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Recurve Bow vs Compound Bow what’s more accurate? #bow #compoundbow #recurvebow

😊 recurve bow vs compound bow which is the best? Which is more accurate?

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  1. Another thing to comprehend, is on a recurve, the energy is released to the arrow, immediately after release. Whereas, the energy of a compound, is released and is accelerated once the arrow is moving. Use your high speed camera from above and check the arrow’s mystical flight, from each bow. The archer’s paradox, will most likely be different.

  5. At least for the shot sequences you showed, you had no follow through with the release aid, while you had some with the fingers release, in one of two instances. Shooting a release aid without follow through means you shot it wrong. It was not a subconscious back tension release.

  6. I am also calling BS that a recurve, even one with all the usual bells a whistles, say a 500 dollar metal riser, is more accurate than a compound. I could buy as accurate, but more accurate is not possible. The reason it is not possible is because recurves use archer's paradox to avoid the fact their risers are not true centershot. This creates a lot of variables that have to be carefully tuned, and means that those variable respond more sensitively to variations in the conditions of release.

    If for some reason one wanted to go back to stick bows, but otherwise use all the advantages of sights, releases and fall away rest, which is a pretty sensible approach, but nobody really does it. Then even then compounds have the advantage of the softer start of the push on the arrow.

  7. Not true. Compound lock time is a minor issue in improved accuracy. You can clearly see that the compound has sights, probably a peep, probably an advanced rest. There are many factors that make them shoot more accurately when held by a human.

    Probably the most significant factor is the release aid. These existed before compounds came along. But compound shooters almost universally use them now that typical compounds are so short. What they do is make the release a lot smoother and easier, but their actual super power is not as well understood.

    Accurate shooting requires three simultaneous points of concentration. One can only execute on one thing at a time. This isn't just, say, awkward, it causes massive brain misfires that fall under the umbrella of "target panic". Similar to yipps in golf. These three things are: Sighting; holding and pulling through the shot; and releasing.

    You can't really drop holding you have to pull through the shot. So, one needs to drop sighting and releasing. Sighting, particularly using mechanical sights, can be handed off to the eye's inherent tendency to either center objects in a line, or center objects so they transmit more light. Releasing is a toughie. Release aids make the shot occur as a result of pulling through the shot. Now all you have to do is pull consistently through the shot until the bow "goes off". This needs not only to happen, but to happen in a fashion where it can't be anticipated. A true surprise break. And that is what properly set up release aids do.

    Of course, one can shoot a recurve with a release aid also, but I don't believe that there is currently any form of competitive archery, or hunting style, where release aids are used. There are clickers, that sorta do the same thing. But they are rarely used on traditional bows. And are nowhere near as effective as release aids at doing what they do.

    This might seem like a small issue, but it is nearly the whole issue into which archery mastery is tied up.

    Release aids have one more super power, they create a straight line release of the nock without the sideways steering a fingers release causes. This eliminates archer's paradox, and makes the sellection of arrows for correct spine a lot easier. Traditionally spine was a huge tuning issue, and cost, in setting up a bow. When mechanically releases are used one can't shoot too lightly a spined arrow, but one can shoot any degree of over spine one might desire.

    That said there are so many ways in which the technologies that we lump together as "compound bow" inherent, are more shootable than recurve/stickbow technologies. All the while compound bows maintain the essential aspects of archery in a way that crossbows do not.

  11. Back when i took archery lessons, i was taught that the recurve bow is very accurate, is just that the accuracy is reduced a lot by the archer, while compound bows are much more forgiving for the archer

  13. Hey, in almost all you videos recently, the sound is unbalanced (slightly louder in the left ear) which is a tad uncomfortable. Is there any way you can look into it ?

  14. Yeah gonna call bs on the recurve being more accurate. They both have the same amount of accuracy if you run them through a hooter shooter.

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