At my school you must do a project called a Senior Project. For this you must have 100 hours of work and 20 of those hours must be with a mentor. You are supposed to do something that you have never done before and something that will benefit you. I would like to do bow hunting. I usually hunt with a rifle but would like to learn how to use a bow

First of all you have to tell the approximate cost of your project. This is the first place i need your help. I know i need a bow and all of the other accesories. So if you could possibly yell me the cost of a new bow and the best bow for a beginner. I am 17 years old.

second you needed to have different phases for your project. I wa thinking for the first phase i could learn parts of bow and safety. second phase could be practice. Third phase could be tournaments (are these hard to find and enter) and lastly using my new skills to hunt.

Any help you could give me on the bow and maybe some corrections with my phases would be greatly appreciated.