Just trying to generate a little traffic here. I was at the Archery Center last night and Pete Ward was there with his stable of bows. Pete has a great little website where he does bow testing and reviews among other useful information. Anyway he brought a handful of the bows he's reviewed and anyone who wanted to could shoot them. Well....I was all over that offer!! The first was a bow veneered with quilted maple by Cari-bows -very sweet handle on it and it shot where I looked from the first arrow they are great bows at a good price. There were also 4 adcock bows inlcuding the elusive ACS. If there wasn't a 3 year waiting time to get one I'd drop the 1200 bucks in a heartbeat to get one. Man that bow is fast, it makes the others look like nothing at all. Anyway if anyone wants to check out petes website http://www.peteward.com/ here it is.

the chef

ACS...how fast r u talking about???thanks.

Most longbows seem to come in around 160 fps with a 55 lb pull. The acs at 45 lbs will outshoot a 65 lb in most cases. I didn't crony it, although I could have but I'm told they crank them out about 212 fps or so. All I know is at 30 yards they were going where I looked and the arrows were audibly "sizzling" all the way. By the way it's also physically the lightest bow I've ever held. I'd actually like to see it a little heavier to gain some stability in my shaky hands. You can get a savanna "longbow" which in my opinion is more of a flatbow and they shoot purty quick too-but they have noticable handshock, not the adcock it's absolutely dead in the hand.

cheers

Trad is the only way to go!

Glad you got to play with all those toys....you're so lucky!