I gave up the compound last fall and picked up a chek-mate falcon and I have never being happier. The falcon is a fantastic recurve for the money and once you get form and learn the bow its alot more fun to hunt and shoot(just my opinion) more challenging but less to worry about on the technical side no sights to fiddle with no arrow rest to worry about.

If you go with the recurve you will never look back. As mentioned above with a compound once its set up and tuned you can be very effective with it in a very short time and hang it up for mths and pick it up before hunting season starts and be just as good, but with a recuve/longbow you have to practice all the time to keep your skills sharp enough to take game effectively. Good luck and have fun with whatever you choose.