On Target WITH NEWSPAPERS IN EDUCATION: AN INTRODUCTION TO

In partnership with the Missouri Department of Conservation, Newspapers in Education is exploring archery. Archery is a sport that does not discriminate based on athletic skill, gender, size or academic ability. It’s open to everyone!

Through archery, students learn focus, discipline, patience and the life lessons required to be successful in the classroom and in life. Using both print and online resources, find the definitions to the key terms below as they relate to archery.

• Aim • Cant • Full-draw • Anchor • Cast • Group • Arm Guard • Center serving • Laminated bow • rest • • Let down • Back • • Limb • Bare bow • Crest • Nock • Blunt tip • Draw • Nock locator • Bow • Draw weight • • Bow sight • End • Serving • Bow square • • Stabilizer • Bow stringer • Finger Sling • Toxophilite • Brace height • /Fletch • Tune • Broadhead • Flu-Flu • Vane • Butt • Follow-through • Windage On Target WITH NEWSPAPERS IN EDUCATION: AN INTRODUCTION TO ARCHERY

In partnership with the Missouri Department of Conservation, Newspapers in Education is exploring archery. Archery is a sport that does not discriminate based on athletic skill, gender, size or academic ability. It’s open to everyone!

ANSWER KEY

Aim: Any method used Bow square: A “T” Crest: The colored bands Follow-through: Main- Recurve bow: A bow to point the arrow in the shaped device used to around the shaft of an taining the motion of the with limbs that bend away directions you want it to go. measure brace height and arrow, which aid in upper body muscles after from the archer when for placing nock locaters. its identification. releasing the string. the bow is held in the Anchor: Consistent place- shooting position ment of the drawing hand Bow stringer: A device Draw: To pull the bow Full-draw: The position of to a position on the face, used to string a bow safely. string back. Also the the archer when the bow- Serving: The wrapping of mouth or jaw. distance the string has been draw to the material around the loops Brace height: The dis- is pulled back. anchor point. and center of the bowstring Arm Guard: A piece of tance between the pivot to protect it from wear. stiff material such as leath- point to the string when Draw weight: The weight, Group: To shoot in er used to protect the bow the bow is strung. measured in pounds, used a pattern, or the pattern of Stabilizer: A rod attached arm of the bowstring upon to bring the bow to full the arrows in the target. to the handle riser. Usually release. It is worn on the Broadhead: A sharp, razor draw. Also the weight on has a weight on the end inside of the forearm of the blade arrow point used for a bow, using 28 inches to Laminated bow: A bow of the rod. Absorbs the bow arm. hunting front of bow as the stan- made of several layers of vibration of the bow when dard draw length. material glued together, the string is released. Arrow rest: The horizontal Butt: Any backstop to usually two layers of fiber- projection on the bow upon which a target face is End: A set number of glass and a hard- Toxophilite: A lover of the which the arrow lies. attached. arrows that are shot before wood core. bow: an archer. going to the target to score Back: The side of the bow Cant: To tilt the bow left or and retrieve them. Let down: Returning from Tune: To adjust the vari- away from the bowstring. right while at full draw. full draw to the undrawn ables in the bow and Finger Tab: A flat piece position with control and arrow system to achieve Bare bow: A style of Cast: The ability of a bow of smooth material, which not releasing the string. the best arrow flight shooting – without to propel an arrow at a protects the fingers of the and arrow groups. a bow sight. given distance. drawing hand. Limb: Upper or lower part of the bow that bends Vane: Any fletching made Blunt tip: An arrow Center serving: The Finger Sling: A small when the string is drawn of a material other than point usually made of material is the center of the strap that attaches to the back. The part of the bow feathers, usually plastic. rubber and used in some bowstring where the arrow thumb and index finger of where the energy is stored. archery activities. is nocked. Protects the the bow hand. Windage: The left- string from wear. Nock: To place the arrow right adjustment of the Bow: A device made of a Fletching/Fletch: The on the string. Also the at- bow sight. piece of flexible material Composite bow: A bow feathers, plastic vanes or tachment to the rear end of with a string connecting made of several materials. other devices attached to an arrow, which is placed the two ends, used to the arrow shaft, which sta- on the bowstring and holds propel an arrow. Compound bow: A hand- bilize the flight of an arrow. the arrow on the string. held, hand-drawn bow Bow sight: A mechanical that uses a pair of cables Flu-Flu: An arrow with Nock locator: The mark or device placed on the bow, and wheels to store large untrimmed feathers, device that indicates where which the archer uses for more energy. which restrict the distance the arrow is to be placed aiming at the target. it will travel; used for shoot- on the string. ing aerial targets.