RE: Compound or recurve?
(generally speaking)
compound is vastly more accurate. pick it up, shoot 10 minutes and you'll be good enough to hunt with.
they're that good
recurve/longbows take a lot of practice. Not as much money into them vs a high dollar compound either. not as accurate, by far
your choice in weapoins, just make sure the arrow goes where you want it to. I choose trad archery for the challenge. Compounds are no challenge to be accurate with for me.