Archery Club - Established 1948
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...
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...
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...
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...
Hope I’ve given it long enough to talk about this now, but for anyone still traumatised by the outcome of this year’s Glasgow League, look away now … GA takes part in the Glasgow...
As Conducted by the Glasgow Archers Congregation of Mild Chaos Order of Service Opening Remarks Reading from the Book of Easton The Life and Death of X10 #5 Reflections from the Shooting Line Hymn:...
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...
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,...
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...
A few weeks ago we had an article on the big indoor competition - Las Vegas 2026. We noted the fact that last year there was, over the weekend, $30,000 dollars of damage done...
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,...
Within the universal set, archery intersects with so many things. Archery and dedication. Archery and health. Archery and banter. Archery and obsessive compulsion .. the intersections are endless. But one intersection you never see...
Apparently today, Monday 30 March, is World Bipolar Day. I’m not someone who usually bothers with the plethora of ‘Days’ that there are for this or that, but as I’m an archer and someone...
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...
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...
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...
Adversity is never very far from your archery especially in competition. In practice you have time to fix things but in competition ... not so much. You've prepped for a shoot. You've got your...
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...
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...
Arithmetic is where numbers fly, like pigeons, in and out of your head - Carl Sandburg Archery is fantastic for improving yourself physically and mentally. For physical activity it engages the arms, shoulders, back,...
