Hello. My name is Sam and I'm a new member. I started late with bows (58) by buying a used compound bow, taking a lesson from the shop and shooting off and on. When the bow went haywire (loose guides, etc) I visted a local shop where I found a really nice and knowledgeable owner who fixed my bow and sold me a few matching arrows (lost all of mine) and gave me a lesson basically for the price of the arrows and parts. Of course I went back. I saw that he had many recurve and longbows and he himself shot a longbow, and I guess that really seemed like archery to me. To make it short, a few more visits and a new recurve later, I'm shooting instintive and love it. Of course I'd like to hunt and also, maybe move to a longbow. All opinions welcome and thanks.