Any of you who know me will know I'm a very keen shot, I've shot most everything, shotguns from 9mm garden guns to punt guns, and rifles from .17hmr to a 20mm Lahti and most everything in between and would consider myself rather knowledgeable about things that go bang. But recently I've been taking an interest in things that go twang! So I'm looking for a bit of advice from any of our resident archers. I've fired high end compound bows and my fair share of crossbows but never fired or rather shot a regular, simple bow (recurve, flat, horsebow etc) so I have decided to buy one (with a view to make one out of a large number of thin strips of ash I have) but don't know where to start! I've no interest in taking it overseas to hunt, it would be compound all the way for that, so I don't need anything high draw weight, and would be looking for a starter bow in complexity. I figure its like learning to shoot a rifle, start basic with iron sights then move onto more complicated gear, but I may be wrong! Price range not really a huge limitation but ideally nothing that will result in me having to find a new Mrs and place to live! Does anyone have any good starting points in bows? Arrows? Literature? In sure we have some archers here!