Archery Terms/Vocabulary
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- recurve bow
- made of more than one material and is either laminated carbon or fiberglass w/ the tips curving away from the archer
- long bow
- similiar to the recurbe and is made of wood and hand grip and/or grip
- compound bow
- the pulley aids efficiently and are adjustable limbs
- anchor
- the string hand position when the archer is shooting or aiming
- arm guard
- protects arm guard from recoil of bow string
- arrow rest
- the shelft on the bow handle that supports the arrow across the bow
- cock feather
- feather at right angle w/ the nock
- fletching
- three or four feathers on the arrow
- nock
- the slotted end of the arrow into which the bowstring is fitted
- point of aim
- method of aiming. an aiming pt is sighted w/ the arrow
- quiver
- device used for holding arrows
- round
- prescribed number of ends shot at specified distances
- timber
- term used as warning in archery
- shaft
- body of the arrow
- pile
- tip of the arrow