All About Archery!

I’m about to spam with some reblogs in a sec, but it’s this fun Archery Alphabet by juliarchery so I don’t feel too bad haha

Choosing and finding arrows that are just right for you is as much fun as finding the bow! 

Shaft materials range from wood, carbon, aluminum, carbon/aluminum, and fiberglass.

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Finding an arrow that suits your bow is extremely important for accuracy and getting the most out of your set up.

Here are some good reads for help in understanding arrows, but remember it’s good to talk to someone experienced if you can. (Reading is great for familiarizing yourself, but a hands-on how-to definitely helps to understand a bit more!).

Warning, all but one mention “bowhunter” and “hunting” (no hunting pictures); not excessively, just a heads up if you’d rather not read for that reason. They’re all a bit long, but there’s a lot of good info:

Bowhunting with Wood Arrows

Traditional Archery

Choosing arrows

Carbon Arrow University: [x] [x]

Fletchings stabilize the arrow’s flight path and come as either feathers or vanes.

Feathers can either be natural (from a bird) or plastic feathers:

These are better for a traditional bow, they compress as they cross over the riser/shelf so they don’t knock the flight path off course.

Then there’s vanes, solid plastic fletchings. They’re a bit more rigid than feathers and are popular with compounds:

Fletchings (of all kinds) come in different lengths, designs and colors; just like your bow, they’re a lot of fun to customize to your personal tastes!

Points are the end of the arrow pointing toward your target, and there’s a lot of choices for these too depending on what you’re going to be shooting. I won’t list them all but here’s a few you might see in the archery tag:

Field points are solid points for target shooting, they can have a rounded or pointed tip, but do not have blades:

Broadheads are points with blades and come as fixed or mechanical, and are used for hunting:

Other tips used for hunting include: judo tips, stoppers, blunts, and snaros.

Nocks are the end of your arrow that attaches to your string, they come in a variety of colors and designs; some even light up so you can find them in the dark!

Like the bow itself, arrows are like another extension of an archer’s personality and can be just as unique. Have fun and be safe, happy shooting! :)

I like to reblog photos of kids when I see them, just something about a little one with a bow in hand makes you smile you know? Any submissions like that are welcome as well if the parents of the kids are okay with it! :)

Still in personal limbo with job/volunteer related things, original posts have kinda been pushed to the way-side but they will come back when I have the energy to type up a decent post!

Things to come when that happens:

Strings! And what you and your bow are suited for.

Releases/gloves/finger tabs/etc - they each might/probably will get their own post because that’s just a bit more handy haha.

Bow accessories - separate posts again for each one I write about

And more, but the other things I have drafts on are just titles at the moment, with no detail haha. Thanks again for being patient, I apologize for the lack of posts and I’ll try to get back into a regular swing of things when things are set right on my end.