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Dec 17 2025

Episode 138 – with Chris Mussell talking archery in scouting

Happy Christmas everyone.

In this week’s episode I delighted to have as my guest Chris Mussell. Chris is a highly experienced archer as well as being heavily involved with the Scouting organisation in the UK,  specifically with respect to archery.

In the episode we explore how scouting approaches the challenging task of coaching young people but also training scout leaders to enable them to coach young people.

As always the episode is available on Spotify and Amazon music.

I feel this episode provides a really good insight into how the scouting organisation plans, runs and controls the rules of shooting for scouts and leaders. There are obvious similarities to National Field Archery Society events but also key differences, most noticeably the target selection. The scouting prohibits the use of any animal or human like targets, so no shooting zombies or 3D targets.

Of course we do tangent at times into other archery related topics, including chats about past events and campfire chats after festivals.

Thanks for listening and I would like to wish you all a fantastic Christmas and New Year.

Dec 4 2025

Episode 136 – With Special guest of Oliver from Hemlock archery

I have a very special guest in this episode of the podcast. I am delighted to have Oliver Lewis the owner of Hemlock Archery.

For those of you who don’t know of Hemlock Archery, they are a UK based business selling a variety of archery related products but most noticeably Hemlock wooden arrows.

In the episode we talk about topics from, how it all started, to why Hemlock wood as his wood of choice for arrow shafts. With Oliver offering his top tip is for any wooden arrow shooting archery out there.

As always you can listen to the episode on Spotify or Amazon music

I suggest you take some time and check out Hemlock Archery website and see some of the amazing wooden arrows Oliver produces. They really are quite amazing and below you can see a small selection.

As always thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy the episode. I have a couple more guests lined up for future episodes.

Have a great Christmas and New Year.

Jun 24 2025

Archery tip – keeping twist in string

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.