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movement of the arrow towards the riser on release, bringing the arrow to the ideal "centre shot" location. The plunger button is used to compensate for the arrow's flex since the arrow flexes as the string pushes onto it with a very high acceleration. The device is also known as a cushion plunger, pressure button, or Berger button.
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a fine-tuning device consisting of a spring-cushioned tip inside a housing. The plunger button screws through the riser so that the tip emerges above the rest. The side of the arrow is in contact with the tip when the arrow is on the rest. The spring is tuned so that it allows a certain amount of
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Hepworth and Smith in 2002 of a preparation manufactured from bovine tendon and
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Archery Equipment', in M.C. Bishop (ed.), The Production and Distribution of Roman Military Equipment. Proceedings of the Second Roman Military Equipment Seminar, BAR International Series 275, Oxford, 1985,
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Olympic Games include the compound bow in competition, due to its framework technology being more available and widespread, which would make competitive stat-tracking and testing easier.
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a button or nodule attached to the bowstring. The archer touches the kisser to the same spot on the face each time (usually the lips, hence the name) to give a consistent vertical reference.
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European countries because the laminate glue would not moisten and thereby lose its adhesive power; the all-wooden straight
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Manufacture in Chengtu", Soochow University Journal of Chinese Art History, July 1981 pp. 143–216
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Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, no. 1 (1943): 46-85. Accessed January 7, 2021.
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Hepworth, D.G.; Smith, J.P. (2002). "The mechanical properties of composites manufactured from tendon fibres and pearl glue (Animal glue)".
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The standard weapon of Roman imperial archers was a composite recurve, and the stiffening laths (also called siyah in Arabic/Asian bows and
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and used in traditional Asiatic recurve bows showed that the composite "was found to absorb 18 MJ/m of energy to failure, comparable to
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223:Adam Clarke
120:Panticapeum
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1197:Bowhunting
1192:Bowfishing
1185:Activities
1176:Thumb ring
1141:Finger tab
1073:Mongol bow
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581:References
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1038:Crossbow
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338:Olympics
254:Ottomans
232:Penelope
216:Psalm 78
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1053:Gakgung
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926:Turkish
916:Chinese
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1243:Youth
1109:Arrow
479:Sling
465:Riser
445:Limbs
415:Belly
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228:Homer
194:Turks
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112:Kerch
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