Part 2 of a series on independent archery businesses. This week, Julie Bergen of OCD Strings, on the west coast of the USA. I build custom bowstrings, specialising in single string bows (recurve & longbow). Each string is built for…
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I Made This – OCD Strings
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Competing with primitive bows
What’s it like to compete with something you’ve made yourself? By Alex Tyler. Watching a repeat on television, you can often tell how much time has passed since the programme was made by looking at the technology used. Seeing the…
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The essential guide to vanes
Adrian Tippins provides an essential guide to vanes Introduction Whether we’re shopping online or in store we are affronted by hundreds of vanes of all sizes and shapes. This can often lead to option paralysis. The confusion leads a lot…
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Interview: John Dillinger
The USA barebow archer is on fire this year. He talked to Mimi Landström. After an incredible start to 2020, taking first place at the Lancaster Classic and The Vegas Shoot – achieving two of his biggest dreams – John…
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Getting started in barebow field archery
An overview by Victoria Williams There is always a lot more to barebow archery than meets the eye. To score well at field archery with a barebow it’s not, as some might say, a matter of pointing in the right…
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Tiller and Bracing Height: Going Deep
Is tiller and bracing height really that important? Andrew Smith investigates. With a modern three piece recurve bow, we do not hold the bow in the centre. This means that we do not draw the limbs back evenly; if the…
KTA: Past, Present and Future
In the final chapter in a short series on Korean traditional archery, Kristina Dolgilevica looks at how KTA has developed across the centuries. In this concluding article I will try to bring all aspects I have investigated so far and…
Review: Zniper Barebow Tab
Andreas Phillip is a big fan as he gives his thoughts in this Zniper Barebow Tab review! At a glance Zniber Barebow Tab:It’s legal. It’s got a lot of advantages. Fancy it? Material: Aluminium, cordovan, kangaroo leather, available in two sizesPrice:…
2019: a year in archery
In our second part, Bow continues to wrap up 2019 with a look back at what went on. May Bow cover star: Lan Lu The NFAS 3D championships went off with a bang in Nottinghamshire with some of the trickiest…
2019 in archery
How was it for you? Bow wraps up 2019 with a look back at what went on… January As usual, first thing in January the whole of the archery world involved in trade decamped to Louisville, Kentucky, for the ATA,…
