Road to Merlin
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...
Tagged: Equipment
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...
Are Bows Electric?
Since the turn of the millennium, electronics and microchips have found their way into everything. Cookers, fridges, tv's, electric toothbrushes rigged for WiFi .. even the humble toaster* can come with as much processing...
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...
Show Me? Show You!
There are veritable oceans of bushwah (Noun, North American informal: rubbish or nonsense) floating around in archery, especially in equipment. Advice is bandied about without consideration of who it applies to. Ask an elite...
Wrist in Peace
How you grip your bow is one of the great evolutions of your archery. As a noob you are grabbing that thing like its an annoyed cobra and if you let go of its...
Single Arrow Shootoff - Nocks
Single Arrow Shootoffs - our series of thought provokers with a little extra guidance thrown in. Today its .. Are expensive nocks worth the money? Simply put, YES! When you shoot an arrow, all...
GA collaborate in Ground Breaking Archery Aid
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...
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 .....
Hot Fix: Nocking Point - the Nail Knot
Something we've touched on before is the nocking point. Put simply it’s the point on your string where you want to nock your arrow consistently so the arrows come off the string every time...
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...
Topoint Starting 36 Compound bow
Some time ago we wrote a piece on your first compound bow. Now while this smacks of heresy to our "recurve master race" editor .. we do have a duty of care to all...
Revisiting Draw Weights
A while back we touched on draw weights - the weight you feel on the string when you draw the bow to anchor. That article was more about the how best to exercise to...
Elite Flex Recurve Riser
Elite isn't normally a company we talk about much (or indeed at all) on this website. They are a pretty high-end compound manufacturer putting it out of our sphere of interest on the grounds...
Hotfix: Tabs
Straight out of the box, a tab is a wonderful thing. The leather is smooth. The grub screws are all present and securely in place. The finger strap doesn't look like its been severely...
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...
Brace Height
Brace height is one of those terms you hear thrown around on the equipment line that sounds like archers have lost what little sanity they had left. "I knew it was 1mm out" you'll...
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...
