When most of us think “stickbow” we picture the long, D-shaped arc of a longbow. We also think it’s older than the recurve, but that might be a Robin Hood, western-bias thing; Eurasian warriors and ...

Seven flagship compound bows battled it out for three days in the tightest race for the Editor's Choice award we've ever seen ...

When Stephen Ralphs was 5 years old, he was given a copy of “The Adventures of Robin Hood.” Fifty years later, he found himself on Russell Crowe’s farm in Australia giving private archery lessons in ...

The bows of Olympic archery are far from the ones of Robin Hood, Katniss Everdeen, and Clint Barton. In fact, Olympic archers tend to favor bows that the Arrow uses to bring down criminals in Starling ...

Centuries ago, archers were tasked with bringing home dinner. Nowadays, they bring home medals instead. Olympic archers are only allowed to use one type of projectile weapon—not the medieval long bow ...