Buying A Custom Bow
Traditional Archery – By Doug Besherse One of the questions I get asked often is “what are the best 3-4 bows or bowyers”? I use to discuss this with people but no longer does so, or at least I now limit...
Bow Sight 101: Ultimate Bow Sight Selection Guide
What is BOW SIGHT? A bow sight is a device that’s mounted on the riser of your bow that helps you to aim your arrow. Much like the bead at the end of a shotgun barrel, the bow sight simply helps tell...
5 Most Popular Arrow Rest Types: Arrow Rest Selection Guide
The function is pretty simple – to hold your arrow in position, supporting the arrow until you fire the bow. But not all arrow rests are created equal, and there are dozens of different rests to choose from. Some are inexpensive; some are...
5 Tips & Techniques For Hunting In The West That actually work
Traditional Archery – By Doug Besherse Hunting in the west offers unique challenges, especially if you are going after your critter with a stick. After several years of observing hunters that I have guided on spot and stalk hunts, I have...
Additional Discussion on Draw Length Issues
The “Perfect” Draw Length Your own “perfect draw length” is the draw length setting at which you are the most comfortable and the most accurate. There is no right and wrong, no absolutes. But it is unlikely that a 5’10” guy will...
Measuring Your Draw Length
Unlike a traditional recurve bow that can be drawn back to virtually any length, a compound bow will drawback only a specific distance before it stops (the wall). Compound bows are designed to be shot from the full-draw position. If a compound bow...
Parallel Limb Bow 101
TALK ABOUT TERMS Not since High School Geometry Class have we all heard the word “parallel” so often. “Parallel” is the new million-dollar word in the archery industry. In every archery magazine, commercial, talk-forum, and publication, the word parallel commands attention....
Eye Dominance Conflicts
Most right-handed people are right-eye dominant and most left-handed people are left-eye dominant. But this certainly isn’t true for everyone. For some people, hand and eye dominance are opposite – which creates a dilemma for participating in the shooting sports. If...
The Ultimate A – Z Guide Of Compound Bow Selection
Introduction Like many products, compound bows come in a variety of shapes, sizes, colors, and levels of sophistication. If you’re new to the sport of archery, we’ll guide you through all the jargon and technical hoopla and help you to make...
400 FPS Compound Bow: Things You Need to Know
While modern compound bows are quieter, more accurate, and more vibration-free that we could have imagined just 5 years ago, it seems as if compound bow speeds may have hit a technical rut. Today’s IBO speeds aren’t so different than those of...