DougMD

Just curious to know where the industry is going, in general. Still hanging onto my Hoyt Havoc from several years ago, but love the new parallel limb, shock absorbing and sound reduction, speed and brace height advancements recently and wonder if I'll be suckered into a new bow in the year year or two.

tthhWACKem

I'm just guessing here, but they will of course further optimise what they are already doing, nut I think they will be looking at attathing the cams to one-another. This isn't really new, but, I would guss that it's going to be the next thing that they start looking at and improving on..

Germ

ZIP, I think they will just improve what we already have. The difference between my 9 year old MQ1 and my new ROSS is not really much.

Cavguy

I think that in the next few years one bow company in particular will be offering bows that shoot over 500 fps. Just a guess...

Back 40 Tree Rat

Hey Wackem Bowtech allready makes cams like that, they're called Binary Cams.

idahoelkinstructor

I don't think so, not unless they reinvent the arrow too, it is hard to tune a arrow with broadheadthat is going over an honest 300 f/s (not saying it can't be done) let alone 500f/s. For states like Idaho we can't use expandables, and its a good rule to follow for hunting big game critterslike moose, elk, and bears no matter where you hunt. Heavy arrows with fixed blades or cut on contacts will out perform light fast arrows topped withmechanicals all day long. Yes some bows can shoot heavy arows with fixed blade broadheads fast, but I don't think we need to go any faster, and the down side is that most bows that are faster are at the same time a lot louder too.

Old Africanbowhunter

Well for 2007 Mathews is coming out with a crossbow.....

and Buckmaster/Bear is coming out with a Bow 13 inches long for Jackie Bushman made for shooting small deer in small enclosures on TV.
The Bow shortness works well for those hard inside the fence shots.


Hee Hee

Bob H in NH

they are approaching the theorectical speed limit now, there is only so much potential energy available. 500 fps is simply not possible without doing some sort of mechanical advantage, the energy simply isn't there at full draw. Heck 400 fps might is above the limit unless you go to a zero letoff bow with a very low brace height. any sound/vibration in the bow at the shot is energy that was not transferred to the arrow, this would all have to be eliminated.

I think they will do things like the following:

- manufacturing processes to reduce price
- further enhancements to reduce vibration/noise (parallel limbs are the latest)
- materials development to make the bow flex less, yet remaing light and affordable(similar to the advancements made with racing bicycles)
- string technology/materials to make them more durable

Trembow

Everything is cyclical, ever notice what was once old is always now new?

Remember the recurve limbs on compounds a few years ago?
The single cam was actually an old design that Mathews RE-invented.
The Cam & 1/2 too was a previously discarded design.

So looking back at stuff that will probably be resurrected as new in the future:

Cast risers or parts thereof.
Compound limbs like the Oneida-Eagle bows. How else to go beyond parallel?
Wheel bows that shoot over 300 fps IBO. (think BIG wheels)

I also think that there will be a sort of renaissance in target recurve shooting as well as the population of bowhunters swell and mature, they will be looking to go "primitive" without losing all of that "techy" edge that modern compounds give them.

rankbull

You want to know what will go up........ $$$$$$$