The best bow ?

The best bow? What a loaded question that one is? You could use a ream of paper trying to answer that question!

Do you prefer blondes or brunettes? Lol! I prefer both! The best bow for anyone is highly subjective and arbitrary! I have a good friend who must remain nameless, because he lurks here that I will use an example so bear with me for a moment!

My friend who is an awesome shot and holds a bow rock steady in his bow hand, has arms like 4x4 posts with fingers like Churchill stogies. For the rest of this discussion we'll call my buddy Stogie.

Last fall just before Elite craze took on a life of its own Stogie was a bon-a-fide Hoyt guy! Out of curiosity Stogie buys an Elite Energy 35 and now he is all about Elite!!! A couple of months back Stogie had fallen out of love with the Elite! Stogie sells of his Energy 25 and bought himself another gen-u-wine Hoyt. The day after he takes the Hoyt home he send me a pic of his first shot through paper resulting in a perfect bullet hole, exclaiming this is one of the many reasons that he loves Hoyts!

At the London Pro/Am, Stogie wasn't happy with how he shot his Hoyt and less than 3 days later Stogie has bought himself another E35!!! Stogie readily admits that he changes bows more often than some folks change underwear! Stogie is an awesome shot and you could hand him a tobacco stick and he'd out shoot you with it!

For Stogie, the best bow is perhaps the one in his hand on a given day that he has CONFIDENCE in and CONFIDENCE in himself. I shot with Stogie yesterday and on a 25 target course he shot 20 up with his new E35 and hit 12 out of 25 of the rings shooting in the k-45 class. Stogie is one of the nicest persons I've ever had the pleasure to shoot with and get to know, even if he is fickle about his archery tackle!

The best bow for me starts with the grip! If I can't live with the grip I can't live with the bow! This is one of the reasons I'm not a fan of the banana grip of the E35!

How's the bow feel in the hand? How does the bow feel at the shot? How does the bow hold at fulldraw? How does the draw cycle feel? On and on I could go!
 
so far i have owned the following
Bear (Attack)
Mathews (Heli-m)
Hoyt (CRX)
Elite (answer)
PSE (a few different ones)
Browning (back in the day)
Obsession (current have the Sniper LT)

and i will say that NONE of them were ones i just could not do without however some I liked much more then others and to be honest the current Obsession i have is my fav to date.

They all had pros and cons to them but in the end I like a bow that i can draw easy and have confidence in shooting. I like a light bow that i can carry around the woods easy and have the ability to hold it up for a while when shooting. I like an easy draw and a wall that doesn't creep or what to jump. I have shot a bunch more other then that list and again I have never seen a bow that I just could not live without. Some feel more natural to me then others and even though some don't like to admit it some "Look" much more pleasing to the eye then others which also is part of the deal to me.
 
DixieCrafter said:
The best bow? What a loaded question that one is? You could use a ream of paper trying to answer that question!

Do you prefer blondes or brunettes? Lol! I prefer both! The best bow for anyone is highly subjective and arbitrary! I have a good friend who must remain nameless, because he lurks here that I will use an example so bear with me for a moment!

My friend who is an awesome shot and holds a bow rock steady in his bow hand, has arms like 4x4 posts with fingers like Churchill stogies. For the rest of this discussion we'll call my buddy Stogie.

Last fall just before Elite craze took on a life of its own Stogie was a bon-a-fide Hoyt guy! Out of curiosity Stogie buys an Elite Energy 35 and now he is all about Elite!!! A couple of months back Stogie had fallen out of love with the Elite! Stogie sells of his Energy 25 and bought himself another gen-u-wine Hoyt. The day after he takes the Hoyt home he send me a pic of his first shot through paper resulting in a perfect bullet hole, exclaiming this is one of the many reasons that he loves Hoyts!

At the London Pro/Am, Stogie wasn't happy with how he shot his Hoyt and less than 3 days later Stogie has bought himself another E35!!! Stogie readily admits that he changes bows more often than some folks change underwear! Stogie is an awesome shot and you could hand him a tobacco stick and he'd out shoot you with it!

For Stogie, the best bow is perhaps the one in his hand on a given day that he has CONFIDENCE in and CONFIDENCE in himself. I shot with Stogie yesterday and on a 25 target course he shot 20 up with his new E35 and hit 12 out of 25 of the rings shooting in the k-45 class. Stogie is one of the nicest persons I've ever had the pleasure to shoot with and get to know, even if he is fickle about his archery tackle!

The best bow for me starts with the grip! If I can't live with the grip I can't live with the bow! This is one of the reasons I'm not a fan of the banana grip of the E35!

How's the bow feel in the hand? How does the bow feel at the shot? How does the bow hold at fulldraw? How does the draw cycle feel? On and on I could go!
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Stogie....he's talking about ya�now come out of lurker status! :D
 
DixieCrafter said:
The best bow? What a loaded question that one is? You could use a ream of paper trying to answer that question!

Do you prefer blondes or brunettes? Lol! I prefer both! The best bow for anyone is highly subjective and arbitrary! I have a good friend who must remain nameless, because he lurks here that I will use an example so bear with me for a moment!

My friend who is an awesome shot and holds a bow rock steady in his bow hand, has arms like 4x4 posts with fingers like Churchill stogies. For the rest of this discussion we'll call my buddy Stogie.

Last fall just before Elite craze took on a life of its own Stogie was a bon-a-fide Hoyt guy! Out of curiosity Stogie buys an Elite Energy 35 and now he is all about Elite!!! A couple of months back Stogie had fallen out of love with the Elite! Stogie sells of his Energy 25 and bought himself another gen-u-wine Hoyt. The day after he takes the Hoyt home he send me a pic of his first shot through paper resulting in a perfect bullet hole, exclaiming this is one of the many reasons that he loves Hoyts!

At the London Pro/Am, Stogie wasn't happy with how he shot his Hoyt and less than 3 days later Stogie has bought himself another E35!!! Stogie readily admits that he changes bows more often than some folks change underwear! Stogie is an awesome shot and you could hand him a tobacco stick and he'd out shoot you with it!

For Stogie, the best bow is perhaps the one in his hand on a given day that he has CONFIDENCE in and CONFIDENCE in himself. I shot with Stogie yesterday and on a 25 target course he shot 20 up with his new E35 and hit 12 out of 25 of the rings shooting in the k-45 class. Stogie is one of the nicest persons I've ever had the pleasure to shoot with and get to know, even if he is fickle about his archery tackle!

The best bow for me starts with the grip! If I can't live with the grip I can't live with the bow! This is one of the reasons I'm not a fan of the banana grip of the E35!

How's the bow feel in the hand? How does the bow feel at the shot? How does the bow hold at fulldraw? How does the draw cycle feel? On and on I could go!
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I can agree with you on the importance of the grip and feel . I like a narrow slippery grip that my hand settles into easy .
 
I also want a bow that is easy to draw back in cold weather , or in awkward shot positions in a stand . I bow hunt all season here in the Midwest and it gets bitter cold and windy .
It's much harder to draw back and shoot under these conditions than it is for me on the target range on flat ground in the summer . Temps get well below zero during the late season .
 
Radar said:
I also want a bow that is easy to draw back in cold weather , or in awkward shot positions in a stand . I bow hunt all season here in the Midwest and it gets bitter cold and windy .
It's much harder to draw back and shoot under these conditions than it is for me on the target range on flat ground in the summer . Temps get well below zero during the late season .
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I switched to 65 lb limbs and backed them out to 59 lbs. I will never go back to drawing 70 lbs again.
 
UTGrad said:
Radar said:
I also want a bow that is easy to draw back in cold weather , or in awkward shot positions in a stand . I bow hunt all season here in the Midwest and it gets bitter cold and windy .
It's much harder to draw back and shoot under these conditions than it is for me on the target range on flat ground in the summer . Temps get well below zero during the late season .
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I switched to 65 lb limbs and backed them out to 59 lbs. I will never go back to drawing 70 lbs again.
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I did the same . I'm shooting 60 lbs. Even though I lift weights year round to stay in shape , I'm 53 years old now and my joints hurt more when drawing in cold weather . I pulled my shoulder out of socket back in the 80's drawing back a heavy bow in cold weather . I now have bursitis .
 
There are many "Bests" out there, and no Matthews isn't the best, you guys been watching too many commercials who thinks so........I prefer Hoyt, like Diamond , PSE and quiet a few others including Matthews of which I owned a legacy............Love my Hoyt Vector 32 but to each his own. I have shot Hoyt now for about 24 years from my first pro force extreme, to the Razor tec to now with the Vector.........it feels good but I have shot others I would own in a heart beat.
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This issue is so subjective to the individual. Not much objectivity goes into picking a bow. You can spend over a thousand and be no happier or accurate than the guy that spent 400$. Good shoots can't be bought. Good shoots are made thru work and practice. I can remember 25 yrs ago having 7 arrows and none of them were the same length size etc. but I knew how to shoot each one and was able to kill deer each year.
It's funny I have not heard PSE or some of the other mfgs on here. If you look in the classifieds there are more Mathews for sale than any other bow. Ever wonder why?
 
ffmedic said:
This issue is so subjective to the individual. Not much objectivity goes into picking a bow. You can spend over a thousand and be no happier or accurate than the guy that spent 400$. Good shoots can't be bought. Good shoots are made thru work and practice. I can remember 25 yrs ago having 7 arrows and none of them were the same length size etc. but I knew how to shoot each one and was able to kill deer each year.
It's funny I have not heard PSE or some of the other mfgs on here. If you look in the classifieds there are more Mathews for sale than any other bow. Ever wonder why?
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Exactly , a good shot can shoot well with any bow that is tuned well for them , regardless of the brand or price . The best bow for you , is the bow you shoot best with .
 

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