If you’re new to the world of archery, you’ll quickly discover that the gear can get pretty complicated—and confusing. This realization will probably hit right about the time you’re trying to buy your ...

Archery is about the feel of the string being released and watching the arrow fly toward its intended target. That’s the mindset for an Erie County archer who strives to keep traditional archery ...

The tool of choice for most bowhunters is a modern marvel. It’s highly engineered, supremely efficient, and forged from ­aluminum, carbon, steel, and computer-aided algorithms. And then there are the ...

I still remember the first compound bow I ever saw. My dad and I belonged to an archery club in Wisconsin in the early 1970s, and everyone there shot recurves. But my dad’s cousin Howard was visiting ...

When most of us think “stickbow” we picture the long, D-shaped arc of a longbow. We also think it’s older than the recurve, but that might be a Robin Hood, western-bias thing; Eurasian warriors and ...

The Cloverdale Traditional Archery National event was June 9 and 10 at Cloverdale and is for traditional shooting: you can only shoot a long bow or recurve like the Native Americans used a stick and a ...

The Stealth II's draw weight can be set to 20, 25 or 30 kilograms. In a compound bow (which uses cables and pulleys), it's the two wooden limbs that flex and store all the potential energy when the ...

In 1980, there were roughly 90,000 bowhunters in New York. By 2010, that number had increased to 260,000. Brian Otto, 54, of Penfield, a member of the shooters advisory staff for the famed Bear ...