I depends on how traditional you want to go.
If you want “traditional” but still want to use a pin sight and a rest, the Samick Sage is hard to beat. Don’t go crazy on the initial draw weight. 25-30 pounds is plenty. Unlike a compound bow, a recurve isn’t very tolerant of poor form and it’s easier to develop good form with a 25-30 pound draw weight.
Once you get competent with it, but an extra set of 40 to 45 pound limbs and then keep working on your for, dropping back to the lighter limbs if you start having accuracy issues.
It you want to go really traditional, shooting off the shelf with no sights, you might as well go all the way and get a long bow.
The Bear Montana is mid priced at around $400 and isn’t a bad bow for the money, and it’s good starter longbow with good maple core limbs faced with black or brown fiberglass. Start with a 30 or 40 pound draw weight, get good and develop the required muscles before stepping up the weight. If you can’t hold it at full draw for at least 30 seconds, it’s too much bow for you.
Then there are some really nice shooting and very pretty bows in the $650 range, For example, Kota Bows are made by a bowyer in North Dakota. Their Prairie Fire longbow is made using three layers of bamboo for the core with various exotic wood veneers front and back, and finished in clear fiberglass. Very pretty, very smooth, and no stacking. It’s also a high reflex/deflex bow that is efficient by long bow standard and is fairly easy to shoot. My 42 pound Prairie Fire is much smoother than my 40 pound Montana and feels a tad lighter at the same draw length.
I also have a BlackTail Colombian with a 46 pound draw. It also has a three layer bamboo core with exotic wood veneers and a clear fiber glass finish. It’s even prettier and is also really pleasant to shoot.
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With a traditional bow shooting off the shelf and without a sight, you’ll be shooting softer spine arrows (500 is a good start), with points that make them fairly heavy - a minimum of 8 grains per pound of draw weight, with many shooting better at 10-12 grains per pound. You’ll also leave them full length to allow the point to be used to sight in the target more effectively.