Stabilisers are a rod and weight system mounted to the bow to balance it during aim and absorb vibration during release.
A sight is a device mounted onto the bow with which the archer aims. It has a block that is moveable up-and-down and left-to-right. An archer using a compound bow may have a magnifying lens and levelling bubble, but an archer using a recurve bow may have neither.
Recurve archers use a leather tab to protect their fingers from the bowstring when drawing the bow. Used with compound bows release aids are mechanical, hand-held devices that draw and release the bowstring, attaching via a D-loop, which minimise inconsistencies.
Archers tie a quiver around their waist to hold their arrows.
Armguards protect the arm from the string when an arrow is released; they are made of plastic (or leather) and are worn on the inside of the forearm. A chestguard covers the side of the archer’s chest closest to the bow, keeping clothes out of the path of the bowstring.
Additional accessories include plunger buttons, rests, dampers, sight pins, peepsights and finger slings.
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