compound bow care

Rain in the woods

Shooting Your Compound Bow in the Rain – What to know

As an avid archer myself, I know firsthand how devastating it can be when something happens to your favorite piece of equipment. That’s why it’s so important to take steps to protect your compound bow from the elements. Rain has the potential to negatively affect ...

Compound Bows in a line

What’s The Average Cost To Restring A Compound Bow

If you’re an avid archery enthusiast, then you know that having your compound bow restrung is an important part of your equipment maintenance. But how much does it cost to get it done? In most cases you can expect to spend between $50-$150 dollars to ...

Compound bows hanging on the wall

Is It OK to Hang Your Compound Bow? Tips to Avoid Damage

You’ve put in your practice shots for the day, or maybe you just returned from a hunt or archery tournament with bow in hand.  You’re done for today but you don’t want to put your compound bow into storage as you plan to shoot again ...

Person demonstrating bow string maintenance and inspection

7 Maintenance Tips Your Compound Bow Needs

In an age where so many things are disposable it can be confusing to a new archer whether or not their compound bow requires regular maintenance and what that might entail.  After owning compound bows for over 25 years, some of them for many years ...

Old Compound Bows hanging with a grim reaper in foreground

How Long do Compound Bows Last? And 5 Things That Kill Bows

If you’re going to spend your hard earned money on something, you want to have a good idea of how long that THING is going to last.  Compound bows are no different and they are an investment of sorts so knowing the average lifespan of ...

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What Happens If You Dry Fire a Compound Bow? Is It Ruined?

If you’ve never dry fired a compound bow before, consider yourself lucky.  While I’ve been lucky myself and not accidentally done it, I have been around others who have and it can be nerve wracking, a bit scary, and a total bummer.   Dry Firing a ...

Stop Sign Extreme Heat

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 ...