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introducing my son to archery

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This book is an easy read, about three hours from front to cover in a single sitting. The descriptions are easy to understand and appropriately simple; it makes sense at the reading, and even more sense at the range. I purchased this book in preparation to introducing my son to traditional archery while on Vacation in Montana. We were fortunate enough to not only find an extremely helpful archery store, but one of their customers agreed to coach my son for about an hour on the range. Everything he shared with my son was in the book. When we left the store Zane Smith recommended next training steps, again in this book. This is not an advanced concepts book, though the bow tuning of arrows seems advanced to me, but hey I'm a rookie, right? In a few weeks time my son should be in position to start working on the accuracy exercises in this text, and I am very much looking forward to see how they improve his accuracy as at 10yrds his arrows are already nicely bunched, just not in the center of the target. I would highly recommend this as an introductory text to traditional bow hunting for anyone interested in taking up this fun and challenging sport. This book has already kept a supportive father from spoiling his son's experience.

Long Bows & Recurves	Customer Rating:
In 1943 when I bought my first bow, I had a teacher that taught me basics. I moved from a yew long bow to recurves in the late 1950's and then archery went to compound bows, and to my taste, archery lost at least some of its tradition. My 52 year old son decided he wanted to learn again. I gave hime this book and a bow. For beginners it is a good place to start.

Useful and Well Written

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This book provides some very useful information that will help you get started in traditional archery the right way, while avoiding common mistakes that could end an excellent pastime prematurely. Mr. Thomas' writing style is very easy to read and comprehend. He is quite skillful at making the various issues addressed in this book understandable. I would recommend this book to anyone getting into or thinking of getting into traditional archery.

Concise and usable	Customer Rating:
This book packs essential information into a small, readable package. I agree with L Day's review, but don't understand why Day only gave it two stars!

Just what I wanted...	Customer Rating:
I'm a new person to archery and this book was just perfect. It had photo's and detailed everything I need to learn as well as what I needed to purchase. I would recommend it to anyone who's just starting out. Very good and easy to read!