For myself I grew up In a bow hunting household being both of my parents bow hunted. I was flinging arrows at 3 years old and the old man just loved It. I couldn't turn 12 years old quick enough being that was the age a person had to be to hunt In Mn. I started out with a Martin Lynx compound and used that until I grew out of that and picked up a XI Impact compound. The 1st 4 years bow hunting I shot the 1st thing that gave me a shot (bear or deer). Most years my hunting season was over the 1st 2 weeks of deer season. We could only shoot one deer and our season was over, not much has changed now being It's still like that 95% of the time here. At 16 years old I shot my 1st buck, I then told dad I want to step up the challenge and shoot big bucks like him and let the young bucks pass. To this day (18 years ago) I haven't shot a young/small buck on that same property and have no Intentions on doing so unless of coarse It's either wounded or It's an older buck with not much of a rack. When I turned 22 years old I wanted to step up the challenge more so I decided to get rid of the wheels and try It with a traditional bow. My dad bought me a custom made take down recurve for my birthday ($200.00) and I've used the same recurve since. Me switching to a traditional bow was the best thing that ever happened to me bow hunting. I forgot to add that I shot my 1st deer at 13 years old (2nd year of deer hunting) and I shot my 1st bear at 15 years old (1st year of bear hunting). Bow hunting has been good to me other then just my kills, It's taught me a few things when sitting out In the woods. It's giving me time to think and time to myself which I do need from time to time.