I was in your shoe's about 3 years ago, so I'll give a little advice.

A friend of mine wanted to bow hunt, and I was like, "what the heck, sounds fun." I never made it into the woods that first season..there was so much for me to learn about hunting I was almost overwhelmed. I had never hunted, and no one in my family hunted, even though we live on 130 acres of woodland/swamps.

I spent the first year with my compound just shooting now and again to become proficient. The next year rolled around and I started visitng these forums and started getting "my ducks in a row" to hunt. So now I'm in the middle of my second bow season, and I've not shot at a deer yet. If I had been hunting with a gun, this would not be the case. My wife likes to rag me that I've never shot anything but go hunting but I just go . I'm having fun trying.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is this: It comes down to what you want. If you are going to be disappointed if you don't get a deer the first season or two (or three...) then maybe you should start out gun hunting. IMO there is less to keep track of when you're gun hunting. You don't have to worry (as much) about keeping your gun sighted in, what grain arrow you're going to use, what type of feathers/vanes, what type of mechanical or fixed point to use, or getting the deer within your kill zone, say 20 yards.

Personally, I don't want to hunt with a gun as it just doesn't seem enjoyable to me. One of my hunting buddies think I'm nuts as his primary interest is to "fill the freezer". But gun hunting just isn't for me. I'd rather be sitting with my bow and see a great deer walk 50 yards away from me and go home without anything then to be in the same situation and get a shot with a rifle.