Save yourself some headache and buy from a quality proshop and least your first bow.

Shoot every bow you can your hands on in your price range and buy what feals the best to you. Don't listen to the clowns that say mathews, bowtech, hoyt, elite, etc etc etcis THE BEST BOW. There is no one best bow for everyone. If there was there would only be one bow company making one bow.

I shot them all and decided on the Bowtech Tribute way back in 06. Haven't ran across another bow that feals as go to me as the bowtech did. Mathews was actually one of the worst fealing in my hand but that just me. You may very well be just the opposite.

Good luck on your adventure and shoot straight.