Yearly Archive: 2021

So here we are. A year on from Glasgow Archers being homeless with crumbling containers. Another year of Covid idiocy with confusing instructions in how to organize shooting. No competitions. AGB slowly haemorrhaging members...

As we said on the book review page, archery is a doing sport. You can't get better simply by reading about archery. Doesn't matter if its shooting, fletching, string or arrow making ... you...

Archery pictures tend to be a little boring. Usually taken from the side when that archer is at full draw, it gets a bit repetitive. Just do a search on international archery pictures and...

One of the great advances for archers (who are often numerically challenged ;o) is the scoring app for your phone. Essentially a formatted spreadsheet front end with the scores stored in a database and...

One thing our kit obsessed editor looks forward to in his mailbox every month (other than the cease and desist orders from Ki Bo Bae's lawyers) is the newsletter from Alternative Sports with their...

Friday the 24th September saw the departure from Glasgow Archers of an old friend. He had been with the club for 30 years or so. Been there for the club through the best of...

Glasgow archers are about to do something we haven't done in 18 months ... we're going indoors. We have a hall and by jiminy we are going to shoot in the warm and the...

If you were starting your archery journey in late naughties/early-mid teens, its likely Sebastian Flute (SF) risers/limbs would have been recommended to you. An entry to intermediate level brand from Win&Win, its quality and...

Now that the archery is done for this Olympics, the results are in the books and the celebrations/commiserations are over ... what can we takeaway from this showcase of our sport? Korea's 4 Gold...

Hoyt Archery: We were deeply saddened as we witnessed Antii Vikstrom’s limb break during his match today. At Hoyt, our mission is to produce the highest quality equipment to match the excellence of the...

More seriously, below is the Level Zero advisory from the SAA. Please remember ... If you are an active member of GA, you know to book your slot at glasgow.archers.booking@gmail.com If you would like...

What's the most valuable shot you can make in archery? Well, the perfect spider killer in a head to head shoot-off would be top of the list. Right up there would be the confidence...

Its with a great deal of sadness that we here at Glasgow Archers have to report that one of our long standing members, Rona Mather, sadly passed away last week (7th June). Rona was a...

China has selected the six archers to represent it at the Olympics.  Wang Dapeng, Li Jialun and Wei Shaoxuan will shoot for the Gents gold while the Ladies are Wu Jiaxin, Long Xiaoqing and Yang Xiaolei. The selection procedure was...

As of the 26th April we will move to Level 3 restrictions ... or in other words "Secure from Red Alert - Initiate Mauve Alert!" Now while we will get a little more leeway...