Some crossbow shooters also call their crossbow bolts “bullets”.īurn a Hole in the Yellow: To “burn a hole in the yellow”, you just keep your bow sight centered onto the innermost yellow scoring ring until you shoot your arrow. A “bucket hatter” is a slang term for a recurve archer.īullet: A bullet is just a fun way to refer to your arrows. Bracing is simply a fancy way of describing someone attaching a bowstring to their bow.īrace Height: A bow’s brace height is a measurement of the pivot point of your bow (or riser) to the bowstring.īucket Hatter: As an archer who prefers recurve bows myself, I’ll try not to take offense to this one. It’s still in use today, although most people who aren’t archers probably wouldn’t know what one is.īracing: Have you ever strung or unstrung your bow? You my friend have then “braced” your bow. You can see what they look like here.īow Jitsu: Overly exerting your shooting form to compensate for your bow sight moving off from the center of your target right when the arrow is released.īowyer: A bowyer in an Old (or “Olde”) English term for a bow maker. You’ll only really see this in historical collections or made by individual archers themselves, as they’re not widely used by many archers today. If you’re interested, here’s a guide I wrote about getting started in field archery.īodkin Point: A bodkin point is an old medieval type of arrow point used hundreds of years ago. Again, mostly used in target archery as well as in field archery. (Primarily used in both target archery and field archery.)īlueberry: No real shocker here, a “blueberry” is when your arrow hits within the blue scoring area of an archery target. Just like a guitar player’s guitar, an axe is just another way to refer to an archer’s specific bow (as well as there individual set up).īlackberry: A slang term for when an arrow hits the black area of a target. It is the effect of how the arrow bends slightly around the bow when it leaves it.Īx or Axe: For any guitar players out there, the meaning this one should have easily come to you. Almost is when an arrow hits the gold (or yellow) area (of a target archery) target – but isn’t within the innermost gold ring.Īrcher’s Paradox: The archer’s paradox refers to the physics of archery, specifically when the arrow is released. Keep in mind that there are even more terms that are interchangeable in different areas or regions, I’ll try to keep this list updated with any other terms I come across or new terms I hear.Īlmost: We’ll start the list with an obvious one. So here it is, the master list of all of the different archery specific words and their explanations. I’ve tried to collect a list of all of these different archery words and slang terms and put them together in one place. Or do you like having a hybrid as an axe? I mean really: Do you always gunch it when you grip it and rip it? Maybe you hit the sheet when you were trying to at least tomato in your last archery tournament. What makes this even more confusing is that many different archery terms vary in different parts of the country – and there are even more archery terms in other countries as well.

Whether you’re new to archery or a more experienced archer, there’s so much archery lingo out there that it can sometimes feel like you’re listening to someone speak a foreign language.

Quiver meaning archery