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If I’m not using paid-for fletchings, I’ll just hang around lakes which hold stocks of geese or swans and keep an eye out….Alternatively, while I was still in Surrey, I made friends with some smallholders who raised turkeys…..a goldmine of great feathers for “a drink” :). See :

If the whistler’s cost will be prohibitive for fun roving, then I’d suggest making a few flu-flus with 3x pieces of full feather fletchings on each shaft. They work well for stumping etc if you put an ordinary field point in the arrow.

Could you post the link for @Broch ?

Yep. It’s actually a brass two-part pile where the front part unscrews from the socket so that you can clean out any soil/dirt that will get in there on a ground landing. They aren’t that cheap, but built very solid so should last for ever(ish). I got mine here: Bearpaw whistling pile Also...

Absolutely pointless gesture politics- “got to be seen to be doing something “. Those proposals would do nothing at all to reduce the violent crime rate. How about actually enacting the current legislation and use stop and search etc? Violent and illegal acts will still continue to be committed...

Last week, our club (Windwhistle Company of Archers) had a roving marks shoot, and one or two of the members used whistling arrows for a bit of fun. I’ve never made a whistling arrow (well, not on purpose…) before, so I thought I’d give it a go. Here is the result - a test shot into our safety...

Stockholm, the Venice of the North.

Gotta say - I think that Townsend is one of the best channels I’ve seen on YouTube.

Saturday: a short day of winter angling, now that it’s finally stopped raining for a few days. It’ll be cold, but bright, and my flask and sarnies will help keep me comfy. Merino undies all round. Sunday: out rabbiting with the old boys and their ferrets in the local area. We will be on the...

Epoxy is good and tough, but be sure that air isn’t trapped between the pile and the shaft. Easiest way is to provide a groove in the shaft piece that fits into the pile so that air and excess glue can escape during assembly. Fletchings on the same arrow need to be of the same ‘wing’, so their...

If you can afford pre-prepared fletchings and shafts, use a jig and three fletchings per arrow. If you are happy to use plastic, use a plastic nock, having cut a taper with a suitable pencil sharpener - you may need to experiment to find a matching taper. Glue the nock on so that the string slot...

So it sounds like Charnwood is the way to go (?). We have an open fire with a Minster fireplace (and we do use it), but the missus wants to change it out for a proper firebox of some kind. I presume that we will need some kind of flue installation to go with the log burner, into the existing...

Yep, same for me, but simpler non-CANBUS lamps for my reversing lamps. I think it’s a necessity here in the great unlit.

Pork scratchings - ooh yes please :bigok: Us old boys play spoof for them on Thursday nights at the pub…..

…although Del the Cat’s breathing sounds a bit laboured on his YouTube channel these days.

This. Shocking at first but their virtuosity shines out. The more you listen, the more it sucks you in.

When I’m out in the field - beating, angling, archery shoots, rabbiting, I use my Fällkniven TK4 (3G). All other times I carry a small SAK Classic SD.

I heard one on Dartmoor in May. I was out on a photo day, but couldn’t catch it on camera.

Ask for thick off cuts of float glass at your local glass supplier/cutter? Heavy, very flat and stable as a platform.

1: Join a club and get some coaching. It’s not easy to spot errors in your own form, particularly those errors that creep in with fatigue. 2: Double check your equipment. Depending upon the type and class of archery you’re shooting, you should measure some data points when your setup is...