Re the Martin Hunter. Back before the rotator cuff got bad, I was heavily into trad archery, though I also had and used compounds. I went through a fair amount of recurve and long bows, and eventually settled on the longbow.
Before all that,I had a used Hunter, and found it a fine stable bow. A handful of custom recurves later, I hadn't found any superior to the Hunter in speed. The candidates included an Appalachian Archery TD, a Brackenberry TD,a Robertson TD and a Texas one piece recurve. FYI, the Texas bow camse closest in speed but was a bit too sensitive.
I did go through 5 Hunters in a year. Martin came through every time on the warranty and neother they nor I could find out why they were breaking under normal use. According to Martin, Only I and some guy in Idaho had probs. I finally switched to a longbow partly because I was too embarrassed to ask Martin for another if #5 broke.
IIRC, shooting 10 grains a lb, I was chronoing carbons at 190 FPS. 55 lbs at 28", cordovan tab.
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