
These essentials usually come with at least six in a pack and are usually offered once you make a bow purchase. The bow stringer is a very important part of an archer’s kit since it provides a safe and consistent method of stringing the bow. You have to ensure that you also have the following items: Most recurve bows come in sets but some comes with the bow and string only. The riser which is the center part of the bow is separately crafted with wood, carbon, aluminum alloy or magnesium alloy.Ĭhoosing the right bow that would complement the archer whether he is a beginner or an amateur is necessary. The limbs are made of multiple layers of fiberglass, carbon and/or wood on a core of carbon foam or wood. Recurve bows are normally made with the most advanced technologies and materials. Most archers prefer the first mentioned when shooting in a brush or forest terrain or while riding a horse. This kind of bow allows archers to use shorter bows rather than the simple straight limb bow for a given arrow energy. It is also well-known to shoot arrows fast due to its limbs’ reflex/deflex design. Recurve bows are generally considered to be more accurate than other types of bow since they are normally cut to or past center so the arrow points directly to your target. These bows are made as a single piece with the riser and limbs all typically made from laminated layers of various woods.Recurve bow is the most popular traditional bow today especially since this is the only bow allowed in the Olympic Games. These types of bows are actually functional works of art, at home on the wall for display or in the field drawing back on a deer. This is the original type of bow most of us think of when we think of a recurve bow, hence the moniker “traditional”. back to menu ↑ Wood Riser/Traditional One Piece Recurve Bows Our field staff has spent many years shooting recurve bows and now brings you the ‘best of’ list for each of the categories below based on their experience and interviews with hundreds of our readers. For purposes of this ‘best of’ list, we will also take a look at youth bow packages and even recurve bows that come as a complete kit, including arrows and accessories. There are still the traditional one piece wooden bows and long bows available that have been used since the dawn of archery, but now there are also recurve bows that are designed to be disassembled in the field, also known as ‘take down’ bows, that can have either a wooden riser or even a skeletal aluminum riser. Recurve bows have benefitted from technology much the same way that most other forms of weaponry have. back to menu ↑ What types of recurve bows are out there? This is also a preferred type of bow for those who do not want a lot of moving parts, and as such additional potential points of failure for the bow.

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With no cables or pulleys, there is also no let off, or relaxing of tension when at full draw, so this is the type of bow that most archery purists will prefer.

Unlike its more modern counterpart, the compound bow, the recurve bow does not have any pulleys or cables, only a bow and a single string. It is the most simplistic of all archery equipment and has been around for thousands of years. A recurve bow is what most people think of when they think of a bow and arrow.
