What are you Smokin Dude?

A little knowledge would help your posts[8D]

Dan

Just to add a quick point, the optional camo patterns have been shipping since Nov and there are plenty of them out there. Do a search on AT and you'll find a bunch of them.

As always target colors are slow but they're shipping on a regular basis too.

BTW, you skipped over the question I asked in post #41.

Well I think Bowtech has cetainly been innovative and I think this has pushed all the other Companies to make changes, wehn they could have just rested on thier sales numbers.

I guess the question could be...what more do you want? I mean we've seen split limbs, solid limbs, split risers, shoot through risers, no risers, plenty of speed. 1 cam 2 cam 1.5 cam. We've seen cable slides, cable rollers, all kinds of STS systems. We've seen bows that don't need a bow press. We've seen brace heights increase, Long ATA's Short ATA's. Higher Let-off..blah blah blah. We've seen Bow Companies put more attention to Quality strings out-of-the-box.

What else do we NEED? I'm sure if you (anyone) could recommend a new direction and it made sense..some bow company would love to hear it!

Perhaps the next big thing will be in equipment..something more tuned to the individualbow..instead of mix and match? I dunno [:-]

It's simple, really: the fact that other companies haven't caught up with their 2007 technology makes them the leader in technology still in 2008, and they didn't even have to bring anything new to the table.

And, trust me... I know you're going to quote the "and they didn't even have to bring anything new to the table" line.But the question was who has the best technology -- and it's a runaway consensus within the industry that Bowtech does, and I'm not talking about gaining agreement from a few posters on message boards. I could tell you stories about how respected their cutting-edge designs areby the other manufacturers themselves, but they're not for this forum. Don't even ask.

When my dad had his archery shop I could and did shoot every bow that was hot at the time. Sure some bows are faster then others. That doesn't always mean you are going to shoot it the best though. For the most part people want speed. I agree it is nice to have but that doesn't mean it's going to be the best shooting bow for you. I always went back to Hoyt. That was just the bow I liked the best. Of course everyone is going to make a pitch for the bow they shoot. And I'm sure me not ever having to buy a bow helps in my decision. But I don't really see a bow that is the best. Lots of companies make great bows. It's all in what you're looking for and what feels good when you shoot it.

Darrall

Amen. You'll never see us argue that point, that's for sure; it's a great time to be a bowhunter.

This is totally out of line with the "bash the other guys brand" mentality, but I think the next great innovation in archery is sitting in some guys shop out there. He probably doesn't have the money or the "friends" to make it happen right now, but he has the idea. I just hope he gets the break he needs to make it happen. This country was built on the spirit of invention. I believe it is still alive. Too bad it is often suppressed by the "big boys".

My thoughts ..... last year I got into the 21st century and bought a Drenalin. I absolutely love it, by the way. Previously I had a 15 year old set-up. I have been watching bow technology for the last 2 years, and in my little experience, Bowtech stand above all as of 2008 as far as advancements ....IMO

Fortunately, Gundeck... this forum doesn't see too much of "bash the other brands"... There's certainly guys in here who are proud of what they shoot, and that spirit is represented in many different brands. But I really haven't seen the "bash other brands" modus operandi to put "yours" on top... If you want some true examples of that at least 50 times a day, go read AT for a little bit.

To your point... I think you could very well be right. The binary cam came about as a result of an engineer working in a completely different field other than archery, but he had a love of bows and bowhunting. He had an idea for a "better mousetrap", built a prototype on his own and approached a large company with it. Long story short, they hired him, he's now the Research & Development Director, and Bowtech never looked back.

Issue with technology is it has to be seen by us.

There are technologies in bows today we do not see, ROSS riser is a classic example. It looks the same as others, but is a
proprietary design by ROSS.
Same goes for all other brands as well, looking new, and being new is two different beast IMO. A bow can look exactly the same as last year and have many new features we simple do not see.

Bowtech has been the best a visual aspect of new technologies the last feew years IMO.