TimboKhan
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By the time you add the components for a "ready-to-hunt" package you're in the $500 range just for the most basic of bows.
Uh, close. The Bear Legion and the PSE Brute X are legitimately great performing compoounds and both are $399.00 ready to hunt. Now, after arrows and releases and a case, yes.
Back to the question, you can find good deals on used recurves and longbows, and I will echo that the Samick Sage is a great first choice. I shoot an old Bear Grizzly that is old but 100% servicable and I paid nothing for it. My dad, on the other hand, paid $15.00 for it at a garage sale twenty years ago, lol. You can buy a new Grizzly for around $350.00 or so, which if cared for.