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    Nose or not?

    I have shot recurve for a few years now and feel that I have a very consistent anchor point. However, the string does not touch my nose. I have stagnated with my progress in terms of scores and so I have been playing around with changing my anchor to try and get the string to touch to see if...
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    Inappropriate draw?

    At a recent shoot, I noticed that one of the juniors was drawing her bow in quite an unusual way. She started her shot with her arrow pointed at about 40 degrees above horizontal.she put a small amount of tension on the string, then as she lowered it she drew the string back to her anchor point...
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    Incidental learning

    Light bulb moment... Ok, so no one really at the club available to help coach me yet with the new compound (not strictly true as one of the new members who is an experienced compound archer spent some time with me adjusting my release aid to help me stop punching it). Today was a bit of a eureka...
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    Right hander using left eye...does it ever work?

    Hi All, My son (8yrs old who is on the autistic spectrum) has been shooting for a little while now and we've only recently realised (since moving to longer distances) that he's left eye dominant. He's shooting compound with a peep sight and recurve pin (strange combination I know but he really...
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    Compound advice - touching nose

    Hi all, Looking for a bit of advice. I've recently bought a Core Zeal compound bow as an alternative to recurve. I'm not taking it ultra-seriously but want to shoot it something like properly! I've tinkered around with the draw length and have set it at 27.5" which feels comfortable...It gives...
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    Junior Handbook

    Hi All, I'm the Junior Rep at my club and we're looking to put together a handbook for the junior members. It will need to serve a few different purposes: give advice on bow set up, allow for notes to be made of kit used, scores, coaching etc. I'm really looking for advice on what people would...
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    Arrow wraps removal AKA purgatory!

    Hi all, just trying to refletch my son's arrows that had arrow wraps on...quick job so I thought!!! The arrow wraps were a sod to get off! What a faff! The arrows were bought with them on so must have missed the 'easy removal' notes!!! Just me or is there an easy way???
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    Sharing a bow in competition

    Hi there, We've recently bought a junior flatbow and there was lots of interest yesterday at the club with a couple of juniors enjoying it in particular. They asked if they could train with it over the next few weeks before the next competition and then share it during the shoot. At first I...
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    Quick help with flatbow coaching needed

    Morning! We have a coaching session this afternoon for the junior members. We've just bought a junior flatbow and some of the kids are itching to use it. The archers who usually shoot traditional can't make the session and I'm beginning to worry as I don't want to start them off in the wrong...
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    Youth bows

    Hi All, I've recently been successful in securing some funding for the club's junior section. It was a bit of a long shot and didn't think I'd get it but happily it's all gone through. The main aim of the funding application was to give the junior members the chance to try different disciplines...
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    First clout comp tomorrow

    Hi all, With slight trepidation, I'm shooting my first clout competition tomorrow. Problem is, I've never shot one before (slight lie as I did shoot one at the Clan Donald shoot on Skye about 20 years ago...but can't remember much about it other than the midges!). Any good advice??? Long rod...
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    Compound Bow Not sure what happened!

    Hi there, I've recently borrowed a compound from a friend and have been trying to get to grips with it. I took it to a local (ish) shop this week to make sure it was set up for me. Had a fantastic hour with the guy from the shop setting it up and getting a bit of coaching as well. Came away...
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    Coaching in schools

    Hi there, My club have been approached by a school who have asked us to coach archery sessions for their older kids (10 or 11 years old). At first it was a resounding 'yes' as we have a number of coaches who are retired and would willingly give their time. We met with someone from the school...
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    Compound Bow Cock vane with a drop away rest

    Hi there, Just moved over to compound and have a bow with a drop away rest. A lot of the sites I looked at advocate the cock fletch pointing down. However, I was just watching the World Cup and one of the archers has the cock vane at 12 o'clock...is it rest-specific or am I going wrong???
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    Displaying medals

    Hi there, Just wondered what people's thought are on sewing medals that you've won onto your quiver. A number of people at my club do. I recently did ok at a competition and won a medal. I was going to sew it on but then wondered whether it was frowned upon and people would just think that...
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    Compound Bow Self setup?

    Hi there, I'll be receiving my new compound bow this week (hopefully!). Many years ago, I shot compound for a little while but my coach at the time set it all up and I didn't really have to much to it after that. I'm a bit worried about setting it up properly...I've looked at many tutorials...
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    Compound rest

    Hi there, Moving over to compound. I'm pretty much set up apart from the arrow rest. There seem to be a few main types: Whisper biscuit that holds the arrow in place (sorry if that's a very basic description!) through lots of fibers Blade that holds the arrow in place (does this fall away???)...
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    All work and no play...

    Just had an extremely full-on and stressful day of work that started at 7.30am. Got home around 15 minutes ago (7pm) and can honestly say that I haven't stopped in between (ate lunch whilst working too). I've got two young children who I'm acutely aware don't see me as much as I'd like (not...
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    [RECURVE] How to stop weights coming loose

    It's becoming the bane of my life! I'm finding that after pretty much every end that I have to tighten the weights at the end of my longrod! To be fair, they're pretty cheap stabilsers but haven't really got the funds to upgrade at the moment. Any tips for keeping them tight???
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    Indoor v Outdoor

    Was chatting away over the last couple of indoor sessions and asked if people preferred indoor or outdoor shooting. Everybody said that outdoor was much more superior than indoors...Do you agree? I'm in two minds...outdoors definitely seems more laid back. However, I'm actually loving indoors...
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