Hoyt Montega Compound Bow

The Hoyt Montega is a deliberate outlier - a long, 44-inch, 9-inch-braced bow with a soft AccuWheel wheel system, built for finger shooters and precision archers at exactly the moment the rest of the industry chased short and fast. Its numbers tell the honest story: 270 fps in AccuWheel trim or 280 with the Cam & 1/2, 65% let-off, a 26.5-to-34-inch draw range, and draw weights from 40 to 80 pounds on stable XT 3500 split limbs, all wrapped in a deflexed target-grade riser. What I keep coming back to is that this is a bow engineered to be shot well, not shot fast - the forgiveness of the long geometry and the calm of the soft wall are the entire value proposition, and owners reward it with talk of groups tight enough to endanger their own arrows. Discontinued after 2009, it lives on as a used-market find that still delivers everything it was designed to. It is an excellent bow for the finger shooter and the accuracy-first target or 3D archer who will happily trade fps for a long, stable, low-torque hold. Buyers who want that forgiveness with more speed for the target line should also look at the Hoyt Vantage Elite, and hunters who need a shorter, more packable bow for tight cover should look at the Mathews Switchback... read full review