Archery Club - Established 1948
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...
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 .....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
