My first bow was a fiberglass recurve that I found in my grandparent’s attic. It would barely stick arrows into the target, but you couldn’t pry that thing from my grimy five-year-old hands. Youth ...

For the past 15 years, I've been fortunate to test most new-for-the-year compound bows. I've seen fantastic innovations during that testing tenure, from carbon risers to rubber strips separating eight ...

The performance gap between compound bows and new crossbows seems to be widening exponentially. In the last few years of crossbow testing, we reviewed bows — the Ravin R500, Tenpoint Nitro 505, and ...

As good as modern-day compound bows have become, they just keep getting better. The 2025 bow class is the best I've ever tested, and I've been testing bows for more than 20 years. From short- to ...