Quick Answer: A fixed blade broadhead penetrates deeper, holds up against heavy bone, and forgives nothing in your tune. A mechanical broadhead flies like a field point and cuts a wider hole, but loses 2 to 4 inches of penetration on most shots and breaks more often when it hits a scapula. For bone-heavy game […]
A hands-on walkthrough of building your own arrows in 2026 — from reading a spine chart honestly to cutting, fletching, and verifying the finished shaft on the bench.
Bareshaft tuning is the fastest honest read you can get on a compound bow. Strip the fletching off two identical arrows, shoot them next to a fletched group at 10 yards, and the unfletched shaft tells you exactly which way the bow is fighting your form. Paper tuning catches gross errors. Bareshaft tuning catches the […]
NASP’s national finals filled the Daytona Ocean Center this week, USA Archery dropped the 2026 calendar that puts Yankton at the center of the sport from June through October, and the archery world lost Boris Isachenko at 67. The Mathews ARC 30 and ARC 34 also kept generating noise after Mike’s Archery and Extreme Outfitters […]
NASP nationals wrap in Daytona, the NBEF honors Marilyn Bentz, World Archery expands its Development Support Program, and Yankton settles into the 2026 outdoor archery capital seat. Archery Weekly Jun 15-22, 2026.
An arrow is the variable your bow can’t fix. This 2026 guide walks through spine, shaft material, fletching, and FOC so the arrows in your hand actually match the bow on your hip.
Whisker biscuit arrow rest pros, cons, setup and tuning — plus the honest accuracy gap vs drop-away rests every bowhunter should know in 2026.
What actually rides in a serious bowhunter’s pack, what stays in the truck box, and the night-before walk-through that prevents blown opening mornings.
A deer grunt call is the cheapest piece of gear in your pack that can flip a hunt from boring to filled tag in under thirty seconds. Used right, it pulls cruising bucks off the line they were already walking and bends them toward a treestand inside 25 yards — bow range. Used wrong, it […]
Proper bow grip starts with the thumb pad at 45 degrees and stays relaxed through release. 7 rules to stop torque and tighten groups.