Dec 14, 2012 Dec 14, 2012 Updated Jun 12, 2015 COLUMBIA — Recurve bows are ancient history. For nearly 10,000 years, people have used them as hunting implements and weapons. The art of creating an ...

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 ...

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 ...