MOUNT VERNON — It didn’t look anything like a bow. A branch, maybe, possibly a piece of firewood. But a bow, no chance. Curt Brisky, however, saw past the rough exterior of the length of Pacific yew ...

The tool of choice for most bowhunters is a modern marvel. It’s highly engineered, supremely efficient, and forged from ­aluminum, carbon, steel and computer-aided algorithms. And then there are the ...

The choice to trade her compound bow for a recurve was a life-changing decision for Ohio bowhunter Beka Garris, and her ...

A combination of beauty and performance has a Mississippi bowyer's traditional bows selling on a national level and some internationally. Will Cocke of Madison said his passion for hunting with ...

The compound bow dominates the world of archery and archery hunting. But once upon a simpler time a bow was a simple weapon constructed of stick and string. Looking over the space aged modern ...

Peter Laffin works on a bow in his workshop in Eureka on Sept. 26. (Casey Kreider photos/Daily Inter Lake) Finished bows hang from a wall in Peter Laffin’s workshop in Eureka on Sept. 26. Peter Laffin ...

Sam Deojay is a longtime handyman, so when his son broke the longbow he’d been using to practice archery, he figured, “I’ve got enough wood, I’ll make one. How hard can it be?” He found out just how ...

Grayvn Traditional Archery owner Ned Miller works on a hickory longbow in his Altoona workshop. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski Creating bows found nowhere else has been the key to success for an ...

Loosing the perfect arrow from a traditional bow creates an intangible feeling of satisfaction and deep connection to a foregone era of bowhunting. And as modern archery continues to incorporate more ...