RE: New to bowhunting, need your opinions.
MY advice is a little different. I'd go to a bow shop and get fitted for my proper draw length......and buy a TOP LINE, used bow. There's a SWEET Mathews ovation in our shop, right now, for $300. If it would fit me.....I'd buy it and set it up for birds and to have as a back up.
There's a LARGE contingent that trades up on new bows. They're trading in some DANGED nice bows!