As a female archer, you may face specific challenges. Here are some tips and recommendations to help you overcome them ¹:

• Upper body strength: You can improve this by practicing proper drawing techniques and strengthening your core and back muscles.
• Bow size: A bow size between 54-62 inches is ideal for women. It provides stability, accuracy, and comfort.
• Draw weight: A draw weight between 15-30 pounds is recommended for beginners. You can increase it as your strength and skill improve.
• Riser material: Wood, aluminum alloy, or carbon risers are available. Wood risers offer aesthetics and charm, while metal materials provide durability and stability.
• Bow type: You can choose between one-piece and takedown recurve bows. Takedown bows are versatile and portable.
• Accessories: Ensure that your bow includes necessary accessories like sights, arrow rests, and string silencers.

Here are some bow recommendations for women beginners ¹:

• Samick Sage: It's an excellent choice for beginners due to its lightweight design and 35-pound pull strength.
• KESHES 62-inch Takedown Recurve Bow: It's versatile, portable, and offers adjustable sights for precision.
• Cabelas Warden 62″: It's easy to use and assembles effortlessly.
• SAS Courage 60″: It's user-friendly and offers a customizable design.
• Hoyt Satori and Samick Sage Archery Takedown Recurve Bow: They offer a wide range of limbs to choose from, making customization easier.

Read this article for more information. Best Archery and Hunting Recurve Bow For Women (2024)

 

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As a female archer, you may face specific challenges. Here are some tips and recommendations to help you overcome them ¹:

• Upper body strength: You can improve this by practicing proper drawing techniques and strengthening your core and back muscles.
• Bow size: A bow size between 54-62 inches is ideal for women. It provides stability, accuracy, and comfort.
• Draw weight: A draw weight between 15-30 pounds is recommended for beginners. You can increase it as your strength and skill improve.
• Riser material: Wood, aluminum alloy, or carbon risers are available. Wood risers offer aesthetics and charm, while metal materials provide durability and stability.
• Bow type: You can choose between one-piece and takedown recurve bows. Takedown bows are versatile and portable.
• Accessories: Ensure that your bow includes necessary accessories like sights, arrow rests, and string silencers.

Here are some bow recommendations for women beginners ¹:

• Samick Sage: It's an excellent choice for beginners due to its lightweight design and 35-pound pull strength.
• KESHES 62-inch Takedown Recurve Bow: It's versatile, portable, and offers adjustable sights for precision.
• Cabelas Warden 62″: It's easy to use and assembles effortlessly.
• SAS Courage 60″: It's user-friendly and offers a customizable design.
• Hoyt Satori and Samick Sage Archery Takedown Recurve Bow: They offer a wide range of limbs to choose from, making customization easier.

Read this article for more information. Best Archery and Hunting Recurve Bow For Women (2024)

This entire post looks AI generated to me.

Also, what’s with the “Kroger Feedback Surveys” at the end of the OP?

 

Compound or traditional? I have fod in my experience of setting women up, the average woman will pull a max of 40 to 50# at the most with a compound. There are many women's bows that will do this and less. Your first stop is a real pro shop, not some box store. They can give you good advice and hands on.

 

Proper draw technique.
front arm up about chin high straight or almost straight. This helps set the front shoulder down and will help avoid pulling with arms and wrists.
Back elbow again about chin high wrist flat. I find a horizontal hand helps avoid a bent wrist.
Use bands to develop good technique and keep bow poundage
low. It should seem overly easy to start and weight until you notice a very slight difficulty. Work that then slow ever say couple of weeks add a bit. Somedays it may seem harder than others don’t rush it.
Example of draw would be make 2 fist place knuckles together, arms, parallel to the ground now try to pull both elbows back behind you. This should be use most your back muscles and a little of the back the biceps.

 

If a compound bow, set it at a low draw weight and work up when you can draw and hold for several seconds. A shop owner said that is the best way to build strength.

 

If you're looking for a compound bow what we've seen women like the are. Elite Ember, Mathew Switch, Bowtech Carbon Rose, on the higher end scale Eva Shockey gen 3, Mathews Image. Find a shop and shoot a few different ones.

 

My wife did try the bowtech carbon rose and liked it, honestly thought it looked nice too but all those bows will send an arrow down the range.

 

Find yourself a USA Archery certified instructor in your area. If you want to PM me your general location, I'll try and find someone.

 

This link came up on another thread: Carbon Knockout - Diamond Archery

 

Budget, type of bow, (compound etc) use(target?)? Need a little more info for peeps to give good advice.

I have a 14YO daughter who shoots, can give plenty of advice with more info.

 

We are going to need more info to give any proper answers.

1) traditional or compound?
2) hunting,target,both ?
3) how tall are you?
4) draw weight your currently struggling with?

Answering those questions should get the ball rolling. One thing you don't want to do is start with a bow that doesn't fit you. You will have a much better experience and gain confidence faster if the bow fits you. And you won't learn bad habits or form.

 

If shooting compounds my wife has shot a mathews mission for years and due to it's adjustablity we were able to increase the poundage as got more confidence. The key might be an adjustable bow that feels good to you when you shoot it, might need to talk to a local archery shop as there newer bows adjustable like the mathews missions. Good luck!

 

The mathews prima goes all the way down to 21" dl with 2 length options so the shorter draw women can still keep a bit of speed. My wife has the prima in 40# at a 22.5" dl