One arm guard, chosen carefully
Fletchguard sells a single three-strap archery arm guard and the guides you need to use it properly. One product, not a catalog.
I am Corinne Vasek, and I have been coaching beginners at a club range since 2009. In that time I have handed a bow to a few hundred people who had never held one, and I have watched almost all of them make the same mistake in the first half hour: they lock the bow elbow, the string finds the inside of the forearm, and they spend the rest of the session shooting like someone waiting to be hit.
That is why this site exists, and why it sells exactly one thing. An arm guard is not an interesting product. It is a shaped plate with straps. What is interesting is that the cheap ones fall down your arm mid-session, the two-strap ones rotate when they take a hit, and the unvented ones come off in July, which means they protect nobody. Those three failures are the whole reason a beginner ends up with a bruise anyway.
Why only one product
Archery is a deep market and most of it is aimed at people who already shoot. A store that offered you nine arm guards, four chest guards and a wall of finger tabs would be a worse version of shops that already do that job well, and do it with staff who can measure your draw length.
What did not exist was a plain answer to the beginner's question, which is simply: what do I put on my arm so the string stops hurting? So we list one guard at $19.99, we say exactly what it is made of, and we say where it falls short. The reviews page leads with the criticism instead of burying it, because two buyers found this guard smaller than they expected and you deserve to know that before you order rather than after.
What we will not do
We do not publish a length or a width for this guard. The supplier's dimension graphic describes a different model, one with a solid face and clip buckles rather than the vented three-strap plate we ship, so quoting its numbers would be quoting a measurement of something else. Instead there is a two-minute measuring method in the size guide, which puts the answer in your hands rather than in our marketing copy.
We also call the material what it is. The face is PU leather, sometimes called synthetic leather. It looks like leather, it has the grain, and it wipes clean more easily than hide does. It is not leather, and you will not find the word used loosely anywhere on this site.
How the store works
Orders ship free to 18 countries, are dispatched within 1 to 2 business days, and arrive in 8 to 10 business days in total. Every order carries a 30-day money-back guarantee. If the guard turns out not to fit your forearm, that is exactly what the guarantee is for, and we would rather refund you than argue about it.
The 4.7 rating comes from 125 verified ratings on our supplier's listing. Only 41 of those buyers wrote anything, and we read all 41 before deciding to sell this guard. The breakdown of what they said is published on the product page, including the parts that are not flattering. Our full method is on how we test.
What the guides are for
The guides cover the two moments that matter: the session where the string first catches you, and the one where you decide to fix the cause rather than pad the symptom. What causes string slap and how to wear an arm guard handle the first. Arm guard against arm sleeve and chest guards explained are for when you already know what you want to change.