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The dance of the manes
The world has always been a cruel place, no matter when or where we look, history teaches us that suffering and death are the same...
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Matt Latimer on bows, arrows and archers
- Nov 23
- 4 min
2022 Highlights in the North - Part I
Kathryn Morton is a barebow archery of, to put it mildly, above-average talent. Recently she has moved into the senior shooting category,...
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Marcin Malek
- Nov 22
- 3 min
Winning paths
For someone who has been shooting the bow for a few or more years, some of the questions seem amusing to say the least and the answers...
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Marcin Malek
- Nov 17
- 11 min
We're still here - Sarmat Archery
This time I'm going to talk about several rather than one bow, in fact a whole series of them and the people who make and sell these....
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- Nov 16
- 4 min
Editor's Note - issue 13/2022
Dear fellow archers, Welcome to the 13th edition of The Irish Field Archery Monthly. I was asked to write the editor’s note for this...
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Matt Latimer on bows, arrows and archers
- Nov 14
- 3 min
Refinement of the 3D arrow - Part III
Colour on arrows appears, to me anyhow, with regards to archers, to retain an almost exclusively practical purpose. Obviously, archers...
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Stephen Wall Morris
- Nov 3
- 11 min
World Archery Reinhardt 3D World Championships
/By Stephen Wall Morris/ Where do I start? Let’s rewind the clock back a year. My Mother unfortunately was rapidly losing her battle with...
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Alan Callister
- Nov 2
- 4 min
Terni 2022 – World Archery 3D Championships
/By Alan Callister/ At what seemed like an hour when most people were heading for their beds, 3 of Team Ireland started the journey to...
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Jon Harrison
- Nov 2
- 4 min
The Gera Bird. Is this the bow that can tick all the boxes?
/By Jon Harrison/ This is just a short article/ review that I was asked to write about my Gera bow, as Gera is a small, fairly unknown...
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Matt Latimer on bows, arrows and archers
- Oct 23
- 2 min
Refinement of the 3D arrow - Part II
For this instalment in refining an arrow for WA3D (or thee-d, or tree-d, depending on what part of the island you are from) I am delving...
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- Oct 19
- 5 min
Exploring Archery in the Movies part 2
Well, back to talk movies with archery. And last time I mentioned about 90 flicks. Hope you enjoyed it. So shall we continue with some...
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Marcin Malek
- Oct 15
- 4 min
Editor's note - Issue 12, Oct/Nov 2022
Dear Readers, this time we are bringing into your hands a very special edition of our monthly magazine, the twelfth issue of which is the...
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Nick Kavanagh
- Oct 15
- 4 min
Tales of the American bow.
And another issue is upon us. I was trying to think of something different for this issue. I would like you to meet the appropriately...
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Matt Latimer on bows, arrows and archers
- Oct 9
- 4 min
The Royal Company of Archers
On the 8th of September, Queen Elizabeth II passed away after a 70-year reign as monarch of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, a reign...
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- Oct 3
- 8 min
EXPLORING ARCHERY IN MOVIES part 1
by Andrew Wayland My two favourite things archery and movies, well okay, there is also music, gardening, walking, hiking, exploring,...
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Matt Latimer on bows, arrows and archers
- Oct 2
- 3 min
Refinement for 3D arrows - Part I
The first ever archery competition I attended was a World Archery 3D round hosted by River Oak Archers. A great course for a baptism by...
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Nick Kavanagh
- Oct 1
- 1 min
The need for speed.
Why are some archers obsessed with the speed of their arrows. We all know a light arrow flies faster and has a flatter trajectory than a...
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Marcin Malek
- Sep 27
- 5 min
The paradox of the superfluous man
This time, I thought I would write about something that we all know and talk about between ourselves, but very rarely do we set these...
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Nick Kavanagh
- Sep 27
- 4 min
Craftsmanship and performance
This month I would like to make a tribute to the late Chad Holm, The founder and owner of Holm Made Traditional Bows. Firstly I want to...
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Marcin Malek
- Sep 26
- 4 min
All these great things…
Since I started writing about clubs I can’t help thinking that they are like people. With their ups and downs, sometimes inspiring others...