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What is archery? Archery is a multifaceted sport. There's no way that I can start with
one particular thing. I can just tell you that archery is used for recreation, what
we call backyard archery. It's used for competition. At very high levels it's used for hunting
in order to keep the deer herds at a reasonable level. That's called conservation. It's also
used for fishing. A lot of people don't realize that, but bow fishing is a very big sport.
You can do just about anything with a bow and arrow that would fulfill your need for
hobby or for a passion, a competitive passion. Like I said before, you can do it forever.
You can start it at an early age. My grandson actually shoots and he's been shooting since
he's four years old. Okay. And I've known people to be still active in archery at 90
years old. So it's one of the few sports that is considered a lifetime sport.
Where it started, amazingly enough, some of the first depictions of archery were written
on caves by the cavemen. It's developed over the years to a certain extent, but not so
much that you don't recognize the same bow and arrows that were used thousands of years
ago as the same bows and arrows that are used today.
In modern times though, the bow has made a transformation. It's become more mechanical.
And I think during the series, we're going to be showing you a comparison between the
basic recurve bow and the new technology of the compound bow.