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Glossary of Archery Terms
Face
 The surface of the bow that faces the archer.

Fast Flight
A synthetic material used to make bowstrings.
Breaking strain = 95 lbs./strand. Minimal stretch ensures consistency.
Slippery material that requires specific serving to be used.
Available in the following colors; red, blue, white, purple, light green, dark green, yellow and black.

Fast Flight S4
A composite of Polyester 'Spectra' (Fast Flight) and 'Vectran' materials used to make bowstrings.
Breaking strain = 160 lbs./strand.
Due to its strength, less strands are required to make a bowstring, so its lighter and faster.

Field captain
The official in charge of an archery tournament.

Field archery
An archery round in which an archer shoots from a variety of distances at targets set up in natural country.

Field point
Arrow point shaped to prevent skips if the arrow hits the ground.

Finger tab
A piece of smooth material worn on the drawing hand to protect the fingers and to give a smooth release of the bow string.

Fistmele
The Old English term for Brace Height.

Flax-linen
A natural material used to make bowstrings.
Used in medieval times and now used on re-enactment longbows.

Fletch
 To glue a feather or vane to an arrow shaft.

Fletcher
A person who makes arrows.

Fletching
The feathers, plastic vanes or other devices attached to the arrow shaft which stabilise the flight of the arrow.

Fletching jig
A device used to hold the arrow shaft in place and correctly locate and align the placement of the fletching.

'Fletch-tite'
A clear glue used to apply fletching to the arrow shaft. Also used to apply nocks to the arrow shafts.
It sets rapidly and remains slightly elastic (not brittle) to resist repeated shock and vibration in all weather.

Flight Arrow
An arrow used in Flight Shooting. Usually very light and very stiff and fitted with very small fletching to reduce wind drag.

Flight Bow
A very strong bow specifically made for flight shooting.
Usually with 'shoot through' riser and short limbs.
Draw weight can exceed 100 lbs.

Flight shooting
A discipline of archery purely aimed at attaining the longest distance able to be shot with a bow.

Flinching
Moving bow arm and/or drawing hand just before release.

Flu-Flu
A arrow fitted with many feather fletches spiraled around the arrow shaft. The arrow can only be shot a very short distance due to the amount of wind drag on the feathers.

Follow through
Movement of the drawing hand/arm and bow arm after the release.

Foot markers
Lines, golf tees or other devices to indicate the archer's foot positions at the shooting line.

Free style
A method of shooting using a bow-sight to aid the archer in aiming.

Freeze
Inability to move the sight to the desired position while at full draw, or inability to release.

Full draw
The position of the archer when the bow string has been drawn and the drawing hand is at the anchor point.