You may not realize you want a new bow until you shoot one. I’ve never been a new-bow-a-year kind of guy—far from it, actually. I hunted with the same Mathews MQ1 I’d had since college up until a few seasons ago. But I’ve been playing with a Hoyt Vector Turbo the last few days, the speed bow in Hoyt’s 2012 lineup, and so far I like it—more than I like my “old” (2011) bow.