Pushing your Button
A button (also known as a pressure button, plunger, or burger button if you’re Jake Kaminski*) is one of those bits of kit that new archers look at and immediately decide archery is weird....
Category: Kit
The Best Rest just got Better
For those of you unfortunate enough to be acquainted with the GA Equipment Gnu, you know he very definitely plays favourites with kit. Win & Win .. BIG fan. Hoyt .. move along people...
Gossip Behind the Tent Line: An 'Arrowing Time?
One of the more popular aluminium/carbon arrows in recent years has been the Alimax shaft from Merlin Archery. It carved out a reputation as an affordable first A/C arrow that performed well. We certainly...
Why Cut Arrrows?
Arrows come in a stock length. The higher the spine, the longer the arrow will be when you crack open that sealed tube - something you probably didn’t notice because your tiny archery brain...
Gossip Behind the Tent Line: Compound and the IOC
Compound is in the Olympics for 2028 but its coat is on a very shoogly nail. "Why?" you ask. Everyone behind the tents knows the IOC has three great loves: sports that everyone plays,...
Hot Fix: That's Rough
When you shoot a bow, you only touch it in two places: Your hook on the string, and the handle on the riser. We’ve talked about grips before - whole articles, diagrams, the usual...
What Happens After the Beginners Course?
Congratulations - you’ve survived the beginners course. You’ve got your certificate, you know etiquette, you can now chant the safety rules like they were handed down on stone tablets by a very tired Moses....
What Happens to Your Arrows After You Shoot Them?
Archers spend an extraordinary amount of time thinking about the front end of the shot. The kit, the form, the checklist, the ritual, the “don’t pluck, don’t collapse, don’t sneeze” internal monologue. We obsess...
Parallel vs Barrelled Shafts
We do our best to be a practical guide for archers, beginners, and anyone who’s ever watched an arrow do something it definitely wasn’t supposed to. However, sometimes a subject, even though significant, isn't...
Why Arrow Speed makes 70m feel like Witchcraft
At some point in every recurve archer’s life, usually around the moment they first try 70 metres, they discover that their sight mark has opinions. Strong ones. One week it sits politely in the...
The Ultimate Archer's Shelter? Meet the Klumpen
It's April. You're standing in a field somewhere in central Scotland. The wind is doing that particular Scottish thing where it can't decide if it wants to come from the north or the east,...
When your Bow Decides it’s had Enough
Archery kit is, in theory, pretty resilient. It has to be, given we insist on bending it, unbending it, and rattling it 200 times a night like it owes us money. Every shot loads...
72" Bows: Because some Archers are built different
The modern recurve bow is a miracle of configuration options. You can bolt so many accessories onto a riser that it starts to resemble a cyberpunk coat rack. Sights, buttons, rests, stabilisers, dampers, clickers,...
Road to Merlin
With the recent opening of Merlin in Glenrothes, Scotland now has access to a major archery supplier on its doorstep. Until now, our closest store was Merlin in Bishops Auckland which meant a 332...
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...
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...
