LIL - All good advice on buying into archery hunting - thanks. If I perform in this slice of the hunting sport like I generally do with firearms, I' ll have a closet full of bows and only use one favorite! Except for rabbits, grouse, turkey or waterfowl - I just naturally reach for the .338.

NIM - Every pike killed is at least a couple dozen more ducklings that will make it next Spring. Those damned pike eat anything that doesn' t eat them first (the closest thing we have to gators and crocs up here)! With any luck that one you lost won' t survive.