Sports Equipment

The compound bow was first introduced by a man named Holless Wilbur Allen.  It was in the year 1967 in the state of Missouri and for obvious reasons it became popular immediately.  The limbs of a compound bow are a lot tighter than the recurve or longbow which makes the compound boy more efficient than any of the other bows.

The compound bow uses a series of levering systems that gives the user an added edge.  These levers usually consist of cables and pulley that help to bend the string and give the archer the utmost power for his musculature exertion.  The compound bow has been a hunter’s best friend since 1967 and will continue to be until there is no more game left in the wild.

There are tons of advantages to the compound bow over other bows.  The biggest advantage is the power that you can achieve with a compound bow.  When the bow is drawn, the weight increases drastically at the peak and then it flies.  When the bow flies there is 65 to 85 percent of the force still retained.  There is one company that claims 99 percent of the force retained by their compound bows.  This is unheard of in a regular bow where the friction caused by the hand to the string will usually resolve itself by diminishing the power that is available to the bow.  Therefore, the impact of the compound bow is way more and it can penetrate where other bows will not try.

A compound bow is a modern bow that uses a levering system, usually of cables and pulleys, to bend the limbs.

The limbs of a compound bow are usually much stiffer than those of a recurve bow or longbow. This limb stiffness makes the compound bow more energy efficient than other bows, but the limbs are too stiff to be drawn comfortably with a string attached directly to them. The compound bow has the string attached to the pulleys, one or both of which has one or more cables attached to the opposite limb. When the string is drawn back, the string causes the pulleys to turn. This causes the pulleys to pull the cables, which in turn causes the limbs to bend and thus store energy.