If you can, shoot a few different brands / styles of bow to find what feels comfortable to you. There are smooth drawing bows all the way up to harsh drawing performance bows and everything inbetween. Find what you like. Join Archerytalk, do some reading and ask questions. Dont let people like Sharp_things "limb_bender" on Archerytalk, discourage you from asking questions. From there, Id watch the classifieds and get a used year or two old bow off the classifieds. Those guys buy and sell a lot of bows. Archerytalk also has brand specific sub-forums to research deeper into the bow(s) you like.
