Apr 15 2013

Sorry, No shoot report, no shooting

So another weekend without shooting. Not great start to the season, have shot 3 times since beginning of year.

Why? Well I have a trapped nerve in my shoulder which means I can just about draw my 20lb beginner’s bow and that is all.

It seems to have aggravated an old injury I had following a car accident a few years back.

We’ve had to cancel attending one of my favorite shoots Lyme valley, hence there being no shoot report. By all accounts it was a good shoot just a little windy.

Won’t be shooting next weekend as we will be marshaling our club shoot.

Just hope it will settle down.

Thanks for reading.

 

Mar 31 2013

Finding help

Happy Easter everyone, I hope you have all had your fill of easter eggs and festivities.

Recently Jordan wrote on her blog site  (http://jordansequillion.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/getting-information/) an article on organisations and societies for the newbie, that’s inspired me to do something similar for the UK.

I can’t list every club in the UK but I can point you towards some useful websites so here goes a few.

nfasNFAS – National Field Archery Society –  http://www.nfas.net/

UK based organisation, which we shoot in most months, there is a good list of clubs and if you want you can find a shoot every weekend.

 

efaaEFAA – English Field Archery Association – http://www.efaafieldarcher.com/ Thought I was a member briefly I have never had the opportunity to shoot under the EFAA banner but know many people who do.

 

archerygbArchery GB – http://www.archerygb.org/ As the sites says Archery GB is the governing body for sports archery in the Great Britain and Ireland.

Another useful site is the Archery Interchange, http://www.archeryinterchange.com/ with its extensive forums offering advice on all things archery related.

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Thanks for reading and I hope you find this useful.

Mar 28 2013

Nock, Nock..

Very good advice which is often overlooked even by experienced archers.

charleslopez's avatarCharles' Archery Blog

As we become better archers and our groups get smaller, broken nocks get to be a fact of life. They are in fact a sign that you’re coming along, busting nocks left and right.

Handful of nocks

Along with getting better we also need to become more aware. Checking our arrows, nocks and tips as we pull them off the target.

When you break a complete leg off a nock it’s easy to tell you have a problem. Even if you miss it at the bale you won’t be able to nock it onto the string, the damage is too great.

The problem comes when you strike a nock enough to damage it. The nock at first glance looks fine, both legs are there, however it may have a small crack or it may have changed shape and the nock no longer grips the string securely.

When I nock an arrow onto the…

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