I wish I had a good answer. But, not sure I do. That is a tough question. You didn't mention your preference be it longbow or recurve. My only advice is, before you lay down any cash on anything, get to a TradEvent in our area or region somewhere, talk to some bowyers, at many events they actually will have demo bows for folk to shoot at try out. Next best thing, get to local trad shoot and talk with the folk there.