Heading for Sherwood Forest

I'm a kid at heart, and therefore I like toys. The old saying goes, "the only difference between men and boys are the price of their toys", is all too often true. Nothing wrong with that.
Leisure is our reward for a long day's toil. I've found a new game to play-archery. Yeah, I'm gonna be a real Robin Hood; and like him, I'll be using a longbow. For more than twenty years, I've wanted a longbow. When I was a kid I had bows. First was a wooden flatbow. It was probably a toy, but as well as I can remember it seemed to be well made. It was probably an antique, I just don't remember. Next came a fiberglass recurve, a twenty pound, the kind that came in a set with a belt quiver, tab, cuff, and three arrows. It was white(ick!), and as I remember when I first strung it, I had it backwards! It eventually snapped(I tried using it to make a crossbow, I was nothing if not imaginative). As soon as I was able, I forgot all about bows and starting concentrating on guns. Then one day, in my early twenties, I discovered that longbows exist, that they were way totally cool and I wanted one. In the intervening years I dabbled with a compound bow, and I even picked up an old Ben Pearson recurve, but nothing had the allure of the longbow. Lately I've been trying to assuage my feelings by buying new toys.
Presently, I have four guns, with another on the way; but in all honesty, guns just don't do it for me anymore. I'll probably keep a couple, and sell the rest. They're just too noisy, expensive to feed, and I just don't feel comfortable shooting them anymore; I guess I don't like drawing attention to myself. I was even tempted by muzzleloaders again, but I think I may have finally put that bear to rest. I just don't have the time or money to dedicate myself to that activity. As far as silent weapons go, I even tried a sling. Truth is, it's cool, but I can't hit the broad side of a barn with the damn thing. Something like that is no fun if you can't do it right. Which brings me back to the longbow. Although I have some archery experience, it's hardly enough to qualify as nothing more than a sincere interest; but it may be that that sincerity would be enough. In any event, shooting the longbow seems as though it would be a mystical experience, kind of Zen like.
And that's seems as good as a reason as any to head to Sherwood Forest and become one of the Merrie Men.