Compound bows (unlike recurve bows, their more mechanically-simple relatives) use a levering system with pulleys and spring tension to grant the user a mechanical advantage. We’re not exactly sure ...

Walk into an archery shop these days and if they don’t have a section devoted to “crossbows,” you’ve entered an historic site. While debates about crossbow vs compound bow and whether/how/when either ...

Like many bowhunters, the number of bows I own keeps increasing as the years pass. I stored them wherever I had extra room: under beds, on bicycle hooks, and in closets. For years I’ve procrastinated, ...

The performance gap between compound bows and new crossbows seems to be widening exponentially. In the last few years of crossbow testing, we reviewed bows — the Ravin R500, Tenpoint Nitro 505, and ...