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Junior Warwick Club Records

15th August 2016Ely ArchersEly Archers Archery Newsamerican, junior warwick, long national

A nice calm Sunday for shooting for a change. Daniel shot a Long National, Maggie shot an American, whilst Malcolm (Barebow) and Rob (American Flatbow) both shot a Junior Warwick – both record scores at 320 and 225 (if we record junior rounds for Gents!). It’s nice to see Rob back (I have un-archived his records on the system).

Ending on a sad note though, sadly yesterday for the second time this week Mike W. lost another arrow to the wicked outdoor season. The first saw the carbon strip away from the aluminium like a cheese string just by hitting the grass, whilst the second arrow yesterday came away from the target with no point and a cracked end. May they rest in pieces.

St. Nick in the Summer

8th August 2016Ely ArchersEly Archers Archery Newssaint nicholas round, st nicholas, st nicholas round

What a great windy day to shoot a St. Nicholas round, which is 4 dozen at 40 yards and 3 dozen at 30 yards. It was a great decision to shoot from the tree lined end of the field for a change. This removed the sun from our eyes, put the wind behind us, provided a shady area to shoot from and it gave us some very nice downward shadows on the arrows in the target.

Everyone who shot the St. Nicholas round today gained a Personal Best, but Mary also gained an Ely Club Record with 474 on her barebow. Bart gained an Ely Club Record with 296 on his barebow, Daniel scored 692 an Ely Club Record and Danielle scored an impressive 541 on her recurve which was also an Ely Club Record.

A nice afternoon of shooting, plus there was also some fun to be had with balloons.

Balloon Shooting

Target with arrow shadows

Shooting the American Round

3rd August 2016Ely ArchersEly Archers Archery Newsamerican round

8 of us shot on Sunday. Maggie and Daniel shot an American (now Scott has left!). Maggie scored 327 on her barebow which is a new Club Record and Daniel scored 652 out of a possible 810 which was a personal best for him.

An American round is 2.5 dozen @ 60 yards, 2.5 dozen @ 50 yards and 2.5 dozen @ 40 yards using 5 zone scoring.

Next week: St. Nicholas

6 Gold End

Junior Master Bowman for Harry

31st July 2016Ely ArchersEly Archers Archery Newsjunior master bowman

Harry has now obtained Junior Master Bowman.

Harry scored 5 Junior Master Bowman scores at record status events this Summer:

12/06/2016 Lincs CAA Bristol III 1108
19/06/2016 Netherall County Shoot Metric III 1227
02/07/2016 JNOC, Lilleshall Metric III 1113
03/07/2016 JNOC, Lilleshall Bristol III 1150
17/07/2016 BCAA WA1440 Metric II 960

Archery GB have presented Harry with his shiny Junior Master Bowman badge.

Harry obtains Junior Master Bowman

Very well done Harry!!

July Clout Results Rain Down

10th July 2016Ely ArchersEly Archers Archery Newsclout

A very breezy 140 yard and 100 yard clout was shot today. Windy enough for a few of us to have problems keeping the arrow on the arrow rest.

I do feel that anybody with a long rod does have an unfair advantage, plus having a line of trees at the back of the shooting field always helps to give us something to aim at.

Karl arrived late but finished off strongly by actually hitting the clout flag.

Final scores today were:

clout july 2016 results