if they were capable of shooting any better, I never saw it done at the IBO or ASA on a pro level. Nor at the state target rds.
Don`t get me wrong, I really enjoyed reading those indepth reports from those guys, and it seemed that both of them were really interested in bringing forth the facts. But again, IMHO those facts, as accurate as they may be, were basically meaningless when it comes to a human being toeing the line, and firing at whatever target tickled their fancy.
My personal opinion, I get way more enjoyment reading the reports put out here by Frank, JeffB, Matt, and some others.
These are guys doing it because they live it! They do it for nothing more than the enjoyment of possibly helping some fellow archers.
Hey, that`s just my opinion.