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 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 ...