I just received one for Christmas, a Raven 55#. All I can say is...no advertising, you will have a hard time (impossible?)finding one used, and if you do a bit of research, will also have a difficult (impossible) time finding any negatives. Mine is a smooth, hard hitting little recurve. I am extremley pleased with my Raven and am already looking at one of the Crusaders. I own two other Martin recurves which are very nice, but I prefer the Raven over them hands down.