What is the name of every bow and arrow?

Answer 1

Bow types:

- Takedown recurve, these are given their name because they can be taken apart and reattached, making them very portable. They are recurved. They are often seen with sights and stabilisers. These are used in the Olympics.

- Compound bow, these are small bows that use pulleys to allow for normal draw length, they are nearly always seen with sights and stabilisers. American hunters often use these.

- One-piece recurve, they are recurved. They never use sights and stabilisers. They have an arrow shelf.

- Mongolian/Scythian recurve, these are used mostly by horse-archers. They are recurved. They never use sights and stabilisers. They have no arrow shelf.

- English Longbow, these are given their name because an "official" English Longbow is usually at least 6ft tall. They are D section and thus not recurved. They never use sights and stabilisers. These are used my medieval reenactors.

- American Flatbow, given their name because they have flat limbs. Sometimes wrongly called 'Longbows', they are D section and are therefore not recurved. They never use sights and stabilisers.

Arrows will have different fletchings (feathers on the back), piles (heads) and shafts, the shafts are simply stiffer or more flexible to adapt to the strength of the bow. Arrow types:

Fletchings

- Long fletchings, these increase drag and short range accuracy but reduce range.

- Short fletchings, these reduce drag and are useful for long-range shots, but will not be reliable at short range.

- Flu-flu fletchings, these have a very fluffy look and are designed to massively increase drag for bird shooting, so that misses will not stray far from the perch/tree/rock they are shot at.

Piles

- Field, these are the standard for target shooting and are the most frequently used.

- Hunting, these are used to kill wild game with their triangular heads that cause massive bleeding and cut through vital organs.

- Bodkin, these look like elongated pyramids, and are desinged for piercing armour. In England there is a historical rule that if you bring bodkin arrows to any practice, they must immediately be destroyed as they intended for killing.

- Fishing, these barbed heads are designed to skewer fish and hold onto them, until they are dragged back by the user.