ducsauce chances are you'll see that compound as an extremely easy to use weapon that takes a LOT of the bowhunting out of the bowhunt. Thats my experience anyway. Its a whole 'nuther ballgame when you got a stick and string in your hands, it FEELS different being in the woods with a recurve in your hand.

Make good decisions on what used bows you buy and you won't lose much if any on them. I rarely lose money, in fact I make a bit now and again buying/selling bows. www.tradgang.com is probably the best place to buy used. The Dolores site (sadly) has had a bunch of thieves on it recently.

Good luck and the best piece of advice I can give you is this - if you hook the string, draw the bow, focus on where you want it to go and anchor the same way everytime with the same release, you'll shoot as good as you can with your compound. You will never do that ........ but its a goal anyway