PA you may well be right, as I mentioned before, all my personal bows have had brace height of 7 or more inches so I don't know as much about this as some do. But a key question i asked is about the curve. Are there diminishing returns? Mathews actualy moved from 8" to 7" on their key target bow last year. What that tells me is that they figure that on an already forgiving bow even target shooters generaly wouldn't object to the lowered brace height, presumably because the difference wasn't all that apparent. Would there have been a perceptible advantage to going in the opposite direction say 9". I personaly doubt it, but don't know. My best guess is this only bites you when pushed it to an extreme.