On Wednesday, despite threatening rain and even a couple of heavy downpours, one of our barebow women archers achieved her second successful 252 score at 50 yards to claim her badge.Last night, one of our recurve women archers has had a successful start to her 252 badge trail with two excellent scores at 20 yards, […]
Two more 252 badges achieved by our beginner archers. One of our barebow archers moved quickly on from her 20 yard 252 to achieve her badge for 30 yards. Shooting a traditional flat bow, another of our archers achieved his badge at 20 yards and has swiftly moved on to 30 yards, which he is […]
Many thanks to all the archers who took part in our Club Western Round Day and also to those who helped out our archers. Although the rain made a short appearance we did manage to complete the round and get the gear away dry. We had 15 complete Western rounds using recurve, compound, barebow and […]
Men’s and women’s club record scores as of June 2023 are available here, and are also linked from Documents. These will be updated every three months.Club Records, Men, June 2023 (PDF, 38KB)Club Records, Women, June 2023 (PDF, 39KB)
Well done to our archers in gaining more badges. Three of our beginners have achieved their 252 badges: a recurve and a barebow at 30 yards, and a barebow at 20 yards. In addition, one of our gents recurve archers has achieved his Archer 2nd Class badge after shooting two Long Metric III rounds.Great shooting.
The club target day on Sunday 18th June 2023 will feature Western rounds. Westerns are imperial rounds consisting of 4 dozen arrows at one distance and 4 dozen arrows at a second shorter distance, and use 5 zone scoring on a 122cm target face. You can choose from the full range of Western rounds. These […]
In the first five months of 2023 we have had six Bowman Classification awards. The most recent award was this Wednesday when one of our senior gent recurve archers shot his third Western score to achieve Bowman 2nd Class. We also have a senior gent recurve archer achieving his Bowman 3rd Class, a senior gent […]
Many thanks to two of our barebow archers for organising an extra club day today. A good turn out and a very sunny day. Ideal archery conditions. We had three new club records set: ladies barebow Metric 80-40, ladies recurve Windsor 40 and gents barebow WA 900.One of our gents recurve archers achieved his 252 […]
Many thanks to our archers who shot the club Long Metric round today. A wonderful sunny day at the archery field saw not only archers shooting the club round, but also several beginners enjoying and extending their archery experience under the guidance of our coach. In the Long Metric rounds we had the following successes:2 […]
We have our first small supply of the new badges. We will be using the older style Third Class and Second Class badges for the Archer Third Class and Archer Second Class as we still have a stock. The Archer First Class badge shown here will be in use very soon, as will the Bowman […]
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