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    Glueing Taper Nocks

    What do you use to glue taper nocks onto aluminium arrows? I was replacing a cracked taper nock on an aluminium club arrow the other day and started to wonder about the glue that I was using, in light of the number of nock breakages that we'd been having. I'm aware that acetone embrittlement...
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    DAS DALAA Stainless Steel ILF Plate

    DAS DALAA Stainless Steel ILF Plate For sale is a single DAS DALAA stainless steel ILF plate. The idea for this plate is that you replace the standard lower aluminium ILF plate with this stainless version, adding weight to the bottom of the riser to help to balance it without having to resort...
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    DAS DALAA 17” Right Hand ILF Riser

    DAS DALAA 17” Right Hand ILF Riser For sale is a 17” DAS DALAA Riser. It is for a right handed archer, and has ILF plates fitted so that it will accept ILF limbs. The riser has been designed to be shot off the shelf with a built up radiused shelf hump and an adjustable centre shot. It can...
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    Club Coaching

    Something came up at the club last night; for context we've got newly qualified coaches after our old ones left. Does AGB insurance cover beginner coaching and have a goes at the club for public that aren't AGB members yet? I presume that it does but I've never seen it stated anywhere. David
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    Northern Field Federation

    Well, it appears that the Northern Field Federation has been wound up. Our club got a communication from the committee to the effect that, as one of the clubs had decided to leave, and that it was getting harder to find someone to provide cover for the federation, the federation would be...
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    Tiller Bolt Settings

    Does anyone have a clever way of recording their tiller bolt settings so that an old setup can be replicated? The only way that I know is to measure from fade to string which I find a bit clumsy when the two bolt settings, the brace height and string length all interact. David
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    Riser Contact

    A year or two back I switched from a 19" Bernardini Mamba to a 17" DAS Dalaa that I got cheap (cheap compared to full price, anyway) from ebay. This wasn't just a whim; it had a number of features that improved my gap shooting; a smaller sight window with a very square shape, and features to...
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    Neil Armitage

    I see from the latest Bow International that the Archery GB CEO, Neil Armitage, quit about a month ago. Anyone aware of this and have any insight?
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    Riser Contact

    I've been shooting a DAS Dalaa that I got for a really good price a couple of years ago. I had Border CXBs on it for a little while then Border 7.2s for ages (until they delaminated). It always shot fine, tuning with little effort, even though I just used a cheap stick on rest with no button...
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    SOLD - 12 Easton FMJ 400 Arrows 30" Long

    I've put a dozen fletched FMJ 400 30" long on SellMyBow: https://www.sellmybow.com/browse-items/12-easton-fmj-400-arrows-30-long/ I'm looking for £80 ONO plus P&P. I thought I'd give SellMyBow a go to see how it works out; I've not used them before. David
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    End Servings

    How long do you make your end servings? I've always made them long enough so that the string in contact with the limbs is completely served. But in these days of super recurves I'm finding that that's a lot of serving - to the extent that the jig posts are getting in the way. Do they really...
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    Arrow Rake

    My ongoing back problems have been forcing me to re-assess the stuff that I’m carrying around the archery course. I bought a pocket quiver and moved the rest of the stuff in my quiver into a rucksack that I can leave at the hut. One big problem was my arrow rake. For years I’ve been doing what...
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    Prey

    I don't know if you've seen the trailer for "Prey", a prequel to the film Predator. It's set in the pre-colonial era USA, featuring native Americans fighting a Predator. Anyway, the interesting thing is that the natives are using a weird upside down Mediterranean draw - the closest thing that...
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    Barebow ring

    The WA barebow rules state that "The unbraced bow complete with permitted accessories shall be capable of passing through a hole or ring with a 12.2cm inside diameter +/-0.5mm". How much finagling will the judge be willing to do to get the bow through the ring? If the judge has to slip the...
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    Bow Scales

    What do you guys use for bow scales? I've discovered that my electronic scales are pretty good to about 30lb but over that they over-read to the extent that at 40lb they are wrong by about 4lb. I need a new scale but they seem to vary from cheap to stupidly expensive and as I've discovered...
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    Beiter Winder

    I've decided that I'm sick of the inconsistent tension from and impossibility of threading of my no-name generic serving tools and that I should put some of my birthday money into a decent one. The consensus seems to be that the Beiter Winder is the one to get; however there are 3 models...
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    BCY Silver String Material

    Had anyone seen BCY Silver String Material? Is the silver description just a fancy name for grey or are they doing something weird to make it look silver?
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    Mary Rose

    We went to see the Mary Rose at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard about a month ago; if you haven't been it's well worth a visit.
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    Bow Setup Savant

    So, I bought myself a 17" riser second hand from everyone's favourite online tat bazaar, with the intention of putting together a fun bow. I spent a bit of time cleaning off the hardened glue, bogeys and other unidentifiable crud from it, then paired it with some 7.2s that I wasn't using. I...
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    3 Under Tab

    I've only gone and lost my 3 Under Tab. Anyone seen it 😁 ? It was a Black Mamba Aluminium that I had a love/hate relationship with. I liked the feel of it but the strap would not stay shut. So, I've got an excuse to get a new one. I've a notion for a Fairweather as I used a Fairweather ring...
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