No:97 - Autumn 2002

Principal content below:

Archery - The Art of Repetition - Simon Needham, Britain Number 1 Recurve Archer and International Olympic Representative, talks about your strings and bracing heights

Straight from the Shoulder- Rob Ragsdale's insight

Native American-Indian of the Southern Plains - Jack Farrell, our Native American-Indian Expert, discusses and shows how to make Plains Indian Quivers. Another one in Jack's very popular series about the American Native Indian

European Target Championships - With photographs from Andre Gegg

NFAS News and Report - A visit to the popular NFAS tournament in Shackleford, Surrey complete with superb pictures and report

European Bowhunter Championships - Field Archery with another society - IFAA complete with brilliant photos from Paul Kelly and report by Ian Meeks

FITA Target Archery - Days out at a Domestic FITA and a Top-line FITA Star with photos and report

- Jay Barrs, Olympic Gold Medallist from Seoul, Two times World Field Champion & 12 times Field Champion of the USA, stresses how important your foundation for shooting is. A must for the prospective top shooter

The Sacred Realm - More from our intrepid explorer/journalist Rick Williamson, who tells of the bowmaking skills of the World's most primitive tribes of the South-East Pacific

Crispin's Corner - Talks about the etiquette and equipment

The War Bow - Another of Hugh Soar's interesting series on the English War Bow

Chris Boyton continues his very popular series on Woodcraft and Bowmaking - with photographs

Chinese Archery - The Lost Martial Art, By Stephen Selby - The Philosophy of Chinese Archery

All about Longbows - Two-fingered releases. Were they possible with the heavy war bows of Medieval Times? Hugh Soar discusses this and illustrates with some fine photographs of this style of shooting.