Youth bow recommendations for an 8 year old

Diamond makes a good bow for kids.

I believe one of the best things that you can do is to buy him or her a cheap light weight recurve or long bow. Simple, easy to shoot, and lots of fun! It will also teach them alot about true archery!!!

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I believe one of the best things that you can do is to buy him or her a cheap light weight recurve or long bow.

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I was definitely leaning towards recurve

Honestly I’m not sure there is anything in that price range that’s really worth buying. My kids wanted a bow after shooting a bunch at summer camps this year. I got some bear archery thing that was about 60 or 70 bucks, mainly because it shoots through the middle of the riser and one of them is a lefty. It’s pretty crappy. Even at 10 yards it will only put arrows into the one target I have that’s made from horizontal layers, they just bounce off of bags that aren’t already full of holes.

We went and shot a mission hammer last week and they will be getting those for Christmas. Quite a jump in price, but my small 7 year old could pull it fine at the lowest setting and it’s adjustable enough that he can shoot it until he can pay for his own.

There may be some decent options between those two price points that I overlooked as I was only looking at models that come in a lefty version.

Edit: wrote this before I saw your reply about arecurve. I’m no help there.

Diamond infinite edge

Check out three rivers archery. Look at youth bows. PM If you would like help.

And the archery in schools is a great program. Both of my kids shot in it.

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