*Cocking the crossbow: Crossbows have a much heavier draw weight for their strings to generate the same kinetic energy into the release of their arrows as compound bows.

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.

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