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Merlin Archery Equipment, Darts and Slingshots
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Originally focusing specifically on trade and export sales, 2005 saw the opening of its own retail orientated archery shop. Now Merlin supplies a wide range of products for beginners and expert archers from all over the country. New archers are activley encouraged to take up the sport and an archery range gives everyone a chance to try their equipment out.
It all started in 1973 when Chris Jones attended the IFAA's European championships in Germany. Chris was shooting a recurve at the time, but while he was there he saw an American serviceman shooting a compound bow. Having never seen a compound before he asked if he could have a closer look. The American was only too pleased to oblige, and handed the Jennings-made bow over to Chris. Immediately Chris fell in love with it and vowed he would have one.
Arriving back in England he approached all the archery equipment specialists but to no avail. No dealers in Britain stocked the new type of bow, but one of his friends was visiting the United States, and so Chris asked him to bring back a compound bow. His friend brought him back a P.S.E.
During that year he attended many archery tournaments. It did not matter which class of bow he was pitted against he still won. Primarily a field archer in those days, he tried to introduce his new compound bow to target archery. The governing body of England, the G.N.A.S., had no classification for a compound bow, and with their motto 'union, True Heart and Courtesy', Chris was allowed to shoot, all be it on a separate target, at a different distance and sometimes in a different field!
