  In this paper we study the quantitative recurrence properties of
self-conformal sets $X$ equipped with the map $T:X\to X$ induced by the left
shift. In particular, given a function $\varphi:\mathbb{N}\to(0,\infty),$ we
study the metric properties of the set $$R(T,\varphi)=\left\{x\in
X:|T^nx-x|<\varphi(n)\textrm{ for infinitely many }n\in \mathbb{N}\right\}.$$
Our main result shows that for the natural measure supported on $X$,
$R(T,\varphi)$ has zero measure if a natural volume sum converges, and under
the open set condition $R(T,\varphi)$ has full measure if this volume sum
diverges.
