Many of the comments here have me considering another pretty bow now, and scratches be damned! I guess there is something to be said for getting something special if you have to wait half a year just to get it, or more. I don't know if I could bear to take some of the Blacktails I've seen out in woods, though. Some of them look like they ought to be hanging in a museum or something! Funny, though, the only one I ever shot I did not like at all, mainly because I thought the grip was too high for my liking. I could have sat and looked at that bow for a long, long time, though.