
The Ultimate Guide to Traditional Archery
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The Ultimate Guide to Traditional Archery offers instructions on all facets of traditional archery, from gear to games, methods to masters, and competition to nostalgia. Interspersed with brief histories and tales from archers present and past, The Ultimate Guide to Traditional Archery provides detailed explanations of such subjects as building your own arrows, choosing bowstrings, aiming methods, accurate shooting, and practicing safe archery.
Traditional archery represents the passion of the simple, the elegance of the pure. The Ultimate Guide to Traditional Archery proves it is truly a sport for the ages.
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Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- What Is It about Archery?
- Bending Spoons with Your Mind
- Is It All Relative, Really?
- Naked, Cloned, and Stuck in the Middle
- Get Out of Jail Free?
- All Kidding Aside
- Chapter One: Archery for the Ages
- Maybe We're Special...Maybe We're Not
- Cutting Out Hearts, Smashing Heads
- Harnessing the Power of the Gods
- It Wasn't All Fun and Games
- You've Been Served
- A Man Called Ishi and the Rise of Modern Bowhunting
- Hungry Games
- Chapter Two: Bows of the World
- Archery Foreplay
- Longbows-Meet the Self Bow: "Straight," but Not Simple
- The Recurve Bow-Traditional to Modern
- Understanding the X-Bow
- The Compound Bow: Our Story and We're Sticking with It
- Chapter Three: the Traditional Arrow
- In the Beginning, a Feather
- Fletching
- An Arrow Called Flu-Flu
- Holding On
- Getting the Shaft
- About Port Orford Cedar
- The Footed Shaft
- Ain't All Just "Bubba"
- Issue: "Archer's Paradox"
- Issue: Forward of Center Balance
- Carbon
- Carbon Technical
- About Aluminum-Arrows That Is
- Measuring and Fitting Arrows
- Sexy Bow Tuning-Naked Arrows
- The Worst Subject of All
- The Best Subject of All
- Chapter Four: The Arrowhead
- Early Arrowheads, Early Archers
- Lithic Reduction: Everything Is Possible
- The Spectacular Stones
- About FOC
- Practice Points
- Blunts-Not the Cigars
- Cutting to the Chase-Broadheads
- Options
- So, What Is Traditional?
- A Straight-Shooting Note
- Chapter Five: The Mechanics of Shooting
- Your Dominant Eye
- Steps in Learning to Shoot
- Should You Use a Bow Sling?
- Drawing the String
- Protecting the Draw
- Target Panic and Snap Shooting
- The Force-Draw Curve
- About Kinetic Energy and Momentum
- Sights and Aiming Techniques
- String Walking
- Gap Shooting and Distance Estimation
- Chapter Six: A Dozen Things to Know...And Buy (or Not)
- The Quiver
- String Silencers
- Kisser Button
- The Bow Case
- Arrow Rests and Cushion Plungers
- The Stabilizer
- Targets
- Chapter Seven: Big Game-the Traditional Challenge
- Your Guide, Should You Choose to Accept
- The 15 Percent: About Tipping
- But What If. . .?
- The Biggest and Best
- Deer
- Black Bears
- Pronghorn
- Elk
- Caribou
- Other Hunting Challenges
- Africa The PH
- The IUCN and You
- Chapter Eight: So, Now What? Competition
- Archery Shooter's Association (ASA
- www.asaarchery.com)
- International Bowhunting Organization (IBO
- www.ibo.net)
- National Field Archery Association (NFAA
- www.nfaaarchery.org)
- A Note about the IFAA
- Glossary
- Index
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