Compound Bows VS Recurve Bows

Archery started nearly 60,000 years ago when primitive humans started to craft bows and arrows. This way of hunting developed over thousands of years to be now turned into a sport, known as Archery.

A compound bow has a pulley at the tip of each limb. This creates a slack effect, which lessens off the string allowing the shooter to take more time to aim as there is less pressure behind his fingers. This function is especially effective for hunting.

Whereas a recurve bow is a more simple design that uses two standard limbs connected to a center body. A compound bow is commonly used for hunting as its slack release and higher poundage creates and effective hunting system that fires the arrow with extreme ease.

A recurve bow is no longer commonly used for hunting and is instead dedicated to competition and target archery. The recurve bow doesn’t use the modern shooting systems the compound does. Instead the recurve uses an age-old system that fires as well as the person can shoot it. Meaning the recurves needs more skill and more technique to fire. A compound bow finely scrapes the line on being a gun. Archery is the skill of shooting arrows with a bow, especially at a target. The Olympic sport of archery is target shooting. In the compound division archers have better scores and the technique is far less. Archers in the recurve division have to be far more accurate as they don't have the power and easy of the compound bow. A compound bow closely resembles that of a gun. Its accuracy and firing style is almost as easy as firing a rifle. Archery is a sport used in the Olympics. A gold medal is handed to the most skilled athlete. The recurve bow is the only bow that proves ones raw technique. The recurve bow is far better for archery than a compound bow.