Well nice to see ya here mike and welcome to the CB world. I know some of the guys here are holding back on answering your question because we have a good group of excal guys on here that like to share good info on their bows and recently took a lashing about it from someone so I will go ahead and break the ice for them!! I myself shot horton CB's, been doing so for fourteen years or so. I have always liked the hortons and they have never let me down. Hortons are easy to find here in ohio so parts and such can be found around easy. I looked on cabelas web page and you can get a horton 150 legend pacage for I think it was 370 bucks. It will be a good shooter for ya. You can step up to a better bow with out the package deal and spend around 400, but then have to buy all your stuff like sights, arrows, and quiver. The package will come with all that and you just have to go out and shoot!!! Now I will speak up on behalf of my fellow excal brothers and say that buy their post they seem to be a happy bunch of guys with their bows. I know their entry bow the Phoenix starts out on cabelas at 460, maybe more then you want to spend, not sure. But they seam like a happy bunch of guys. Their is also a few barnett and ten point guys to that will give good feedback on their product also. But for me its Horton, and if I had to have a red headed step sister it would be an excal!!