Bow Bootcamp: How to Set Up a Compound Bow for Hunting Season Bow Bootcamp is a 10-part series designed to get you, your equipment, and your skills in peak shape ahead of the first fall seasons.

Explore Field and Stream's guide to parts of a compound bow and discover how the compound bow parts work together to make this bow function properly.

Building an elk bow means starting with an accurate compound that is also lightweight. The bow needs to be supremely balanced as well.

Field explained that there are two classes of bows, compound bows and recurves. The string on a compound bow is threaded through a series of pulleys.