Compound Archery
Best Archery Releases under $100 – 4 Different Styles
I’ve been using a release aid with my compound bow for over 20 years now. My favorite release when I was a teen shooting my PSE Brute Force was a Jim Fletcher fletchmatic rope release. I loved that thing. With the advent of the popular ...
Does temperature affect compound bows? What you need to know
Did you ever see the stop animation Christmas movie “The year without a Santa Claus”? If you did, you might remember the two knucklehead brothers known as the Heat Miser and the Snow Miser. They caused all kinds of problems during the movie, the question ...
Best Archery Release For Target Panic – A Simple Guide
I used to suffer from target panic pretty bad, and it still rears its ugly head now and then. It took me a while to work through it using a wrist release, but is there a better archery release for this? What’s the best archery ...
How does an Archery Back Tension Release Work?
Hinge releases, also known as back tension releases, are a pretty modern addition to archery. They weren’t in the mainstream when I started and so I had to do some research to find out just how they work. The head of a back tension release ...
Hook VS. Caliper Archery Release – What’s The Difference?
I’ve been shooting a dual caliper wrist release for years and am considering trying something different. I started to research hook releases and wondered if they might be better or worse than a caliper release. Dual caliper bow releases have been a staple in the ...
Archery Release for Youth – Which Ones are Best?
I was talking with my daughter about her trying out a release soon, but I wasn’t sure what was available for youth releases. It was hard to find much info online, but I did some research and decided to share. There are a limited number ...
Will an Archery Release Extend Draw Length and How?
I’ve been a release shooter for over 20 years now and I never really thought about how a release could extend or otherwise affect your draw length, until now. An archery release aid alone does not actually extend your draw length. What will change is ...
Archery Release for Large Hands (With 5 Top Picks)
I’m a pretty big guy at 6’4” tall and I have big hands to go with it. Sometimes finding a comfortable archery release for large hands can be difficult. I’ve had a few that were small, so let me help you and save you some ...
Heaviest Compound Bow Draw Weights
I’ve been using the same draw weight on my bow for years, but I started to wonder about the heaviest draw weights available for compound bows so I decided to do some research and share my findings. The heaviest production model compound bow had a ...
How Much Do Compound Bows Weigh? (With 10 Examples)
You often hear alot about a compound bow’s draw weight. What you might not hear as much about is the actual weight of the bow, as in, how heavy is it. I mean you have to hold the thing up to shoot it and you ...
