Other than a old Bear One I shot for a couple of months the Impact X-treme was my first bow. I shot it for 6 months before stepping up to my Diamond. I made my first bow kill with that Alpine and was pretty pleased with it in general. After getting my new bow I passed it on to my wife afterchanging the limbs from 60-70# down to 40-50#. Whenthepro shop did the limb switch they found the 60-70# limbs to be cracked. Well one of them anyway. I totally missed that when wondering why the bow got loud and my accuracy went to heck. I had planned on keeping the limbs until I found out about the crack. I contacted Alpine, sent them the limbs, and they sentme someaccessories both for my wifes bow and for mine. So pretty good customer service too. Before you buy the alpine or any bow go out and shoot as many as you can. Shop around, you may find its the bow for you or you may find its not. My wife is enjoying it and getting to be a pretty good shot.