We can wish they cost less all we want, but as long as people keep buying the more expensive models, then prices will continue to rise.

If you think about it, the price range is pretty wide. There's something for just about every size pocket book. Not everybody can or should pay for the best, especially when second best is so close in quality.

As far as high prices, YES, for the most part a store bought bow is a ton of money. Like has been said, stop buying them. You would see a big rush to attract shooters back to their products. Just like Toyota is now offering cash and low interest because of lack of sales, PSE and Matthews would get off their high horses and come back to reality.

I plan on being that 18 year old purchasing a $500+ bow. I am saving my money and selling a few cows so by summer I will have plenty of money. I plan on telling my proshop to pick out the best bow for me that will last me years to come. I expect it to be around $600 or so.

When compounds got faster and faster, bows went higher and higher. Not only paying for higher priced materials but due to the extreme speeds we are paying for that "lifetime warranty"!

Why do most of us drive $20,000+ 4 wheel drive vehicles when we could be driving around in 1964 volkswagons?

to some paying over 500 for a bow may seem like alot. too me it is not, i spend all my free time outside recreating in one way or another i dont drive a fancy truck i dont even own my own house but i do have a 2700$ mtnbike a 1200$ whitewater kayak w another 1000$ worth of gear, 300$ snowshoes, and 850$ into my bow all set up. we all have different needs and i have the need to play outside. i dont need nice clothes or 100$ dinner dates. just my biased opinion

Interesting question, but a moot point.

Bow prices are certainly not too high; there is a vast price range for just about any budget.

I have priced a lot of bows and bow packages in the past several months just out of pure curiosity. An archer looking for a decent hunting bow can get a good package deal (from many different manufacturers) starting around $300. The higher prices reflect additional features, be they real or intangible. If you want the latest, greatest, or coolest bow with all the whistles and bells, then you have to pony up the cash.

The Mouse

I have to agree with mouse, goodies cost more, well basics cost less.
Good shooting.
Dylan

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I am betting that there will be some company to come out with a line like Kimber has done with the M1911 handgun. They have put all the custom shop features on a production gun and have virtually taken over the market for 1911's. It doesn't perfectly translate into archery, I know, but part of that philosophy can. There will be a smart company that takes a big chunk of the market like that.

The most important bloodtrail leads right to the foot of the cross

Yes they are too high priced if you are buying the top end bow just to hunt some of the largest deer I have ever seen taken were taken with a yard sale bow.

There is nothing in the price of the bow that kills the game so go for what you can afford get a bow that fits and put decent acc's on it and practice and you will kill if there are no mistakes made and there are deer where you hunt.

Some of the high end bows today with all the whistles and bells as in a muzzy ZE rest a high dollar sight then a dozen good carbons and at least 1/2 dozen broadheads can cost upward of 900 to $1000.00 and when and if the time comes to sell or trade it in you may get 200 for it.

While on the other side of hunting for $1000.00 you can buy one of the best rifles on the market and outfit it with a 300.00 scope and if you take care of it in 10 years it will still sell for nearly the same.

And I say all this speaking from experence as I have been in archery since 1964 and love it. I have been a factory shooter and a staff shooter for a local dealer for several years. Buy the best you can and learn to shoot properly and you wil enjoy the sport a lot better.

Just my opinion..............