Here is a situation that I would like many of you to consider. After being thoroughly involved within the archery community for several years now I am beginning to see an overall trend that interests me. Many of the newer, relatively speaking, equipment designs on the market tend to be created to minimize tuning time and potential accuracy problems. Yet, many of these advances tend to create other areas of concern.

For example, carbon arrows. The ability of ICS carbons to cover much larger spine ranges might make them superior to some people in comparison to aluminums and yet spine/straightness degradation over time seem to take away from that benefit.

Mechanical broadheads tend to reduce the amount of time dedicated to fine tuning since there is a much lesser chance of their windplaning at higher speeds. Yet, the issue of needing increased amounts of kinetic energy in order to get them to function properly restricts the types of setups that they should be utilized with.

Single cam bows do not exhibit any synchronization concerns and yet their longer strings and potential nock travel issues make them less than desirable to many folks looking for increased tunability.

I even see some comments floating around about some of the gear introduced this year at the ATA show.....that new Atom broadhead mentioned in another thread.....Bowtech's Equalizer cam system, etc....

I guess my question is whether or not we trully have made any advances in the last ten years or if we have just traded one set of concerns for another entirely.

I would like to hear everyone's thoughts on this issue.

Thank you ahead of time for the comments.