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…
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Roll out the barrel
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…
Ahead of the Game
As Richard Head Longbows celebrated 21 years as a full-time bow making company, Bow International caught up with founder Richard Head Richard Head has been making bows professionally for 21 years, though his involvement in archery goes back way beyond that.…
Native Bow Woods
Pip Bickerstaffe looks at the different woods native to the UK that can be used for making bows, and the advantages, disadvantages, and characteristics of each I first started making bows while I was still at school, having started archery…
Tagged with: ash, bamboo, bow-making, flat bow, growth ring, hardwoods, hawthorn, longbow, Pip Bickerstaff, wood. bow woods, wych elm, yew
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The Archer’s Paradox and modern bows
You’ve heard the phrase, but what does it actually mean? Dave Egalton explains it may have a narrower application than previously thought
Tagged with: Archer's paradox, Archery: The Technical Side, arrow, compound, line of aim, longbow, paradox, point of aim, recurve, shoot-through, shoot-through window, slow-motion
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Posted in Traditional