I love my martin,but as someone else said shoot several in your price range what some one else likes might feel like a peice of junk to you.I shot mathews,bow tech,hoyt and several others when I bought mine but I picked a martin because it fit me.The animal you hunt doesn't care if your bow company spends millions of dollars on celibrety advertisments and gives away free bows to anybody in show business to say they hunt with their bows they just know that you either hit them good and their in trouble or you missed or nicked them and they're getting out of there.So don't set you self on one or two bows try as many different ,names,models,one or two cams,one and a half cams,it just goes on and on,find one that fits you.