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HOYT: NEW RECURVE GEAR

here is a feeling among many recurve archers that there isn't much new under the sun. The incremental improvements in materials science and computer-aided design have definitely resulted in improvements to a majority of archery equipment, and the continual improvements in quality control and consistency when manufacturing have benefitted the archer and consumer all over the world. But the relatively strict definition of what a recurve bow (or barebow) is means that a lot of the innovation is very tiny and incremental, or might only be valuable to the elite

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