ORIGINAL: bigbulls
If money is not an object then by all means buy the best that you can afford. You will be better off in the long run.
Do not "settle" on a "beginners" bow. If you can afford to get a Bowtech or Hoyt, AR, high end PSE or what ever then you should definetly shoot all of those bows and decide by actually shooting and handling them. Not because you think you may not be good enough to shoot these bows.
With the higher end bows you get little up grades that many people do not realize when they go bow shopping that either improve performance or improve the durability of the bow.
Little things include Stainless steel stabilizer bushings rather threaded into an aluminum riser, machined aluminum limb pockets rather than cast, pivoting limb pockets rather than static pockets, sealed bearings in the cams and idler wheel rather tahn bushings, laminated wood grips rather than plastic, upgraded limbs, vibration deadening deviced integrated into the bow, and upgraded strings.
This is not bad advice... this is sound advice. Buy the best you can afford or you'll buy twice. Saved me from typing the same information over again. I do however agree with MNRut here, as this is not necessarily sound advice.
[quote]ORIGINAL: Wolf Killer
IMHO You are better off buying a "big name" bow just to have the higher resale value.