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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Competing with primitive bows
Tagged with: alex tyler, archers, archery, barebow, bow, bow string, bows, competing, equipment, field archery, horsebow, hunting, longbow, primitive bows, technology
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Posted in Features
ATA Trade Show 2020: Part Two of our report on new kit
Over 8,500 people from 31 countries attended the 2020 ATA Trade Show in Indianapolis to get a glimpse of all the latest kit on the archery market. See what you can add to your kit! In the first part, we…
KTA: The Bow
The ‘strongest’ bow in the world? Kristina Dolgilevica investigates. The Korean gakgung literally translates as ‘horn bow’. In comparison to its other traditional counterparts, it is considered to be the most advanced bow in terms of its engineering. A horn…
Roll out the barrel
Hugh Soar looks back over the history of the barrelled arrow Of the five arrow profiles recovered from the Tudor warship Mary Rose, two are of particular note; those that taper from a thicker centre to both head and string…
Tagged with: archer, archers, archery, arrows, barrel, barrelled arrow, easton x10, gun, high soar, Jim Easton, longbow, nock, olympics, outdoor, roger ascham, shooting, the british archer, world record
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Take part in the world ranking shoots!
Ever dreamed about seeing how you stack up against the best in the world? You can, says Patrick Huston, as there are several world ranking shoots open to all archers
Tagged with: archery competitions, archery technique, Archery World Cup, Bow International, compound archery, longbow, olympic archery, world archery, world archery rankings
Posted in Events, Features, Technique
Posted in Events, Features, Technique
Know your bow: Recurve, compound and longbow
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…
Tagged with: bow, compound, English longbow, longbow, recurve
Posted in Equipment, Features, Traditional
Posted in Equipment, Features, Traditional
Bowyery For Beginners
Pip Bickerstaffe relates the trials and tribulations of compressing a bow making course into two days, and the eventual successes Over the 50 years plus that I have been involved in archery I have done many things in the archery…
Tagged with: bowyer, course, flatbow, longbow, pip bickerstaffe, stave, tiller, tools, woodwork
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Posted in Traditional
Ask The Experts – Making a Longbow
Q: I am a relatively new archer and would like to make myself a longbow. A friend in the club has a lovely osage longbow so I would like to make one like it from a kit, but how much…
Ask The Experts – Practice
Q: I’ve been shooting a longbow for a while but it is only now that I’m actually thinking more seriously about practicing archery. Just going out and flinging some arrows down the range doesn’t improve my skills. Is there anything…
