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4-6 “Replicating the Mary Rose Arrow”<br />
by Will Sherman<br />
12-14 <strong>FAN</strong> <strong>UK</strong>’s Club Update - “Things have been<br />
changing at Avalon” by Carl Gibbard<br />
36-38 “Meet Baldivis Archery Club” by Ian Finch<br />
67 “The Lonely Little Arrow” by Sue Kenworthy<br />
79 Announcement! NEW WFAA Website!<br />
Shoot Info/Entry Forms<br />
7 Regent Archers - 23.07.<strong>2017</strong><br />
30 Druids Field Archers Summer Solstice shoot<br />
17 & 18.06.<strong>2017</strong><br />
41 North Lakes Field Archers - 09.04.<strong>2017</strong><br />
51 Dunbrody Archery 100 3D - 10 & 11.06.<strong>2017</strong><br />
59 Magna Carta Field Archers - 30.07.<strong>2017</strong><br />
64-65 The High Weald Archery Club hosting the<br />
<strong>2017</strong> Sussex and Open <strong>UK</strong>RS WA Field<br />
Championships - 29 & 30.07.<strong>2017</strong><br />
88-89 South West Challenge <strong>2017</strong><br />
91 Apollo & Raven’s Southern Champs <strong>2017</strong><br />
Product Reviews<br />
70-72 Wildcrete Targets @ Archery 3D<br />
Photography<br />
COVER SHOT - taken by MARK SERVICE<br />
40 ARMIN HIRMER & FRITZ VON WEINSBERG<br />
50 ADAM BROWNING<br />
67 JASON QUINN<br />
93 PHILIP CAVE<br />
97 JASON QUINN<br />
REAR COVER - taken by ROB PARFETT<br />
Shoot Reports<br />
8-9 Pines Park Archers 05/03/<strong>2017</strong><br />
16-18 Company of Sixty 19/03/<strong>2017</strong><br />
24-27 Muttley Crew Field Archers 26/02/<strong>2017</strong><br />
42-43 Wolfshead Field Archers 26/02/<strong>2017</strong><br />
48-49 Oakwood Bowmen 05/02/<strong>2017</strong><br />
52-53 Elmtree Archers 15/01/<strong>2017</strong><br />
60-61 Broadland Bowmen 19/02/<strong>2017</strong><br />
73 Whitefriars Bowmen 12/02/<strong>2017</strong><br />
78-79 Zenith Archers’ St. David’s Day FMT1 WFAA<br />
12/03/<strong>2017</strong><br />
84-86 Rednex 12/03/<strong>2017</strong><br />
Regulars<br />
31 A Cartoon or two for You!<br />
32-33 HOODS & MAIDS<br />
34 “Archery on the Big Screen” by David 1066<br />
44-45 “The Bowyer’s Diary”: Force Draw Curves<br />
by Derek Hutchison<br />
54-57 “A Journey in Archery - Part 5” by Mitch Vaughan<br />
58 “Toxophilia Poetica” by Barry Johnson<br />
74 NFAS Shooting Styles (Barebow)<br />
by Stuart Moody<br />
76-77 Another Wonderful Cartoon for You!<br />
Updates<br />
20-23 “Azincourt 600 Archers’ Tribute” by O H Boyd<br />
69 “Moonshine in Action” by Stacey Service<br />
92 “A Wheelchair for Tonya”<br />
69 <strong>FAN</strong> <strong>UK</strong>’S Club Update - Broadland Bowmen<br />
94-95 Club Locations Directory<br />
Quizzes & Comps!<br />
10 Word Search<br />
46 Anagrams Answers<br />
82 Answers to Word Search, Dec/Jan - Volume 2<br />
90 QUIZ TIME! Anagrams!<br />
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all enough for the support that I have received since setting it up - for that I am truly grateful.<br />
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don’t be shy - you are ALL so important to our sport so please do share your stories/shoots/ideas!<br />
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PINES PARK ARCHERS<br />
SHOOT REPORT MARCH 5 TH <strong>2017</strong><br />
This was our first shoot of the new year and our charity shoot<br />
so we were all looking forward to a good day. We had a big<br />
works party on the Saturday and the weather really helped to<br />
let everyone get the targets out and set up.<br />
Well what can I say about Sunday except the weather was<br />
the worst we’ve experienced in the Admin tent trying to keep<br />
paper work dry etc. well done everyone for holding the fort<br />
whilst we had to go and re-print sheets ... and even though<br />
it did not stop raining all day all our archers seemed to have<br />
a brilliant time, we had a lot of positive feedback, I felt so sorry<br />
for you all walking and standing around in the pouring rain and<br />
it didn’t stop you getting some good scores (even if the score<br />
cards looked like paper mache at the end of the day).<br />
We would like to say a massive thank you to all the works<br />
party on the Saturday for setting up the course, for all the<br />
marshals on Sunday who worked hard looking for lost arrows<br />
etc., also collecting all the targets in after the shoot and to<br />
everyone who helped us with Admin.<br />
We raised a huge £613 for 3 charities which is brilliant<br />
considering the damp conditions of the day. It’s just goes to<br />
show that you’re not all fair-weather archers unlike myself
GENTS LB –<br />
Jon Rudge Paget de Vesey 510<br />
Dave Wood Robin Hood Longbow 492<br />
Mark Tarbuck D W Longbow 474<br />
Richard Waters Albion 470<br />
Graham Baker Robin Hood Longbow 446<br />
Carl Gibbard Avalon 424<br />
Andy Garbett Artemis 420<br />
Grot Independent 406<br />
Bob Davies Artemis 364<br />
Stewart Bigrigg Albion 312<br />
LADIES LB –<br />
Kay-Leona Hodgkinson Artemis 486<br />
Sue Fenyn Albion 408<br />
Wendy Young D W Longbow 376<br />
Elenore Cottrell Duvelle 318<br />
Jan Slater Ye Olde Delph 296<br />
Lynda Stevenson Independent 272 LADIES HT –<br />
Julie Mosley LEFA 242 Sue Walker Harlequin 482<br />
GENTS HT – Julie Bacon Harlequin 478<br />
John Allen Wyre Hall 612 Ruth Hanlon Cobra Archers 460<br />
Mark Corstin Black Eagle 584 Jules Maibu Paget de Vesey 384<br />
Ken Adams Spirit of Sherwood 546 Jean Harwood Independent 370<br />
John Hall Cobra Archers 452 Carole Evans Poulter Guys 364<br />
Chris Babb 100 Yard Club 448 Lynne Roe Ye Olde Delph 298<br />
John Manners Spirit of Sherwood 444 & 2 Spots Anne Moon Robin Hood 246<br />
Garry Thompson Albion 444 & 1 Spot U16B HT –<br />
Graeme Hicklin Poulter Guys 438 Joshua Smith Black Eagle 560<br />
George Hampson Poulter Guys 432 GENTS BB<br />
David Brunning Albion 414 Martyn Nazaruk Artemis 620 & 4 Spots<br />
David Barker Duvelle 412 Dave Wassell Severn Valley 620 & 3 Spots<br />
Harry Bennett Albion 402 Chris Robson Wyre Hall 598 & 5 Spots<br />
Steve Jordan Avalon Archers 398 Roger Hands LEFA 598 & 2 Spots<br />
Robbie Bannister Spirit of Sherwood 290 Mark Howarth Artemis 586<br />
Mark Brookes Cobra Archers 584<br />
Andy Martin Duvelle 580<br />
Geoff Ingleby Riggwelter 576<br />
Graham Holmes Nemesis 572<br />
Jon Howarth Artemis 562<br />
Phillip Johnson Centaura 524<br />
Keith Stevens Paget de Vesey 520<br />
Adrian Blanchard Cobra Archers 512<br />
John Eddlestone Ye Olde Delph 476<br />
Mick Newell Castle Bowmen 466<br />
Jamie Smith Independent 450<br />
David Hook Artemis 444<br />
Andy Williams Avalon 434<br />
Paul Shaw LEFA 430<br />
Chris Ward Cobra Archers 420<br />
Michael Patchett Black Sheep 402<br />
LADIES BB –<br />
Nicky McMaster 100 Yard Club 506<br />
Lynne Harrison Centaura 502<br />
Jacqueline Brookes Cobra Archers 456<br />
Shelagh Newell Castle Bowmen 410<br />
Jacqueline Johnson Centaura 404<br />
U12G BB –<br />
Kelsea Edwards Frankley Bowmen 403<br />
Launa Edwards Frankley Bowmen 304<br />
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<strong>FAN</strong> <strong>UK</strong>’s<br />
Club Update -<br />
Things have been<br />
changing at Avalon...<br />
~ By Carl Gibbard ~<br />
<strong>2017</strong> at Avalon has started with a lot of change and the year ahead looks very exciting<br />
for both club members and visitors.<br />
Almost immediately after Christmas work started on thinning out the woods which caused<br />
quite a bit of disruption, a lot of mess and a period of limited shooting opportunities.<br />
The result, though, is that many more exciting shots have been opened up and the<br />
2-day shoots lined up for summer will be superb.<br />
Following a vote by club members, Avalon has now been affiliated with the EFAA and<br />
we also now have a permanent 14 target course in place.<br />
We hold our shoots on the 4th Sunday of every month (except for March when there<br />
will be no shoot) and we offer some very “interesting” terrain for EFAA members<br />
more used to the flatter courses of East Anglia – good practice for those archers<br />
heading off to the European championships.<br />
Our first EFAA shoot was on 29th January and was well attended with 45 archers<br />
eager to try out the Field round. Thanks must go to Bela DeFreitas and Mike Cullen<br />
from Black Eagle Bowmen for all of their help with setting up registration<br />
and showing us the ropes. Many thanks too, to Chris and Sue Cox for laying on<br />
some excellent catering.<br />
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Being the first ever EFAA shoot at Avalon there<br />
were a few teething issues so the planned 10:00<br />
start was delayed a little bit but once these<br />
niggles were sorted everyone headed off for<br />
a good day of shooting.<br />
As this was still January, the sun was setting<br />
pretty early so there was a bit of pressure<br />
to get everyone in before nightfall; but by<br />
16:30 all groups were in and had had their<br />
record cards returned.<br />
There had been plenty of laughter in the woods and all comments received were positive<br />
about how good (and challenging) the course was.<br />
For our second EFAA shoot on Sunday 26th February - a Hunter round - we had 38 archers<br />
turn up – many of them returning visitors. We were getting to grips with the new booking in<br />
system so things ran pretty smoothly and everybody was heading to their peg by 10:00.<br />
We had the luxury of a little more daylight this time but<br />
everyone had finished shooting by 16:00 and most<br />
people were wending their weary way home by 16:30.<br />
Again; nothing but praise for the course was heard<br />
and promises of return visits – especially in preparation<br />
for Germany later this year.<br />
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So now at Avalon we have 3 courses available: the 14 target EFAA course, 14 x 3D animals<br />
shot to NFAS rules and 14 x paper animal faces; all of them using the ups and downs of<br />
our lovely woods. This is just too good not to share with all of our friends in the archery<br />
community so from April we will be holding monthly Club Shoots where ALL archers will be<br />
welcome to Avalon – NFAS, EFAA, Archery GB, BLBS, ILAA, FITA etc. As long as you are<br />
a competent archer (i.e. belong to a recognised society) you can come and try your<br />
hand at three different disciplines (four if you come in July when there is also a “3D clout”<br />
shoot) – a unique opportunity in the <strong>UK</strong>. The price per shoot day is £7 which includes<br />
a day-membership fee to satisfy the requirements of our insurance. No need to book -<br />
just turn up on the day for a prompt 10:00 start.<br />
Although each of the courses will be shot according to the rules of that discipline, there are<br />
only 4 bow styles each with a male, female and junior category. Essentially the styles are<br />
Unlimited (including crossbow), Freestyle, bows without sights but shot from a rest or shelf,<br />
and bows without sights shot off the hand. The essence of the day is to have fun so we<br />
have tried not to be too complicated about styles.<br />
On each club shoot day the winner of each category for all styles (as long as there is a<br />
minimum of 3 entrants in that style) will win a free return shoot on one of our Club Shoots. To<br />
win you must enter the highest aggregate score from all three courses.<br />
Throughout the year we will also be holding a team competition. A team consists of 3<br />
shooting styles – Bows with sights, bows without sights but a shelf or rest, and bows without<br />
sights shot off the hand. To enter, the team must hand in 3 scorecards for each shooting<br />
style. A complete scorecard consists of a score for each of the 3 courses. A team can be of<br />
1 to 3 archers as long as the number of cards entered satisfies the conditions just mentioned.<br />
The team does not have to shoot together or on the same dates. There are no<br />
separate categories for men, women or juniors. The total cost of entering a team is £24 but<br />
the winning team stands to win 3 £50 vouchers for The Archery Company.<br />
For full details see the Avalon website: www.avalonarchers.co.uk<br />
We hope to see you at our woods in Sandy, Bedfordshire soon.<br />
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Company of 60 - Shoot Results & Report<br />
Sunday 19th March <strong>2017</strong><br />
~ by Andrea Beddard-Smith, Company of Sixty Events Organiser. ~<br />
As the date of our first shoot of <strong>2017</strong> approached it was becoming clear that we were going to be full<br />
and the worry was that we would not have enough space for all those cars, but with the help of our<br />
car parking marshals we managed to fit them all in. It was a fairly chilly day so we had the fire going<br />
from early though with the wind in the afternoon many of us went home with that lovely aroma of<br />
campfires on our clothes!<br />
We were using our Creek and Xmas tree courses, with the Creek course being totally re-laid in an<br />
area of the woods that we hadn’t used since the loggers were in 5-6 years ago. Our Xmas tree had<br />
also been reset with many new shots alongside some old favourites such as the Elephant. Our dragon<br />
3D again proved to be popular, this time crouching in amongst the saplings waiting to spring on the<br />
unwary but of course archers are a canny bunch and many successfully shot him before he could<br />
jump out, though one or two did report that he had managed to dodge their arrows!<br />
As usual our thanks go to our brilliant course layers [Alex for the Creek and Mark and Shaun for the<br />
Xmas tree] to all those who helped with the work party on Saturday, in particular the road repair<br />
gang and, of course, our marshals and Lorraine and her catering team who kept everyone fed and<br />
watered all day long. And last but not least our lovely Lady Paramount Maggie Bremner.<br />
Open shoot results:-<br />
Gentlemen Primitive<br />
Ladies Longbow<br />
Martin Ward Windrush 428 Mandy Linn Raven 452<br />
Nick Gentle COPRA 400 Cat Chandler Independent 424<br />
Robert Taylor Holmbush 318 Jackie Willough Whitemark 340<br />
Georgina Thompson HNA 210<br />
Gentlemen Longbow<br />
David Holt South Wilts 620<br />
Steve Blake South Wilts 606<br />
Ben Knight COPRA 602<br />
Roger Massey Archers of Battle 564<br />
Alberto Martinelli Sandhill 552<br />
David Smith Independent 534<br />
Jeff Kluckers COPRA 516<br />
Paul Knight Independent 516<br />
Patrick Hutchinson North Somerset 514<br />
Glen Bolton Bridgewood 490<br />
Rob Slatem Celtic Harmony 488<br />
Simon Banks Magna Carta 462 [1 spot]<br />
Gary Thompson HNA 462<br />
Paul Briggs Raven 440<br />
Simon Pratt Bridgewood 398<br />
Gary Powell Independent 392<br />
Martin Sutton Independent 386<br />
Gordon Eyres Bridgewood 352<br />
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Gentlemen Hunting Tackle<br />
Ladies Hunting Tackle<br />
Jed Cullen Raven 672 Alayne D’Attoma Hartspring 548<br />
Stuart Stevenson Magic Dragon 660 Jan Seed Invicta 532<br />
Keith Burton Independent 648 Pauline Heijman Magna Carta 382<br />
Mike Davidson Fleet 642 Sam de-Buriatte Invicta 290<br />
Mike List South Wilts 638 Beverley Cooke Invicta 280<br />
Steve Hipgrave South Hams 604 Elaine Eyers Bridgewood 246<br />
Steve Rand Invicta 592<br />
Tim Seed Invicta 588 Junior Boy Hunting Tackle<br />
Frank Clarkson South Wilts 582 Jack Massey Archers of Battle 622<br />
Bob Moore Bridgewood 580 Jay Bartlett Windrush 476<br />
Steve Dixon Invicta 570<br />
Tony Barnett Archers of Battle 534 Gentlemen American Flat Bow<br />
David Curwen Independent 534 Denis Alston Fleet 672<br />
Ray McKenzie Archers of Battle 510 Mark Hitchman Windrush 610<br />
John Cappello Belvedere 490 Darren Hawkins Alresford Bowmen 598<br />
Steven Taylor Alresford Bowmen 456 Andy Doyle Invicta 578<br />
Antal Dobondi Independent 454 David Bennett Fleet 544<br />
Edward Knight Bridgewood 428 Phil Adams Raven 512<br />
Jacint Bagdi Independent 380 Nicholas Mitchell Belvedere 510<br />
Laszlo Varga Independent 364 Stephen Hinton Independent 476<br />
Bob Bassett Independent 342 Barrie Cooper Whitemark 456<br />
Charlie Liston Independent 320 Phil Marr Senlac 430<br />
Alan Puddick Ratpack 388<br />
Roger de-Buriatte Invicta 336<br />
Brian Briggs Raven 308<br />
Ladies Free Style<br />
Hilary Devaney Windrush 642<br />
Linda Keen Independent 630<br />
Angela Keen Independent 500<br />
Gentlemen Free Style<br />
Andy Rycroft Independent 776<br />
Glenn Martin Fleet 746<br />
Ladies Compound Unlimited<br />
Linda Palmer Raven 760<br />
Caroline Jameson Fleet 742<br />
Gentlemen Compound Unlimited<br />
Edward Britton Fleet 856<br />
Kevin Rowitt South Wilts 820<br />
Gentlemen Barebow Peter Humphrey London Archers 808<br />
Paul Skippins COPRA 702 Adam Valovec Warminster 804<br />
Steven Hursthouse Fleet 690 Michael Lee Hartspring 798<br />
John Barcroft Senlac 668 Andy Phillips BWFAC 794<br />
Ben Ringshaw Fleet 662 [5 spots] Juray [Ray] Valovec Warminster 788<br />
Dave Andrews Aquarius 662 [2 spots] Trevor Barker Archers of Battle 756<br />
Ken Payne Magic Dragon 626 Nick Hearn Hartspring 742<br />
Roy Fisher Bridgewood 604 Steve Joy Senlac 728<br />
Richard Powell South Wilts 592<br />
John Marshall Magic Dragon 548 Gentlemen Bow Hunter<br />
Aadin Holness London Archers 520 Tony Young South Hams 748<br />
Terry Stevens Invicta 518<br />
Mark Svensson Independent 508<br />
Richard Haslam Fleet 482 For club competition results<br />
keep reading overleaf ...<br />
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COMPANY OF SIXTY RESULTS:-<br />
Club Handicap Competition<br />
Cub Boy - Seb Stockton Lady - Monique Purdy Gent - Lawrence Goodall<br />
Club Results<br />
Ladies Primitive Gentlemen Longbow Ladies Longbow<br />
Helene Holloway 456 Phil Stratton 472 Monique Purdy 488<br />
Alan Green 466 Maggie Bremner 478<br />
Ladies American Flat Bow Roger Meeking 428<br />
Sue Bint 418 Jack Gorman 384 Ladies Barebow<br />
Sue Hutchins 310 Peta Stockton 342<br />
Gentlemen American Flat Bow<br />
Gentlemen Hunting Tackle Chris Hurst 466 Cub Boy Barebow<br />
Shaun Bateman 564 Chris Hutchins 430 Seb Stockton 590<br />
Bob Dysart 380<br />
Brian Penfold 378 Ladies Free Style Gentlemen Barebow<br />
Lisa Fowler 574 Gerry Tierney 718<br />
Gentlemen Free Style Mark Stockton 688<br />
Lawrence Goodall 774 John Thomas 590<br />
Erik Mhutarian 532<br />
Ian Burton 522<br />
Field Archery News <strong>UK</strong>’s Events Calendar is updated every day with<br />
shoots for the forthcoming year … don’t forget to keep checking in<br />
at - http://fieldarcherynewsuk.wixsite.com/fanuk/event-calendar<br />
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This month has seen the completion of two small works that depict a small but<br />
chilling detail of the Azincourt Battle, in response to several Galleries that<br />
have asked to display one of my pieces this season.<br />
Since the central project carving has been taking up the bulk of my carving hours for<br />
a couple of years, this has meant a complete ‘Arête’ to create some exciting new pieces<br />
that are now available for sale and are directly related to the main work, in subject,<br />
style and concept.<br />
The small diversion has been an extension of the 600 Tribute, in a manner<br />
that is like stopping to read the Newspaper, while you are in the middle of reading<br />
Tolstoy’s War and Peace.<br />
Working out on a Bench<br />
This may give you a picture of a sports hall<br />
or fitness gym, but for me, this month has<br />
been a refreshing change, allowing me to work<br />
on the bench without the physical contortions<br />
necessary to work on the main figure.<br />
This sudden, new accessibility makes a<br />
tremendous difference to the workload,<br />
my back and my mindset.<br />
THE ARCHERS HANDS<br />
Hands have always been a fascination for me<br />
and in my portrait, work I always like to include<br />
a hand doing something that represents what<br />
the subject is about. This says more about the<br />
person than the face alone. I decided that an<br />
Archer’s hand could easily convey the spirit of<br />
the Archer about to enter the battle; and this<br />
seemed an exciting emotion to convey within a<br />
piece of carved wood.<br />
Stage 1:- Lime wood block Bandsaw to shape<br />
Stage 2:- Roughing begins<br />
PREPARE YOUR WEAPON<br />
The first work is a hand drawing an arrow.<br />
It conveys a feeling of determination and<br />
possible doom, as the hand chooses the arrow<br />
that will travel 240 yards with the intent to kill<br />
or maim. It is mounted on a steel stand cut<br />
into the shape of the Azincourt Battlefield and<br />
represents an unknown place where this arrow<br />
will finally rest.<br />
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Stage 3:- Refining the shape<br />
Stage 5b:- Finished inside view<br />
Stage 4:- Cutting finger details<br />
~ o 0 o ~<br />
Stage 5a:- Finished and mounted<br />
NESTROQUE<br />
The second piece represents an Archer at<br />
partial draw and poised for the order to loose<br />
his arrow as an angel of death. The command<br />
is now an infamous shout of: “'Nestroque”<br />
which was given by Sir Thomas Erpingham to<br />
begin the battle. Some history books say that<br />
the shout was “Now Strike” in English, spoken<br />
with a heavy Norfolk accent, and remains one<br />
of history’s mysteries.<br />
Stage 1:- Pattern drawn on limewood block<br />
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Stage 2:- Nestroque - grip position<br />
Stage 5:- 2 Nestroque - adding tendon<br />
and vein movement<br />
Stage 3:- Nestroque - fingers established<br />
Stage 6a:- 2 Nestroque - on Azincourt<br />
battlefield base and symbolic A arrowhead<br />
Stage 4:- Nestroque - adding detail<br />
Stage 6b:- 2 Nestroque - completed<br />
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FULL DRAW<br />
Of course, the main work will represent<br />
this and tie all these pieces together as smaller<br />
details that represent the courage and the<br />
fear experienced by the English Archers at<br />
the battle of Azincourt in this 600-year<br />
Anniversary Tribute.<br />
LOOSE or RELEASE<br />
The Triptych will be completed with a third<br />
cameo of the Archers hand, open at the point<br />
where the arrow has been loosed and will then<br />
take another nine full seconds before reaching<br />
its target and causing its pain and destruction.<br />
THE AZINCOURT BATTLEFIELD BASE<br />
All three of these works are mounted on<br />
a stainless-steel base, cut into the shape of<br />
the Azincourt battlefield, giving a poignant<br />
reminder of their ultimate purpose.<br />
Invitation to Galleries<br />
If your Gallery would like to purchase<br />
one piece or all three pieces of this triptych,<br />
then please contact my Agent on<br />
Tel: 0773 773 8018<br />
or by Email to: ohb@whizzywords.com<br />
Sponsorships are Invited<br />
From any Company, organisation or<br />
individual wishing to be involved in<br />
the central work, including aspects of it,<br />
then please contact my agent.<br />
Further detailed pictures are available on<br />
my website: www.ohboyd.com<br />
Next month we will be back on track<br />
with the main project with some interesting<br />
detail work, including what is known as:<br />
“The Final Cut” so don’t miss it…<br />
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MUTTLEY CREW ARCHERS<br />
SHOOT REPORT 26 TH FEBRUARY <strong>2017</strong><br />
by Geoff Weldon, photographs by Simon Smith.<br />
This shoot was the inaugural open shoot at our new<br />
woodland. It has been 11 months since we lost our first<br />
wood and after a lot of searching we found our new home<br />
in October 2016; and have spent 4 months getting it to a<br />
36 course staged in a small part of the available woodland.<br />
For our May open we hope to have an alternative course<br />
to shoot than this first shoot.<br />
Our host, the Prescot and Odyssey Cricket club, allow us<br />
the use of their facilities and this went down very well.<br />
Good car parking, real toilets and the pavilion for catering and booking in (luxury!).<br />
We had 119 archers booked in and only 10 no shows, with these being for illness or breakdowns<br />
(car ones, not my kind of breakdown LOL). All archers where registered with great efficiency by<br />
Dawn Weldon and Mark Smith and we got to hold the shoot brief on time.<br />
Fortunately Storm Doris was good to our trees and the<br />
only damage was 2 dead trees out of the shoot area.<br />
The weather gods were also with us and it stayed dry for<br />
the whole day, however the mud god stayed with us.<br />
We managed to get all archers on to their pegs and started<br />
shooting by 10.20 am (ish). The course is relatively tight and<br />
cosy but it appeared to move quite well with just the odd<br />
hold up, but nothing that caused delays.<br />
We cannot thank the archers enough for the kind comments received on<br />
the day and on social media. The problem is maintaining it again,<br />
seriously though, the comments made all the effort heart warming.<br />
Just need a few week off to recover and then set about planning the next<br />
one in May. We gave an hour for lunch and I was amazed that all archers<br />
got back on course bang on time with no fuss at all. We cannot thank you<br />
all enough for being so helpful in making this shoot so pleasing to us.<br />
Anyway enough of all that soppy stuff. All the cards were returned<br />
to admin and the results established while the raffle took place.<br />
Dawn collated the results with great efficiency as is expected from a<br />
new member to the Weldon family, I knew Barry has good taste.<br />
Better stop there and give you the results.<br />
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Gents AFB:-<br />
1st Paul Meeson Salamander 670 & 12 spots<br />
2nd Gus Gramauskas ODB 596 & 1 spot<br />
3rd Nigel Downs Salamander 582 & 3 spots<br />
4th Paul McKeown Seedfield 558 & 6 spots<br />
5th Stuart Bowdler ODB 538 & 5 spots<br />
6th Gordon Harrison ODB 522 & 1 spot<br />
7th Duncan Jaques Oakleaf 500 & 1 spot<br />
8th Tony Boone Delamere 498 & 3 spots<br />
9th Peter McGiffen Sabden 478 & 1 spot<br />
10th Phil Peak Independent 474 (no spots)<br />
11th Bob Lloyd Delamere 466 & 3 spots<br />
12th Phil Jaques Oakleaf 460 & 1 spot<br />
13th Dave Wilson Draig Goch 442 & 1 spot<br />
14th Will Bibby Oakleaf 390 (no spots)<br />
15th Peter Stickland Seedfield 376 (no spots)<br />
Gents BH:-<br />
1st James Baxter Barbarians 630 & 5 spots<br />
2nd Tim Jones ODB 542 & 3 spots<br />
Gents XB:-<br />
1st Mike Williams Cheshire Oak 768 & 19 spots<br />
2nd Harry Atkins Kendal 732 & 11 spots<br />
Gents LB:-<br />
1st Steve Blackhall Delamere 622 & 6 spots<br />
2nd Richard Ford Delamere 594 & 2 spots<br />
3rd Alan Beatty North Lakes 568 & 1 spot<br />
4th Richard Beal Cheshire Oak 562 & 4 spots<br />
5th Alan Jones Delamere 494 & 3 spots<br />
6th Eddie Broomhall Redoubtables 482 & 2 spots<br />
7th Connor Strickland Seedfield 394 & 2 spots<br />
Gents PV:-<br />
1st John Burthom Independent 526 & 3 spots<br />
2nd Mark Peet Centaura 502 (no spots)<br />
3rd Andrew Booth Barbarians 472 & 2 spots<br />
Gents CL:-<br />
1st Rob Pierce Redoubtables 716 & 11 spots<br />
2nd Paul Greenwood Team Firebird 704 & 10 spots<br />
3rd Ray Bell Cheshire Oak 658 & 6 spots<br />
4th Larry Hood Lyme Valley 606 & 6 spots<br />
Gents BB:-<br />
1st Dewi Owen Castle Bowmen 640 & 7 spots<br />
2nd Mick Kirkman Owlet Hall 616 & 4 spots<br />
3rd David Owen Castle Bowmen 594 & 5 spots<br />
4th Chris Sharpe Independent 590 & 4 spots<br />
5th Alex Wilkes Redoubtables 586 & 4 spots<br />
6th Paul Daley ODB 580 & 4 spots<br />
7th Rob Beal Lyme Valley 580 (no spots)<br />
8th John Eddleston ODB 560 & 3 spots<br />
9th Bradley John Hunt Harlequins 548 & 3 spots<br />
10th Brian Robinson Dolphinholme 462 & 2 spots<br />
11th Mathew Clarke Delamere 424 & 2 spots<br />
12th Alan Birch Oakleaf 412 & 2 spots<br />
13th Tony Flood Gawthorpe 406 & 2 spots<br />
14th Gordon Keown<br />
382 & 2 spots<br />
15th Barry Dixon Team Firebird 366 & 3 spots<br />
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Gents HT:-<br />
1st Paul Caddick Duvelle 642 & 7 spots<br />
2nd Andy Baker Delamere 638 & 7 spots<br />
3rd Peter Niall Plunkett Derwynd 610 & 7 spots<br />
4th Mark Paterson Delamere 606 & 4 spots<br />
5th John Williams Draig Goch 596 & 6 spots<br />
6th Glenn Wood Hollywood 560 & 3 spots<br />
7th Chris Plant Foxhill 554 & 4 spots<br />
8th Andy Brown DW Longbow 550 & 5 spots<br />
9th Colin Lightfoot Cloth of Gold 534 & 2 spots<br />
10th Gareth Davies Oakridge 530 & 3 spots<br />
11th Joe Wood Hollywood 526 & 4 spots<br />
12th Bernie Stafford Delamere 520 & 4 spots Gents UL:-<br />
13th Terry Regan ODB 516 (no spots) 1st Mark Duerden Team Firebird 824 & 27 spots<br />
14th Steven Sephton ODB 502 & 3 spots 2nd Spencer Martin Redoubtables 796 & 22 spots<br />
15th Derek Fuller Foxhill 492 & 3 spots 3rd Steve May Oakleaf 786 & 1 spot<br />
16th John Rowlands Derwynd 492 & 1 spot 4th Mark Harrison Oakleaf 770 & 18 spots<br />
17th Nigel Bratton Toft Hill 476 & 4 spots 5th Chris Wilkinson Team Firebird 756 & 15 spots<br />
18th Chris Wood DW Longbow 328 (no spots) 6th Paul Evans Redoubtables 752 & 16 spots<br />
19th Jonathan Kemp Derwynd 270 & 1 spot 7th Gary Hart Salamander 742 & 18 spots<br />
8th Tim Chatfield Audley Parish 728 & 12 spots<br />
9th David Pritchard Draig Goch 706 & 10 spots<br />
10th Graham Lord Team Firebird 696 & 10 spots<br />
11th Shaun Warren Audley Parish 690 & 10 spots<br />
12th Nathan Smith Gawthorpe 684 & 9 spots<br />
13th Ken Witherington ODB<br />
682 & 10 spots<br />
14th Tom Harris ODB 662 & 10 spots<br />
15th Colin Bartley ODB 646 & 7 spots<br />
16th Scott White Oakridge 610 & 2 spots<br />
Ladies BB:-<br />
1st Lynne Harrison Centaura 542 & 2 spots<br />
2nd Sheena Leader Redoubtables 488 & 1 spot<br />
3rd Kathy Newall ODB 442 & 1 spot<br />
4th Sara Haywood Redoubtables 296 & 1 spot<br />
5th Sheila Buckley Delamere 278 (no spots)<br />
6th Hannah Gornall ODB 272 (no spots)<br />
Ladies BH:-<br />
1st Anne Fuller Foxhill 616 & 4 spots<br />
2nd Trish Jones ODB 568 & 4 spots<br />
3rd Helen Watson Foxhill 532 & 1 spot<br />
4th Kath Harrison Pride Park 468 & 1 spot<br />
5th Beki Bates Cheshire Oak 456 & 2 spots<br />
6th Sarah Taylor Oakleaf 424 & 4 spots<br />
7th Natasha Hood Lyme Valley 388 & 2 spots<br />
Ladies HT:-<br />
1st Sarah Shepard Hollywood 530 & 5 spots<br />
2nd Victoria Foulkes Redoubtables 474 & 1 spot<br />
3rd Chrissie Bratton Toft Hill 390 & 2 spots<br />
Ladies UL:-<br />
1st Janet Allen Team Firebird 734 & 16 spots<br />
Ladies AFB:-<br />
1st Marie Blackhall Delamere 458 & 1 spot<br />
Ladies FS:-<br />
1st Katherine Dixon Team Firebird 554 & 7 spots<br />
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Ladies LB:-<br />
1st Viv Guthrie Delamere 458 & 1 spot<br />
2nd Jan Slater ODB 426 & 1 spot<br />
3rd Christine Beatty North Lakes 310 & 1 spot<br />
Ladies PV:-<br />
1st Maureen Burthom Independent 370 (no spots)<br />
Juniors - Girl U9 Barebow:-<br />
1st Isabelle McKeown Seedfield 374 & 2 spots<br />
Juniors - Girl U12 Barebow:-<br />
1st Elinor Jones ODB 566 & 4 spots<br />
Juniors - Girl U12 HT:-<br />
1st Charlotte McKeown Seedfield 472 & 2 spots<br />
Juniors - Boys U12 BH:-<br />
1st Harry elf Smith Gawthorpe 592 & 3 spots<br />
Juniors - Boys U12 AFB:-<br />
1st James McGiffen Sabden 518 & 3 spots<br />
~ Photographs by Simon Smith ~<br />
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Welcome back to our Hall of Fame for our very own Robin Hoods and Maid Marions!<br />
Man alive do we have some shots to celebrate in this edition of <strong>FAN</strong> <strong>UK</strong>!!<br />
If you are new to the concept, let me explain … “Hoods & Maids” is my unique way of<br />
celebrating stunning shots – both jammy and pure skill – that only Robin Hood or<br />
Maid Marion themselves would’ve been able to pull off. It is also my way of trying<br />
to celebrate the shots we all either dream of hitting or are so lucky that they need<br />
scoring before they fall out of the target! We all – no matter what age or ability – seem to rack<br />
up a couple of these shots so it was also my way of trying to include more people and show<br />
off their shots and give them a mention as stars – albeit having stood in a blob of Hartley’s<br />
or just from being a blooming good shot.<br />
This edition we are proud to induct ...<br />
1. ADAM BROWNING: “Thanks to everyone<br />
at Whitefriars for a great shoot on 12/02/<strong>2017</strong>,<br />
especially the tree who helped me score this<br />
lucky leg!”<br />
Arise Adam Hood - leg slayer!<br />
2. CHRIS SMEDLEY - nominated by Katie Fletcher,<br />
who told us: “I would like to submit Chris Smedley's shots<br />
from Wasp Archers - hitting the thinnest part of the target at<br />
a distance 60yds+ not once, but TWICE!”<br />
Welcome Christopher Hood -<br />
double sharp shooter extraordinaire!<br />
3. LIAM BLAKELEY of Stonebow Field Archers -<br />
nominated by Andy Flint, who said: “One for your<br />
hoods and maidens ... Liam Blakeley shot this at Pennington<br />
Archers’ shoot on Sunday 26th March <strong>2017</strong> - side kill on<br />
a front facing target!”<br />
Greetings Liam of the Hood - inducted you are<br />
and a sir you shall be from now forward!<br />
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4. BRUCE WALTON - also of Stonebow Field Archers -<br />
what an absolutely stunning piece of shooting<br />
this is! Taken at Pennington Archers’ open shoot on<br />
Sunday 26th March <strong>2017</strong>:- In your own words, I quote,<br />
“Right up the shnozzer!!!!” to whit the reply is an<br />
emphatic - “Indeed dear boy”!<br />
Welcome to the hall of fame<br />
Bruce Hood of Stonebow,<br />
hound silencer of North Yorkshire!!<br />
NOW, DOUBLING-UP ON HER MAIDEN STATUS WE HAVE<br />
LIZ DERBYSHIRE, nominated by Bernie Stafford who got in touch<br />
to tell me: “Another one for you - again from my<br />
good<br />
friend & shooting buddy Liz Derbyshire. The arrow is actually<br />
embedded in the bead of glue between the two halves of the<br />
target!”<br />
Maid Elizabeth/Lady Derbyshire -<br />
we bow to your superiority of shooting style, sincerely!<br />
And last but by no means least, we welcome our<br />
very 1st Hoods & Maids Alternative All Star!!<br />
Massive congratulations to<br />
ANDY MONGER of Riggwelter Field<br />
Archers, who explains this shot for us …<br />
“The arrow skimmed over the back of a 3D Lynx,<br />
the point just caught and dug in causing<br />
the arrow to tumble and the nock end catching<br />
on a dirt bank behind the target.<br />
On hitting the bank the arrow still<br />
had enough energy to launch up in<br />
to the tree above the target and hang<br />
itself in the fork of a few branches…<br />
don’t ask me to try it again!” :-)<br />
If you have a nomination<br />
then please send it to<br />
fieldarcherynewsuk@yahoo.com<br />
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NEW FEATURE:<br />
"ARCHERY ON THE<br />
BIG SCREEN"<br />
Throughout the decades, Hollywood has had more than just a passing interest in archery. The studios have<br />
churned out hundreds of films (some good and some quite forgettable) featuring bows and arrows in some<br />
form or other. In the future issues of <strong>FAN</strong> <strong>UK</strong> we will be reminding you of some of these, while also dredging<br />
up some you will have definitely never heard of!<br />
"ARCHERY ON THE BIG SCREEN" No. 4<br />
"HENRY V" (Two Cities Films - GB, 1944)<br />
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Renee Asherson, Leslie Banks, Felix Aylmer, Robert Helpman<br />
Director: Laurence Olivier<br />
Produced during WW2, it was a patriotic tribute to our fighting men -<br />
and a personal triumph for Olivier who starred in and directed this<br />
remarkable film. With a superb cast, the film is a triumph of colour,<br />
music, spectacle and stirring heroic poetry, and as an actor, Olivier brings<br />
a thorough command to the role.<br />
Mid-way into the film there is the memorable sequence when Henry's<br />
longbow men unleash thousands of arrows upon the hapless French<br />
heavy cavalry inflicting mortal casualties and effectively winning the<br />
Battle of Agincourt for the English king.<br />
The Cast: King Henry V - Laurence Olivier Archbishop of Canterbury - Felix Aylmer<br />
Chorus - Leslie Banks<br />
Bishop of Ely - Robert Helpman<br />
Katherine - Renēe Asherson<br />
Fluellen - Esmond Knight<br />
The Dauphin - Max Adrian<br />
By David 1066,<br />
Delamere Field Archers, Cheshire.<br />
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<strong>FAN</strong> <strong>UK</strong> caught up with Ian Finch<br />
and after a wonderful time we would like<br />
to share what he had to tell us about...<br />
Baldivis Archery Club & its History.<br />
In 1972, Keith and Edna Gaisford with their two children purchased 48 acres in Baldivis with the purpose<br />
of building a home, living on the property, running a hobby farm and creating an Archery Venue<br />
supporting Target and Field Archery.<br />
The Baldivis Archery Club was established in 1975 to cater for archers in the Rockingham area following<br />
a call from the then Shire Clerk, Don Cuthbertson. Migrants from the <strong>UK</strong> who had settled in Rockingham<br />
had been archers in their country and wanted to continue with their sport.<br />
The club continued to flourish and has over the years enjoyed great success at State National and<br />
International level. Four members of the club have been in Australian Teams for World Championship<br />
Field Archery and one has been the Manager/Coach of Four Australian Olympic Teams.<br />
In 2005, the club moved grounds to its present location. The club has worked hard to provide<br />
facilities which include Wheel Chair access, ladies and gents fixed toilets, club house, recreational shade<br />
area and shooting line shade and weather protection.<br />
The club boasts Target, Field and Clout facilities which can be all shot at the same time, allowing archers<br />
of all skills and disciplines to enjoy the full range of archery events.<br />
The club also hosts a number of registered State shoots and has a membership of approximately<br />
90 members with normally 50-60 members shooting on club days.<br />
The club is open all year round and members can shoot 7 days a week.<br />
Over the last year the traditional archery has really taken off with regular Sunday morning<br />
field events including 3D/2D, unmarked Field, Zombie shoots and even a Fruit and Veg shoot<br />
especially put on for a<br />
Vegetarian archer.<br />
We also have shot model aircraft<br />
with Flu Flus with mixed success<br />
but huge fun, Archery Golf and<br />
Roving Marks.<br />
The Sunday Field Crew - as we<br />
have become known –shoot 99%<br />
of the time just for fun.<br />
We don’t score as such<br />
but friendly rivalry exists and<br />
sledging is common practice<br />
when we shoot.<br />
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As you can see the Sunday Field crew is mixed age and sex but only has Barebow and<br />
traditional shooters.<br />
Our field course is a mixture of open field and light bush some trees but we are talking<br />
Western Australia here!!<br />
Our 3D course is quite new but has taken off in a big way, with a great turn out and rapidly improving<br />
skill level becoming evident.<br />
Zombie Shoots have also proved to be popular, with special awards<br />
for head hits in the scoring zone which takes the form of a patch and<br />
then for further hits chevrons and the elusive head hunter patch for three hits<br />
on separate targets in one day.<br />
Ranges vary from 10m – 40m but normally at a dodgy angle or from<br />
behind a bush!<br />
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We shoot some open field rounds including Roving marks and Golf, Wand shoots and Model Aircraft<br />
shooting with Flu Flus.<br />
Our Field course is not blessed with a lot of cover so we try to maximise what we<br />
have with shooting from, through and under the flora we do.<br />
To keep one of our members happy - who declared we were Neanderthals whenever we shot<br />
3D/2D Rounds - as she refused to shoot animals out of principal even foam and paper ones!!<br />
So ... we did a field fruit and veg round which went really well with everyone responsible for<br />
bringing a “target”:<br />
The Biggest part of our shooting<br />
is the FUN we have shooting our<br />
inefficient bits of wood without sights<br />
and looking for the arrows together,<br />
not to mention a beer and a BBQ!!<br />
By Ian Finch, Baldivis Archery Club.<br />
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Photograph Owner: Armin Hirmer<br />
Photographer: Fritz von Weinsberg
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Wolfshead Field Archers<br />
Sunday 26th February <strong>2017</strong><br />
(Report by Andrew Cross, Club Secretary)<br />
Thanks to the 63 archers who attended<br />
our first open shoot of <strong>2017</strong>.<br />
Unfortunately the weather was a little disappointing compared to the near perfect conditions<br />
the weekend before, nevertheless competitors appeared to enjoy themselves<br />
(even those that had to do the moorland section in the afternoon).<br />
We have recently increased the course from 36 to 40 targets, nearly all of which are now 3Ds,<br />
and a lot of effort has gone into improvements to make it easier to get around the course.<br />
Comments received so far have been very favourable. Further developments are planned,<br />
which will hopefully be in place for our shoots in June and September.<br />
Thanks also go to club members who have put so much effort into maintaining and<br />
preparing the course, and marshalling and catering on the day of the shoot.<br />
Results:<br />
AFB Ladies Club Score/Spots BB Gents Club Score/Spots<br />
Lana Waters Albion 334 (continued)<br />
Kay Blanchard Cobra 184 Paul Atherton Stonebow 518<br />
Andrew McLachlan Hanson 494<br />
AFB Gents Matthew Bell Independent 450<br />
Phil Licence Hanson 596 Malcolm Staley Regent 368<br />
Stephen Hall Phoenix 562 Trevor Croft Regent 332<br />
Colin Hall Butsfield 508 + 3<br />
Simon Dove Wild Geese 508 + 1 BB U12<br />
John Dawkins Hanson 448 Ellie Smith Wild Geese 382<br />
John Dobson Butsfield 384<br />
John Naylor Scarborian 314<br />
Andy Wiles Scarborian 276<br />
Sean Beadnall Scarborian 240<br />
Leigh Heseltine Scarborian 226<br />
AFB U12<br />
Luke Dove Wild Geese 480<br />
AFB U16<br />
Jay Harvey Wild Geese 328<br />
BB Ladies<br />
Emma Whitty Artemis 512<br />
BB Gents<br />
Chris Hadden Wild Geese 612<br />
Adrian Blanchard Cobra 540<br />
Geoff Smith Wild Geese 538<br />
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BH Gents Club Score/Spots<br />
Trevor Borrington Hanson 648<br />
Liam Blakeley Stonebow 382<br />
BH U14<br />
Jacob Whitty Artemis 650<br />
HT Ladies<br />
Alison Macrory Stonebow 466<br />
Jean Horwood Riggwelter 406<br />
HT Gents<br />
Chris Wilkinson 100 Yard 512<br />
Gary Mathison 100 Yard 496<br />
David Wylde Pines Park 486<br />
Jacob Hallam Hanson 454<br />
John Hutchinson Independent 450<br />
Chris Babb 100 Yard 448<br />
Ian Whitty Artemis 446<br />
Richard Carter Stonebow 444<br />
Glenn Newiss Riggwelter 396<br />
Colin Greenway Scarborian 378<br />
Neil Weldrick Independent 370<br />
Asdair Constable Phoenix 370<br />
Andy Flint Stonebow 366<br />
Ken Burns Butsfield 296 LB Gents Club Score/Spots<br />
Mike Kime Wild Geese 506 + 2<br />
Charles Watters Hanson 506 + 1<br />
Richard Waters Albion 450<br />
Graham Ellerker Regent 364<br />
Neil Borrington Hanson 362<br />
Paul Pybus Regent 332<br />
David Perkins Regent 320<br />
Dave Frammingham Regent 302<br />
Grot Davis Independent 288<br />
Stephen Leadbitter Wild Geese 270<br />
Martin Snowball Butsfield 252<br />
LB U16<br />
Jack Dove Wild Geese 408<br />
UL Ladies<br />
Michelle Betton Butsfield 636<br />
UL Gents<br />
John Whitehead Cobra 806<br />
Darren Heron Butsfield 760<br />
Stephen Allison Butsfield 712<br />
Trevor North Pines Park 680<br />
Dave Wallace Wild Geese 628<br />
Tony Collier Independent 606<br />
CL Gents<br />
Richard Pearson 100 Yard 644<br />
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Del The Cat’s “Bowyer’s Diary”<br />
Force Draw Curves<br />
by Derek Hutchison (AKA Del the Cat on various archery forums!)<br />
There has been some discussion on one of the forums about force draw (F/D) curves which was rather<br />
interesting and got me thinking. Just to explain, an F/D curve is what you get if you measure the draw<br />
weight at say 2” draw, 4” draw, 6” draw etc and plot a graph of draw vs poundage. Someone brought<br />
up compounds, which I dismissed as irrelevant, as the F/D curve can be manipulated to almost any<br />
shape you want. My other consideration is that there are enough variables in a simple stick and string<br />
bow without adding bits on. A compound is affectively a simple stick and string with a block and<br />
tackle added to allow a longer lower poundage draw from a very short stiff limb (short implies fast,<br />
low inertia), it then incorporates cams to adjust the F/D curve.<br />
So what is it all about and what are the variables and limitations? The “ideal” F/D curve would be<br />
a high early draw weight which remains relatively constant and maybe even decreases approaching<br />
full draw …. Errr, like a compound then? Exactly, but why do we want that and how can we achieve it<br />
(or get close) with a simple stick and string? The other thing the F/D curve tells us is how much energy<br />
has been put into drawing the bow, it’s the area under the curve, this is significant because it reinforces<br />
the point that it’s not all about the final draw weight.<br />
Let’s look at a good old English<br />
longbow, if you get drawn into<br />
trying to analyse it you’d think the<br />
F/D curve would be weird and<br />
wonderful. Physics books always<br />
analyse beam bending as linear<br />
for small deflections only and<br />
a bow certainly isn’t a small<br />
deflection. The angle at which the<br />
string pulls the tip is also<br />
constantly changing. However,<br />
it turns out that it is remarkably<br />
linear, increasing evenly all the<br />
way to full draw! This is quite<br />
handy as you can simply divide draw<br />
Force Draw Curve<br />
weight by draw length and get a ‘pounds per inch’ of draw which lets you work out a reasonable<br />
approximation for draw weight at other lengths. So say you have got a bow tillered out to 50# at 25”<br />
and you are aiming for 50# at 30”. It’s currently drawing 2# per inch (50/25), so at 30” it would be<br />
about 60#, this helps gives you a feel for how much wood needs to come off without you ever pulling<br />
the bow above target draw weight. I’ve tried improving this arithmetic by subtracting brace height<br />
from the draw lengths but it doesn’t really improve it much. I’m a great believer in the empirical, sure,<br />
some arithmetic is handy, but the proof of the pudding is in the eating. It may be a surprise to find it’s<br />
harder than expected to take the required measurements for a F/D curve! If you pull the bow to 12”<br />
draw and look at the poundage, then take it to full draw and back down to 12” draw, the poundage<br />
won’t be the same due to hysteresis! There is also the problem of measuring the distance accurately<br />
without any parallax whilst also looking at the scale and pulling the bow. It’s easier with two people,<br />
draw it smoothly to the distance required and shout “now” and get them to record the<br />
poundage, mind even that requires some interpolation (though a digital scale helps), let the bow back<br />
to brace, then repeat. Sometimes it’s easier to pull to a known weight and measure the distance.<br />
Clarence N Hickman made an F/D curve plotting machine which drew the curve automatically as he<br />
drew the bow. I tried to make one but it was unreliable and would jam up, it’s still on my “to do list”.<br />
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The problem with the longbow’s linear F/D curve is that maximum force is at full draw, now this gives<br />
the arrow what is technically knows as a huge kick up the arse when loosed. As an analogy imagine<br />
trying to pull away from the traffic lights in a car as fast as possible, you wouldn’t (I hope) rev the<br />
engine to the red line and drop the clutch. What is needed is a smooth slow increase in force to<br />
overcome inertia and get moving. Right, back to the plot, what are all these variables I was talking<br />
about? Well bow length makes a big difference, even keeping the limbs identical and adding length<br />
between them at the grip (riser) will make a difference, the Olympic recurve guys will be aware of this,<br />
but do they know why? The actual analysis is somewhat laboured, but a simple way to look at it is as<br />
follows:- The bow becomes longer with a longer riser and thus needs a longer string! This effectively<br />
adds in some ‘slack’ so for any limb deflection there is now more string freed up to be pulled back<br />
towards the archer So for the same limb deflection, you’d get a longer draw. I hope this explanation<br />
has some intuitive merit and makes sense.<br />
Deflex and Reflex are the big variables, one only has to look at modern recurves, the fundamentals of<br />
this design were invented by Hickman. He had lost some fingers in a rocketry accident (he’s the guy<br />
who invented the Bazooka) and he needed a more efficient design to allow him to compete as he could<br />
now only pull low draw weights. Of course some will say that similar geometry was already there in the<br />
Asiatic recurves, but Hickman is arguably the father of scientific archery, he also explained the Archer’s<br />
Paradox by filming it in slow-mo with a camera of his own design which was developed for his rocketry<br />
work. Anyway, I digress.<br />
The deflex reflex design gives a much more even F/D curve with higher early draw weight and a gentler<br />
increase in weight. Taken to the limit, the limbs can effectively become cams themselves as the string<br />
lifts off the steeply recurved outer limbs (or string bridges) as they uncoil. All this gives a smoother<br />
draw and a more even arrow acceleration. There is a limit to what you can achieve with a wooden bow,<br />
but the challenge is there to maximise what you can get from a piece of wood, although you don’t<br />
need to accept the challenge, you can, instead build a bow for smoothness, longevity and accuracy.<br />
That’s what slightly irks me about modern bows, they strive more and more for arrow speed to give a<br />
flatter trajectory making range estimation less critical. Yet arrow speed brings its own problems so they<br />
add weights and stabilisers. Don’t get me wrong I admire the engineering in a modern bow, but it<br />
reminds me of a bow hunter I met when I was in Tennessee, he used to shoot compound until one day<br />
he came across a bedded deer three rows of corn away, he realized that his sights were no use at that<br />
range so he drew to the eye like countless native Americans have done for years and took the deer.<br />
He now shoots an Osage American longbow which he made himself. If I really had to shoot for meat,<br />
I may well take my old 40# Hazel primitive which has a fair amount of set (deflex) but is smooth as<br />
silk and quiet as … shhh there’s a deer coming through the brush.<br />
Bow comparison<br />
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* Anagram Answers from<br />
February/March <strong>2017</strong> edition *<br />
Hint: they were all items you might<br />
use when making your own targets.<br />
1. STAR PAY PIN (5,5) = SPRAY PAINT<br />
2. PEACH PER AM (5,5) = PAPER MACHE<br />
3. FAMINE POX DANG (9,4) = EXPANDING FOAM<br />
4. LUGE (4) = GLUE<br />
5. CARTED LOP (3,6) = OLD CARPET<br />
6. A GIG MAP OF NACK (4,9) = FOAM PACKAGING<br />
7. PRY STOLE YEN (11) = POLYSTYRENE<br />
8. KEY FAST LINEN (7,5) = STANLEY KNIFE<br />
9. A BARD CORD (9) = CARDBOARD<br />
10. TINA SHE BURPS (5,7) = PAINT BRUSHES<br />
>>>>>>>> You can find<br />
the NEXT anagrams<br />
challenge on<br />
page 90! >>>>>>>><br />
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Sunday 5th<br />
February <strong>2017</strong><br />
2 x 20 3D Friendly<br />
by Mel Horne.<br />
~ Collage/photographs by Richard Narey ~<br />
Once again we welcomed our trusty old and some new archery friends to Oakwood. We were blessed<br />
with a bright and dry day, a good crowd of 88 eager souls shot their way around another famous magical<br />
Narey course, Cheers Rich. The Three Satanic Goats caused some serious head scratching/cheers of<br />
delight and a few queues ... there will be some arrows forever buried somewhere in this area, R.I.P.!<br />
Search and rescue missions will be carried out over the next few weeks.<br />
Well done to our 7 new members, they all came back determined as ever with some darn good scores for<br />
a first shoot. Catering was top notch with a superb menu and a choice of 7 different homemade cakes to<br />
boot - Thanks Ray and Anne Tunstall. Thanks to Theresa and Mark for registration and all Committee and<br />
club members who made the day possible.<br />
Our Next Oakwood shoot will be April 2nd - 2 x 20 3D Big Game scoring; 10 am start; Catering all day;<br />
please book on website: oakwoodbowmen.co.uk or mail melanie_horne@hotmail.co.uk ...<br />
we look forward to seeing you all again. Happy Shooting - Mel.<br />
Men’s FS Score Spots Men’s UL Score Spots<br />
John Smith 860 18 Sam Bruce 976 28<br />
Simon Hewson 764 9 David Stone 962 28<br />
Gary Egglestone 642 4 Graham Birch 904 19<br />
Richard Power 564 4<br />
Men’s BB Score Spots<br />
Men’s BH Score Spots Josh Gibbon 828 17<br />
Dave Arnold 842 12 Aaron Patterson 808 13<br />
Dave Sexton 764 6 Danny Chamberlain 752 26<br />
John Foster 640 4 Stewart Beckham 716 8<br />
Steve Terenzio 704 10<br />
Garry Fisk 696 9<br />
Mark Svensson 688 8<br />
Alan Roberts 596 3<br />
Andy Williams 556 7<br />
David Baynes 332 2<br />
Paul Coombes 312 1<br />
Men’s CL Score Spots<br />
Peter Tricker 752 8<br />
Men’s BB Score Spots<br />
Josh Gibbon 828 17<br />
Aaron Patterson 808 13<br />
Danny Chamberlain 752 26<br />
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Men’s BB (cont’d) Score Spots<br />
Stewart Beckham 716 8<br />
Steve Terenzio 704 10<br />
Garry Fisk 696 9<br />
Mark Svensson 688 8<br />
Alan Roberts 596 3<br />
Andy Williams 556 7<br />
David Baynes 332 2<br />
Paul Coombes 312 1<br />
Men’s LB Score Spots<br />
Mark Allen 804 13<br />
Kevin Button 792 12 Men’s AFB Score Spots<br />
Colin Rose 782 11 David Lovell 892 22<br />
Carl Gibbard 664 10 Mark Jones 880 16<br />
Alfie Allen 576 7 Mark Oakes 794 9<br />
Roger Grew 528 5 Rich Davies 728 11<br />
Ian Stanley 460 1 Steve Gill 708 9<br />
Ben Smith 340 2 Russell Mutton 676 6<br />
Phil Marr 624 5<br />
Men’s HT Score Spots Adam Browning 576 7<br />
Martin Joy 892 18 James Woodworth 560 6<br />
Ben Hearne 760 15 Alan Alstin 544 5<br />
Steve Osborne 756 11 Tom Dighton 532 3<br />
Andrew Lehane 752 10<br />
Elric McCloud 708 9 Women’s FS Score Spots<br />
Mark Frost 660 5 Nadine McFedries 616 8<br />
Shaun Beckham 624 6 Lisa Lord 560 6<br />
Andrew Linley 612 8<br />
Del Newman 608 8 Women’s BB Score Spots<br />
Richard Watson 556 9 Sue Birch 784 10<br />
Fin Newman 476 6 Barbara Roberts 616 4<br />
Colin Turner 364 3 Debbie Harding 594 8<br />
Steve Gaskin 316 1 Jos Costello 464 13<br />
Neil Coote 304 3 Rachael Baynes 280 1<br />
Women’s LB Score Spots Women’s AFB Score Spots<br />
Olivia Morgan 500 6 Nicky Marr 592 3<br />
Josie Allen 496 3 Theresa Hearne 568 2<br />
Pennie Grew 492 3 Mary Narey 444 3<br />
Junior Boys’ U16 BB Score Spots Women’s HT Score Spots<br />
Alfie Foster 472 2 Clair Parfitt 576 3<br />
Jan Beckham 568 2<br />
Junior Girls’ U14 BB Score Spots Tricia Seaman 510 4<br />
Rachel Costello 356 4 Sarah Metcalfe 320 6<br />
Jess Dighton 248 -<br />
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Photo by<br />
Adam Browning<br />
@ Aurora FAC,<br />
January <strong>2017</strong>
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Elmtree Archers<br />
at Fishleigh House, 15th January <strong>2017</strong><br />
Report & results provided by Annemary, Elmtree.<br />
The weather was unbelievably dry, the driest ever in all the time since using these beautiful<br />
grounds at Fishleigh House, so a very happy band of 80 archers gathered for the shoot.<br />
A big thank you from the Admin as all who booked in turned up - yes!<br />
There were no “no shows”. However, although a couple of archers were unable to attend,<br />
they at least sent in their apologies so enabled us to start on time which is so important<br />
when the daylight is short.<br />
With bows and arrows at the ready and fuelled with delicious bacon baps and hot drinks,<br />
the archers were set for a good day’s competition in favoured surroundings.<br />
GENTS LONGBOW<br />
LADIES LONGBOW<br />
1st Paul Harrison 408 Toad Hollow 1st Pauline Wells 330 Ballands<br />
2nd Andrew Stanton 342 Independent 2nd Alison Patemore 284 Independent<br />
3rd Steve Bastyan 284 Lamberts Castle 3rd Lesley Passey 204 Thornbury F&RA<br />
GENTS AFB<br />
LADIES AFB<br />
1st Brian Brown 462 Buzzard 1st June Cronk 366 Cranmoor<br />
2nd Daniel Clarke 426 Westcombe<br />
3rd Nicholas Mitchel 404 Belvedere LADIES H/T<br />
1st Dian Kirby 476 Independent<br />
GENTS H/T 2nd Rae Gulliver 394 Independent<br />
1st Steve Hipgrave 458 South Hams 3rd Anita Gibson 374 Arms of Old<br />
2nd Brian Bellinger 450 Bowmen of Bude<br />
3rd Mike Schofield 418 Brothers in Arms CUB BOY H/T<br />
1st William Dunstan 382 Westcombe<br />
JUNIOR BOY H/T<br />
1st Hector Dunstan 446 Westcombe LADIES BAREBOW<br />
1st Helen Cohen-Quinn 382 Audris-Hart<br />
GENTS BAREBOW<br />
1st Dave Andrews 490 Aquarius CUB BOY BAREBOW<br />
2nd Andrew Richards 444 South Hams 1st Harry Burk 298 Tavistock<br />
3rd Andy Porter 422 Westcombe<br />
JUNIOR BOY H/T<br />
1st Thomas Birchell 432 Tavistock<br />
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GENTS PRIMITIVE<br />
1st Giles Spearing 370 Independent<br />
2nd Nick Hawken 350 Muscovy<br />
3rd Bryan Lawlor 306 Toad Hollow<br />
LADIES PRIMITIVE<br />
1st Morwenna Dunstan 256 Westcombe<br />
GENTS X BOW<br />
1st Simon Wright 608 Arms of Old<br />
2nd Alan Hearson 586 Umberleigh<br />
LADIES X BOW<br />
1st Sheron Vowden 516 Ashcombe<br />
GENTS C/L<br />
1st Jason Quinn 536 Audris-Hart<br />
2nd Michael Goodwin 518 Bowmen of Bude<br />
3rd Tony Cox 510 South Hams<br />
GENTS C/UL<br />
1st Barry Penrose 620 Belvedere<br />
2nd Michael Penrose 596 Thornbury F&RA<br />
3rd Laurent du Verge 554 Westcombe<br />
GENTS BOWHUNTER<br />
1st Michael Sharland 506 Independent<br />
2nd Paul Farr<br />
472 Green Meadow<br />
3rd Derek Sharland 444 Independent<br />
JUNIOR BOY BOWHUNTER<br />
1st Mickey Mudie 432 Bowmen of Bude<br />
CUB BOY BOWHUNTER<br />
1st Tyler Morgan 490 Bowmen of Bude<br />
GENTS FREESTYLE<br />
1st Andy Moore 586 South Hams<br />
2nd Warren Potier 492 Bowmen of Bude<br />
3rd Mike Charlesworth 450 Tavistock<br />
LADIES FREESTYLE<br />
1st Sally Cammann 396 Tavistock<br />
Elmtree Archers’ next shoot is<br />
when we host Days 5 & 6 of the<br />
<strong>2017</strong> South West Challenge<br />
on 3rd and 4th August <strong>2017</strong>!<br />
We are holding these at our<br />
Gifford’s Hele shoot ground:<br />
off the A36 south of Meeth,<br />
EX20 3QN, near Hatherleigh.<br />
3rd August: Paper Faces & 3Ds<br />
4th August: Big Game 3D<br />
36 or 40 targets both days -<br />
TBC confirmed nearer the time<br />
Entry Form & Info on pages __ & __<br />
of this issue of <strong>FAN</strong> <strong>UK</strong>!! :-)<br />
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Field Archery – Chapter 3<br />
Which Direction?<br />
Part 2<br />
by Mitch Vaughan,<br />
Billericay, Essex.<br />
Things started to come together<br />
on the Sunday, when we<br />
had the “Opening Ceremony”<br />
on the school’s sports field.<br />
This included a drive-by of<br />
Classic American cars, overall<br />
very impressive. Afterwards we<br />
went to visit the canteen which<br />
had been set up for competitors,<br />
thinking this might save us some<br />
cooking later on. However, the<br />
offerings were not too appealing<br />
to our tastes, so we gave this a<br />
miss for the rest of the time.<br />
Monday was the first day of<br />
competition, so it was early<br />
rising, as the start time for<br />
shooting was 8-30 am - this was<br />
because of concerns about<br />
forest fires in the hot weather<br />
and we had to make sure we<br />
were clear of the woodland by<br />
the early afternoon. The courses<br />
were to be in the local hills<br />
and we soon found out one<br />
or two were on very steep<br />
ground. When we saw the<br />
target allocations, Astrid and I<br />
were very thankful that we<br />
had entered in the Veteran<br />
Division, as we learned that the<br />
organisers had kept the Veteran<br />
groups on the flatter courses,<br />
mainly in the valley.<br />
A feature of the grouping was<br />
that the Pros attending, about 20<br />
including male and female, would<br />
for the first 2 days, shoot in<br />
amongst the amateurs, as they<br />
had done at Culford. This livened<br />
up a number of groups, the one<br />
who joined our group - called,<br />
I think, Hank Megee - worked as<br />
a machinist in a tool room<br />
during the winter and took the<br />
opportunity to make his own bow<br />
risers. Dennis made up a group<br />
that included the PSE Pro. Tom<br />
Crowe. It seems considerable<br />
trading went on as Dennis<br />
seemed to end up with most<br />
of Tom’s spare kit, including<br />
quiver, arrows and release aid.<br />
I think it was on the second day<br />
that Astrid shot in a group that<br />
included the Pro. Larry Wise.<br />
Their laughter could be heard on<br />
adjoining courses and at the end<br />
of the day she was heard to claim<br />
it was the best day’s shooting she<br />
had ever had.<br />
I started off with a group<br />
of older shooters, with a lot of<br />
experience between them, so<br />
soon settled in for a good day’s<br />
shooting. However, whilst we<br />
were all basically of pension age,<br />
our shooting skills varied quite<br />
considerably. Mine in particular<br />
seemed to be on the lower side<br />
of average. When we were<br />
allocated our new groups the<br />
next day, I was with a new set<br />
of companions because of my<br />
scores of the day before. Besides<br />
the shooting experience, things<br />
did not go too smoothly for<br />
me and many other European<br />
archers, as we found that the<br />
courses were only single pegged.<br />
It was current practice in England<br />
at that time to have shooting<br />
pegs in pairs, one for each archer.<br />
It was made worse as the<br />
pegs were at the side, not<br />
down the middle of the range.<br />
Apparently this was because<br />
the grounds were shared with a<br />
horse riding club and the pegs<br />
were frequently being knocked<br />
over. Still, we soon adjusted to<br />
this. Another problem that most<br />
groups hit very early on was<br />
the target butts shooting<br />
through. Being a logging town,<br />
the butts were made from<br />
compressed waste and wood<br />
chippings, but when a hundred<br />
or so archers were shooting<br />
on them all day, they started<br />
to break down and arrows were<br />
shooting through. This meant<br />
that the work party had to<br />
work hard overnight to replace<br />
the worst culprits and had to<br />
close one of the courses. In spite<br />
of all this, everyone was very<br />
friendly and the sun kept shining,<br />
so first day’s shooting and the<br />
first Field round, passed off<br />
very well. I was, however,<br />
a bit disappointed with my<br />
own score,<br />
compared<br />
to some<br />
of the<br />
other<br />
“Old<br />
Stagers”,<br />
so hoped<br />
to improve<br />
as the<br />
week<br />
progressed.<br />
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Tuesday came and it was the<br />
same routine, except that we got<br />
up extra early to get some<br />
practice on our own target at<br />
the house. This was because the<br />
organisers had only provided<br />
about 20 practice butts and<br />
amongst 500 archers, this<br />
limited one’s options as to which<br />
distance, target or number of<br />
arrows one could shoot.<br />
This day was the Hunter round<br />
and I found myself with a<br />
different group to Monday,<br />
which included a relatively new<br />
US archer. In his part of America,<br />
clubs were few and far between,<br />
so he had mainly taught himself<br />
to shoot and he had little<br />
competitive experience. He shot<br />
well, but this lack of competition<br />
experience let him down and on<br />
some occasions, when targets<br />
had to be shot in a certain<br />
sequence, he sometimes got this<br />
wrong and lost what could have<br />
been a good score. This dropped<br />
him out of our group for the<br />
next day.<br />
Although we were shooting<br />
courses in the valley, we still<br />
had many interesting shots.<br />
These included many up and<br />
down shots, plus light and shade<br />
amongst the trees. On one<br />
course, on the side of a steep<br />
hill, I recall that while we were<br />
shooting our target, we noticed<br />
arrows coming almost up to our<br />
feet. This was from another<br />
group shooting a long distance<br />
target, parallel to ours, but<br />
several feet lower down the hill.<br />
This was very much a case<br />
of “Watching Arrows Fly”.<br />
At the time we felt this was<br />
interesting and amusing, rather<br />
than potentially dangerous.<br />
The next day, Wednesday, was<br />
the Animal Round. The target<br />
faces were slightly different to<br />
the ones the English contingent<br />
was familiar with, but we soon<br />
settled in to shooting them.<br />
As is usual, most people achieved<br />
their best score of the week so<br />
far. We also got around more<br />
quickly so found we finished the<br />
day’s shooting much earlier.<br />
This was very convenient because<br />
the organisers had arranged a<br />
Fresh Salmon Barbeque for the<br />
evening, to be held at the school.<br />
This proved very popular and<br />
gave the various archery groups<br />
the chance to mix and get<br />
to know each other. It also<br />
gave Roger a night off from<br />
cooking for us.<br />
Thursday started off pretty<br />
routine - practice, shoot second<br />
Field round, back to the school.<br />
However, for the evening there<br />
was a change in that two of<br />
the Pros. Larry Wise and Frank<br />
Pearson, offered to put on a<br />
seminar in one of the school’s<br />
lecture rooms. This was at their<br />
suggestion, not the organisers.<br />
To me this was the highlight<br />
of entertainment for the week.<br />
They worked like a double act …<br />
Frank, with the personality and<br />
wit of a Groucho Marx; with<br />
Larry his straight man.<br />
Nevertheless, the amount of<br />
knowledge they possessed<br />
between them was outstanding<br />
and they could put it across<br />
to the audience. Not that they<br />
were in complete agreement on<br />
everything, particularly technique<br />
and shooting form, but they<br />
could justify what they said and<br />
did. The popularity of this can<br />
be judged from the end, when<br />
they asked for donations from<br />
us, as they had not charged<br />
at the entrance. This amounted<br />
to something in the order of<br />
$400, which they donated to the<br />
school. This certainly gave me a<br />
great deal of background for my<br />
own coaching work in the future.<br />
Friday brought the second<br />
Hunter round to complete the<br />
week’s shooting, so at the end of<br />
the day we were all happy to put<br />
our gear away and think of what<br />
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would be next. All shooting did<br />
not end however, as during the<br />
week there had been an<br />
ongoing 3D shoot set up<br />
on the playing field, where one<br />
had to pay $5 a time to set<br />
a score. By the end of the week<br />
I believe there were about<br />
a dozen people with perfect<br />
scores, so there had to be<br />
a shoot off. This eventually<br />
came down to a couple of<br />
Pros shooting a single target<br />
and it was amazing to see<br />
them get virtually all of their<br />
arrows in the inner kill zone of<br />
a large turkey at 60 yards or so.<br />
competition.<br />
Saturday gave us a bit of a<br />
lay in, but we had to get<br />
down to the school for about<br />
9-30 am for the final Awards<br />
and Closing Ceremony. We<br />
were extremely pleased to see<br />
England gain a number of<br />
individual Gold medals and<br />
the team to be awarded the<br />
Silver medal in the newly<br />
instituted “World Team Event”<br />
against all this International<br />
Needless to say that the<br />
USA took the Gold.<br />
As part of the final<br />
ceremony we were very<br />
pleased to see the late<br />
Dot Southgate’s family<br />
presented with a print of<br />
the IFAA banner, as these<br />
championships had been<br />
dedicated to her memory.<br />
This was in recognition of<br />
all the work she had carried<br />
out over the years as<br />
Vice-President of IFAA.<br />
After this we and some of<br />
the other English archers went<br />
down to a local shopping<br />
mall to buy presents to take<br />
home with us.<br />
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Sunday was when we left<br />
the group, so Dennis drove us<br />
to the airport to catch a local<br />
flight to California, to start our<br />
holiday and family visit.<br />
And still the sun kept shining.<br />
What a great experience we<br />
had enjoyed.<br />
When we returned to England,<br />
the EFAA National Champs<br />
were the next major tournament<br />
to consider. Astrid and I decided<br />
we would give them a miss<br />
and concentrate on other things.<br />
This didn’t apply to Panther<br />
Bowhunters and quite a large<br />
group made the trip to Black<br />
Eagle Bowmen on the second<br />
weekend of September.<br />
As it turned out, Panther gained<br />
the award for the largest<br />
contingent of any club<br />
competing and ran away with<br />
a good selection of medals.<br />
One outstanding item was that<br />
Panther’s Mary Narey felt that<br />
she was not getting sufficient<br />
of a challenge from other<br />
female archers in the Barebow<br />
Compound division - she<br />
therefore entered the men’s<br />
group and came in a creditable<br />
third, some show. The<br />
overwhelming achievements<br />
from this this group earned<br />
them the title of “Panther Posse”.<br />
Sorry that I couldn’t be part of it<br />
on this occasion.<br />
To close out the club’s season,<br />
the second Roy Winkfield<br />
Memorial Shoot was put on.<br />
Again it proved to be a very<br />
popular event. On a personal<br />
level I had had an outstandingly<br />
enjoyable year on both the<br />
coaching and shooting fronts.<br />
I was however rather unhappy,<br />
when all the results from<br />
Darrington came in, to find that<br />
while I had had one or two good<br />
scores, my aggregate for the five<br />
days was only the same as for<br />
the previous year’s EFAC.<br />
This was very noticeable when<br />
analysing the results from the<br />
VMFSU division and found so<br />
many of the oldsters ahead of<br />
me had shot scores of over 500<br />
out of a maximum 560, on each<br />
day and the top competitors,<br />
a perfect 560 on the Animal<br />
Round. My scores were only in<br />
the upper 400s and even on the<br />
Animal Round I could only score<br />
a weak 506. As I was shooting all<br />
new equipment, it was obvious<br />
that I would have to look to<br />
improving my shooting form.<br />
I had seen some outstanding<br />
shooting in Darrington and<br />
picked up many useful tips from<br />
talks with the Pros. So it was<br />
obvious - I had to look at myself<br />
if I wished to progress further in<br />
the New Year. However, this was<br />
not easy as I was finding myself<br />
being more involved in coaching<br />
and teaching archery, both<br />
Target and Field, so my personal<br />
development had to go on the<br />
back-burner, for a time at least.<br />
By Mitch Vaughan,<br />
Billericay, Essex<br />
25 January <strong>2017</strong>.<br />
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~ Toxophilia Poetica ~<br />
(A collection of what could have been if an archer had<br />
written some of the great works of poetry.)<br />
by Barry Johnson, Scarborian Field Archers.<br />
“When you are old and grey and full of sleep<br />
You know you’ve been shooting too long today<br />
No matter how hard you try its all dismay<br />
Your arrows are all around the target buried deep<br />
How much you loved your moments of glory<br />
When on occasion you hit the kill zone<br />
And would boast to ’er indoors when back home<br />
It’d take at least an hour to tell her the full story<br />
And bending down to pick up your arrows<br />
You find two of them have broken piles<br />
Your companions try almost as hard to hide their smiles<br />
As you do to hide your grief and sorrow.”<br />
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“Archer, archer, quite contrary<br />
How does your arrow fly?<br />
It kicks and wobbles, what a sorry show!<br />
I think my nocking point’s too low.”<br />
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“The Lonely Little Arrow”<br />
A lonely little arrow<br />
With fletchings white and red<br />
Did land atop a wood pile<br />
Which then became its bed.<br />
Throughout the spring and summer<br />
The archers did not come,<br />
The autumn came and still it lay<br />
Now weathered by the sun.<br />
While a great big log machine<br />
Was crunching through the wood<br />
They had to move the targets<br />
And shoot just where they could.<br />
But winter came and they returned<br />
With faces and 3Ds,<br />
And the lonely little arrow<br />
Was found amongst the trees.<br />
The reason it was there is clear -<br />
In flight it lost its nock<br />
And must have landed way off course,<br />
Sent haywire by the shock.<br />
So now although I'm glad to say<br />
It's returning to its bowman<br />
It's probably best to be retired<br />
And kept as one good omen.<br />
By Sue Kenworthy, December 2016.<br />
~ Photograph by Jason Quinn ~<br />
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* Moonshine in Action *<br />
<strong>FAN</strong> <strong>UK</strong> caught up with the lovely Stacey Service of Broadland<br />
Bowmen recently and she shared with us a bit of information about<br />
how her mountain trike, “Moonshine”, has helped her since<br />
everyone’s successful fundraising efforts last year to enable her to<br />
buy one. This is what she had share:-<br />
“My mountain trike - AKA MOONSHINE -<br />
is a rugged all-terrain wheelchair packed<br />
with mountain bike technology. This includes<br />
a lightweight aluminium frame, all-round<br />
air suspension for all three wheels and<br />
disc brakes.<br />
Moonshine also has lever drive so my hands<br />
stay clean and dry. One of the levers operates<br />
the disc brakes and the rear wheel steering.<br />
The chunky tyres on the main drive<br />
wheels enable me to independently tackle<br />
terrain that would<br />
normally be out of bounds in my ordinary<br />
manual wheelchair.<br />
Moonshine has definitely opened up a lot<br />
more areas that I can go to with my archery<br />
hobby; as well as general family outings.<br />
Of these new opportunities, the one which<br />
I am really looking forward to in the<br />
summer time is when I can finally walk along<br />
the beach with my husband hand in hand.<br />
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Archery 3D are authorised sole distributors of Wildcrete 3D Targets in the <strong>UK</strong> and Eire.<br />
Established over 10 years ago Wildcrete South Africa are manufacturers of lightweight concrete<br />
structures for the home and garden.<br />
Wildcrete produce garden sculpture moulds from imprints of original clay art work. Taking<br />
inspiration from the wonderful wildlife of South Africa - from the country's most beautiful birds<br />
to the beloved Big Five. In addition to their proudly South Africa product offering, their<br />
production process creates employment for more than 40 people, ranging from artists and<br />
painters to moulders and a delivery team.<br />
Wildcrete is a family business and the family, being keen archers, decided to adapt their<br />
products and manufacture what are without doubt the most detailed and lifelike 3D archery<br />
targets on the market.<br />
Currently offering over 30 different products their range of targets is increasing all the time and<br />
there are several exciting new releases planned for later this year.<br />
So what is unique about Wildcrete targets?<br />
Their targets are, first of all, very lifelike. Whether viewing from 5 yards or from 50 yards the<br />
detail stands out like no other 3D targets on the market.<br />
Not only are the targets lifelike<br />
to shoot, they are extremely<br />
hard-wearing with most of<br />
t h e l a r g e r m o d e l s h a v i n g<br />
replaceable cores when eventually<br />
they are required.<br />
In addition to the robustness<br />
of these targets they are<br />
surprisingly easy to remove<br />
arrows from, healing and regaining<br />
their surface instantly.<br />
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Another unique feature is the use of anatomically correct scoring areas,<br />
for instance on the following pictures of the Honey Badger target you will see<br />
first of all (top left) a typical 'broadside-on' scoring area which is normal<br />
and similar to other makes of target. However, turn the target to face the other way<br />
and look on its back (top right) and you will see a directional arrow indicating the<br />
angle to position the target at in line with the shooting peg.<br />
As the shot is at around 40 degrees to<br />
broadside from behind, the animal then<br />
the scoring zone is further back on the<br />
side of the target (bottom left and right)<br />
so giving a realistic hunting shot. This,<br />
of course, also reduces the likelihood of<br />
shooting through the target when shooting<br />
at the same place on both sides and,<br />
therefore, prolongs the lifetime of the target.<br />
It is the attention to detail which puts Wildcrete in the<br />
forefront of Archery target design. The running leopard<br />
target (above) is amazingly lifelike from whichever angle<br />
you view it from.<br />
The larger targets also have a unique method of<br />
jointing parts together. The join is achieved by placing<br />
one end of the target at right angles to the other,<br />
pushing together and then twisting.<br />
The 'male' end even has a thread and this achieves a<br />
tighter fit and a more robust way of joining two halves<br />
compared with the traditional method of jointing.<br />
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Wildcrete 3D Targets are now officially IFAA approved:<br />
Wildcrete Targets can be bought exclusively from Archery3D direct -<br />
(see www.archery3d.co.uk) or from one of our two authorised re-sellers:<br />
Phoenix Archery (www.phoenix-archery.co.uk)<br />
The Longbow Shop (www.thelongbowshop.com)<br />
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Shoot Report 12 th February <strong>2017</strong><br />
The weather got off to a cold but not freezing start it was overcast<br />
but stayed dry all day. The attending archers were in good humour and<br />
enjoyed the 40 target course that Peter, Sandy and Ian had set which<br />
provided some great shooting. Catering was managed by Pete Phillips<br />
& Richard Knowles with cakes and preparation done by Kay Bruce.<br />
We all appreciated their efforts which helped the day to run smoothly.<br />
Our next 3D shoot is on the 9 th April <strong>2017</strong> so if<br />
you would like to take part then please contact Bob Bruce at<br />
whitefriars.bowmen@gmail.com or on 07802 758211.<br />
Hunting Tackle - Gents<br />
Hunting Tackle - Ladies<br />
Club Score Club Score<br />
Kevin Cook Oakwood 556 Clair Parfit Aurora 328<br />
Denis Oates Noak Hill 542<br />
Martin Joy Aurora 532 American Flatbow - Gents<br />
Neil Gamble Totem 510 Adam Browning Aurora 562<br />
Steve Osborne Tendring 470 Kevin Button Priory 548<br />
Luke Martin Oakwood 418 Graham Ruffles Oakwood 494<br />
Roy Easten Noak Hill 398<br />
Sean Beckham Tendring 348 Longbow - Gents<br />
Terry Chittock Independent 294 Alain Jacq Independent 506<br />
Mathew Cook Oakwood 294 Peter Warner Independent 448<br />
Dave Allen Broadland 428<br />
Barebow - Gents Paul Gostick Whitefriars 416<br />
Tony Wells Noak Hill 480 Ian Stanley Priory 416<br />
Ian Martin Oakwood 452<br />
Petr Kwiczala Noak Hill 444 Bowhunter - Gents<br />
Roy Shelley Whitefriars 426 Dave Arnold Rose & Arrows 560<br />
Alan Gibbs Whitefriars 284<br />
Bowhunter - Ladies<br />
Barebow - Ladies Sue Birch Totem 560<br />
Teresa Little Aurora 466<br />
Unlimited - Gents<br />
Barebow - Jnr Boy Daniel Rae Kings Forest 940<br />
Armani Lee Whitefriars 486 Gary Harvey Kings Forest 888<br />
Barry Rampling Kings Forest 860<br />
Compound Limited - Gents Paul Little Aurora 800<br />
Duane Williams Totem 742 Darren Smart Whitefriars 786<br />
Bob Bruce Whitefriars 778<br />
Unlimited - Ladies Richard Morgan Broadland 746<br />
Jane Zachariades Whitefriars 698 Graham Birch Totem 738<br />
Stan Wilding Kings Forest 734<br />
Unlimited - Jnr Boy George Zachariades Whitefriars 706<br />
Alan Konno Whitefriars 616 Ken Haynes Noak Hill 682<br />
Ian Harris Kings Forest 634<br />
Freestyle - Ladies John Clarke Whitefriars 602<br />
Nadine McFedries Aurora 662 Dave Morgan Broadland Ret<br />
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* Word Search solutions<br />
from Feb/March <strong>2017</strong> issue *<br />
You were looking for Bow Styles/Classes<br />
in the IFAA, GNAS Field & NFAS!<br />
L A D N S E L G D H C W B E H O<br />
D M N U O P S V A T K O O L U W<br />
E E U O N D I R F B O B W Y N E<br />
T R O G D U A W O L E D H T T V<br />
I I P D B L T O E A X R U S I R<br />
M C M P R O W B Q U H A N E N U<br />
I A O S E G W L G N O D T E G C<br />
L N C O V D F A C D S N E R T E<br />
D F W U I T X C L E G A R F A R<br />
N L O G T H E I L U N T L E C W<br />
U A B S I M D R O N I S I V K O<br />
O T E H M Z E O N B L A M R L B<br />
P B R A I V S T G R J T I U E E<br />
M O A C R O S S B O W I T C O R<br />
O W B O P R A I O L M F E E N A<br />
C I R E T N U H W O B S D R T B<br />
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REDNEX<br />
Inaugural shoot<br />
Sunday 12th March <strong>2017</strong><br />
WOW! There is nothing else we can say! 141 Archers from 26 different clubs and those that choose<br />
to shoot as independent. An awesome response to our first event; thank you, each, and every, one<br />
of you. What a day we had! The weather held, the temperature mild for early March. Forty targets<br />
set in two loops of twenty, either side of the gathering area; we Rednex were hoping for a safe and<br />
fun filled day for all of you.<br />
Admin handled the registration. Catering handled the quest for breakfast. The course setters were<br />
busy running for cover. Time to populate the course. Walk out groups despatched, target groups<br />
deposited at their start points; it was time…Three, two, one, GO! Nothing else we could do except<br />
marshal the course and man the tea tent.<br />
Happily, the day went without incident. The feedback received was all positive, with a few pointers<br />
for future improvements and suggestions about where to put the Wildebeest that are not physically<br />
possible! Above all a barrage of smiles and happy faces. As you can see from the results, there were<br />
some incredible scores. What you may not have realised is that each person listed below now has a<br />
new PB score - your best at Rednex! Thank you for your support. See you at Easter:<br />
Saturday and Sunday, 15th and 16th April <strong>2017</strong><br />
To be held at: Thorrington Hall Woods, Clacton Road, Thorrington, CO7 8HA<br />
(adjacent to St. Mary’s Church).<br />
Registration opens at 08:30 Start time - 10:00<br />
Please pre-book at https://goo.gl/p1e5as or email rednexsecretary@outlook.com<br />
~ Mark, Peter, Madi, Scott and Curly ~<br />
Left: Scotty in the tea tent with the machete<br />
AKA “Sharp practices in catering”!!!! ;-)<br />
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Barebow - F Score/Spots Barebow - M Score/Spots<br />
Kathy Jones 654 4 Dave Andrews 732 4<br />
Teresa Little 600 1 Steve Terenzio 692 5<br />
Debbie Harding 584 2 Stewart Beckham 688 6<br />
Barbara Roberts 498 0 Terry Stevens 680 6<br />
Vikki Motchman 476 0 Guy Van de Walle 664 2<br />
Mick Gregory 652 5<br />
Bowhunter - F Score/Spots Ron Patterson 648 4<br />
Sue Birch 672 1 Tony Wells 630 0<br />
Sue McCloud 380 0 John Marshall 616 4<br />
Stone Henrikson 598 2<br />
Bowhunter - M Score/Spots Andy Williams 568 3<br />
Peter Morgan 726 8 Mark Svensson 564 3<br />
Craig Jones 720 7 Alan Roberts 564 2<br />
Phil Maher 694 3 Danny Chamberlain 554 0<br />
David Arnold 688 5 Petr Kwiczala 550 4<br />
Tom Rushton 472 1<br />
Crossbow - F Score/Spots<br />
Margaret Rickard 786 10 Crossbow - M Score/Spots<br />
Mike Sawyer 916 26<br />
Flatbow - F<br />
Score/Spots<br />
Joyce Morgan 606 4 Flatbow - M Score/Spots<br />
Emma Winning 518 2 David Lovell 704 5 Flatbow - M cont’d Score/Spots<br />
Niki Marr 516 0 Andy Doyle 650 5 Adam Browning 606 3<br />
Julie Lawless 488 2 Volker Fauvel 628 5 Rick Bellars 604 3<br />
Bridget Bellars 480 2 Mark Oakes 612 2 Mick Maken 598 1<br />
Theresa Hearne 414 2 Graham Piercy 612 1 Martin Langford 596 0<br />
Andrew Lehane 594 0<br />
Barrie Cooper 562 2<br />
Peter Nunn 538 2<br />
Charlie Hitching 536 1<br />
Alan Alstin 530 1<br />
Keith Cattermole 512 4<br />
Phil Marr 398 1<br />
Steve Gaskin 358 0<br />
Freestyle - F Score/Spots<br />
Lisa Fowler 652 2<br />
Nadine McFedries 616 3<br />
Lisa Lord 550 3<br />
Hunting Tackle Hunting Tackle - F Score/Spots Freestyle - M Score/Spots<br />
Junior U16 Score/Spots Alayne D'attoma 676 2 Lawrence Goodall 780 11<br />
Shaun Lake 440 1 Linda Lehane 560 2 Terry Wentworth 746 10<br />
Jan Beckham 520 0 Mitch Hill 718 5<br />
Hunting Tackle - M Amanda Evenett 506 2 John Hillsden 716 7<br />
Score/Spots Paris Currie 474 0 John Smith 696 1<br />
Neil Gamble 722 6 Clair Parfit 472 0 Paul Roberts 654 4<br />
Martin Joy 720 6 Trish Seaman 468 0 Steve Munnings 624 6<br />
Graham Davies 718 7 Mel Horne 442 0 Richard Power 616 2<br />
Graham Radford 694 4 Anne Fincham 234 0 Marc Schwartz 516 1<br />
Kelly Lake 680 6<br />
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Hunting Tackle - M cont’d<br />
Score/Spots<br />
Kevin Pyle 652 4<br />
Dennis Oates 636 5<br />
Andrew Gilfrin 626 3<br />
Michael Ashington 614 2<br />
Ben Hearne 612 7<br />
Stefan Purdy 612 2<br />
Paul Tucker 606 3<br />
Ken Whittaker 604 1<br />
Mark Frost 594 3<br />
Elric McCloud 592 4<br />
Andy Manning 588 2<br />
Mick Hitching 536 2 Limited - M Score/Spots Longbow - M Score/Spots<br />
Del Newman 536 0 Duane Williams 844 18 Kevin Button 660 5<br />
Shaun Beckham 514 1 Andrew Knott 718 4 Lawrence Wiles 648 3<br />
Richard Watson 504 0 Mark Allen 632 4<br />
Roy Easten 452 1 Longbow - F Score/Spots James Wilby 606 4<br />
Alex Tyler 650 3 Roger Grew 600 2<br />
Primitive - F Score/Spots Monique Purdy 590 3 Scott King 590 1<br />
Karen Freeman 526 0 Pennie Grew 586 2 Carl Gibbard 586 0<br />
Julie Hawkes 522 1 Kim Tasnady 584 3<br />
Primitive - M Score/Spots Lynette Fisher 458 2 Ian Stanley 540 4<br />
Stuart Fuller 512 5 Josephine Allen 412 0 Phil Stratton 522 1<br />
Dave Piercy 482 0<br />
Unlimited - F Score/Spots Dan Morris 478 1<br />
Karen Pearson 884 25 Ian Leonard 418 1<br />
Heather Pearson 848 15<br />
Sue Dickenson 840 16 Unlimited - M Score/Spots<br />
Karen Hillsden 820 11 Martin Pearson 920 31<br />
Paul Little 920 30<br />
Sean Quelch 880 24<br />
Ian Malcolm 862 21<br />
Steve Dickenson 860 20<br />
Howard Ife 840 14<br />
Graham Birch 828 18<br />
Dennis Ife 828 16<br />
Michael Lee 804 11<br />
David Stone 798 10<br />
Ken Haynes 778 10<br />
Ken Scott 694 8
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* Quiz Time! *<br />
Can you unscramble letter to identify<br />
these Spring-themed anagrams?<br />
1. C L A N G I N G S N I P E R (8,5)<br />
2. F A R A D L I L Y O O P S (5,5,3)<br />
3. A D D E D F L I N G S F O O L (5,6,4)<br />
4. S L O B S E E R T O M (4,7)<br />
5. H A V E E R F Y (8)<br />
6. P O D S S W O R N (9)<br />
7. G A G T E E S R E S (6,4)<br />
8. W A R L O C K S C O R D F O (6,2,7)<br />
9. B I D G R U N T S S O U P (9,4)<br />
10. L A P S E D T O (8)<br />
You can find the answers in the<br />
next issue >>>> June/July <strong>2017</strong>!<br />
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* A Wheelchair for Tonya *<br />
You will remember in the February/March issue of <strong>FAN</strong> <strong>UK</strong> that we introduced you to Tonya,<br />
fellow archer, mother, wife and a truly lovely lady in need of a mountain trike to assist her<br />
continued participation in archery - both field and target.<br />
Well, it gives us immense pride to give you the following update from her husband, Damian on<br />
the fundraising efforts … as of 6th March <strong>2017</strong>:<br />
“Thank you, everyone! We did it! You did it!<br />
We're so stoked, Thursday afternoon we hit<br />
our target.<br />
A few short weeks ago we hit the half way<br />
mark, then a group of Twitch streamers -<br />
'TeamEmmmmsie' - took our cause to heart<br />
and spent a weekend,<br />
and most of last week, streaming games and<br />
fundraising in our name.<br />
They added a massive amount towards our goal, and with everything donated by friends,<br />
family, co-workers, and people we've never met, we're there!<br />
I've been in touch with Mountain Trike and we'll be arranging a test drive soon.<br />
Thank you all so, so much!”<br />
<strong>FAN</strong> <strong>UK</strong>’s<br />
Club Update - Broadland Bowmen<br />
The Broadland Bowmen Master Archer shoot, on Sunday 21st May <strong>2017</strong>,<br />
will be the last Master Archer shoot at our current woods.<br />
We hope that our October <strong>2017</strong> NFAS shoot will take place in our new woods<br />
- to be confirmed in due course.<br />
You can keep up to date with all developments at Broadland via our website<br />
and Facebook page.<br />
Mark Service, Club Chairman.<br />
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Photo by Philip Cave<br />
of Company of 60<br />
Field Archery Club<br />
(www.co60.co.uk)
Shoot Reports &<br />
Clubs’ Location Directory<br />
In response to feedback from one of our readers, who asked if it was<br />
possible to let readers know roughly where the clubs featured in the shoot<br />
reports are, we have decided to add this feature. The reader said that as the<br />
photos and shots in the reports look interesting, it’s frustrating thinking<br />
“I’d love to go there” and not actually knowing how close (or not) they are.<br />
<strong>FAN</strong> <strong>UK</strong> agreed! So - here is a list of the clubs featured in all previous<br />
editions of the magazine thus far, as well as the clubs advertising their<br />
forthcoming shoots and those who have already asked for their<br />
information to be shared, with their general locations for your perusal.<br />
Thanks again to Mike Schofield for this terrific suggestion! :-)<br />
I have also included the locations of the clubs shown in the wonderful<br />
photographs throughout the magazine.<br />
Name<br />
Afan Nedd<br />
Apollo Field Archers<br />
Artemis Archers<br />
Aurora FAC<br />
Avalon Archers<br />
Baldivis Archery Club<br />
Bowmen of Bude<br />
Broadland Bowmen<br />
CSAA Open FA Champs<br />
Company of Sixty<br />
Dearne Valley Archery Club<br />
Druids Field Archers<br />
Delamere Field Archers<br />
Dunbrody Archers<br />
Elmtree Archers<br />
English War Bows NZ<br />
Location<br />
South Wales<br />
Hampshire<br />
Belper, Derbyshire<br />
Chelmsford, Essex<br />
Near Sandy, Beds.<br />
Rockingham, Western Australia<br />
Bude, North Cornwall<br />
Norwich, Norfolk<br />
Various, this shoot held at High Ashurst,<br />
Mickleham, Dorking, Surrey<br />
Oxshott, Surrey<br />
Near Barnsley, South Yorkshire<br />
Wiltshire<br />
Delamere, Northwich, Cheshire<br />
Nee Ross, Ireland<br />
Near Hatherleigh, Devon<br />
New Zealand<br />
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Name<br />
Foxhill Bowmen<br />
Havering Nalgo Archers (HNA)<br />
High Weald Archery Club<br />
King’s Lynn Field Archers (KLFA)<br />
Magna Carta Field Archers<br />
Mayo Archery Club<br />
Muttley Crew Archers<br />
Noak Hill Archers<br />
North Lakes Field Archers<br />
Oakwood Bowmen<br />
Pines Park Archers<br />
Raven Field Archers<br />
Rebellion Archers<br />
Rednex<br />
Regent Archers<br />
South Hams FA<br />
Spirit of Sherwood<br />
Tavistock Company of Archers<br />
Thornbury Field &<br />
Roving Archers<br />
Umberleigh Field Archers<br />
Whitefriars Bowmen<br />
Wolfshead Field Archers<br />
Zenith Archers<br />
Location<br />
Pendle Hill, above Downham<br />
Ramsden Heath, Essex<br />
Etchingham, East Sussex<br />
Near Blackborough End, Norfolk<br />
Lyne (near Chertsey), Surrey<br />
Ballina, Mayo, Ireland<br />
Merseyside<br />
Romford, Essex<br />
Penrith<br />
Near Woodbridge, Suffolk<br />
Between Ravenshead & Calverton,<br />
Nottinghamshire<br />
Based on the Sussex / Hampshire border<br />
St Austell, Cornwall<br />
Thorrington<br />
Bridlington, Yorkshire<br />
Yealmpton, Devon<br />
Worksop, Notts<br />
Tavistock, Devon<br />
Thornbury, Bristol<br />
Umberleigh, Devon<br />
Between Westleton & Dunwich, Suffolk<br />
Near Robin Hoods Bay, North Yorkshire<br />
Whitney-on-Wye, Hereford<br />
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Photo by Jason Quinn<br />
@ Elmtree Archers, June 2016
Photo by Rob Parfett<br />
Labyrinth Archers’ Medieval shoot @ Poltimore House, July 2014
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