first year, but i went through like 2 dozen arrows...... i remember my first bow kill like it was yesterday. It was a big fat doe by her self and i was sitting in a creek bed with my bow in hand and here she come about 40yds away, i drew back and let her fly..............it dropped right beneath her belly!! She just looked down and sniffed my arrow!!! So i knocked another one and aimed a lil higher, and WHACK...........hit her hard and good behind the foreleg, she dropped right behind me when she ran. Great hunt for a doe!