Bow Bootcamp: How to Set Up a Compound Bow for Hunting Season Bow Bootcamp is a 10-part series designed to get you, your equipment, and your skills in peak shape ahead of the first fall seasons.

*Cocking the crossbow: Crossbows have a much heavier draw weight for their strings to generate the same kinetic energy into the release of their arrows as compound bows.

The long and recurve bows relied on the sheer power of the archer to pull the bow string which bent the limbs. After releasing the bow string the limbs straightened launching the arrow. The feature of ...

The ultimate compound bow for whitetail deer hunters does exist. You just have to be willing to shell out the cash in order to build it.