Browning Micro Midas 3 Compound Bow

The Browning Micro Midas 3 is the bow that solved the youth-bow problem the honest way: real machined hardware and the Hypermax 10 Cam, shrunk to fit a child, with ten inches of press-free draw adjustment and a formal upgrade program so one bow follows a kid for years. It ran as the flagship of the Micro Midas line from 2003 through 2009 for exactly that reason. The numbers that matter are the range - 18 to 28 inches of draw, 29- and 40-lb peak brackets - and the mass, 2.6 lbs, light enough that a small shooter can actually hold it on target. Browning never published a standard retail price for the kits, so treat this as an entry/youth-tier bow whose only published figure is the ~$45 cost to step up a weight bracket. In my experience the real value of a bow like this is measured in the number of seasons it stays in a kid's hands, and this one is built to stay for a long run. It is an excellent bow for the household outfitting a child who will keep shooting into their hunting years, and for short-draw or smaller-framed first-time adults, particularly strong in the role of one bow that grows across years of backyard practice into close-range hunting. Buyers who want a single bow that reaches all the way to a 70-lb adult big-game setup should also look at the Diamond Infinite Edge Pro... read full review