Q: How far out should I set my sight extension bar for a compound? A: When adjusting your extension bar it’s important to know what to look for. Ideally you want to look through your peep and be able to…
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Ask The Experts: Sight Extension Bar
Tagged with: alignment, compound, liam grimed, peep, settings, sight extension bar
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Bow Hold
Chris Bell explains the steps to take to getting your bow to hold well – involving less tuning than you might think There is no getting away from it: shooting high scores with a compound bow requires you to hold…
Tagged with: aiming, bow hold, chris bell, compound, draw length, stabilisation, steady
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New world records
Mike “Mr Perfect” Schloesser of the Netherlands has shot a new world record! He put in 716 out of a maximum possible score of 720 for the 50m compound round. His score, shot at a tournament in the Netherlands in…
World Championships – Who we’re watching
With historic Copenhagen as the venue, the 2015 World Championships in the heart of Denmark are forecast to be the best attended yet. At the time of writing, 623 archers from 96 national federations had been entered into the championships,…
Tagged with: compound, Copenhagen, Denmark, olympic, qualifying, quota, recurve, world archery, world championships
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Sight Settings
How accurate are yours? James Park looks into an important aspect of bow setup Some readers might be aware that I have had a long-term interest in accurate sight settings. Back in the late 1970s I worked out the mathematics…
National Series Final is a success
Over 8,000 people descended on Wollaton Hall for the last weekend of August as it played host to the Archery GB National Series Final. Now in its second year at the iconic venue, the final had been extended to two…
World Cup: Three Stages In
Three stages of the 2014 World Cup have been completed, and the rankings ahead of the fourth stage give some clues as to who might be making an appearance in the finals at Lausanne. Last year’s champion Oh Jin Hyek leads…
Tagged with: archery, compound, erika jones, finals, Jung Dasomi, Lausanne, Oh Jin Hyek, outdoors, recurve, Sebastien Peineau, stages, world archery, world cup
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Medals at Euros for GBR juniors
The Great Britain cadet and junior teams returned from the European Youth Outdoor Championships in Ljubljana, Slovenia, with one gold, one silver and two bronze medals won. Bradley Denney, Joe Ground and Jack Masefield took gold against Turkey in the recurve…
Ask The Experts
Q: I shoot compound but tend to pull the string hard up against my nose. I have read and heard that this can interfere with the arrow flight on release – is this habit really that bad for my shooting? …
Tagged with: arrow flight, Ask The Experts, comfortable, compound, contact, influence, nose, release, roy rose, sergio pagni, string
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A Field Guide to Archery
Field archery is the ultimate challenge, whatever your bow style, and many of the world’s elite concur that their field exploits represent their finest achievements in archery. The accuracy that a quality target archer brings to this new experience is…