Episode 143 is now live and in it cover quite a few different topics. As always it is on Spotify and Amazon music

If you are on any archery forums you will probably have heard the various reports about Quicks Archery going to administration. Now I’m not 100% clear on the situation here as some are saying it is still trading while others are saying it has closed. Either way it’s a shame, as we bought our beginners bows from Quicks, when they had a shop just off the M69.

The other big news concerns the government’s proposals concerning Crossbows and how the government have plans to stop the sale of new crossbows and potentially bring in licencing for current owners. There has been so much chatter on various groups that it is getting hard to find the complete details.

There is a lot of concern that this might start the process of outlawing or restricting other types of bows.

Any loss of life is tragic and yes there have been deaths associated with crossbows but, when you look at the figures for knife crime which last year saw over 200 fatalities in 2025, and over 260 in 2024 I feel this new legitration is a sledgehammer to crack a walnut.

For those interested here are the results for the call for input https://www.gov.uk/government/calls-for-evidence/controls-on-crossbows/outcome/controls-on-the-use-of-crossbows-on-public-safety-grounds-government-response

In other news, the NFAS results are out and all the proposals have been accepted into the rules except the altered scoring for Pro ring,  which is a shame as I quite liked that one as it made a distinction between the inner kill and pro ring.

Briar Rose Club shoot date is out and it is the 19th of July. The good news is we have people already booked on, I think over 20 so far. The dates in July so if you aren’t attending the Welsh Champs up in North Wales why not pop along. It’s open to all nfas archers and all styles, sadly no dogs though. It would have been nice to avoid the same weekend as the Welsh champs but this was the only date our land owner agreed too due to other events on site.

Full details are available on the Briar Rose website https://briarrosefieldarchers.wordpress.com/

I’ve been trying out the Skylon edge 6.2 arrows and huge thanks to Steve at the club helping me tune in a barebow set up. I think I need to replace the rest though as the current ones not quite long enough. I’m using the Kinetic Honoric limbs on my old Samick vision riser. Also need some 100 grain points as I thought I had some but only 80 grains in the right size thread.

Here are some links to podcasts I mentioned

Merlin Archery adventures podcast which is a new adventure for Merlin and Jim , there are 2 episodes out currently

The other one is Rich over at Archery Geek Outdoors

That’s all for now, enjoy your archery and thanks for supporting this site.