I just started bowhunting this year and borrowed a friend' s PSE Baby-G. It is 2 or 3 years old and I was shooting just fine out to 30 yards with it. My hunting buddy uses ' 96 Mathews Ultralight and it still can hit a bullseye and kill a deer just fine. As others have said. It is about you and not so much about the bow. Any bow that is in good working and does what you want it to do is all the bow you need. If you want a bow with all the bells and whistles, that is fine, but if you get the kill with a new bow or a 30 year old bow, the deer is just as dead. [8D]