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I don't know. I just don't get a warm fuzzy feeling from those bows. I do however still want to shoot the new bowtech guardian. Now that I could get warm and fuzzy about.

Good hunting and God Bless

I would like to see what happens when some one puts a braodhead through the cables and nicks it. Shooting through cables on a hunting bow- Bad Idea.

Martins done it for years. You don't load the arrow broadhead first, you go nock first. I have no personally shot the bow, but I will very soon. If you do a search on the Technical forum for "Hows this draw force curve look?" you will see a pic of the draw force curve. There can be a TON of let off with these bows. oh, and 300fps was shot at 55#, they didn't have 70lbs limbs at the time of the webpage being designed, but they do now. And from what I've heard, in the videos and word of mouth, these are really quiet surprisingly.

Yeah, it does seem like the limbs would be loud, unless the are somehow dampened on the return. Anyone here shot one?

C'mon, guys... The limbs don't come together. The string stops the lever limb from ever touching the power limb. DUH![8D]

This isjust another incarnation of Onieda's Discovery cantilever bow from several years back, isn't it?

Looks interesting. In the video at least it didn't make much noise. I live pretty close by maybe a 35min drive. Maybe I'll check it out.

Tom

Yes, you are correct. The designers of the Onieda Discovery I think started their own bow line called Firebrand bows several years ago. I owned one, the Intensity. It was quiet to shoot, not extremely fast but fast enough, and the easiest bow to work on I've ever owned. Their version did not use the shoot through cables, which I feel was the major downfall to the design. It put too much stress on the limbs to work properly with a rod and slide design and torqued the limb hinges causing failures and limb twisting. Monster bows has taken these bows to where they should have been in the first place with improvements. The Firebrand folks had terrible quality control and even worse customer service. Don't knock 'em until you've shot one. If I could swing it, I would not mind having one. Even in the terrible Firebrand configuration I had, when it was in good shooting condition, it was the smoothest shooting bow I've ever hefted.

I'd heard that gripe from several people, and that was enough to keep me from ever trying one. The design has always intrigued me though. This is a version I'd like to get my hands onand test out.

Thanks for correcting us on the limbs coming together arthur. It makes more sense looking at it now.[8D]