There's an App for That
So, you know how it goes. You've just shot a cracking end. You know that was at least a 54. You swagger back to the target with the quiet confidence of someone who definitely...
Category: News
An Archery Star is Born
One entire Sunday morning recently we had a film crew with us from the Commonwealth Games. They found Finlay to have presence, star quality and charisma ... at least his beard did. Finlay not...
GA at the Commonwealth Games
As you are no doubt aware, Glasgow is hosting the Commonwealth Games this summer. It is a truncated version, featuring only 10 sports, one of which is not archery. So we thought - why...
Summer Season 2026
Looking outside at some of the weather we're currently suffering, its hard to believe we're just TWO WEEKS away from going outside for the "Summer" season. As of April, the outdoors of Whitecraigs beckons...
Vegas 2026
The Vegas Shoot is arguably the largest and most prestigious indoor archery tournament in the world. Taking place currently in March each year in the city of Las Vegas, its a competition where anything...
Trading Cards for Archers
People collect stuff. This is probably down to shared ancestry. 150 million years ago (somewhere between the late Triassic and early Jurassic period), we share an ancestor with squirrels. Probably as a consequence, we...
Gossip behind the Tent Line: Cost of Archery
In the last few years, archery kit prices have been sliding alarmingly upwards. Compound seem to be pricing themselves out of the majority of people's pockets. Outside of Hoyt, recurve is resisting with a...
Archergate
Lets be honest, when you think of scandals in sport, you don't think of archery. Endless drug suspensions in athletics and cycling. Bribes and backhanders in football. Hurtful language in cricket (although thats really...
Gossip behind the Tent Line: Greg Easton Prez!
Gwangju, South Korea – Greg Easton has been elected the new President of World Archery, securing a decisive victory over long-serving Secretary General Tom Dielen at the 56th World Archery Congress held in Gwangju,...
Gossip behind the Tent Line: ATA Lawsuit
On the 30th of May, a 63 page class-action antitrust lawsuit was filed in Utah accusing the US archery industry of colluding to fix the prices of products. According to the lawsuit, the Archery...
We've got the inside Scoop
At Glasgow Archers we do things a little different. Towards the end of Covid a hero arose and his name was Captain Sausage. Initially distributing savory snacks (pigs in blankets) to cold and soggy...
Glasgow Archers 1948 Website
The current Glasgow Archers website is nine years old this week but its been quite a journey to get here. Our original club website back was created in the early 2000's with a "here...
The Compound Strikes Back
On April 9th, World Archery (WA) released this statement "The first-ever Olympic medal for compound archers will be awarded at the 2028 Olympic Games, following the International Olympic Committee’s announcement today that the compound...
GA collaborate in Ground Breaking Archery Aid
We at Glasgow Archers have, for a while, been looking into ways to help archer's performance. We have been collaborating with Strathclyde University engineering graduates and UWS IT graduates to develop a product over...
Glasgow League: Missed it by THAT much
Its difficult to write anything about the Glasgow League finale and make it suspenseful or exciting or witty because this hurts .. quite a bit .. and we're not at home to Mr Stoic...
Glasgow League - Rumble in the Time Capsule
Buckle up people, this article may get ranty. Archery is a sport where the difference between a high score and a not so high score .. winning and losing .. can be pretty fine....
Olympic Archery Funding
With the Paris Olympics now just a distant, if extremely fond, memory for those of us who watched the Koreans outlast everything the entire world could throw at them including an insect 5th column...
Glasgow League - Seconds out .. Round Four
Round four of the Glasgow indoor league was back to where we kicked off three short months ago - Eastwood High School, Newton Mearns. The 9am Sunday start would have the competitors out their...
Glasgow League - Half Way
The conclusion of the third leg of the Glasgow League would mark the half way point in the inaugural 2024-25 season. This round was to be shot once again at The Time Capsule in...
