I am new so I need to figure out when you guys are toying with the fresh meat so let's just say thousands was an exageration, we have a bow shop here (west Georgia)called Lamars and I shot every bow he could put into my hands. He of course is a mathews dealer so I was able to shoot most of their line, and before this I was a hoyt man. But my information and researchare not to be confused with knowledge since my favorite bow ever was a martin from wal mart. My grandfather got one on clearence fromwal mart for around 40 dollars in about 1990. I took my first deer with that bow at 13 and shot it until if fell to pcs and no one had any parts for it. It was the ugliest thing you have ever seen, white and black camo don't blend with the Georgia woods.