Tag Archives: national field archery society

May 16 2025

Episode 118 with Special guest – Paul Chittenden of Dirty Gnome Leather Co

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.

Please check out Pauls Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/kentish_toxophilite/) and Facebook Page for Dirty Gnome Leather Co., both of which are packed with photos of his incredibly artistic creations. I’ve created this slideshow to give you an idea of what Paul creates.

The podcasts are also available on Amazon music

Paul passed this onto me after the recording and is a fun AI generated song The Dirty Gnome Song (https://suno.com/s/RwmDvpnvfRT4l2Js)  

As always thanks for listening.

May 4 2025

Shoot Report – Black Arrow Field Archers

Firstly I have a huge apology to make to all my followers and to Black Arrow club. I recorded the podcast shoot report but I didn’t get chance to create a blog post for the episode, to include all the photos I took at the shoot.

Sorry all, my bad.

Below is a gallery of the photos from the event which was the 20th anniversary of the clubs founding. With 38 3D targets, yes 38 as they added a few in due to the numbers of attendees it was a very well added event and raise several hundred pounds for Prostate Cancer charity.

I’ve had a few questions about where people can hear the podcasts and I normally post a link to the Spotify media site, but discovered some readers don’t use Spotify. The podcast is also available on my Amazon channel and a specific link to episode 116

Keep your eyes and ears out for the new episode which will be another shoot report, this time for Duvelle shoot at the end of April

Apr 4 2025

Big changes

The latest episode of the podcast is now up, can’t believe I’m up to 114 full episodes.

In this episode I discuss the recent changes to the NFAS rules following the publication of the results of the recent voting. You can see the full details in the NFAS newsletter / bulletin available from the NFAS website. You might recall I recorded an episode a while back discussing the proposals . These rules changes come into effect from the 1st of April 2025.

I also discuss a life changing decision I’ve made concerning my future. I’ll admit I am more than a little nervous, but the decision is made now.

Thanks for listening