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 you go to a local pro shop to start looking for a beginner compound bow, you’ll hear a bunch of bow terms thrown around: riser, module, buss cable, limbs, limb pockets, and cams. If you’re new to ...

I’ve been testing the best compound bows head-to-head for Field & Stream since 2013. In that time, no other hunting bow brand has caused more of a reaction among readers than Mathews. On the one hand, ...

Archery is a fascinating and challenging hobby, but when you’re just getting started, the huge variety of archery bows available can be daunting, as can technical terms you’re perhaps not familiar ...

The bows of Olympic archery are far from the ones of Robin Hood, Katniss Everdeen, and Clint Barton. In fact, Olympic archers tend to favor bows that the Arrow uses to bring down criminals in Starling ...

Recurve archery will have five events at the LA Olympics — the men’s and women’s individual and team events along with a mixed event. Compound will have only the mixed team event ...