In the early 1940s a seemingly insignificant event took place. A man from New York, who worked for the Corning Glass Company, walked into a small archery company in Detroit, Michigan. In his hand he ...

Fred Bear began what would eventually become the Bear Archery Company in the corner of a garage in Detroit during the 1930s. His business, like most, took some time to get rolling, but by the end of ...

After spending the past year in bankruptcy proceedings, North American Archery Group LLC in Gainesville has been bought out by an Indiana-based sporting goods company. Now known as Bear Archery Inc., ...

Memorial services were held in Gainesville, Fla., Monday for legendary bowhunter Fred Bear. Bear, 86, died of a heart attack last Wednesday in a Gainesville hospital where he was confined since an ...

The compound bow dominates the world of archery and archery hunting. But once upon a simpler time a bow was a simple weapon constructed of stick and string. Looking over the space aged modern ...

LeFLORE COUNTY, Okla. -- Years of training and persistence paid off for an Oklahoma hunter after he harvested a 300-pound black bear using a primitive bow, string, arrow and stone point earlier this ...

Devon Woolfolk didn’t expect to see a bear while he was archery hunting in Rice Township on Oct. 31. In fact, Woolfolk wasn’t anticipating a bear walking in front of his treestand and offering a ...