Advice for a newbie

ec18

What sort of equipment should I look at for a beginner?

toxof

Best advice is none...

Join a club and do the beginners course. Then the club members will be able to advise you what to buy.

They will get you to start on a wooden bow and after a month or so you will progress.

ec18

One thing i was concerned about with a wooden bow is the force required to draw it...as i have a bad elbow i thought a compund bow might be better as it would put less stress and pressure on my elbow

toxof

A beginer wooden bow will be very easy to pull back. So dont worry about the force. If you do a beginers course for a few weeks and use the wooden recurve bow they supply to get the basics then you can talk to the club members about your interest in compound.

There is no point buying any equipment before you have completed a beginners course. So many people have gone out and bought 1000+ euro's worth of gear only to never shoot it again.

Where are you from. If you go to http://archery.ie/clubs.html you will get a list of all the Target clubs in Ireland. They will give you the information on beginners courses.

Dont get a wooden recurve (20-50lbs) mixed up with a wooden long bow (50-100lbs)
Long bows are hard to draw back!

ec18

Think i had the 2 of them mixed up...thanks