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I'm back

I’ve been a little quiet of late, mainly down to the madness that was on the run up to the club shoot and then taking some time away with the family for a short break. I’ve got quite a lot of material nearly ready to go live, including a couple of shoot reports (Lyme Valley where we were competing, and Briar Rose when marshalling) along with some equipment reviews (fletching jig, Alpha pack…

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Episode 124 - Some thoughts on shooting in warm or cold weather

As many of you will know if you live in the UK , we have been experiencing a mini heat wave here and it’s resulted in several areas now having hose pipe bans and talk of drought, harking back to the summer of 1976. Yes, I am that old that I remember that summer.  It’s also triggered a question from a follower asking for my thoughts, and advice on what might be suitable clothing and other…

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Episode 123 – special guests Austin and Courtney of St Joe River Bows

I am very fortunate in this episode to have two very special guests grace the airways with me. Austin and Courtney Motte of St Joe River Bows, over in Michigan United States. They took time out of their very busy schedule of making bows to record the episode where we get to spend the time talking about everything from bow making, shows they have been too and are heading to and being a British…

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Episode 122 - Don't drown in information

The latest episode of the podcast is now live on Spotify and Amazon music. This marks the 5th year of the podcast. I can’t believe it’s been 5 years since I started this. I hope you are enjoying it. This one is a bit of a recap of what I have been up to for the last few weeks, including playing around with a 4 fletching combination on the Carbon Legacy arrows for my traditional bowhunter set…

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Episode 121 - Equipment Review – Shocq Bow scales

What is your actual draw weight on your bow? At first glance, this seems both an easy question to answer and a common question especially if you have a draw below or over 28 inches. The truth is that unless you have had the bow weight measured at the archery shop when you buy your bow, you can’t be guaranteed to know what the draw weight is at your draw length. Yes, I know all bows or limbs will…

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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…

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Shoot report - NFAS 3D Championships & episode 120

Welcome to this write up on this years National Field Archer Society 3D championships. This two day event, was held at Thoresby Estate with around 500 archers attending. Each competitor would shoot 2 courses, one Saturday and one Sunday, in mixed groups. The courses consisting of 36 3D targets of varying sizes and distances, the longest being 68 yards I think. I all there would be 3 course A,B…

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I wanted to share some of the amazing artwork of Paul Chittenden AKA Dirty Gnome Leather co is creating with his archery shooting tabs, string keepers and more.

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.

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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. 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…

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Episode 117 - Shoot Report - Duvelle Bowmen

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Shoot Report - Black Arrow Field Archers

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Lyme Disease Awareness month

Many of you will remember Episode 115 when I spoke with Morven-May about Lyme Disease and the impact it had on her life, along with ways to avoid tick bites. May is Lyme disease Awareness month and to promote awareness of this is Morven-May  has passed some more information onto me which I wanted to share will you all. Firstly here are links to her books that are available on amazon. I know she…

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Episode 115 - Special guest talking Lyme

In this very special episode of the podcast I am delighted to be chatting to author and expert Morven-May MacCallum on the subject of Lyme disease. In it we discuss her own experiences, advice on avoiding tick bites, as well as what to do if you believe you have become infected.I feel this is great information for any outdoor enthusiast to have and I hope you find this as interesting as I did.…

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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…

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Episode 113 Centaura Field Bowmen Shoot report

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Episode 112 - coaching, course laying, skiing and interview