Help Me Design My Bow

[Elkoholic]

Last year I upgradded my setup to a Browning Illusion. I realy like the bow but I had a hard time deciding between it and the AR 34. As far as the bows go you need to shoot a few of them and see what fits you the best. You can spend all the money you want and get the "best bow" that evryone reccomends, but if it don't fit you comfortably it's worthless. The Illusion came with a dozen of the PSE Radial X-weave arrows so I didn't need to buy any. Ive heard some really good things about the Maximas, and the Axis arrows. (I was going to buy the Axis). The X-weave's have awesome specs and so far they seem to be really tough and they shoot good as well. I set up the bow with Alpine's drop-away rest and a PSE Top Gun Night Hawk 3 pin sight. (I had the Cobra sight that was really similar, but the top gun has better protecton for the fiber optics) Now some people like to have 5 or 7 pins but I don't. I like the simplicity of 3. I have the first pin set at 25 yards then 40 and 50 yards. Close far, and way out there. I really don't see the need for anything beyond 50, but that is just my opinion. I shoot the G5 broadhead and I sure like them, they are very srong and durable and they are easy to resharpen. I shoot a glove style caliper release but I may change that to a rope style this year. I wouldn't wory about the over draw. ( I had one on one of my older setups and I ended up missing 2 opertunities at elk because of the problems the can cause. A couple of feet per second is meaningless. Take the accuracy benefit over the speed increase.
Like everyone has said previously, get the best gear you can afford. About the only thing that's not important is a quiver and stabilizer so you can cut cost there but everything else needs to be the best you can get.
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