Alpine Denali Compound Bow

The Alpine Denali is a forgiving, long-riser single-cam hunter that punched above its economical price bracket by borrowing target-bow geometry - a 34-inch axle-to-axle riser and a 7-inch brace height wrapped around Alpine's clever modular Tundra riser and a dead-simple Fast Trac cam. It is not fast: 307 fps IBO and roughly 253 to 270 fps with real hunting arrows put it squarely in whitetail-range territory, not on the western speed chart. What it delivers instead is a rock-steady hold, a warm rosewood grip that repeats, and a low, quiet, low-shock shot that most owners came to genuinely love - more than one bought a second, and a common refrain is that it grouped better than the bow they traded for it. I would hand it to the hunter who values a placid aim and a forgiving miss over headline speed, and to the developing shooter who wants a bow that covers small mistakes. An excellent choice for the whitetail and 3D archer who prizes forgiveness and a quiet shot; buyers who need a shorter or still-growing draw length should also look at the Bear Truth, and those who want lighter poundage and a little more speed should look at the Martin Bengal... read full review