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    BAREBOW RISER: FROM SCRATCH

    May 27, 2021 6 minutes

    I took up archery around 2010 after my young son had decided he wanted to buy himself a beginner type jelly-bow to shoot at home. I had shot air rifles & catapults when I was younger so archery seemed to make sense.

    We shot together at UK NFAS shoots along with my daughter, after trying various styles along the way I eventually settled with the American Flatbow.

    I shot this for quite a few years & enjoyed a fair bit of success until eventually in 2016 I decided to make the change to barebow, what I strove for was improved accuracy without fitting a sight. I felt I had got as far as I could with gap shooting the flatbow & natural progression dictated that stringwalking a barebow would be the next step.

    The style I chose to try was WA barebow. I have always worked in engineering, had always made my own bows up to this point and saw no

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