Can compound help your recurve shooting? Crystal Gauvin says absolutely. It’s common in the sport of archery for people to pick a bow type and stick with it for the duration of their career. Those who don’t start on the…
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A tour around 2021’s virtual ATA
The annual trade fair was online this year and Bow took a virtual stroll around. Scott Archery Apex Scott Archery have over forty years of expertise making releases, and they aren’t shy about calling the Apex the ‘pinnacle of release…
Tagged with: arrow, ATA, bows, carbon, compound, outdoor target, recurve, scott archery, scott archery apex, scott archery summit, target
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Posted in Features
Hoyt: New Recurve Gear
A trio of mid-price offerings from Hoyt turns back the clock. There is a feeling among many recurve archers that there isn’t much new under the sun. The incremental improvements in materials science and computer-aided design have definitely resulted in…
Interview: Pierre Plihon
The French international Pierre Plihon opens up to Bow. Interview by Mimi Landström “How did I spend lockdown? In my apartment. Luckily I was able to put a target at 2m in my living room. And I had my dog!” …
Tagged with: archers, bow, bronze, club, competition, covid-19, indoor, indoor world series, Interview, lockdown, nimes, nimes archery tournament, olivier grillat, olympics, pierre plihon, recurve, rio 2016, shoot, shooting, technique, tokyo, world championships
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Setting up the Easton RX-7 arrow
Sponsored by… Easton’s RX-7 arrow shafts are proving to be one of the most popular and accurate new indoor arrows in history-both recurve and compound shooters love the RX-7 and are seeing great results, because it allows using the biggest…
Tagged with: aluminium, archers, arrow point, arrow shift, arrows, bow, bowstring, bowstrings, brady ellison, compound, Easton, eaton rx 7, indoor, nock, nocking, olympic, recurve, rx7, Salt Lake City, shaft, shooters, target, technical guide, world archery
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Ragim Whitetail longbow review
Alex Tyler puts an Italian thoroughbred through its paces Italian manufacturer Ragim make a wide range of wooden archery bows, including recurve takedowns and beginners gear, but their speciality is high-quality wooden trad bows. The Whitetail is a product from…
Tagged with: alex tyler, arrows, bow, bows, english field archery, field bow, gear, lockdown, longbow, national field archery society, ragim whitetail longbow, range, recurve, review, target, wooden archery bow
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I Made This – OCD Strings
Part 2 of a series on independent archery businesses. This week, Julie Bergen of OCD Strings, on the west coast of the USA. I build custom bowstrings, specialising in single string bows (recurve & longbow). Each string is built for…
Tagged with: archer, archery, barebow, bow, bowstrings, business, compound, longbow, ocd strings, olympic, recurve, shooters, strings, USA Archery
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Interview: John Dillinger
The USA barebow archer is on fire this year. He talked to Mimi Landström. After an incredible start to 2020, taking first place at the Lancaster Classic and The Vegas Shoot – achieving two of his biggest dreams – John…
Tagged with: archery, barebow, covid-19, hoyt archery, Interview, john dillinger, Lancaster Classic, lockdown, recurve, vegas shoot, world archery, world field championships
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Getting started in barebow field archery
An overview by Victoria Williams There is always a lot more to barebow archery than meets the eye. To score well at field archery with a barebow it’s not, as some might say, a matter of pointing in the right…
Tagged with: archer, archery, barebow, bow, field archer, field archery, olympic, range, recurve, shoot, shot, sight, technique, world archery
Posted in Technique
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Tiller and Bracing Height: Going Deep
Is tiller and bracing height really that important? Andrew Smith investigates. With a modern three piece recurve bow, we do not hold the bow in the centre. This means that we do not draw the limbs back evenly; if the…
