My first bow was a fiberglass recurve that I found in my grandparent’s attic. It would barely stick arrows into the target, but you couldn’t pry that thing from my grimy five-year-old hands. Youth ...

The truth is, you could grab any of the new flagship bows and be successful. But the goal of the Outdoor Life bow test is to determine which of the many good bows out there is the best. To do that we ...

For the past 15 years, I've been fortunate to test most new-for-the-year compound bows. I've seen fantastic innovations during that testing tenure, from carbon risers to rubber strips separating eight ...

I still remember the first compound bow I ever saw. My dad and I belonged to an archery club in Wisconsin in the early 1970s, and everyone there shot recurves. But my dad’s cousin Howard was visiting ...