Cresting Arrows
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...
Tagged: Arrows
Medieval Glue
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...
Fletching Glue
A significant amount of time is spend by archers fletching and refletching arrows. Its like painting the Forth Rail Bridge or pushing a boulder up a mountain for eternity .. except more frustrating at...
Parallel Pro .. Take two
Not that long ago we wrote an article on the latest target arrow to come out of everyone's fav purveyors of aluminium and carbon products. No, not Tesla .. Easton. The arrow was the...
The Downside of X10 Ownership
The ultimate recurve competition shaft. The Easton X10 has won more World and Olympic titles than any other arrow - or any other archery product of any kind - since its competition debut at...
Big Fat Cheating Ali's
Spend any time near the archers who tend to congregate on the left side of GA's indoor hall and you will hear the term "big fat cheating ali's" thrown around several times a session....
Building an Arrow
One of the more entertaining exchanges over the club's WhatsApp in recent years has been the suggestion, often in pictorial form, that Geo uses hacksaws, breadknives as well as a hammer and chisel to...
One of our Arrows is Missing!
With a new outdoor season just around the corner and us moving to a new location, we thought it prudent to raise that bane of every archer not of international standard or Korean .....
Pure Carbon's verses A/C's
This isn't a fantasy novel review about warring pureblood vampire clans or even a scary debate about eugenics .. unless it involves recurve. Recurve master race, best master race. Here we are considering the...
Oi! Left or Right wing?
Sometimes you'll hear one of our traditional brethren look at another trad archers kit and ask "left or right wing?" Don't panic. The club has not gone all political. Nor will Kier Starmer close...
Archery tools you don't know you had
Archery is a pretty niche activity and the kit we use to look after our bows is fairly specialist. A string jig or a fletching jig can't really be used for anything else. Although...
Does the size of your Fletch matter?
At the non-pointy end of (nearly) every arrow are fletches. Also known as vanes, these tiny wings give your arrow stability and spin in flight. Depending on the tune of your bow or how...
Nocks and Nocking
One of the least thought about parts of archery kit is the arrow nock. To many, its just a tiny bit of plastic that goes on the end of the arrow and not worth...
Taking a Saw to your Arrows
If you are a newer archer, you may have heard the term "clicker" used around some of our more ... experienced archers. Lets call them experienced as insane or obsessive doesn't read well. In...
Arrow of Steel
Recently we looked at carbon arrows for the newer archer just starting to reach out to the longer distances. One of the arrows we have recommended was the Alimax. Marketed by Merlin, they saw...
The name is Pro ... Parallel Pro.
Some months ago, we recommended (potentially) your first carbon arrow – Merlin Archery’s Alimax. This entry level Aluminium Carbon (A/C) arrow shaft was, we felt, a good replacement for the sadly discontinued Easton ACC....
A very unique Robin Hood
Hopefully everyone knows what a "Robin Hood" is. In case you don't, its where an arrow hits a previously shot arrow and destroys it. Its named for the folk hero Robin Hood who, in...
Wrapping Things Up
Archery is a very personal experience. You chose your bow and other kit, to a greater or lessor extent, on their looks and colour. When it comes to arrows, your fletch scheme and nock...
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...
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...
