Tag Archives: field archer

Mar 7 2024

Shoot Report – Black Arrow Field Archery

Archers massing before start of competition

Following on form the positive feedback for the last shoot report for Paget de Vesey I’ve recorded one for the Black Arrow field Archery shoot we attended a last weekend.

For those interested it was a 40 target course, in mixed woodland. Though a little cold and foggy to start it was a good day. Sadly I didn’t shoot as well as I’d hoped.

I would like to say thanks to Joy for her company and support on the day. For those interested her bow is from St Joe River bows https://stjoeriverbows.com/

I mentioned the new rules that will be coming into force in April for NFAS and for those wanting details I’ve included the link for the new rules page.

I’m also posting a couple of links to YouTube hosted videos I shot on the day,

Thanks for reading.

Mar 28 2022

Cost saving tips – alternative fletching tape

I’m going to run a couple of cost saving ideas out there for the next few weeks, for archers and archery clubs. Let’s face it with fuel and living costs rises every penny counts.

In this one I’m offering an alternative to using fletching tape or glue.

I’ve started using this double-sided sticky tape to fletch club arrows a few months ago. It’s available from Hobbycraft stores and is a lot less than tape sold at archery shops. It’s only a couple of pounds for the long roll, which is able to do a load of arrows.

image of fletching tape

It’s proved to work well on club arrows and not had any fletching come off in the 6 months I’ve been using it. I’ve found the 6mm wide tape works best for plastic vanes. This covers the base of the fletching well and you can trim off any excess. There is also a 3mm wide version that I use on feather fletchings.

Importantly I have found it bounds onto aluminium arrows well, can’t testify on carbons as all our club arrows are aluminium. I have tested it on a few wooded arrows and works on those too.

As I said I am hoping to run a few money saving articles so if you have any cost saving ideas let me know or share them.
Thanks for reading, stay safe.

Feb 11 2022

Scoring in NFAS paper faces

I’ve recorded this brief video following a few discussions on how scoring for NFAS (National Field Archery Society) Big Game round works. Along with what the different scoring lines are.
I know the audios not perfect and if I do others in the future it will be something I need to look at in more detail, but in the meantime let me know what you think.
Thanks for listening