Revamping the Constitution
Times are very different from January 2018, the last time we updated the constitution. It was going to take a lot of work to get our constitution into fighting trim. But your committee are...
Yearly Archive: 2022
Dusting off your Neglected Bow
Real life has been a pain. Stuff has been dragging you away from the things you love for months. Recreation, when you get some, is vegetating in front of the tv till you go...
AGB Classifications NewsFlash
For the last year and a bit, its been known that AGB were working on a new classification and handicap system. The old one, while pretty straight forward and in use since the 90's,...
Draw Weight
One of the things we all strive for in our archery is higher draw weights. It's that tantalizing goal that you can never quite satisfy your need for ... If you could only get...
Happy Birthday Captain Sausage
I know its difficult to believe looking at him but Captain Sausage is one year old. One year ago our tournament organizer hit on the idea of a bijou cookout at the field. Just...
AGM passes without Bloodshed
November 30th 2022 Hutchinsons @ Pollock Park Glasgow Archers AGM GA's 2022 AGM passed into club minutes last night with both a "business as usual" and the "biggest shake up in years" vibe. Effectively...
Showdown on Sausage Sunday
Things can get unnecessarily macho down the field on Sausage Sunday when the sizzle of sausage and the waft of pork is in the air. What started out as an apparent mocking the use...
Personal Kit for Traditional
Archery is somewhere between 10 and 20 THOUSAND years old. In modern archery, we have compounds with cams and release aids and telescopic sights. Recurves with aerospace carbon risers and precision machined sights. Arrows...
Hotfix: Scraggly Feathers
You've been shooting in the rain either with your big chunky aluminium arrows or your woodies. Common denominator is they both have feathers and now look like they've been dragged through a boss backwards....
Pack those Spares!
Recently, we had a situation develop at shootie where a piece of kit bent. Now what caused the kit to bend is as yet undetermined, but it did leave the archer somewhat unable to...
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've seen ...
Sometimes you just have to put the bow down and walk away! Don't worry, we made sure there were no sharp implements anywhere near them.
Gossip behind the Tent Line: Brady Ellison
One of the most dominating recurve archers over the last decade has been American Brady Ellison. A product of Korean master Coach Kisik Lee and the Chula Vista Elite Athlete Training Center, Brady has...
It's a Mystery...
One of GA's experienced recurve archers has been chasing the indoor gold badge for a disturbingly long time. He needs 270 from 30 arrows on a 40cm face. Every time he shoots for it,...
Archery at Halloween
If you ask around any archery club why the archers took up archery you will get varied answers. Competition, interest in history, Marvel/DC characters and health will all feature in various ways and degrees....
NSFW - Crime Scene Pictures
In the film Wanted (2008), the hero Wesley Gibson was pressured into demonstrating his potential as an assassin by shooting the wings off of some flies a few feet away with a 9mm pistol. ...
Glasgow Archers Website
On the 3rd of October we passed the view count on the website for the whole of 2021 which was a 50% jump on 2020's numbers which was itself a 100% increase on 2019's!...
How Stable are You?
... As an archer, probably not very. It's a frustrating sport ... but this article is about bow stabilization and not how archery drives you to bouts of rage fueled Tourettes. Until the evolution...
Who Shot it Better?
Recurvers and Compounders are sworn enemies. Kind of like the legendary Hatfields and the McCoys conflict in rural 1860's America but with more banter and a bit less bloodshed. Obviously both sides like to...
What to do this Winter
So, as we wave goodbye to the summer season and move indoors ... what is there for us to do in the hall? The 252 is an outdoors only badge and there isn't the...
"Work for us and you'll get a H*yt"
Recently our editor was listening to the Easton Archery Podcast. In episode 189(ish) it was revealed that hoyt, who Easton own, give discounts to their staff if they want to buy a hoyt bow....
