What do you prefer accuracy or speed ? Do you prefer a bow that has spot on accuracy with easy tuning even if it means cutting down on speed or having a longer more forgiving brace height or shorter ata to be the best hunting bow. Or do you prefer the speed of a larger ata shorter braceheight bow thats alittle harder to tune to be the best hunting bow ? This is a thread for speed vs accuracy not which is easier to tune. I know which is easiest that being said its about what you prefer and why. Ill go first im not into speed i prefer accuracy. i want the easiest to tune most accurate bow i can get and i like the shorter ata for deer hunting here in the midwest i spend 85 to 90 percent of my time in a tree so i like the smaller bow for tight situations. I also like the longer more forgiving brace. Im not looking to have a bow with blazing speed thats harder or takes more time to tune or easier to come outta tune and i dont like long ata bows or short brace heights really .i want it to be accurate , quiet , smooth and solid we owe it to the animal to place the best most accurate shot on it we possibly can.
Accuracy every day of the week in my opinion. If you can put an arrow wherever you want with pin point accuracy that is 10X better than speed to me. Accuracy kills, speed may be able to hit the broad side on a barn but its a lot harder to hit a heart. Accurate and more forgiving bow over a speed and not 100% reliable bow every day of the week in my opion.
I like both! Thats why i shoot a Hoyt Carbon Spyder! Long and stabile, lightweight and forgiving, fast and smooth. Its a great combo of everything
Both. My short axle to axle speed bow with a short brace height was a dream to tune. Bows have come a long way, speed bows are not what they once were.
Speed bows just miss faster lol! With slower bows you have a longer time to watch yourself miss! I guess its doesn't matter to me I have shot many different bows and been able to hit what I am aiming at. To me as long as you are comfortable with the bow your bow is set up properly to you you have good form and you have practiced well enough to hit the target It don't matter what you shoot Hutch
I got a story about speed and accuracy. My local pro shop got pissed off when I went to a different shop and bought a Hoyt. My local shop sells pse and I just didnt like any of the new PSE's. My cousin has a PSE DNA and ya its fast. Pro shop said my cousin will kick my *** and my Hoyts a peice of ****. So here we are a couple weeks later and I've beaten him three straight times with zero losses. Speed dont mean ****. If you aren't big on proper form and technique then the speed aspect will only make you worse. I havn't even chrono'd my new Hoyt, I dont care what its shooting for speed. I know how the bow feels and I practice out to 70 yards consistently. Also I know my bow is alot quieter than his bow for hunting. Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk
I like both. This is why the Z7 series of Mathews bows were so dominant and why I will ALWAYS have one in my arsenal of bows. My Z7 Magnum is the best of both worlds. And from what I am seeing, the Chill-R is just as Bad @$$ Too!
If accuracy was the end all wouldn't there be more people hunting with target set ups? I know that wouldn't be very practical, but everyone is jumping the 100% accuracy bandwagon. I think there needs to be a balance between the two. Speed is necessary to kill. So is accuracy. You can't kill with only one. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I like both, I have no issues tuning speed bows or slow bows and I have no issues shooting a speed bow well...I'll hunt with either one, as long as the bow feels good to me and I shoot it well is all that matters to me in the end. With modern speed bows the majority of the guys who complain about them either have never shot one or the ones they have shot were not well tuned and setup correctly for them.
Both are important, but I did want to make a comment on the earlier statement about brace height and accuracy... Last year Field and Stream did a test and they showed that brace height had absolutely no effect on forgiveness or accuracy... They were of the opinion afterwards (and I agree) that while accuracy is important, why not shoot a short brace height and get the speed if it doesn't change anything. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Was that test done by normal shooters? Or shot out of a mechanical shooter? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Regular shooters. I don't think it has much to do with it either. I can shoot a short brace same as a long.
