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Old 08-10-2004 | 03:43 PM
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Welcome! I got into bowhunting a few years ago and you have definitely picked a great sport! I love it so much that I sold all of my rifles. Let me give you one piece of advice, Like everything else you get what you pay for...especially in bows. I started out with a bow on ebay and have moved up 2 times since. Save yourself alot of frustration and save some money up and buy you a top notch quality bow. In my opinion Matthews and Bowtech are the best. Yes they do cost between $500 - $650 dollars but like I said you get what you pay for. My Bowtech dealer here had a 90 day pay plan. So you don't have to drop all that cash at once. As far as accessories buy the best you can afford, I would go with a 1 pin sight and buy one that is quality built such as trophy ridge, Spot-hogg, Copper Johns. You don't want to be changing cheap sights out in the middle of the season. For a rest I would go with the wisker biscuit, pretty much bulletproof in my opinion, yes you will have fletching contact but so what, I robinhooded 6 of my carbon arrows over the last year. Speaking of arrows definately go with carbon, yes they are more expensive but the benefits pay off in the long run. As far as target go "the cube" is great for broadheads, I use a bionic buck for target practice from my stand and from the ground. The bionic buck runs over a $100 bucks but arrows are easyyy to pull out of it. Buy a cheap target and you will no what I mean. Broadheads are your choice and there has much debate on this site about them. Research previous post and form your own opinion. I like expandables because they fly better thru my setup at 295FPS. Fixes blades plane to much for my setup.
Good luck in your adventure, wait until seasons start opening up that when the site really fires up!!!!
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