I have an Excalibur exomag which is a recurve. Good bow, accurate and hits hard. It's a little big so I guess it depends on how and where your are hunting. Honestly in the better known brands I really don't think you can go wrong between the two. I guess the main thing would be on an extended trip I could pack an extra string and that's really all that can go wrong with my bow, where a compound has more parts so more could fail.