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Archers have played a key part in warfare and hunting for thousands of years. Primitive bows were made of a single piece of wood, but composite recurve bows were being made from Greece to China as far back as the second millennium BC.

Recurve bows, those with the ends facing the 'wrong way' when unstrung, are more powerful inch for inch in length than one piece wooden bows, which made them more suited to confined conditions such as on horseback, in a chariot or in woodlands.

Bits of composite recurve bows, usually made from horn, have been discovered in many parts of the world. Early arrows were made from naturally straight twigs or pine needles with napped flint tips affixed. Wooden bows did not preserve so well and exemplars are scarce.

It appears that archery was being developed in the early Mesolithic or late Paleolithic Age. Archery was especially well developed in some Islamic countries and in Asia, where Zen Buddhist monks utilized archery as an element of their meditation techniques.

In the first days of archery, there were miscellaneous sentiments about archers. In those days, people battled hand to hand with swords and spears and some of the traditionalists reckoned that archers were cowards because they attacked from a distance out of direct danger. This point is made very clear in 'The Iliad', Homer's account to the siege of Troy.

There are or were many types of bows made to match different fighting or hunting conditions. Some types of bow are the; long bow, short bow, recurve bow, composite recurve bow, reflex bow, decurve bow, deflex bow and crossbow among others.

The longbow was tremendously hard to learn to use and the archer had to have considerable upper-body strength. The bow was often six feet long with a heavy three foot long arrow. The draw weight for utmost power was about a hundred pounds and the use of the bow on a battleground was as long-range artillery.

The heavy arrows and fierce armour-piercing arrow head would rain down on the enemy from a hundred yards or more and penetrate shields and armour as if they did not exist. Shot horizontally, the three-foot arrow could pass through several people.

In fact, the longbow was so essential to the success of Great Britain that a law was passed making it obligatory for men over a particular age to practice with their longbows every Sunday on the village green in order to develop the required skills and upper-body strength in case war came.

The arrows are made to go with the different kinds of bows and the different bows and their specific arrows are suited to different kinds of hunting - whether you are hunting men or animals.

There are essentially two styles of shooting: instinctive shooting, which is very demanding as the archer does not take his eyes off the target, but does not sight down the arrow; and sight shooting where the archer uses sights to align the arrow with its target. Most people find sight shooting simpler.

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