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 ...

What if I told you you could have a compound bow that shoots over 320 fps, has several flagship features, shoots tight groups at 50 yards, and costs less than $600? You’d say I’m crazy, right? Meet ...

Bear didn't hunt deer with a bow until he was 29 years old. Other archers in his home state of Michigan also got a late start. Archery hunting for deer wasn't legalized there until 1937, when fewer ...

This story, “Fred Bear at 80,” was published in the March 1982 issue of Outdoor Life. In the early 1940s a seemingly insignificant event took place. A man from New York, who worked for the Corning ...

Left handed compound bows are much easier to find today than they were 15 years ago. Many brands—like Hoyt, Mathews, and Bowtech—have started building lefty models of every new bow introduced, which ...

I couldn’t even begin to guess how many different bows I’ve shot over the years. Let’s just say it’s a bunch and leave it at that. I do know this with absolute certainty: The best compound bows of ...

LeFLORE COUNTY, Okla. -- Years of training and persistence paid off for an Oklahoma hunter after he harvested a 300-pound black bear using a primitive bow, string, arrow and stone point earlier this ...

I'm looking for a good entry level/solid bow to do some target practice at a local archery club. The local bow dealer suggested the Bear Encounter Bow as a good bow that would work for my height. I'm ...

CRAWFORD COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- For the first time in its seven-year history, Fred Bear Day in Crawford County hosted two 21 whistling arrow salutes on Sunday. Fred Bear Day Vice President Tom ...

Imagine being alone in the woods, hunting with a primitive longbow when a nearly 700-pound black bear walks toward you. That happened to a Bedford County archer on Oct. 28 who was hoping he would see ...