The big little differences: What is the difference between longbows, recurve bows, and compound bows? Not as much as you might think, says James Park…
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Know your bow: Recurve, compound and longbow
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Posted in Equipment, Features, Traditional
How to build an arrow part 2: Points and pins
In the second part of his series on arrow-building, Adrian Tippins looks at getting good bonds when it comes to inserting points and pins
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Posted in Equipment, Features, Technique, Traditional
7 Bow & Arrow Prep Essentials
To help you while shooting outdoors and make it as enjoyable as possible, we’ve rounded up a helpful list of products to prep and preserve your bow
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Posted in Christmas Gift Guide, Equipment, Features, Reviews, Traditional
8 Top Tips for new competitive archers
For many new archers, their first outdoor season presents a number of challenges. Andrew Smith breaks down the most common, and what to do about them. For first timers, the transition from the indoor season to outdoors can be quite…
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Posted in Events, Features, Technique, Traditional
How to master a symmetrical archer’s technique
Bart Czuwara considers the application of symmetry and balance to traditional archery. Volumes have been written on the subject of archery form. Many great archers and archery coaches have tackled the issue of what proper archery technique consists of: good…
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Posted in Features, Technique, Traditional
How to prepare your shaft
Adrian Tippins of Custom Made Arrows starts a series of features on how to build a perfect set of matched arrows. Step one is shaft preparation In the first part of this “how to” series, we will be looking at…
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Posted in Features, Technique, Traditional
Bows over the Borders
Hugh Soar takes a look at bow making traditions from Scotland, France and Belgium The tradition of Scottish bow making, both longbows and crossbows, is ancient and honourable. Makers of hand bows – in Scotland called ‘bowers’ or ‘bowares’ –…
Viking Archery
While not widely known as having an archery culture, the Vikings nevertheless counted archers and bowyers among their number, says historian Jan Sachers Bows and arrows may not be not the first weapons that come to mind when we hear of…
Shooting From Horseback
Dan Sawyer of the British Horseback Archery Association gives you an overview of this unique side of the sport: how it used to be, how it’s practiced now, and how you can get involved The centaur is one of the most…
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Posted in Traditional
‘Mad Jack’ Churchill: Soldier and Archer
You might have heard the name as belonging to a man famous for carrying a bow into battle in WWII, but who was he? Hugh Soar reveals the archer underneath the reputation John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill was born on…