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Mathews
Mathews spends a tremendous amount of money on advertising and sponsorships. I think you'd be surprised to know how many of the people shooting competively actually paid for their bow, I bet its not as many as you think, because Mathews puts them in their hands because they want the publicity. It doesn't take many commercials, competition wins, etc etc to convince someone who doesn't know much about a bow that Mathews must be the best. I'm not saying they don't have some good bows, but how much of your money goes towards the bow and how much for the name??? Alot of that money you pay for a mathews goes towards marketing expense. Most Expensive does not equal the best. Money was not a factor when 3 of us bought new bows 3 years ago, if the one we wanted was 1,000 dollars it wouldn't of made one bit of difference. We could have bought Mathews over Parkers for about $100 dollars more. There were a few factors that led to picking the Parker, they are close by being in Virginia, the quality of the bow was exceptional as far as fit and finish, the weight of the bow was extremely light and is probably still one of the lightest in the world today, to change draw lengths cost about $12 as compared to $60 or $70 dollars on the Mathews, speed was not a factor for me but the Parker was faster or equal to the Legacy which was the top cat Mathews at the time, the Parker was alot shorter than the Legacy as well, it was 80% let off with ability to make it 65% for not much money if you wanted. Overall the Parker had the features I wanted, haviing bowhunted for 12 years, and having shot all the top end bows on the market at the time, I can't say I've ever held a finer killing machine.
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