Making Traditional Cider: A Step by Step Journey

Making Traditional Cider Here at Now Strike we deliver historic and traditional experience days in Essex not only as a job but also a passion for all things heritage. Outside of work we generally live and breathe anything that fits into those categories, so when I got the chance to make some traditional cider, I […]

Our Review of the Barra 1866 CO2 Rifle

Title for our review of the Barra 1866 co2 shell ejecting rifle

Barra 1866 CO2 Rifle Review: A Detailed Look at This Replica Airgun It has been a long time coming and we weren’t even sure if we could add this to our range but we were delighted when we heard that Barra airguns (a US company) were importing their replicas to the UK. Almost a year […]

New Craft Video Released – Horn Nocks

Are you following our YouTube channel at @nowstrikearchery? If not then you would have missed the release of our latest “how to” video where I take you through the process of how I fit horn nocks to our hand made English Longbows. Many of you will know that we make all of our Experience Day […]

How to make a bow string

A bow without a string is just a stick! Making bow strings is a skill that you have to quickly learn when you shoot as much as we do, although you can purchase them premade from shops such as ours (nowstrikearchery.com) but it is much more satisfying and cost effective to do it yourself.  One […]

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