Gossip Behind the Tent Line: The Danage Files
The club chair is not generally known as a gossip. Our editor, on the other hand, often operates as the archery equivalent of a GCHQ listening station. Very little gets past him. Recently, however,...
Category: News
15 Seconds per Arrow. What Could Possibly go Wrong?
The Koreans are god-tier archers. They have enough Olympic medals to build a very long, very shiny wall. Their secret weapon isn’t magic limbs or arrows fletched by Tibetan archery monks using the feathers...
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...
What is a Come and Try?
The beginners course has always been considered the entry point to archery. Sign up; come for 3 or more sessions; learn technique, safety and etiquette; graduate and if you and archery are vibing .....
Field Party in the Wild – American SRS round, 5 July 2026
On the 5th of July, Glasgow Archers ran our first record‑status shoot since 2019. In the intervening years, COVID, field drama, and the usual twists of club life conspired to keep us off the...
Sessions out – Rounds one to five
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how we had bid for and been successful in getting a grant of just over £5,000 from the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games Festival. Since then we’ve had to start...
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...
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...
