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…
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Best method for recurve tuning
Ashe Morgan shows you how to get it right – every single time. Learning how to tune your bow can feel like navigating through a minefield of settings which all affect each other. There are endless parameters you could change,…
Ask the experts – stiff vs damped and other questions
Our expert panel answers your questions. Send yours to [email protected] 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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Posted in Technique
Posted in Technique
Arrows: what you need to know
Adrian Tippins lifts the lid on what you – and your juniors – need to know about basic arrow literacy. I’ve always thought that the hardest thing for novice archers is attempting to understand and navigate the technical minefield that…
Ask the experts
Our expert panel answers your questions, so if you have one send it to Bow’s Editor [email protected] Q: I note you can achieve the UK classifications (such as Master Bowman) shooting either metric or imperial distances. Both are available to…
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Posted in News
Arrows in the Middle Ages
Continuing on in a history of arrows, Jan H Sachers takes us from the rise of the knights to the sinking of the Mary Rose With the advent of the knight in the 11th century, the social elite fought with…
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Posted in Features
Posted in Features
Ask the experts!
Our panel of expects from around the world answer your questions on every aspect of shooting technique, phycology and equipment. Question: How do I know when to change my nocks? Adrian Tippins says: The obvious answer is to change…
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Posted in Features
How to know if your nocks fit
Expert, Adrian Tippins, reveals show to know if your nocks fit correctly, an area often overlooked in archery…
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Posted in Features, Technique
Posted in Features, Technique
How to build an arrow part 2: Points and pins
In the second part of his series on arrow-building, Adrian Tippins looks at getting good bonds when it comes to inserting points and pins
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Posted in Equipment, Features, Technique, Traditional
Posted in Equipment, Features, Technique, Traditional
Smooth Release Pin Nock
Bohning Archery has introduced a new style of pin nock. The Smooth Release Pin Nock has shorter ears and a smoother throat to allow for a quick, clean release from the string. It was developed at the same time as…