Archery is an ancient sport that is really making use of modern technology. In the early 1900s, archers used wooden bows with a string.

Among traditional archers, the use of long bows versus recurve bows is about 50/50 depending on which event he attends, he said. He feels the basic stick and string is the truest form of archery.

The Cloverdale Traditional Archery Nationals was held June 9th and 10th at Cloverdale. The archery event is for traditional shooting; otherwise you can only shoot a long bow or recurve ...

We use recurve bows, as used in the Olympics, with no sight attached. To take aim we close one eye, and line up the tip of the arrow with the target.

Archery: That's another string to my bow Julian Rollins sets his sights on a grizzly bear – and finds that archers are not just merry men in tights.