Arne Metzlaff looks at something often overlooked The aim of dampers is to reduce or completely eliminate possible vibrations that occur in the bow. The most common type of archery damper is a rubber block, screwed to the bow or…
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Top tips for winter archery maintenance
Essential winter maintenance – for you and your kit. By Rebekah Tipping A new year is historically the time for making resolutions and planning for the year to come. Nobody has lived through a year like 2020 before, which has…
Compound: Micro Tuning
Duncan Busby on how to get the extra edge. We all know the merits of shooting a well tuned set up, but how much do you really know about the finer points of compound tuning? Micro-tuning is often overlooked but…
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Posted in Technique
Posted in Technique
Setting up the Easton RX-7 arrow
Sponsored by… Easton’s RX-7 arrow shafts are proving to be one of the most popular and accurate new indoor arrows in history-both recurve and compound shooters love the RX-7 and are seeing great results, because it allows using the biggest…
Tagged with: aluminium, archers, arrow point, arrow shift, arrows, bow, bowstring, bowstrings, brady ellison, compound, Easton, eaton rx 7, indoor, nock, nocking, olympic, recurve, rx7, Salt Lake City, shaft, shooters, target, technical guide, world archery
Posted in Getting Started
Posted in Getting Started
I Made This – OCD Strings
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…
Tagged with: archer, archery, barebow, bow, bowstrings, business, compound, longbow, ocd strings, olympic, recurve, shooters, strings, USA Archery
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Posted in Features
Ask the experts – stiff vs damped and other questions
Our expert panel answers your questions. Send yours to john.stanley@futurenet.com Question: My son shoots competitive compound target archery. He currently shoots a 30″ front bar of a larger diameter and my thought is to upgrade to a much smaller diameter…
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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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Measuring progress: The latest Ask the Experts
Our expert panel answers your questions on all things archery. Send yours to john.stanley@futurenet.com. Q: How do I stop my peep sight from twisting? Having an unruly peep sight can be extremely irritating; a peep that twists out of alignment…
Intermediate compound: stepping up
Duncan Busby rates the current intermediate compound bows on the market. All sports have different spending options, depending on the brand name and quality of the item you’re buying, but for us archers it’s rarely as simple as picking up…
Interview: Para-archer David Drahoninsky
Has para-archery star David Drahoninsky finally got serious? We caught up with him in Berlin. David Drahoninsky, of the Czech Republic, is one of the biggest characters in international archery, and one of the most successful para-archers of the last…
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