Black Widow PSAX.
I have one bow and use it to hunt and kill animals. Not being a bowmantic bow collector like perhaps most of the trad community, I do not have much experience with other high quality bows but I know they’re out there.
I also had a bear bow for years before getting my BW. I will certainly never own a bear again. Its like going from a Yugo to my Land Cruiser.
From the design, durability, ridiculous smooth draw to 31.5” and 71#, to unmatched customer service… BW is excellent from every angle, imo.
Speaking of BW customer service, i went to a trad shoot where BW was there with a booth. At the time I had 70# bamboo limbs that were a year or so old and in perfect working order as usual. The top limb had two very small white dots on them about 3 mm each. I was talking to Roger w/BW and just asked him what those white dots were and should I be concerned. He said “No, they’re just small bubbles in the finish. Only cosmetic.” Then he said…”What kind of limbs you want”. Huh?
After actually trying to talk him out of it like he was crazy for offering, six weeks later he replaced my perfectly good limbs with brand new $600 limbs. Just ridiculous.
Regarding another quality bow and speed…
My brother had a 60# Tenbrook longbow. I chronographed that bow and my 70# BW with the same exact arrow that was somewhere around 850 grains. They both shot the exact same speed with same exact arrow. Not sure if Tenbrook is still alive but that was a high performer for sure.