If accuracy, smooth and pleasant shooting, and quiet are high on your list of priorities, and if you are among the many bowhunters who find there is nothing to match the feel of a single-cam bow, you’ll find a lot to like and nothing to dislike in the Mathews Creed XS.

The original Wrath was introduced last year; for this year Strother’s designers set out to make the Wrath both faster and smoother shooting.

Mathews touts the 2013 Creed as the “… smoothest drawing high-energy single cam ever created.”

Prime’s Impact is the faster of two 2013 Prime models sharing the new PCX Cam, an updated version of Prime’s Parallel Cam Technology.

For 2013 BowTech’s designers, in response to input from customers, backed off the throttle and designed what BOWTECH touts as “the smoothest drawing, quietest shooting, most forgiving bow” they have made to date.

Being neither the least nor most expensive bow in the Diamond line-up makes the Core sort of a value bow among value bows.

Elite boasts that its bows are extremely quiet, in addition to being “dead-in-the-hand,” and our objective tests indicate that the Hunter is, in fact, a very quiet bow.

PSE touts its new flagship bow as “…entirely different, all the way down to its DNA.”