When I was 14, I made a red oak board bow in my parent’s garage. The bow cost about $10 to make, and it had jarring handshock. Even though that cheap bow wasn’t a great shooter, it got me in the door ...

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 ...

When the box arrived, I opened it immediately. Enclosed was a soft, vintage-style carrying case with leather handles. Even though I knew what I would find when I unzipped the case, it didn’t lessen ...

Archery as a sport has evolved over the years as in modern times, it is a competitive global sport involving a variety of equipment over various disciplines. India, over the years, have become a force ...

When archery deer season opens Saturday, some hunters will be carrying wood into the woods in the form of longbows or recurve bows. That includes a vintage wooden Sears Ted Williams recurve bow that I ...