I think this is a pretty key statement to what many of us experience. This year, I'm shooting a hybrid cam bow. I'm not sure how straight the nock travel is, because there's quite a bit of cam lean, but it still shoots good. I was assuming that this was going to make a difference in broadhead flight. It may have, but it wasn't noticable. However, my experimentation with spine testing appears to have paid much higher dividends as did my decision to switch to shooting helical feathers a few years back.

The cumulative effects of cutting off both ends of my arrows when cutting them to length, spine testing my arrows, shooting helical feathers, increasing F.O.C., and switching to a hybrid cam seem to have added up to significantly better broadhead flight. However, I do have to place credit for most of the gain on arrow adjustments, because they fly just as good out of a single cam I tested them on.

I seem to be always making adjustments and experimenting. It becomes difficult to know how much any one improvement contributed to any gains I find. This year, I went to a heavier bow with a longer ATA, revamped arrows and a new broadhead. For a person, like myself, most bows seems to work quite well. I suppose to test the forgiveness factor of any one of these features, you'd have to test them on an out-of-tune bow or shoot weakly spined arrows with straight fletch and low F.O.C.. This something I'm not all that interested in doing.

I guess what I'm saying, is that a hybrid cam may be a good choice for novice and an inconsequential one for those experienced in tuning their equipememt.