As some of you may already know, I've been out bowhunting pretty hard this year. This is my second year of bowhunting and still haven't killed one. Last year I never got close enough to shoot. This year I did 3 times. First time, I had Buck Fever so bad I shot straight over his back at 10 yards from a ground blind! Second time, I shot a doe very high in the front shoulder. I searched for her for 3 days and never found her. Third time, I shot a 8 point buck at 30 yards and caught him in the hind quarter. Again, the next morning, my wife, stepson, and I went through the entire area with a fine toothed comb and found nothing. No blood trail, no arrow, no deer. 5 days later, I saw the same buck back on my property chasing a hot doe so I know he survived. I know it was him because I could see the wound on his haunch. So here's the problem. When I started bowhunting last year I knew absolutely nothing about the sport or equipment. I got an old used Bear compound bow from a friend and took it to the local sporting goods store. The guy there said it was a left handed bow. I said 'fantastic!' (I'm left handed) Well I couldn't shoot lefthanded because my left eyesight is too bad to see my target at 20 or 30 yards. The guy at the store move things around so I could shoot it right handed. I practiced with it for the entire hunting season last year and all through the spring and summer. I didn't even go play golf this year because I spent all of my time practicing. I got to where I could hit a gallon milk jug from 30 yards with no problem. So I think 'great! I'm ready for the season. Now the 2 deer I wound this year, the arrow just barely penetrates the broadhead into them on both shots. So I go back and tighten up the poundage until I can barely draw the bow and I'm not a little guy either. (6'0" 240 lbs) It's set for 75 lbs. I go back to the practice range I set up (3 hay bales with a cutout target of a deer showing all the vitals and kill shots) and mark off 20 yards. I take out all my pins except for 1, set at 20 yards. I couldn't even keep 3 shots in a row on the cutout. They went everywhere. The bowstring kept hanging up on the slide arm and throwing it off. This didn't happen when I had it set to a lighter poundage. Anyway, I've put the $%^& thing up. Totally disgusted and given up on it as a lost cause. What I need from the board is your opinions on what brand of bow would be a good starting bow for me. I have found a bowhunting club about 30 miles from me and I'm going to go there and let them set up my new one. I'm sorry this post is so long but since I don't have experienced bowhunters around here I can talk to about this I'm turning to the ESTEEMED panel of experts here. LOL Thanks guys.