Hoyt LazerTec Compound Bow

The Hoyt LazerTec was the 2006 line's answer to a simple question: how much of the Hoyt shooting experience can you get without paying flagship money? The answer, then and now, is most of it. Built on the same Cam & 1/2 system and RizerShox and AlphaShox damping as its pricier stablemates but sold as a value-tier bow, it delivers a smooth 65-to-75-percent-let-off draw, a genuinely quiet and shock-free shot, and a planted 341/2-inch platform that holds steady on aim. Its 295 fps IBO is modest by design, because this was never a speed bow, but the real-world 257 fps a 27-inch shooter measured is honest hunting performance for deer and hogs at practical range. What keeps the LazerTec relevant two decades later is its wide 23-to-31.5-inch draw range and its reputation for holding tune, which make it one of the best-value ways onto a real Hoyt on the used market, where clean examples trade in the low-to-mid hundreds today. Buy one used, budget a fresh string and a quick tune, and you have a forgiving, quiet hunting bow that still flatters an average shooter. In my time with the Cam & 1/2 draw, what stuck was how relaxed it felt to settle the pin, because the bow does the hard part for you. It is an excellent choice for the value-minded hunter or the family that wants one adjustable bow to share, particularly strong as a quiet, forgiving treestand and 3D rig. Buyers who want maximum arrow speed and a more compact bow should look at the Hoyt Trykon, and those who prize the most forgiving brace height and single-cam simplicity should look at the Bowtech Tomkat... read full review