Learn how to measure draw length at home using the wingspan method, the wall trick, and a measuring arrow — no pro shop or expensive tools required.
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Quick Answer: The recurve vs compound bow decision comes down to how you want to shoot. A recurve bow is simpler, cheaper, more portable, and holds full draw weight in your fingers, which builds form and suits target shooting and traditional archery. A compound bow uses cams and cables to cut holding weight by 65–85%, […]
Sebastian Garcia shoots 719/720 at Mexico’s national trials, 16-year-old Grezzani wins European Indoor barebow gold, NASP state tournaments draw record youth participation, and spring turkey gear arrives.
Draw length measurement is the single spec that makes or breaks your shot. Learn how to measure it accurately, why it matters, and how to dial it in on a compound bow.
Three out of every four wild misses inside thirty yards trace back to one fault: a sloppy archery anchor point. Coaches at Nock On call it the single most decisive piece of form in either style. If your release hand lands in a slightly different spot on every shot, your arrows will too — no […]
Mike Schloesser hit his 12th World Cup individual gold in a shoot-off, Zhu Jingyi backed up her Puebla title, India stunned Korea in the recurve mixed team final, and Türkiye answered a European Championship setback with home-soil compound gold.
The Antalya archery week ended with two stories that will travel further than the venue blurb suggests. Mike Schloesser collected his 10th individual World Cup gold on a windy Saturday, and on Sunday a 17-year-old from Maharashtra and her 25-year-old teammate handed Korea’s reigning Olympic mixed-team duo a 5-1 loss in the gold-medal match. Between […]
USA tops Pan Am medals in Medellín, Williams sets two recurve 50+ world records, Veronica’s Cup opens in Kamnik, and Yankton confirms its 10-event 2026 outdoor slate.
Pan American archery 2026 hit a US-flavored peak in Medellin this week, with Team USA dragging 31 medals out of the Unidad Deportiva Andrés Escobar and Mark Williams pulling two pending world records off the recurve 50+ lines. Across the Atlantic, Slovenia hosted the tenth edition of Veronica’s Cup with the world’s hottest compound shooters […]
Türkiye sweeps both compound titles at Antalya 2026, Bakker wins first major in recurve as Germany claims both team golds, and three world records fall — your full archery week.









