I agree on the equipment... truthfully I really don't even know much about the bow... its kinda, <grin>... third-hand, if you know what I mean. I have a friend I work with who's younger than I am but has numerous more years of experience bow hunting... the same friend has been pretty much the support I've needed to even bother to pick up the bow... we both share the same interest in hunting and he respects my big overall kick for the outdoors in general (I've kinda got him into looking at fungi and mushrooms now in the woods... after he actually came across a amanita virosa (aka Destroying Angel) Travis has been all about looking for toxic, deadly shrooms... now if I can just interest him in the more beneficial ones...

so I do have the real world help... he's offered for me to use one of his bows and I've also spotted several reasonably priced bows at yard sales and all that I could have tuned up at the local sporting good store... but I may try to get this one polished up for the fall and then start hinting about "a little something extra" under the tree this Christmas...