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Looking into getting a horse bow, but I’m a broke college student

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So I’ve been shooting target recurve for a while. Standard stuff, got a samick bow a few years back, took it to local club competitions and just started slapping stuff onto it as distances got bigger. New limbs, sight, stabilizer, whatever misc blogs recommend. This is all to say that I have NO formal training. I’m just doing my best on a budget to enjoy the hobby I love with all my heart.

Recently though, thanks to friends with more money than common sense, I was able to give horseback archery a try. Did a loop with my samick and another with a little 30lb horse bow from amazon, and it was so much fun. I occasionally pop over to their property to help with farm work and would like to get into horse archery but A) I don’t wanna be borrowing their equipment every time, and B) I’d like something more high quality than something they got for $60 on Amazon.

I’d like a bow that could last me a good while but isn’t too bad price wise (ideally less than $200) as I usually have at most $30 and a domino’s gift card to my name. I’m still learning, hell I just figured out how to properly use a thumb ring like a month ago, but something about it just hits a button in my brain.

Other info, I’m about a 29” draw, my current recurve is 55lb so weight shouldn’t be too much an issue, and I live in northern Michigan so the bow being consistent at anything from -10 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit is important to me.

If anyone has or knows anything that could help, it would be considerably more helpful than my current window shopping an Alibow.

Edit: grammar

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