Highly Strung
Probably the most overlooked part of any bow is the string. Its not sexy like the riser. Its not the powerhouse like the limbs. Its not a engineering marvel like high end sights and...
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Ki Bo Bae is Back!
Its no secret that our Editor is a massive Ki Bo Bae fanboi. When she lost her place in the Korean Ladies national team in 2017 he was disconsolate. It was all we could...
Patent Applied For
With Glasgow Archers celebrating its 75th anniversary, its all go. There's new uniforms, merch, badge hunting, ladder competitions and researching our history in addition to the usual banter and endless chocolate prizes. In this...
His other Archery Workshop
Love of archery leaks into many other aspects of our editor's life... Perhaps next time we can get a look at the field archery course he built in cannibal survival game The Forest. Or...
Your First and Possibly Future Carbon Arrows
A few months back we pondered a possible replacement for the much beloved but now sadly discontinued Easton ACC and ACG shafts. The Easton PROCOMP was, as far as its specification was concerned, extremely...
X10 - Which end Pointy?
The Easton X10 shaft has a fantastic record. Its considered by many to be the ultimate shaft for competitive recurve. It has won more World and Olympic titles than any other arrow since it...
You Gotta Get Up and Try Try Try!
A few months ago we covered a story about an experienced GA archer struggling to achieve a club badge. For the GA gold indoor award with a recurve, you need to shoot 270 out...
Congratulations and Commiserations
In the traditional tale of Robin Hood, Robin wins the archery competition by splitting his opponents arrow. In recognition of this, when we archers rear end an arrow we call it a "Robin Hood"....
Are Woodies Difficult to Make?
Recently a newer archer was asking about wooden shafted arrows. Were they better to shoot? Were they more accurate? Were they hard to make? Well, we can't really say they are "better", lets go...
The New Testament
And lo, after labouring mightily, did AGB come down from the mountain top. With them did they did bring tablets containing 128 tables, divided into four bow types, eight age categories with three new...
New String = New Zing
Archers can get hung up on small things that interfere with their shots. They feel something is wrong in the bow and it throws them off. Sometimes its purely psychosomatic and in others there...
Collective Nouns
So, what do you call a group of archers? In the past, certainly in military terminology, a Company of Archers has always been acceptable. However, its not the 15th century and Sunday morning archery...
Revamping the Constitution
Times are very different from January 2018, the last time we updated the constitution. It was going to take a lot of work to get our constitution into fighting trim. But your committee are...
Dusting off your Neglected Bow
Real life has been a pain. Stuff has been dragging you away from the things you love for months. Recreation, when you get some, is vegetating in front of the tv till you go...
AGB Classifications NewsFlash
For the last year and a bit, its been known that AGB were working on a new classification and handicap system. The old one, while pretty straight forward and in use since the 90's,...
Draw Weight
One of the things we all strive for in our archery is higher draw weights. It's that tantalizing goal that you can never quite satisfy your need for ... If you could only get...
Happy Birthday Captain Sausage
I know its difficult to believe looking at him but Captain Sausage is one year old. One year ago our tournament organizer hit on the idea of a bijou cookout at the field. Just...
AGM passes without Bloodshed
November 30th 2022 Hutchinsons @ Pollock Park Glasgow Archers AGM GA's 2022 AGM passed into club minutes last night with both a "business as usual" and the "biggest shake up in years" vibe. Effectively...
