RE: recurve for small game
Well if you visit 'The Archery company.com' (all one word) they sell a 38lb lovely Samwha woden recurve bow for £65, not sure what it would be in dollors but hell its a seriously nice bit of kit. Got lots of attatchment points for sights, stableizers etc.
I just bought one and recieved it this morning through the post!! been using it and its excellent to shoot and with my Easton arrow it seems to have a fair bit of power behinde it.
Hope thats of some use. Good luck and good Hunting
Tomy D