I’ve seen a few posts on different forums recently from new archers asking advice on how to keep twists in their bowstring when they take the string off the bow.
If you are a traditional archery shooting a one piece bow, you tend not to remove your bowstring from your bow, but if you are shooting a take down recurve, then when you take the bow down, you will remove the string. At this point it is very easy to drop the string and thereby lose the twists in it.
I know many people use a simple clip to hold them together, but I’ve always used a technique shown to me by my coach years ago. I’ve recorded this showing the technique I’ve used for years.
As always enjoy your archery. Thanks for watching.
Welcome to this write up on this years National Field Archer Society 3D championships. This two day event, was held at Thoresby Estate with around 500 archers attending. Each competitor would shoot 2 courses, one Saturday and one Sunday, in mixed groups. The courses consisting of 36 3D targets of varying sizes and distances, the longest being 68 yards I think. I all there would be 3 course A,B and C.
This year I had chosen to shoot barebow so I could be on the same course as my son who had put down his recurve, to shoot a full unlimited setup.
This would be the first year where binoculars would be allowed for all archers and I feel this did help, especially on the longer shots where you weren’t sure what you were shooting at or whether the arrow was in or not. My feeling was it sped the day up and I know that others I spoke to felt similarly.
I’ve created a couple of galleries the photographs I took over the 2 days. First course was on Saturday which would be B course having been set by Centaura club.
Sunday would be a very early start with admin being open from 7 am to 8 am, and it would see us shoot C course which was set by Castle Bowmen. I felt that Castle was the tougher course of the two I shot, being the furthest walk out and not helped by the amount raking undertaken when looking for wayward lost arrows.
Overall it was a good event though I did feel that the courses were a lot tougher that in recent years. I know several people struggled with the distances. Though I know it is very hard to please everyone and setting a 3D course is very exhausting, I do feel that a few well placed archery nets would have made a huge difference on a couple of targets, especially in respect of finding missed arrows.
We were very fortunate with the weather as the rain arrived in the evenings, leaving the days dry and pleasantly warm. A distinct change to how warm it had been over the past few weeks here.
My thanks to all who were involved in the setting of the courses, managing and marshalling the event. I think it is was one of the smaller championships with only about 500 archers and no large trade stalls which is really unusual.
If you are interested you can listen to episode 119 where I ask if events like the champs as really worth it?
As always thanks for taking the time to read the review and listen to the podcasts. Enjoy your shooting.
In this episode I am delighted to be able to have a special guest on, Paul Chittenden of Dirty Gnome Leather Co. To say he is a maker of archer finger tabs, arm guards and the like is doing him an injustice.
Just a quick update on Dirty Gnome and Paul. He’s just set up a website showing all his tabs and leather work, so if you get the chance check it out (https://dirtygnomeleather.co.uk/).
We talk about the process of making these high quality archery products as well as diving off down various rabbit holes of other topics along the way.
My Archery Experiences 