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<blockquote data-quote="Brandi" data-source="post: 2061947" data-attributes="member: 24446">There&#039;s no investing in a high end compound bow as mentioned.&nbsp; No matter how good they are they don&#039;t hold their value.&nbsp; However you can buy a very good bow and as long as you don&#039;t fall into the &quot;I have to have the newest, fastest, coolest bow&quot; every year or two you&#039;ll be fine.&nbsp; I have over a thousand dollars in mine and being several years old it&#039;s value is less than half of that.&nbsp; Of course that doesn&#039;t matter because it&#039;s still a high end bow and shoots every bit as good now as it ever has.&nbsp; Point being, look for someone else&#039;s used super bow, spend half of what a new one costs and you&#039;ve got a very good bow and you won&#039;t have to cry as depreciation makes new bow buyers sob like children.Reusing arrows is fine depending on the arrow type and what you hit with it.&nbsp; Aluminum arrows don&#039;t have a great track record of surviving hard hits but good quality carbon arrows will often shock you with what they can handle.&nbsp; I&#039;ve actually missed the target slamming my carbon arrow into a brick wall, where it stuck, then pulled it out and it wasn&#039;t even damaged (you have look VERY closely though, a carbon arrow exploding when released will make you need clean undies).&nbsp; They aren&#039;t indestructible by any means but between wood or aluminum they&#039;ll usually last longer.&nbsp; Anyone who isn&#039;t an experienced bow-person should have someone qualified look at any bow you&#039;re thinking of buying to make sure it&#039;s safe and there aren&#039;t any little explosions waiting to happen.I think it&#039;s always best to start with and become comfortable with a recurve before buying your first compound bow but that&#039;s just me.&nbsp; There are some really good ones out there but remember to keep your recurve after moving up to a compound because almost everyone I know who have shot compounds eventually go back to shooting recurves or long bow for the challenge of it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Brandi, post: 2061947, member: 24446"] There's no investing in a high end compound bow as mentioned. No matter how good they are they don't hold their value. However you can buy a very good bow and as long as you don't fall into the "I have to have the newest, fastest, coolest bow" every year or two you'll be fine. I have over a thousand dollars in mine and being several years old it's value is less than half of that. Of course that doesn't matter because it's still a high end bow and shoots every bit as good now as it ever has. Point being, look for someone else's used super bow, spend half of what a new one costs and you've got a very good bow and you won't have to cry as depreciation makes new bow buyers sob like children. Reusing arrows is fine depending on the arrow type and what you hit with it. Aluminum arrows don't have a great track record of surviving hard hits but good quality carbon arrows will often shock you with what they can handle. I've actually missed the target slamming my carbon arrow into a brick wall, where it stuck, then pulled it out and it wasn't even damaged (you have look VERY closely though, a carbon arrow exploding when released will make you need clean undies). They aren't indestructible by any means but between wood or aluminum they'll usually last longer. Anyone who isn't an experienced bow-person should have someone qualified look at any bow you're thinking of buying to make sure it's safe and there aren't any little explosions waiting to happen. I think it's always best to start with and become comfortable with a recurve before buying your first compound bow but that's just me. There are some really good ones out there but remember to keep your recurve after moving up to a compound because almost everyone I know who have shot compounds eventually go back to shooting recurves or long bow for the challenge of it. [/QUOTE]

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