ORIGINAL: davidmil

Why would you want to seek advice from newbies when you have experience of hundreds of years and thousands of hours annually at your finger tips. If he says he's more confused...it's probably because he heard things he's never heard or thought of. Osmosis is a great teacher in a place like this. IF someone comes in here when the season is going on or about to begin, he'll see all the highs, lows and will soon learn there is value in experience that can't be found in a newbie forum. And when would a newbie graduate to "The Big Boys Forums"? Really, you can ask away, question, criticize... and ask again here. Unless you're a complete idiot(which no bowhunter is) you'll learn more here just reading in a month than you'll learn in a newbie forum in a year. GMMAT is right about a shortening of the learning curve. I started bowhunting before it was popular. People today can't imagine that when I began I hunted public and semi private land for whole years without ever encountering another bowhunter. There was no internet(Al Gore hadn't invented it yet[8D]), no websites and really very few places to buy a simple broadhead..... and very few deer. It was alll OJT and only yourself to question when it went amuck. There are dozens of people with the same story here. You will never find a better place to learn and ask your questions than right here where the hunters dwell. Oh you'll maybe have some uncertainty when you ask which broadhead or bow and get 12 answers, but if you look... you'll find the answers among the favoritism or the best 3 oe 4 choice(none of which will be wrong)