The difference between a recurve bow and a straight draw bow?

One, the material

Recurve bow blade generally have two materials, a laminated fiberglass, a carbon fiber; recurve bow beginners bow handle for walnut, training competition for carbon aluminum alloy; straight draw bow material is much simpler, bow blade for plastic wood, bow handle using cast aluminum.

Second, the power of the bow blade

The main difference between a straight bow and a recurve bow is in the bow blade. The recurve, as the name suggests, is the bow blade that tightens the bowstring in the opposite direction of its natural curvature, and utilizes the elasticity of the curvature to provide the power of the arrow. A straight draw bow, on the other hand, has a bow blade that tightens the bowstring in the direction of the blade's natural curvature.

Three, applicable occasions

Reverse bow in the Olympic Games and other major events in the archery program; straight bow for tourist attractions, parks, resorts, fishing centers, farms and other recreation, entertainment and leisure places to choose.

Four, price

Recurve bow price because of production costs and other reasons, imported recurve bows to a minimum of more than a thousand, up to nine thousand dollars or so, now the domestic production of recurve bows, but the price of more than seven, eight hundred dollars up and down; the price of the straight bow in the price of two, three hundred dollars or so.

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Expanded information:

There are three main types of bows. Bows are divided into three main categories, traditional bows, modern recurve bows, and modern compound bows.

1, traditional bow

In the three kinds of bows in the traditional bow on the slowest, a lot of techniques, and riding shot can only be a traditional bow, because riding on the horse with only one hand string can only be shot on one side, the other side of the enemy or the target, you must change the hand string, the traditional bow is not divided into left and right hand, can be left and right open bow. The shooting speed of the traditional bow is the fastest, especially the Mongolian-style ball arrows, someone recorded video of his highest shooting speed is 4.9 seconds 10 arrows.

2, modern compound bow

The fastest way to get started, high precision, high power, have a target, pull to see the target to pull the trigger of the spreader on the line. Powerful so also dangerous, other bows are not as powerful as the compound bow, so what arrow shaft can be used, and do not worry about burst arrows. And compound bow shooting speed is also slow, if the traditional bow is a submachine gun, compound bow is a sniper rifle.

Compound bows are relatively complex because of their many parts, and maintenance is also a bit of a hassle. Compound bow if just hit the target, there is no fun, accurate is the bow, not technology, hit more than no fun.

3, modern recurve

Divided into hunting recurve and competitive recurve, competitive recurve is more expensive than hunting recurve, competitive recurve has a target, but the accuracy is not as good as the compound bow, the pull is also relatively small, and the lethality is also low, and it can only be used for competition. Hunting recurve has a big pull, but there is no sights, to estimate the sights, the two kinds of shooting method is basically common, are Mediterranean-style three-finger string pull.

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