The first thing you want to do to maintain accurate archery shooting is to periodically check your bow for proper tuning and your arrows for proper flight. You also want to make sure you number your arrows, so if one of your arrows is consistently out of your normal grouping you can easily determine if it is the same arrow every time. You don’t necessarily have to toss the arrow away because you might just be able to tune it and get it to fly true again. Shooting Accurately

Archery Glossary
Popular terms used in the sport of archery. GLOSSARY OF ARCHERY TERMS Armguard: A leather pad worn on the inside of the forearm of the bow hand to protect the arm from the slap of the bow string. Full Archery Glossary

Compound Bow Details
A compound bow is usually a composite recurve bow coupled with pulleys known as eccentric cams. Compound bows are much more technically sophisticated than the recurve, the bow employing wheels or ‘cams’ at the tip of the limbs.   Compound Bow Details

What is a Recurve Bow?
A recurve bow is a more modern version of the traditional bow. Older recurves and some modern hunting recurves are one-piece bows. By far, the greatest number of archers choose to shoot recurve bows, the modern version of the traditional Longbow. What is a Recurve Bow?

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