Recurve Bow
Recurve bows are hard hitting, smooth, stable bows perfectly suited for bow hunting, target archery, and stump shooting. They’re easy to shoot and are reasonably priced. Learn with a recurve and you have to shoot it properly or you won't hit a thing, however you will retain a good 85% of what you learn if you decide to switch to a compound, the reverse is not usually true.
Unlike the longbow, the ends of an unstrung recurve bow are curved away from the archer. This allows the strung bow to be more powerful and shorter than the longbow.
An arrow rest is fixed inside the window just below an adjustable, spring-loaded plunger button. It can be adjusted to tune the bow for the correctly matched arrows being shot. For target archery, a sight is fixed to the side of the riser, which can adjusted sideways, to allow for wind, and vertically according to the distance.
Recurve bows are used in archery at the Olympic Games and the Para Olympic Games. Although it appeared in the Olympic Games in 1900, it has only featured on a regularly since 1972.
