I need some help with archery equipment?
Renargaede asked:
I’m gonna be starting archery soon and pretty much I would like to know the best brands of both bows and arrows. I’m not in to all the sights and attachments I prefer traditional bows. So if anyone who can tell me what’s the best both economically and endurance wise your help will be greatly appreciated.
I’m gonna be starting archery soon and pretty much I would like to know the best brands of both bows and arrows. I’m not in to all the sights and attachments I prefer traditional bows. So if anyone who can tell me what’s the best both economically and endurance wise your help will be greatly appreciated.
archerdude posted: 21 Mar at 9:45 am
Since there are so many bows being made for so many different “applications”, there really is no “best” bow anymore. There are, however, “best bows for this-or-that use”.
The most well known brands of “traditional” bow, both for price and quality (which includes “endurance”) are probably Bear, Hoyt, Martin, Black Widow, Howard Hill. Of course, this is not an exhaustive list. There are also many custom bowyers who make bows of excellent quality.
Where arrows are concerned, it depends a great deal on what you want the arrow to “do” — Is it a “flight” arrow, a target arrow, a hunting arrow, or something in between? What type of bow is it going to be used with? Some copanies make better shafting of one particular material than others, while other companies make better points, etc. Most arrows are built using items from several different companies, and one arrow maker often uses items another doesn’t, so it’s very hard to know which arrow is the “best”.
Easton makes some very good aluminum and carbon-fiber shafting, and Carbon Express makes good carbon-fiber shafting, as does Beman. Rose City Archery makes good cedar shafting and arrows, as does Kustom King Archery (not shafting, but completed arrows). There are other companies which make shafting and completed arrows. As with bows, there are many custom shops where shafting and completed arrows of excellent quality are available.
Carbon-fiber shafting is stronger and lighter in weight, and will tend to last longer, than wood shafting of a comparable “stiffness”. But while carbon-fiber shafting is often less expensive than wood shafting, completed carbon-fiber arrows can be more expensive because they tend to require more expensive nocks, points, point adapters, etc than wood-shafted arrows. And when a carbon-fiber shaft is bent (even if only a tiny bit) or broken, it cannot be repaired.
To find out which bow or arrow is “the best”, you need to first decide what kind of archery you will be doing: Will it be target, flight or hunting? Then you need to go try some bows and various arrow builds (one arrow build might be “best” for “this bow”, but another will be “best” for “that bow” - even if both bows are the same brand/model).
targetbutt posted: 22 Mar at 8:24 pm
Just like to add to Archerdude’s excellent answer, that if you want economical, then it will limit your selection of bow a bit. These days, hoyt’s so called traditional bows aren’t really that traditional looking, and they’re expensive, that is if you buy new. There are still some used original Hoyt, made by the legendary Earl Hoyt. You see the new Hoyt’s are really made by Easton. Black Widows are also expensive bows. So, keep it to the Martins, Bears or Samick.
Also, depending on what you want to do, some traditional shoots will limit you to wooden arrows only. So like Archerdude said, first find out what you want to do. It’ll be a shame to buy a set of aluminum arrows and find out that it’s not allowed.