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wrap (equipment) – A piece of adhesive-backed plastic film wrapped around an arrow slightly ahead of the nock. Some archers choose to attach wraps before fletching arrows in order to protect the shaft from the adhesives used for fletching, which may be more harmful to shafts than those used in the wraps.
Traditional target arrow (top) and replica medieval arrow (bottom) Modern arrow with plastic fletchings and nock An arrow is a fin-stabilized projectile launched by a bow.A typical arrow usually consists of a long, stiff, straight shaft with a weighty (and usually sharp and pointed) arrowhead attached to the front end, multiple fin-like stabilizers called fletchings mounted near the rear, and ...
'Pyeonjeon', (aka "(편전)", "Junjun") or aegisal ("애기살" or "baby arrow" or sometimes "mini-arrow") is a short arrow or bolt, shot using a longer bamboo arrow guide called the tongah in Korean archery. The tongah (aka "Tong-ah") allows one to draw a short arrow at a full draw length with a full sized bow, it is an overdraw device.
A style used by medieval English longbowmen and several other cultures, an arrow bag is a simple drawstring cloth sack with a leather spacer at the top to keep the arrows divided. When not in use, the drawstring could be closed, completely covering the arrows so as to protect them from rain and dirt.
Typical arrows with three vanes should be oriented such that a single vane, the "cock feather", is pointing away from the bow, to improve the clearance of the arrow as it passes the arrow rest. A compound bow is fitted with a special type of arrow rest, known as a launcher, and the arrow is usually loaded with the cock feather/vane pointed ...
A bow draw in archery is the method or technique of pulling back the bowstring [1] to store energy for the bow to shoot an arrow. The most common method [citation needed] in modern target archery is the Mediterranean draw, which has long been the usual method in European archery. Other methods include the pinch draw and the Mongolian or "thumb ...