mooman - Archery is cheap if you do it it properly. Bent stick, piece of string, arrows inexpensive. But it sounds like you want one of those {shudders} olympic style recurves (or worse)...

Turn away from the Dark Side! Remember Agincourt! You can hit something with a longbow (it's mostly the ground till you get the hang of it, but you lose less arrows than the recurves cos they tend to stick up more...)!