This was my first year hunying with a bow. Benn hunting for 20 years with a shotgun in the Midwest. I now live in the South and a bow is more PERSONAL. I could kill a deer from 50-100 yards with a Shotgun or out to 200-300 with a rifle. Bowhunting is so much more primitive and real to me than being a sniper. There is nothing like beating an animal like a whitetail deer up close. It takes skill. Rifle hunting is almost not fair to the animal. I love my bow!