Want to go back in history? You can try your hand at making a bow and arrow then. If hunting and archery are your favorite hobbies, make your very own bows and arrows and impress your friends and family.

Archery is about striking a target with an arrow shot from a bow. The bow can either be an upright bow or a crossbow, although most people think of upright bows when they hear the term 'archery'. Within the sport or hobby of target archery, there are two kinds: target archery and field archery. The champion is the archer with the highest combined score of his arrows that struck the target.

We are all being advised to get out more frequently, so many people are looking for a motive for doing it. You could choose a spectator sport like football, but that is not really going to do your body much good, you ought to be looking for a participation sport.

Archery played a large part in human daily life for thousands of years from prehistoric times until about 1750, when the gun started to replace it for hunting and warfare very quickly. Societies all over Europe, north Africa, like Egypt, Persia (Iran), India, China and Japan remember their greatest archers. I am sure that other countries do too.

Archery fishing is also known as bow fishing and it is as old as the bow and arrow themselves. We in the West tend to think that only poorer tribesmen in Third World countries go bow fishing, but that is not quite true.