Abstract: A target assembly for use with a variety of non-piercing type projectiles or missiles launched to strike or impinge upon the target, whereupon the latter acts effectively to terminate the flight of the missile. The assembly includes a frame defined by flexible and resilient rods disposed to support a shock-sustainable, shock-resistant tensioned web or target sheet. The web itself is fabricated of a shock-sustainable, shock absorbing material, and is tensioned in a taut mode so that the propulsion energy of the missiles projected to impinge upon the web and to impact thereagainst is effectively dampened and absorbed by the target as the flight of the missile is terminated. The resilient rods which support and tension the impact web of the target are engaged in and secured, at their ends remote from the target web, in a support structure which includes a hub-like block or plate and a substrate-carried supporting stand, all set back or positioned rearwardly of the tensioned web or target sheet.

Abstract: A peepsight device for mounting on the bowstring of an archery bow. The device is characterized in that it includes a skeletal ring and an interiorly-mounted transversely-extending frame. The frame demarks and defines a peepsight orifice. Zonal areas on either side of the frame delineate, in conjunction with the circumscribing skeletal ring, fields for viewing general target areas contiguous to a peep-orifice-correlated primary target. Thus, the ease of sighting and acceleration of the sighting process itself are enhanced. Wedge-like structures integrally formed with and extending rearwardly of the ring and of the frame define vertical walls against which divided strands of the bowstring bear frictionally, and open ended slots in which the traversing bowstring strands are trained and restrained.

Abstract: There is provided an adjustable archery arrow rest mounted on a threaded pressure button support shaft extending through and secured in a window wall of an archery bow. The arrow rest is formed with a unitary mounting yoke assembly including a pair of spaced parallel leg-like plates. An inner one of the plates is presented toward the window side wall of the bow. The opposed plates of the yoke assembly are formed with aligned transverse tapped bores into which the threaded button support shaft extends in threaded engagement. On their opposed inwardly-presented facing surfaces, the yoke plates are formed with cooperating fragmentary threaded sectors defining an inwardly tapering opening for receiving a mating bolt. Threaded advancement of a bolt into the tapered threaded opening forcibly urges the yoke arms apart, frictionally to stress engaged threads and to lock the yoke on the threaded pressure button support shaft.

Abstract: An arrow point with a selectably-adjustable, incrementally-stepped array of weight-regulating elements. The weighting elements are demarked lineal component segments of an elongate rod or bar which is deeply grooved radially at incremental, lineally-spaced positions along its length. The rod is threaded at its forward end for coupling engagement with a threaded neck portion of the arrow point. Prior to sleevedly assembling the arrow point with the shaft of the arrow, the segmental rod is severed at a particular pre-set groove to leave a selectable number of weight segments attached. The latter remain as a secured, weight-adjusting core component of the arrow point assembly. An O-ring seated in a diminutive, outwardly-opening annular groove formed in a sector of the rod forwardly of the segmental array bears upon an enveloping inner wall of the body of the point assembly to stabilize and to lock the rod frictionally within the core of the arrow point.

Abstract: A frame-carried arrow rest and sideplate assembly fastened to a bow at a sight window thereof. A pin-mounted arm of the rest of the assembly is supported in a outwardly-extending, arrow-supporting mode by means of an arcuately-pivotal frame-carried support block ("sideplate") to which the arm is releasably coupled. Frictional forces applied laterally against the pivotal block upon release of the arrow and travel of the arrow shaft forwardly cause the block to pivot and to decouple from and to release the arm. The latter than falls downwardly and away, gravitationally, from its arrow-shaft supporting position to establish a clear and unobstructed travel path for the arrow shaft and its fletching as the arrow is launched in flight.

Abstract: A silencer for reducing the noise made by an archery bow wherein elastic members each have one end attached to a bow string at a point on the bow string spaced nearer to the outer end of the limbs than to the center nocking point of the string and also having the other end thereof secured to a respective adjacent limb at a point intermediate the ends of the limb.

Abstract: A bow-string mounted, self-aligning, positively positioned peep sight for a compound bow. The body of the peep sight includes a plurality of posts extending therefrom and about which divided strands of the bow string are laced or woven for selectively positioned securement of the peep sight in place. A peep sight hole is formed as a sighting port extending through the body of the peep sight. A bow sight aligner distinct from the string-mounted bow sight is secured to the bow string and connected by means of a tensioning band to a straight cable segment of the compound bow, whereby when the bow string is drawn, the band is tensioned and acts upon the bow string positively and reproducibly physically to orient the peep sight mounted thereon so that the sighting path through the peep sight bears directly on and aligns precisely with a longitudinal axis of an arrow held in the drawn bow.

Abstract: An improved broadhead assembly for an arrow includes a lightweight hollow hub which is affixed to the arrow shaft through a mounting shaft and sleeve retainer. The lightweight hub is tapered toward the front and includes a broadhead blade receiving slot on the leading end thereof shaped to receive a plurality of such broadhead blades. These broadhead blades are adapted to be retained by the hub slot and extend forwardly thereof to provide a broadhead point which slashes into a target differently than a point which punches at a target. In one embodiment, the plurality of broadhead blades includes a pair of opposed primary blades having frontal tip portions positioned in overlying relation for added tip strength, and a pair of opposed secondary blades having tip portions adapted to tangentially abut the side of an adjacent primary blade tip while extending substantially to the forward point of the primary blade tip.

Abstract: A bow square for checking and adjusting the bracing height, nocking point and kisser location of an archery bow. The device is generally T-shaped and includes a scale-marked bar for bracing height measurement, and a transversely extending cross arm. The cross arm carries lineally spaced tab-like fingers for stressingly engaging opposed surfaces of a taut bow string seated in lineally spaced off-set notches. The fingers bear stressingly and resiliently against forcibly to distort the bow string passing therethrough, thereby frictionally securing the bow square in place on the bow string. The cross bar also carries a hinged scale pivotal between a functional reference position adjacent the bow string and a stand-by position retracted from the bow string.

Abstract: In a compound bow, a cable guard characterized in being readily adjustable to provide, selectively, up to about one inch or more of cable deflection or offset. The guard is fastened in place by a plate. This plate provides for the optional attachment of a bowsight and/or a bow quiver.

Abstract: In a slingshot which includes a handle-supported yoke including a pair of laterally spaced rods to which missile-projecting elastic bands are attached, the improvement comprising a pair of flexible tube segments sleeved over the elastic bands in a zone of attachment of the bands to the rods. The elastic sleeves constitute bend resisting elements and obviate sharp reverse folding of the elastic bands which normally occurs upon recoil of the bands following distension and release of the stretched elastic bands in projecting a projectile.

Abstract: A marksmanship target supported by a moveable support arm, with a shock absorber interposed between the target and support arm. The shock absorber includes eight thin, resilient ribs extending from a circular hub mounted on the support arm to a marginal edge of the target, and integrally formed with the target.

Abstract: A finger guard for attachment to an archery bow string, comprising a pair of flexible plastic sleeves each having a through axial bore, a pair of string indexing devices positively positionable on the bow string at opposed extremities of the sleeves, and a pair of rigid washers for placement on the string between the sleeves and the indexing devices. The sleeves are each integrally formed with finger stop means and with a ring-like spacer and abutment member to provide a zone of physical separation between an archer's fingers and the nock end of an arrow.