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  2. Compound bow - Wikipedia

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    The compound bow was first developed in 1966 by Holless Wilbur Allen in North Kansas City, Missouri, and a US patent was granted in 1969. Compound bows are widely used in target practice and hunting. The pulley/cam system grants the user a mechanical advantage, and so the limbs of a compound bow are much stiffer than those of a recurve bow or ...

  3. Bow shape - Wikipedia

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    The compound bow, not to be confused with a composite bow, is a modern bow that uses a levering system, usually of cables and pulleys, to bend the limbs. The limbs of a compound bow are much stiffer than those of a recurve bow or longbow. This limb stiffness makes the compound bow more energy-efficient than other bows, in conjunction with the ...

  4. Mongol bow - Wikipedia

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    The bows that were used during the rule of Genghis Khan were smaller than the modern Manchu-derived weapons used at most Naadam.Paintings as well as at least one surviving example of a 13th-century Mongol bow from Tsagaan-Khad demonstrate that the medieval Mongolian bows had smaller siyahs and much less prominent leather string bridges.

  5. Archery - Wikipedia

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    The arrows are released from the right hand side of the bow, and this affects construction of the bow. In western archery, the arrow is usually released from the left hand side of the bow for a right-handed archer. Modern (takedown) recurve bow. Compound bows are designed to reduce the force required to hold the string at full draw, hence ...

  6. Bow draw - Wikipedia

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    The two-finger release can be used on either side of the bow, but is primarily used with a left hand side nocking position bow for mounted and foot use. The two-finger draw in its Hungarian form can be found in historical records into antiquity amongst Scythian archery and through into the Middle Ages in eastern European manuscripts and art.

  7. History of archery - Wikipedia

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    Longbowmen archers of the Middle Ages.. Archery, or the use of bow and arrows, was probably developed in Africa by the later Middle Stone Age (approx. 70,000 years ago). It is documented as part of warfare and hunting from the classical period (where it figures in the mythologies of many cultures) [1] until the end of the 19th century, when bow and arrows was made functionally obsolete by the ...

  8. Glossary of archery terms - Wikipedia

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    let-off (measure) – The difference between a compound bow's holding weight and draw weight. Expressed as a percentage of the draw weight; for example, a bow with a draw weight of 70 lb and holding weight of 14 lb would have 80% let-off. limb-driven rest (equipment) – A drop-away rest that is mechanically linked to one of a compound bow's limbs.

  9. Hoyt Archery - Wikipedia

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    Hoyt Archery is an American manufacturer of recurve and compound bows located in Salt Lake City, Utah. [1] Most notable for their competition recurve bows, which are featured prominently in the Olympics; every gold medalist in individual archery at the 2012 Summer Olympics shot a Hoyt recurve. [2] Hoyt is owned by Jas. D. Easton, Inc.

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