I have an Excalibur Exocet and love it, but I don't use it anymore.
Like Doug said the X-bow got me into bowhunting,I probably wouldn't have got my 1st deer with abow (compound)this season if I hadn't started with a x-bow.
I highly recommend the Excalibur, its strong and simple, recurve limbs so theres very little that can go wrong with it, and very accurate.
The only reason I bought it was to take advantage of longer archery seasons up here (rifles only 2 weeks long), but then hated carrying the awckward thing around so I bought a bow.