Fletching most commonly was made up of feathers. Feathers were attached in three primary ways. First is with a thread, which could be of actual…

An arrow is one of the first purpose-built projectiles created by human hands, perhaps developed after humans thought that throwing spears didn’t have to be…

Korean The Koreans have recognised horseback archery as an element of national heritage on the level of government, the latter now making efforts to promote…

Japanese The modern horseback archery ranges on which archers compete have their styles inspired by the historical background. That is why a hungarian course involves…

Hungarian “I’m on a horse” is a phrase many will remember from that famous male deodorant ad. It was uttered by the main protagonist of…

The potential of the crossbow was well understood by the ancient Chinese. The trade-off for the simplicity and added accuracy over the bow was the…

Crossbows are still cool today, which is a universally acknowledged fact. This weapon was as close as civilization got to firearms back when bows were…

Historians believe that archery has been around, in one form or another, for about ten thousand years. The initial purpose of bow and arrow was…

The compound bow isn’t strictly speaking a type of bow, but a material configuration of it. Olympic archers use a recurve bow, but it’s no…

From a glance, the recurve bow does not look dramatically different from a longbow, except from the tips curving away from the archer when strung.…