The Longbow Shop Blog — archery

Horn reinforced self nock arrows are pretty easy to make yourself. With a couple of simple items great looking horn self nock arrows can be easily made: 3 Hack Saw blades Sanding paper Wire wool Pencil nock strips With a steady hand it's really easy to do yourself. Reinforcing an arrow stops the shaft from splitting on release of the string. This is really important especially if shooting very heavy bows. Here's a little infographic I put together a few years ago to show how easy it is to make these reinforced arrows. Hope you like it! You can buy the required arrow strips for...

Since winning Theo Paphitis #SBS Twitter award we've been even busier than usual and the PR machine has certainly been rolling. So far we've been involved with supplying TV for The White Queen, Dr Who (Robots of Sherwood) and new series The Royals made in the US featuring our own Liz Hurley and we were even approached by a production company to supply a bow for an Ed Sheeran music vid! We've had peak airtime on BBC Radio 2 drive time slot plus local radio interviews. On top of our normal retail business we've also managed to launch our new...

The Longbow Shop is now stocking Bickerstaffe Flatbows. This primitive pyramidal design bow gives you all you need from a traditional flat bow. Based on a design roughly 5000 years old this bow is a total dream to shoot just like all Bickerstaffe products. Our experiance of these bows is that they are both fast and consistent to shoot and are proving to be very popular with all our customers. Can be shot right or left handed and is 74 inches tall. Comes with Horn nocks and a double loop flemish fastflight string and a full leather handstitched grip. Please...

We are proud to announce our new partnership with Fairbow bows. 2 new bow ranges will be available as stock in the coming weeks with custom options also available. These ranges are: REBEL a high end, top quality vintage Hill style American Flatbow with slim fast limbs and VERTEX a redefined reflex deflex flatbow that when braced shows a true D-shaped profile. Watch the website and social networks for the full stock breakdown.

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