When the archer commences the draw, mechanical advantage is at its greatest and the bow limbs are only pre-stressed to the strung position ; therefore drawing weight is at a minimum.

When near full draw is reached, the cam has turned to its full extent, the archer has gained mechanical advantage, and the least amount of force needs to be applied to the string to keep the limbs bent.

* Clicker-a blade or wire device fitted to the riser, positioned to drop off the arrow when the archer has reached optimum draw length.

Muzzleloaders have to be manually reloaded after each shot ; a skilled archer could fire multiple arrows faster than most early muskets could be reloaded and fired, although by the mid-18th century, when muzzleloaders became the standard small armament of the military, a well-drilled soldier could fire six rounds in a minute using prepared cartridges in his musket.

The archers then move in lock-step fashion through the hassetsu, each archer standing and shooting one after another at the respective targets, kneeling between each shot, until they have exhausted their supply of arrows ( generally four ).

Seeing courage in the young Connor, after he slayed a spriggan archer, he helped the fellow knight with advice, and even allowed him access to his ring.

There was originally an arrow at Morden Station to match the archer at East Finchley, but this was stolen not long after the station was opened.

Under Brave Bow's tutelage, Roy became a remarkable archer, and, after Brave Bow's death, Roy was adopted by Oliver Queen, the Green Arrow, and became the Green Arrow's sidekick, " Speedy.

Mon Redee Sut Txi sat almost at the dead centre of the field after the ranking round, and drew the 33rd placed archer from Russia in the opening round.

In that round, Chhoden faced Reena Kumari of India, losing to the 43rd-ranked archer in a 7-4 tie-breaker after tying at 134 in the regulation 18 arrows.

In that round, she faced Wu Hui Ju of Chinese Taipei, losing to the 10th-ranked archer in a 9-8 tie-breaker after matching Wu 156-156 in the regulation 18 arrows.

In that round, she faced He Ying of China, losing to the 4th-ranked archer in a 9-8 tie-breaker after tying He at 158 in the regulation 18 arrows.

In that round, she faced 23rd-ranked German archer Anja Hitzler, defeating her 9-8 in a tie-breaker after the first 18 arrows resulted in a tie at 156.

In his first round match against the # 3 ranked archer in the world, he trailed by only one after the first three arrows, but quickly fell behind, though he did well enough to avoid having the lowest score in the knockout round.

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Archer, named after a person proficient in archery-an archer:

Married after the first book to the female archer known as Danielle.

The moshav is named after the Bible ( Genesis 21: 20-21 ): " And God was with the lad, and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

He is nicknamed " Little Li Guang " after Li Guang, a famous general and archer of the Han Dynasty.

In September 1980, after Iraq's invasion of Iran ( Iran-Iraq War ), Iran launched a massive blitzkrieg-style air attack, Operation Kaman-99 ( named after the mythical Persian / Iranian archer Arash Kamangir ), it involving the bombing of hundreds of military bases in Iraq.

Olaberinjo took after his father Akinrere as a wonderful archer who had earned the reputation of killing elephant from a very tender age.

The fourth son of Xiahou Yuan, and trained as a horse archer like his father, he would succeed to the head of Xiahou Yuan's troops after the Battle of Mount Dingjun.

A skilled archer much like her father, her costume and name are modeled after both the fictional Little Red Riding Hood character and possibly Robin Hood.

Other types of compound bows use either ( one or both ) cam shaped or eccentrically mounted pulleys in order to provide a " let off ", such that the archer is not holding against the maximum draw weight of the bow while trying to aim.

And, while Esmeralda is frequently cited as a paragon of purity — this is certainly how Quasimodo sees her — she nonetheless is seen to create her own objectification of the archer captain, Phoebus, that is at odds with reader's informed view of the man.

Ed, a champion archer who earlier lost his nerve while aiming at a deer, again freezes in spite of his clear shot.

In this respect, many kyudo practitioners believe that competition, examination, and any opportunity that places the archer in this uncompromising situation is important, while other practitioners will avoid competitions or examinations of any kind.

The archer starts bringing down the bow while spreading his arms, simultaneously pushing the bow with the left hand and drawing the string with the right, until the arrow is level with the eyebrows.

During normal competition, this process is done with the archers standing, however, the complete shooting procedure includes having the archer kneel in kiza while waiting between each shot.

Early Muslim archers, while being infantry archers without the mobility of horseback archer regiments, proved to be very effective in defending against light and unarmored cavalry attacks.

The more aggressive Samudragupta ( 335 – 380 AD ) is shown as an archer, and holding a battle axe, while Sanskrit verses praise him as an invincible warrior.

The concept of using a shield to cover an archer dates to at least to the writing of Homer's Iliad, where Ajax uses his shield to cover his half-brother Teucer, an archer, while he would " peer round " and shoot arrows.

Having said that, some personality traits are known to carry over between reincarnations: Birgitte is always an archer and always linked to Gaidal Cain, while Lews Therin was noted for his stubbornness and nobility.

Hellstrom tricks the archer superhero Hawkeye into returning her spirit to Earth ; Hawkeye believes he is retrieving his presumed-dead wife, Mockingbird, from the demonic lord Mephisto's realm.

A person who participates in archery is typically known as an " archer " or " bowman ", and one who is fond of or an expert at archery can be referred to as a " toxophilite ".< ref > The noun " toxophilite ", meaning " a lover or devotee of archery, an archer ", is derived from Toxophilus by Roger Ascham —" imaginary proper name invented by Ascham, and hence title of his book ( 1545 ), intended to mean ' lover of the bow '.

A recurve crossbow is a bow that has tips curving away from the archer.

The importance of the longbow in English culture can be seen both in the legends of Robin Hood, where he was increasingly depicted as a master archer, and also in the " Song of the Bow ", a poem from The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

A ground quiver is used for both target shooting or warfare when the archer is firing from a fixed location.

A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for " robbing from the rich and giving to the poor ", assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his " Merry Men ".

Applying sound changes apparent in other Sogdian words and inherent in Indo-European he traces the development of * Suγδa from Skuda, " archer ," as follows: Skuda > * Sukuda by anaptyxis > * Sukuδa > * Sukδa ( syncope ) > * Suγδa ( assimilation ).

Arash, the archer who sacrificed his body by giving all his strength to the arrow that demarcated Iran and Turan, shot his arrow from Mount Damāvand.

Led 7 ships from Thessaly to Troy, he was an archer and killed Paris.

Perhaps one of the most spectacular of these ceremonies took place at the 1992 Barcelona Games, when Paralympic archer Antonio Rebollo ignited the cauldron by shooting a burning arrow over it, which ignited gas rising from the cauldron.

During the Trojan War, Teucer was mainly a great archer, who loosed his shafts from behind the giant shield of his half-brother Ajax the Great.

This is only a generalization and many schools differ on which glove to use for their bows and glove use often varies from archer to archer and school to school.

The practical reasoning for the extra finger on the glove stems from having more surface area available to the archer for the heavier draws.

Resulting from the technique to release the shot, the bow will ( for a practiced archer ) spin in the hand so that the string stops in front of the archer's outer forearm.

The archer steps onto the line from where arrows are shot ( known as the shai ) and turns to face the kamiza, so that the left side of his body faces the target.

Practically this posture is to prevent the strings of the hakama from being clipped by the bowstring during shooting as well as ensuring the back of the archer is very straight, which, in turn, prevents the bowstring from striking the archer's face when shooting.

The arms were chosen to symbolize Einar Tambarskjelve, who was a famous chief and archer from Melhus in the 11th century.

The maximum distance the string could be displaced and thus the longest arrow that could be loosed from it, a bow ’ s draw length, is determined by the size of the archer.

* Recurve bow: a bow with the tips curving away from the archer.

* Reflex bow: a bow that curves completely away from the archer when unstrung.

The elaborate public aquarium " Umi-tamago " on the shoreline outside Beppu features basketballing sea otters, performing archer fish, and puzzle-solving octopuses, along with more naturalistic displays of freshwater and marine fish from around the world.

* Flodden from the perspective of a Yorkshire archer is the subject of the novel, ' Tom Fleck ' by Harry Nicholson, pub.