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Cambridgeshire County Wins

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On the weekend of the 15th and 16th June 2024 Peacock Archers held their annual World Archery weekend. This year saw a venue change, where we moved to a very nice field on the site of the Jolly Archers (but not on the normal Jolly Archers field).

Saturday saw World Archery distances of 70m for recurve and longbow and 50m for barebow and compound. A single 72 arrow qualifying round was shot before lunch with the head to heads happening after lunch. The morning was breezy but the wind really picked up in the afternoon. Unfortunately Jordan, Daniel and Pete went out in the first round, although Pete put up a fight and took his match all the way to a single arrow ‘closest to the centre’ shoot off. A memorable day, if not for the torrential thunder, lightning and hail storm that we had during shooting.

Sunday was a double WA 720 round incorporating the Cambridgeshire Outdoor County Shoot. There were many varied distances including 70m, 60m, 50m and shorter distances for the juniors. Overall a busier day than the Saturday (maybe because of more distances on offer), Paul was shooting 70m, with Daniel and Jordan on 50m. A lot better day weather wise and in the end Ely Archers came away with 2 medals in the County shoot:

2nd Cambs County Mens Barebow – Daniel
3rd Cambs County Mens Recurve – Paul

WA Weekend Saturday Rain and Hail

WA Weekend Saturday Rain and Hail

Indoor County Shoot 2024 – Longbow County Champs

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Deborah, Pip, Pete, Simon, Daniel, Paul and Chris all shot at the Cambridgeshire County Indoor Championships on Sunday 11th February 2024 at One Leisure, St. Ives. The Open Portsmouth shoot is run by Jolly Archers and incorporates the Cambridgeshire Archery Association (CAA) Indoor Championships.

This was the second year the shoot was UK Record Status so this meant official bow inspections and new this year a timer system.

Overall, a brilliant result for the club with lots of medals, last year it was nearly all barebow wins, this year lots of wins from the new longbow camp.

Here are the results from both the Jolly Archers shoot and the incorporated Cambridgeshire Indoor County results:

County Shoot Results

  • County Champion Mens Longbow – Pete
  • 2nd Mens Longbow – Simon
  • 2nd Team Barebow – Pip, Chris and Daniel
  • 3rd Mens Recurve – Paul

Jolly Archers Open Portsmouth Results

Single Rounds

  • 1st Mens Longbow – Pete
  • 2nd Mens Longbow – Simon
  • 1st Team Longbow – Pete and Simon
  • 2nd Team Barebow – Pip and Chris

Double Rounds

  • 3rd Mens Recurve – Paul

Full Results

Jolly Archers Open Portsmouth 2024 Results

CAA Indoor Championship 2024 Results

CAA End of Season Handicap Shoot 2022

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Alex and Jordan attended the Cambridgeshire Archery Association (CAA) end of season handicap shoot on Sunday 2nd October 2022. The shoot was a free to attend shoot hosted by the City of Cambridge Bowmen. The round selected was a National archery round, with a choice of distances on offer from 80/60, 60/50, 50/40 and 30/20.

The weather for the afternoon was a light wind with Sun and the occasional cloud. Warm but not too hot.

The shoot was a handicap-adjusted shoot with separate categories for seniors and juniors, archers shot their round of choice and the results were handicap adjusted. Each archer had to present their current handicap rating to the tournament organiser before the shoot, which is supplied by your clubs records officer.

A handicap adjusted score of 1440 means you are shooting to your normal standard, above – you’re shooting better than normal, below and not as good as usual.

Jordan shot a 60/50 yard National and ranked 17th equal with a score of 582, the adjusted score was 1423.
Alex shot a 60/50 yard National and ranked 33rd with a score of 373, the adjusted score was 1377.

In the end 39 archers from the county attended from a number of different archery clubs and it was a really good shoot. It’s well organised, free, and worth attending in the future if you want experience of a local friendly shoot – it will hopefully be back again next year!

CAA End of Season Handicap Shoot 2022 Results

CAA EOS 2022