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Making Wooden Arrows – A Master’s Guide By John Potter 2020 Edition/90 pages I believe the making of wooden arrows, and their pairing to the archer and the bow as one of the truest skills in archery. And sadly, one…
Making Wooden Arrows – A Master’s Guide By John Potter 2020 Edition/90 pages I believe the making of wooden arrows, and their pairing to the archer and the bow as one of the truest skills in archery. And sadly, one…
Sinusoid limbs are multi-cam patented limbs by Davide Vicini from Genoa in Italy. Davide worked for many years as a naval carpenter, where he learnt about the different characteristics of various woods, fibreglass and carbon. This coupled with the fact…...
Bearpaw’s Arrow Analyser So first up for the Archer Gear Review is the Bearpaw Arrow Analyzer. So what does an Arrow Analyzer do, well it measures the weight, the spine and estimates the straightness of the arrows. The analyzer comes…...
On a very sunny Saturday the 7th of September, archers descended on the majestic Drewstown house and surrounding grounds for the annual National Field championships. It had been several decades since the Archery Ireland field championship had last been in…...
History Bill Stewart who is often referred to as the unknown bowyer and has worked for many of the great well known bowyers such as Fred Bear, Damon Howatt and Bob Lee amongst others. He is the one who worked…...
Introduction Archery would not be possible without arrows and they are the most important part of the equipment set. Tommy, the seminole indian referenced in Maurice Thompson’s 1878 book ‘The Witchery of Archery’ was alleged to have said to –…...
On Jorge L. Coppen “Bear Archery Traditional Bows – A Chronological History (1949-2015)“ I recognise and praise them for putting themselves out there for criticism but thank them for passing on their knowledge and helping others. When it comes to…...
Brian Meehan of Drewstown Archers shares with us his wealth of knowledge gleaned from his ongoing research of archery. As a student of the art we look forward to learning from his extensive reading portfolio, along with getting the occassional…...