Hotfix: Scraggly Feathers
You’ve been shooting in the rain either with your big chunky aluminium arrows or your woodies. Common denominator is they both have feathers and now look like they’ve been dragged through a boss backwards....
Glasgow Archers Club News
Pack those Spares!
Recently, we had a situation develop at shootie where a piece of kit bent. Now what caused the kit to bend is as yet undetermined, but it did leave the archer somewhat unable to...
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve seen …
Sometimes you just have to put the bow down and walk away! Don’t worry, we made sure there were no sharp implements anywhere near them.
Gossip behind the Tent Line: Brady Ellison
One of the most dominating recurve archers over the last decade has been American Brady Ellison. A product of Korean master Coach Kisik Lee and the Chula Vista Elite Athlete Training Center, Brady has...
It’s a Mystery…
One of GA’s experienced recurve archers has been chasing the indoor gold badge for a disturbingly long time. He needs 270 from 30 arrows on a 40cm face. Every time he shoots for it,...
Archery at Halloween
If you ask around any archery club why the archers took up archery you will get varied answers. Competition, interest in history, Marvel/DC characters and health will all feature in various ways and degrees....
NSFW – Crime Scene Pictures
In the film Wanted (2008), the hero Wesley Gibson was pressured into demonstrating his potential as an assassin by shooting the wings off of some flies a few feet away with a 9mm pistol. ...
Glasgow Archers Website
On the 3rd of October we passed the view count on the website for the whole of 2021 which was a 50% jump on 2020’s numbers which was itself a 100% increase on 2019’s!...
How Stable are You?
… As an archer, probably not very. It’s a frustrating sport … but this article is about bow stabilization and not how archery drives you to bouts of rage fueled Tourettes. Until the evolution...
Who Shot it Better?
Recurvers and Compounders are sworn enemies. Kind of like the legendary Hatfields and the McCoys conflict in rural 1860’s America but with more banter and a bit less bloodshed. Obviously both sides like to...
What to do this Winter
So, as we wave goodbye to the summer season and move indoors … what is there for us to do in the hall? The 252 is an outdoors only badge and there isn’t the...
“Work for us and you’ll get a H*yt”
Recently our editor was listening to the Easton Archery Podcast. In episode 189(ish) it was revealed that hoyt, who Easton own, give discounts to their staff if they want to buy a hoyt bow....
GA’s Finest
At the Ayrshire Athletics Arena in Kilmarnock on the 26-28 Aug 2022, the Commonwealth Archery Championships Europe 2022 were hosted by Scottish Archery (SAA). This is a sort of home nations competition with teams...
A Summer of Sausages and Sun
As the summer wynds down and indoor beckons, it’s always nice to reflect on the season just past. This summer, the field was well mowed and dry underfoot so many thanks to Hutchinson’s groundsfolk....
Whats in a Quiver?
You’ve been shooting for a while. You have your archery workshop at home with every useful tool imaginable. There are many many spares in your Ikea “archery cabinet”. Your bow is in immaculate condition....
The Evil Clicker of … Evil?
Archers have many natural enemies: The weather. Midgies. Judges. Archers shooting in the same competition**. Even their own brains can betray them! However, Olympic style recurvers have a very special nemesis. A tiny piece...
Happy Birthday Easton
Easton Archery .. supplier of arrows to World champions, Olympic gold medal winners, Internationalists, Club Archers, Noobs and our Editor .. is 100 years old. Founded in 1922, Easton has always been about archery...
American – 3rd July
Just a quick thank you to everyone who came along to our 4th of July celebration shoot on Sunday 3rd July. Our first competition in nearly 3 years! Many thanks to the field party,...
Archers Elbow
Archery is a physical activity and its inevitable we as archers will suffer minor injuries. Skelf’s (wood splinters) from frames, shoulder aches, bruising from string slap (see right) are common. Less common are strains...
