The Vendetta is the promise that every high-performance
bow manufacturer has been trying to keep."

Bow manufacturers know what you want.  They just haven't been able to give it to you.  A bow that's celebrated for its speed is always criticized for its harsh drawstroke.  And a bow that's heralded for being silky smooth is often criticized for being short on power.  So bow manufacturers are in a pickle.  They want to make buyers happy, but they can't reinvent the laws of physics either.  As a result, today's bow market is littered with two kinds of speed bows: the speed bows that really do shoot fast but draw like you're pulling a 1979 Caddy uphill with a rope, or imposter speed bows which draw smoothly but actually generate much less horsepower than advertised.

What we're saying is, the smooth-drawing speed bow has been the proverbial unicorn in the industry.  It didn't exist.  That is ... until now.  When we previewed the 2010 PSE line-up, the bow that first caught our attention was the Vendetta.  The drawstroke on the Vendetta felt very soft, much like the EZ-Draw round single cams we've worked with in the past.  Draw back only a few inches, the stroke peaks, and it begins slowly letting-off, with no perceptible transition all the way to full draw.  At full draw there's no need to tense up, the high let-off cam provides a massive valley that allows you to creep forward several inches before it starts to reel you back in.  At full draw you can't help but think, "I could hold this all day!" 

Absolutely NOTHING about this bow's drawstroke suggests it could be a speed bow.  In fact, we were thinking the Vendetta might shoot 290 or maybe 300 ... that is until we saw its 330 fps IBO Speed Rating.  We scoffed at first.  330?  No way!  Since this didn't seem possible ... we fired up the chronograph to see for ourselves.  As our PSE factory rep, Larry Boring, stood to the side with arms folded and a little smirk on his face, we started firing arrows through the chrono.  Bamm!  324! ... 325!  And that was at 29" draw.  We moved the mod to 30".  Bamm!  332!  331! 332!  We moved the mod again to 26" and really got a shocker!  Bamm!  301! 300! 301!  NO FREAKIN' WAY!  Arrows come off this bow like they're launched from the end of a whip.  And the bow is eerily quiet and shock-free too.  OK, forget what we said about the laws of physics.