Browning Micro Midas Compound Bow

The original Browning Micro Midas is the first-generation, pre-PSE youth compound that pioneered the grow-with-me idea a decade before it became standard - a die-cast magnesium riser, solid-fiberglass Youth XP limbs, and a Micro Maximizer cam that adjusts draw length without a press, all wrapped around a 15-to-45-pound draw-weight range and brackets reaching from 15 to 27 inches. Browning never published a brace height or an IBO speed for it, which is an honest artifact of how 1990s youth bows were marketed rather than a shortcoming - at these poundages the point was a controllable, confidence-building draw, and that is exactly what the roughly 65% let-off and smooth cam deliver. In my experience, the combination of a rigid metal riser and press-free draw adjustment is still the right recipe for a child's first real bow, which is why the modern market eventually caught up to what this bow was doing in 1997. It sold in the youth and entry tier of its day, as the bow alone or as a combo with a sight and quiver, and today it lives as a collector's piece and an occasional serviceable used find. An excellent first bow for the small-frame or growing shooter and the household that wants one bow to span several seasons, particularly strong as a durable, adjustable platform a child learns real form on. Buyers who want a current, warrantied, ready-to-hunt youth bow with the widest adult-reaching adjustment should also look at the Bear Apprentice and the Diamond Infinite Edge... read full review