I posted this under bowhunting, but this seems to be a better place.

I have been bow hunting (with a compound bow)for 11 years. I am taking a 120 class buck every year, so I decided to make it a little harder. I thought about buying a recurve. What shoud I look for in a recurve? With my compound I am shooting 70# and have a 29" pull. I have heard I need to drop some poundage when going to a recurve. What poundage should I use? Does the length of a recurve make a difference? I have seen 4 1/2 to 6 feet long recurves. I would perfer shorter, but do I lose accurace, speed, ??? I am thinking 50-55# 4 1/2-5 feet long, but that just sounds good, I have no reason to settle on those numbers.

Now for the arrows. I played around with making some cedar arrows about 7 years ago, but I didn't know what I was doing (I don't think). I think I was cutting them to about 29 1/2 inches and putting a 145 gr tip on it. It seems to weigh a ton. So how should I make them? How much longer than my draw lenght, what tip weight, Helical?, feathers I assume, etc. What overall weight am I looking for?

thanks for the help.