Cresting Arrows
One of the great things about making your own arrows is personalizing them. There's so many ways to stamp your personality on your HIT-iles (they aren't MISS-iles now are they ;o). Fletching is the...
Category: Kit
Medieval Glue
A couple of weeks ago we published an article on fletching glues including superglue, rubber based glue and fletching tape. But how did our archer ancestors get their feathers to stay stuck to their...
Fletching Glue
A significant amount of time is spend by archers fletching and refletching arrows. Its like painting the Forth Rail Bridge or pushing a boulder up a mountain for eternity .. except more frustrating at...
Are Bows Electric?
Since the turn of the millennium, electronics and microchips have found their way into everything. Cookers, fridges, tv's, electric toothbrushes rigged for WiFi .. even the humble toaster* can come with as much processing...
Parallel Pro .. Take two
Not that long ago we wrote an article on the latest target arrow to come out of everyone's fav purveyors of aluminium and carbon products. No, not Tesla .. Easton. The arrow was the...
Show Me? Show You!
There are veritable oceans of bushwah (Noun, North American informal: rubbish or nonsense) floating around in archery, especially in equipment. Advice is bandied about without consideration of who it applies to. Ask an elite...
Wrist in Peace
How you grip your bow is one of the great evolutions of your archery. As a noob you are grabbing that thing like its an annoyed cobra and if you let go of its...
The Downside of X10 Ownership
The ultimate recurve competition shaft. The Easton X10 has won more World and Olympic titles than any other arrow - or any other archery product of any kind - since its competition debut at...
Single Arrow Shootoff - Nocks
Single Arrow Shootoffs - our series of thought provokers with a little extra guidance thrown in. Today its .. Are expensive nocks worth the money? Simply put, YES! When you shoot an arrow, all...
Big Fat Cheating Ali's
Spend any time near the archers who tend to congregate on the left side of GA's indoor hall and you will hear the term "big fat cheating ali's" thrown around several times a session....
Building an Arrow
One of the more entertaining exchanges over the club's WhatsApp in recent years has been the suggestion, often in pictorial form, that Geo uses hacksaws, breadknives as well as a hammer and chisel to...
One of our Arrows is Missing!
With a new outdoor season just around the corner and us moving to a new location, we thought it prudent to raise that bane of every archer not of international standard or Korean .....
Barebow Risers - The Next Generation
Apparently we're contractually obligated to talk about things other than Lady Korean archers and Olympic recurve. Our Korean fanboi recurve-ocentric editor has taken the huff and locked himself in a cupboard with a complete...
Pure Carbon's verses A/C's
This isn't a fantasy novel review about warring pureblood vampire clans or even a scary debate about eugenics .. unless it involves recurve. Recurve master race, best master race. Here we are considering the...
Topoint Starting 36 Compound bow
Some time ago we wrote a piece on your first compound bow. Now while this smacks of heresy to our "recurve master race" editor .. we do have a duty of care to all...
Revisiting Draw Weights
A while back we touched on draw weights - the weight you feel on the string when you draw the bow to anchor. That article was more about the how best to exercise to...
Elite Flex Recurve Riser
Elite isn't normally a company we talk about much (or indeed at all) on this website. They are a pretty high-end compound manufacturer putting it out of our sphere of interest on the grounds...
Hotfix: Tabs
Straight out of the box, a tab is a wonderful thing. The leather is smooth. The grub screws are all present and securely in place. The finger strap doesn't look like its been severely...
Oi! Left or Right wing?
Sometimes you'll hear one of our traditional brethren look at another trad archers kit and ask "left or right wing?" Don't panic. The club has not gone all political. Nor will Kier Starmer close...
Brace Height
Brace height is one of those terms you hear thrown around on the equipment line that sounds like archers have lost what little sanity they had left. "I knew it was 1mm out" you'll...
