archery law ?

[Ex Member lyndon]

hi guys (and gals) can anyone find me a link that gives the law concerning archery in the uk ? ive looked for 2 weeks and keep drawing a blank.

i found the old stuff like you had to, under pain of death practise in the medevil times, and the even better one that if you off,d some one while practasing you were absolved (lol very handy) but i cant find any modern ones
need to now as ive just bought a bow. the thing thats confusing me is you can legally spear fish in this country (didnt know this till recently ) but therefore can you fish with a bow ? hunting is apparently a nono but is that on your own land or any ? and does anyone know where to buy broadheads as most of the sites ive been to wont ship to the uk

well any help would be appreciated thanks lyn.

 

[Draven]

Howdy!
If you take a look in Fair Game, the law is discussed in detail there

In short, hunting with a bow is illegal, full stop. I find it odd too that you can spearfish but not bowhunt, but there ye go. Perhaps they're assuming that it's harder to miss with a spear? Dunno mate... kinda saddens me, I always wanted to hunt something with a bow. Ach well, there's always a holiday in America I guess...!

EDIT: Just dug up that thread
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/community/showthread.php?t=18038

 

[Aliwren]

Try Richard Head Longbows for traditional arrows, he is a respected bowyer:

http://www.english-longbow.co.uk/Hector Cole/hcnew1.htm

I have never shot any broadheads as they are apparently ruinous to target bosses and 3D foam animals so my club says no!

 

[Ogri the trog]

From what I remember,
Broadhead arrows can only be legally used in the UK for "One Specific" target tournament - it might be the "Crecy Silver Challace Challenge", but you have to be a member of the relevant societies in order to purchase them - aside from the challenge being for "War weight" bows (90lb draw minimum )
Apart from that they are "Grandtemps Verboten"
The bow hunting restriction applies on any land, even if it is your own. No links I'm affraid, its just what I've learnt from membership of BLBS and the Royal Tox society years ago!

Aliwren,
My first longbow was a Richard Head - subsequent ones were by Ron Bickerstaff.

ATB

Ogri the trog

 

[pothunter]

Hi lyndon

Don't waste your time with UK bowhunting legislation its a non starter, the spear fishing thing broadly goes back to eel 'cleeves' not sure of the spelling.

If you are serious about bowhunting there are plenty of enlightened countries in Europe, America and Africa.

Happy hunting Pothunter.

 

[Ex Member lyndon]

And this is why i love this site thanks guys much appreciated

 

[JimN]

hi guys (and gals) can anyone find me a link that gives the law concerning archery in the uk ? ive looked for 2 weeks and keep drawing a blank.

i found the old stuff like you had to, under pain of death practise in the medevil times, and the even better one that if you off,d some one while practasing you were absolved (lol very handy) but i cant find any modern ones
need to now as ive just bought a bow. the thing thats confusing me is you can legally spear fish in this country (didnt know this till recently ) but therefore can you fish with a bow ? hunting is apparently a nono but is that on your own land or any ? and does anyone know where to buy broadheads as most of the sites ive been to wont ship to the uk

well any help would be appreciated thanks lyn.

Presumably you're after the modern broadheads as opposed to the mediaeval ones you can find on sites like Richard Heads. I do not think they are specifically illegal but I can imagine it would be a case of "hunting's illegal so why would you want a broad-head?". If you are really after such a thing you can try (if you've not already) 3Rivers Archery. They definitely deliver some stuff to the UK, but whether that includes broad-heads I couldn't say. Failing that there's TradGang.Com, an American now-hunting forum.

So, tell me a bit more about this bow you've just bought and what type of archery you do? (just out of general nosiness )

 

[bent-stick]

From what I remember,
Broadhead arrows can only be legally used in the UK for "One Specific" target tournament - it might be the "Crecy Silver Challace Challenge", but you have to be a member of the relevant societies in order to purchase them - aside from the challenge being for "War weight" bows (90lb draw minimum )
Apart from that they are "Grandtemps Verboten"
The bow hunting restriction applies on any land, even if it is your own. No links I'm affraid, its just what I've learnt from membership of BLBS and the Royal Tox society years ago!

Aliwren,
My first longbow was a Richard Head - subsequent ones were by Ron Bickerstaff.

ATB

Ogri the trog

I have sevaral exemplar arrows with both bodkins, type 3's and swallowtails just for show. I sometimes give the bodkins an outing at roving marks.

It's quite tru that you won't find anyone to sell you modern broadheads.

I have a set in Spain in the keeping of a mate over there.

For Chapter and verse see the countryside act 1981 that specifies no wild animals can be taked with a bow,arrow, spear, crossbow etc, etc.

 

[Aliwren]

Aliwren,
My first longbow was a Richard Head - subsequent ones were by Ron Bickerstaff.
Ogri the trog

My longbow is a Pip Bickerstaffe and although I have only been shooting it 3 months I am loving it!!!

 

[Ex Member lyndon]

So, tell me a bit more about this bow you've just bought and what type of archery you do? (just out of general nosiness )

ok here goes ....
its a bowtech old glory last years model (so a bit cheaper) its 40-50 lb got it turned down to 40 at the moment till i get some degree of accuracy then ill crank it back up to max.
i am deffinalty persuing feild archery as apposed to any kind of target archery, i visited a course last week neer abergaveny with hawk archers, shot at foam decoys and animal targets it was better than ide hoped allthough it is true your are limited with a bow with sites if they only cover a certain range
much more fun than sticking arrows in a target face over and over
and i cant be doing bad as half way through the club president type person said "its about time you bloody missed " lol
thanks for the info again guys ill check out the links but failing that anyone got a lathe and a miller i can borrow