Sam Deojay is a longtime handyman, so when his son broke the longbow he’d been using to practice archery, he figured, “I’ve got enough wood, I’ll make one. How hard can it be?” He found out just how ...

Jamie McDonald, of Powell River, B.C. has been making longbows in the traditional style for the past nine years. McDonald uses Pacific yew trees to construct his bows, and has gained a reputation as ...

SCHULTER -- Inside every bois d'arc tree, a longbow is waiting to emerge. Knowing how to craft one is easy compared with coaxing the bow out of the tree, says Mike Berryhill, a Muscogee (Creek) Indian ...

Grayvn Traditional Archery owner Ned Miller works on a hickory longbow in his Altoona workshop. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski Creating bows found nowhere else has been the key to success for an ...

The tool of choice for most bowhunters is a modern marvel. It’s highly engineered, supremely efficient, and forged from ­aluminum, carbon, steel, and computer-aided algorithms. And then there are the ...

When a U.S. soldier at Camp Cuervo in Baghdad, Iraq, put out a request for donations of traditional archery equipment for his unit, the Michigan Longbow Association could have easily sent over a few ...