2011 Christmas Shoot & Party

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What a great day it was Grandad didn't have the best shoot & I chose not to shoot so I can go to the break basking in the glory of having finished ahead of Grandad on our last encounter. Rather clever that.

Thanks to everybody who made the day a success. Congratulations To Alastair, Gloria & Martin on taking home the shooter of the year awards. Dave (Feathers) McManus was awarded the club member of the year award. Not an easy award to win as the results are in somebody Else's hands. Cec came a well deserved second. Katy won the highest leech award as well as making a very desirable cup cake display. Stewart & Kath brought a fruit platter and I brought my appetite. Garry finished the year on a high scoring 770 for the day.

Scores were:-
Home Brew Garry 770PB, Coins Alastair 760, Dion 752, Don't mention me Steve 748, Cola Karen 740, DJ Gene 728, Martin McFly 704, Grandad Cec 654, Brad 642, Figers Ray 632, Sam 630, Cup Cake Gloria 596, Feathers Dave 548, Corey 524 PB, Liam 278, Bruce 214 PB.

To all our members and those that tune in, we wish you and your families a very happy Christmas & a super 2012. Keep checking over the Christmas period as I will post things as I get them. Take care

Teabag

Flooded again

Just thought I would share with you. This is the third time in three weeks, but by far the worst since June. These photos' are our drive way on to the property.

Just received this from another happy camper

Hi Teabag.
Annette and I would like to thank you all for your hospitality over the week end Christmas shoot.
We were the ones who were so keen to come we arrived on the Wednesday before the shoot.
We both had a great time Annette had her first ever shoot and would like to thank the club for the lend of one of its bows
she had had only three lessons with Peter and did not have a bow of her own (that is now corrected).
Once again thanks for everything we had a great time and will be back.
By the way if you find the results would you send me a copy thanks.
Kind regards.
Bryan & Annette Trethewey.
Moonterra Archers

thank you

Just thought I would pass on this info. 4 of our visitors from the weekend have said how much they enjoyed the shoot, ranges & general atmosphere. I will try & bring the emails with me at the weekend, I say try because we just may be flooded again.

Don't forget this is our Cristmas party so should be a good time.

cheers Teabag

Branch Christmas shoot 3rd & 4th Dec 2011

Lets start with the negatives. Firstly I have lost the results so I can't give you the scores & only some Placings.

Pathetic, lousy, discouraging, apathetic, disgusting, disappointing, soul destroying are some ways to describe the turn up from our sister clubs. 34 starters 16 from Macleay, 4 from Manning, nil from Namoi ( Flooding ), 2 from Avon Plus Peter & Lynne who didn't shoot, 6 from Hunter, Nil from SAS, 4 from Moontera, nil from Boolaroo, 2 from Tuggerah a club with only about 6 members. Now for the good bits:- fantastic, awesome, incredible, super, unbelievable, magnificent & supercalafragalistic don't even come close to describing the weekend. Toilets flushing tick, food wow, Ranges tick, socialising tick, decorations tick, raffle prizes tick, weather tick tick tick, scores tick. I am now in my mid sixties and have played sport competitively since about the age of 12 as a result I have been in many clubs both as a member and as a committee member indeed I am a life member of 2 clubs, the only reason I mention all this is I just wonder if the general membership realises how special the Macleay club is. Everybody likes to see a club member do well even if they themselves haven't set the world on fire. The junior members are nice people to be with and are happy to help when asked. There is no backbiting or behind the scenes assassination attempts, everybody contributes as best they can. One family left whilst several of us were sitting around, somebody said "what a lovely family" and every body agreed. That seems to be the general feeling we all share for each other. Now lets talk about the canteen Narelle, Karen, Neil, Gloria & Cathie take a bow what a fantastic job you did, all with a smile and production like efficiency, it was good to bask in the good feelings your efforts created. Please notice I haven't mentioned Karen & Neil's rather horny Saturday night. Neil was a little limp in the horns from very early in the evening. The courses were great, even if I could have used a map to get around, just shows you can't stay away for to long. On a sad note I got thrashed by a young lady who couldn't remember to take her bow with her when she entered the range. It was funny watching her jog back to the muster point shouting " Don't shoot, Don't shoot". The same young lady and her Hubby camped so far away they nearly got hit by the north bound interstate train and called a taxi to get to the club house. Garry got the better of Steve in their on going tussel, Cup cake shot the best scores she has ever put in on an ABA weekend. Sunday's round was fun although it probably made it a little hard to catch those that may have been ahead. Finally in an incredible display of fire power Teabag finally got the better of Grandad. The axe and knife went longer than the 3arrow round, the new area allowed us all to watch and those competing could still feel like they were part of the group. The Collambatti Cane Toad shoot went really well and looks like becoming a regular fixture. All in all a great weekend. Thanks Darrin and co for the flushing toilets. Sorry to anybody I have missed it isn't intentional.

Cheers Teabag

A picture is worth a 1000 words

To Darrin, Cec, Ray & Dave plus anybody else that had anything to do with the above "THANK YOU"

ABA Shoot 12th Nov

A mixture of 22 experienced and new archers made it around the anthill range without getting too wet on a threatening afternoon at Tamban for the Macleay Valley Archers weekly shoot last Saturday afternoon.
Steve Harris shot a tremendous 388 to tie Alistair Smedley for his first overall win at the club. This was a personal best for Steve and reflects his ability, which has really started to show through over the last twelve months and a triumph by some eight points over Dave McManus with whom Steve has developed a friendly rivalry. It was great to have a few of our younger adult shooters such as Tim Hodgman, Jacob Fuit and Dion Ussher come out for a stroll around the range and we even had a visitor (Matt Hodgman) from the Namoi Valley (Gunnedah) club.
Scores for the day:
Steve Harris 388 PB, Alistair Smedley 388, Dave McManus380, Glenn Freeman 378, Ces Apps 376, Karen Smedley 374, Garry Ward 372, Sam Harwood 356, Josh Scott 350, Ray McManus 318, Gloria Potter 316, Peter Scott 308, Beau 292, Peter Brenton 292, Mark Muphy 228, Finn Murphy 204, Stew Benington 196, Brad 186.
A big thanks must go to club stalwarts Brett Hodgman and Darrin Symonds, who both gave up a chance to shoot so they could start preparing the club grounds for the Northern NSW branch Xmas shoot to be held on December 3rd and 4thwhich will see archers from all over the northern region gather on the Macleay for the last branch shoot of the year.
Ces apps and Glenn Freeman also should be congratulated for coming 1st and 3rd respectively in their divisions at the recent branch 3D titles held in Singleton.
There are still a few club shoots left for the year so anybody interested in giving field archery a go is more than welcome to join in the fun and should contact Ces Apps 65627047.

Thanks Garry for keeping me up todate. I think I will just stay away permenantly. Don't mention me Steve, Bp Glenn, Cola Karen & Grandad are all becoming just to hard to beat. All thats improving for me is my tea making ability. Really brings a tear to the eye. Well done everybody.

Cheers Teabag

Free style archers led the way for the Macleay Valley Archers monthly IFAA shoot on Staturday the 29th of October. Alistair Smedley and Dave McManus both shot top notch scores and were closely followed by Karen Smedley, showing how competitive ladies can be, coming third overall on the day.
Scores for the day:
Alistair Smedley 256, Dave McManus, 252, Karen Smedley 237, Ces Apps 222, Glenn Freeman 216, Garry Ward 209, Brett Hodgman 204, Cooper Gray 204 Matt Gray 200, Ray Mcmanus 184 , Stew Benington 53.
Father and son team Mark and Finn finished on 70 and 97 respectively and the Brenton family, Tracey, Peter, Pat and Tim all shot in the 60s.
It has been fantastic to see lots of new faces around the club over the last couple of weeks and it would be a pleasure to see even more people giving this great outdoor pastime a try. The club has two qualified coaches and equipment available for new archers to try out. For more information contact Ces Apps on 65627047.

A big thanks to Garry for doing my job. Hopefully things will return to normal very soon.

cheers Teabag

October 22 ABA round

Perfect spring conditions greeted 17 keen archers to Tanban last Saturday 22nd October. Whilst the numbers of regulars dwindled, this was more than compensated by the newcomers, many of whom attended the “ come and try” weekend.

A warm welcome to Emily, Stew, Ilua, Patrick, Brad, Ethan and Peter.

Scores for the day were;

Cec Apps 382, Alistair Smedley 382, Dave McManus 376, Garry Ward 376, Karen Smedley 366, Robert Fordyce 364, Sam Harwood 356, Dan Ward 352, Gene Shea 350, Ray McManus 328, Emily Ward 312 (PB), Stew Benington 264 (PB), Ilua Susnja 242 (PB), Patrick Brenton 230 (PB), Brad Farley 202 (PB), Ethan Baywood 188 (PB), Peter Brenton 148 (PB).

Next Saturday will be the monthly meeting and we will be shooting the IFAA range to prepare those who will be attending the Branch 3D titles to be held in Singleton the following weekend. Thanks Garry for sending me this. Just as well I was away or I would have been making tea for a week, Well done Grandad. Cola Karen & Fingers Ray did really well .'Cheers Teabag

Oct 15 & 16

Well the come and try weekend is over and the club should be congratulated you did a really good job. Several budding archers arrived on both days and results look positive to say the least. It never ceases to amaze me what small clubs can achieve when they really want to. I will let Brett add to this as he was much more on the coal face than I was. Top job everybody.

cheers Teabag

Come and Try Weekend, It's Still On.

Even though its a bit wet we will still be running our come and try weekend. We have plenty of under cover area where we will be having some practical sessions on setting up your gear, arrow construction and fletching and general archery discussions. Just follow the red MVA signs from Great North Rd Frederickton. The road has recently been graded and will be fine.

8/10/11 IFAA shoot

I see the numbers who turn up has dropped off somewhat. I realise that most have stayed away because the Grandad, Teabag battle has been on hold for the last couple of weeks and the crowd has adopted the "move along- nothing to see here." approach. Since Teabag will be back soon the numbers should return to a more normal level. Oh I suppose it could have been the weather forecast. Grandad used a very devious plan this weekend and shot IFAA whilst most people arrived with their hi-power ABA bows. By the time the shoot was finished poor old Steve found that his shoulders had moved closer together.

Next weekend is our come & try weekend, so hopefully a few people will come & try the sport that has survived for centuries, won wars & had royal instructions as to who could and couldn't partake. With todays modern equipment the sport can reach the highest level no matter who you are, Please come & Try.

Scores for the weekend -IFFA Field, Coins Alastair 246, Feathers Dave 237, Don't tie with me Brett 236, Don't mention me Steve 230, Mad Max Stuart 224, Grandad Cec 214, Fingers Ray 179.

Cheers Teabag

Come and Try Weekend 15th & 16th Oct

Next weekend is our come and try weekend. (See details to the right).Visitors are welcome to come any time over the weekend. Club members can come for as long as they like as well. We will be running coaching with still and video cameras, practical lessons in arrow construction, fletching, bow setup, serving etc. This will be a great opportunity to spend time on the practice butts tuning your bow and improving your technique. We will be doing repairs to all the club bows and re fletching the club arrows. Many of us will be camping over on Saturday night so the more the merrier. We will still shoot on saturday afternoon for those that want to. We will have the BBQ running and soft drinks will be available.

Thunderstruck IFAA 08/10/11

Despite a ferocious thunderstorm we still managed to get 7 foolhardy souls to shoot 14 targets of IFAA on our new range. Excuses were aplenty. "I brought my ABA bow". "I can't shoot all those arrows with my ABA setup". "I haven't got sight settings for 80 yards" Despite all these excuses we all managed to finish. Ray had no problems. "No sight, No problems". Scores were Cec-214, Brett-236, Stuart-224, Alistair-246, Ray-179, Dave-237,Steve-230.

October long weekend

Nope nothing happened, or so it would seem. As far as I know nobody except Grandad turned up at the club and nobody from the club went to Maitland. Maitland had its fair share of water 141mm uptill 9am sunday and 148mm up till 9am monday. One range was closed Saturday night as half of it was underwater and indeed the whole shoot was shut down after Saturdays shoot and positions declared on that result.

Sorry this is so short but that's all I know.
cheers Teabag

Branch IFAA titles at Avon 24/9/11

Hi all, a massive contingent of Macleay archers travelled to Avon for the IFAA branch titles, When I say massive I am simply referring to the waist line of Teabag, not the numbers who travelled. Cup cake & Tea bag had a great time. Unfortunately only 39 archers turned up for the titles. Saturday was beautiful weather whilst Sunday was the more familiar RAIN. Despite the rain most people really enjoyed themselves with the presentation being a very relaxed affair.

Top Macleay score for the weekend was Teabag, yes I know there was only 2 of us.Scores for the weekend were Cup cake- Hunter 388PB, Field 351 total 739PB 1st place. Teabag Hunter469, field 464, total 933 1st place

Cheers Teabag

PS I will let you know what happened at the club as soon as I know.

ABA 3 arrow 17/9/11

Hi all quick bit of housekeeping, our monthly meeting has been put back a week due to the state ABA titles at Hunter Bowmen. So the meeting will be 8/10/11 at midday.

In the 12 months Teabag has been doing this blog, regular readers will have noticed the pure, quality journalism, the deep desire for truth and accuracy in each and every article, a fact that sets him apart from his peers, it makes him the Andrew Bolt of the Archery blogs. Feared by many and it's true to say loathed by a few. Well it has come to light that a rather disturbing and somewhat frightening trend has surfaced in the club.......it concerns the Feathered Fingers clan. As you know our club is home to Feathers & Fingers, well dear reader read on and tremble with fear & concern. My first story concerns the patriarch "Fingers" Members be warned shoot with Fingers at your peril. By way of explanation Last week a group of four, with Fingers as their leader set of to shoot 20 targets ONLY 2 FINISHED, this week 4 set of again with fingers as the leader only 3 finished. The only logical conclusion one can draw is Fingers puts the moz on his group. Explanation 2 revolves around the battle hardened "Feathers". Now feathers has a shooting style that can only be described as robotic. At indoor shaft after shaft crash into the X ring, indeed I think he has shot a perfect round. His form is repetitive to the point of being boring, every shot is the same as the last. Well it turns out that fingers rather fancies Dryfires cupcakes and since Dryfire was having a well earned rest from me this weekend she hadn't made any cupcakes. This played on Feathers mind and as he strolled to the first target the thoughts started to collide. He stepped up to the peg still visualizing the non existent cupcakes which in turn caused him to briefly think of Dryfire which led to the subconscious thinking dryfire.....New PSE 70# brought back to full draw, other members of the group ducking for cover whilst screaming "Don't shoot no arrow" was enough to bring feathers back to reality with no damage done. As I feel somewhat responsible for Feathers trying to take out his entire group in one massive explosion of Parts Scattered Everywhere I will, henceforth refer to Dryfire as Cupcake.

One final thing Grandad again wiped the floor with Teabag, the margin was so big it cost teabag a can of Coke as well as a cuppa. Geez I dislike that slime green Bow.

Scores were:-Grandad Cec 384, Don't tie with me Brett 384, DJ Gene 380, Mad Max Stuart 374, Feathers Dave 374, Don't mention me Steve 366, Home Brew Garry 362, Pee Wee Josh 360PB, Teabag 348, Fingers Ray 274, The Butcher Peter 252DNF.

Till next time Cheers Teabag

Scores from Sat. see second post for write up

A big thanks to Garry for the scores. Gee a lot of archers must have gone home happy. The scores are most unusual the highest only being 378, with 6 shooters in the 370+ area. janelle Kitchen, Kate Scott, Peter Scott, Josh Scott & Zac Ward were stand outs, well done. Sam Davies scored 244 which is pretty impressive for a new comer to archery and finally just as well I left early or I would have been making more tea for Grandad, well done Cec. Whilst talking about Grandad had he shot badly, he would have needed the GDP from a small African country to pay all his soft drink and tea wagers.

Scores ABA 3 arrow.

Home brew Garry 378, Feathers Dave 378, Grandad Cec 376, Don't tie with me Brett 376, Don't mention me Steve 376, BP Glenn 374, Scibe Neil 356, Peawee Josh 352, Princess Kate 348, Banana Rama Mick 346, River Park Gary 346, Janelle 344, Macksville Dan 340, Miss fire Peter 324, Sixpence Zac 320, Fingers Ray 316, Tray bit Zac 262, Play it again Sam 244.

Martin, Gloria & Teabag DNF

Saturday 10/9/11 ABA 3 arrow

Hi all, sorry this is late and just to add insult to injury I don't have the scores either. Gary rang to say he would email them to me so I will add them when I get them. What a beautiful day, the club was really throbbing with excitement. Everybody was happy & really reflected the beautiful weather. We had 3 female archers Kate, Janelle & Gloria plus Cathie helped out around the club with all the mundane things that go on, Thanks Girls. Gloria really enjoyed having girly company for a change. Peter shot really, really, well and scored over 300 with all but 1 target shot from the red peg. Don't forget it is his first time around the course ( I think). All his family appear to be above average beginners. Somewhere about 20 archers wondered around the course and by all accounts all enjoyed the day. I believe the range captain once again managed to confuse & bewilder most archers. Well done Dave. I have to say you are one of the few range captains who doesn't mind setting minimum distance shots. Will post the scores soon.

Cheers Teabag

ABA 3 Arrow 3/9/11

Hi all what a great day. Dryfire was still a little sea sick after her off shore fishing adventure, a gift given to her last Christmas, from her loving hubby. It has turned in to the gift that just keeps on giving. I found the course really interesting, I think that's the word to use when in reality the range captain has set a course that leaves you completely confused. To put it bluntly by target 6 I had had enough, so spat the dummy and retired to the club house for my afternoon nap. Well done Dave. Some people didn't have to much trouble Marty, Dave, Ray & Brett all shot really well. Zac & Jack both shot PB's & Gloria put in one of her best scores for quite a while. The meeting ran smoothly and a come & try weekend is in the planning stage for October 15 & 16.

Our 5 year plan took a step closer to reality.

Scoresfor the weekend are:- Martin Mc Fly 394, Feathers Dave 388, Don't tie with me Brett 380, Home Brew Garry 372, Grandad Cec 366, Banana Rama Mick 366, Chef Darrin 356, DJ Gene 356, Fingers Ray 342, Mad Max Stuart 342, Dry Fire Gloria 316, Tray Bit Zac 286PB, Little Jack 110PB, Teabag DNF

Cheers & Shoot well Tea Bag

27th August IFAA round

Well wasn't yesterday just pure joy, totally undiluted by the events of the day. 12, no wait, 13 village idiots turned up for a day of fun & frivolity at Tamban Aquatic Park. The rules were simple, use whatever swimming stroke you are comfortable with to navigate from target to target. Then choose whether you wanted to stand in mud or running water to shoot. No warning signs had been erected so the depth of the mud or water was unknown, our group solved this dilemma in a most creative manor. We sent the short members of our group first. Now if they could breath we new it wasn't to deep, however if they sunk out of site, what was left of the group would have something to stand on. As the tallest in the group I thought this was a very cunning plan. The only scores I have are Brett 236 & Dave 234, they are all written on my trusty note pad, but the page has come off & turned in to totally illegible mush, honestly I've had things go through the washing machine that haven't suffered from aquatic immersion to the same extent. One other result that is worthy of note, is Grandad has finally found out what it is like to walk in my shoes. He makes a mean cup of tea & I really enjoyed it. After the shoot he returned my shoes, so next week will be a totally different event.

Next Saturday is our club meeting STARTING AT 12 MIDDAY.

Take care all see you then.

Cheers Teabag

Quick Reminder

Just a reminder for those of you with multi bow families, this week should be our IFAA shoot, so 14 targets 4 arrows per target may not suit those with heavy # bows.

cheers teabag

Fuel saver Part 2 20/8/11

What a surprising day, Dryfire & I checked the forecast, then the creek, organised emergency accommodation for Sat night, just in case, then headed of to the club. On the way we decided not many would show up, boy were we surprised. 16 shooters plus Peter who stayed on the practice butts. All in all we had Peter with his brand new bow, Jay a junior who came with Dad & his 3 siblings & Stuart a very experienced archer who joined the club. Stuart drives a Land Rover straight out of the Mad Max movies. Black with 2 huge spots on the bull bar, winch & 6 yes 6 smaller spots on the roof rack. Mud tyres, high lift jack & shovel all in purpose built racks, 2 GPS systems plus a hand held unit. Sounded like a diesel also had a snorkel and mans best friend "WOOF"So all in all I'm guessing Stuart never goes of the bitumen, well not much any way. He also pulls a 3000# bow. Dave took his PSE out for the day and boy does it perform, when he releases you hear a high energy crack somewhat like a rifle then a split second later the butts rock about and nearly fall over. Really good news for us average archers Karen is going away for about 5 weeks, she has taken long service leave and she & Alastair are going to England to help her Mum & Dad celebrate their 50 wedding anniversary. Have a great time. At least for the next 5 weeks I will move up the pecking order by one, ah! pure joy. Grandad took his new slime green Mardi Gras bow round the course and absolutely blitzed it leaving poor old Teabag at the tea urn once again, boy life can really suck.

Scores are listed below 2 arrow round

Feathers Dave 774, Home brew Garry 762, Coins Alastair 760, Grandad Cec 758, BP Glenn 736, Cola Karen 734, Karate Matt 728, Mad Max Stuart 724, Tea Bag 710, Dan 648, Dryfire Gloria 630PB, Fingers Ray 628, Peawee Josh 608, Ben 570, Jay 298PB..

Cheers Teabag

Gunnedah State 3D titles 13th & 14th August

A bakers dozen set of on the great trek west to compete in the NSW state 3D titles. Now it's supposed to be flat out on the western plains so how come Gunnedah managed to find the only damned hill in the entire state to play on. Huge Basalt rocks littered the area and made really good places to stand the 3D targets on. Over the weekend our group lost, bent or broke 15 arrows. Dryfire & I stayed Sunday night and walked around 3 targets spent about half an hour doing it and came back with 5 lost arrows, not all ours. The carbon footprint must add up to the GDP of a small African nation, at about $10.00 per carbon shaft. Personally I loved the shots but had a difficult time walking around the hill. From our 13 starters we came home with 4 State Champions, Martin & Cec deserve a big pat on the back for their efforts, well done you two. Martin had the top Macleay score for the weekend and Brett top scored in the seniors with a 1484. Overall the courses were challenging but we as a club did real good.

Scores for the weekend 3a 1a 2a total place.

Martin 386, 374, 756, 1516 1st

Gloria 276, 238, 442, 956, 1st

Cec 356, 356, 720, 1432, 1st

Michael 338, 328, 600, 1266, 3rd

Steve 364, 364, 714, 1442, 4th

Garry 366, 356, 714, 1436, 5th

Brett 376, 354, 754, 1484, 4th

Neil 344, 342, 708, 1394, 1st

David 362, 350, 764, 1476, 2nd

Glenn 364, 350, 712, 1426, 4th
Darrin 356, 348, 714, 1418, 5th
Dion 368, 350, 714, 1432, 10th

Ray 340, 208, 574, 1122, 2nd

Fuel saver shoot leg one 6/8/11

Oh boy writers cramp from all the shooters who turned up this week. 20 off you well done. We held our club meeting for the month with the main item being the purchase of a brushcutter with saw blade, a petrol driven blower and a ride on mower. Brings a tear to the eye don't it. Over the next few months Burgers are to be ordered and paid for at the canteen then the order will be passed on to the chef. No burgers are to be ordered by any body other than the canteen lady or her appointed replacement. Cold drinks are to be purchased from the canteen as per usual. Those Pesky range setters were at it again, making things really difficult 766 was the top score for the day so I guess the did a damned good job. Sitting here looking at the results I have put my head on the block and nominated what I think are the top 3 efforts for the day so here goes, No 3 Neil, Finger shooter with sights who shot 736, No 2 Karen 728 1st shoot back in several months, new string, new settings and still beat most of the field, Very annoying. No 1 belongs to Cooper who shot a 616PB Cooper hasn't shot regularly over the last few weeks and has had a difficult time of things. So putting all that aside to shoot a PB is a fantastic effort.

Next week for most of us is Gunnedah. I think a few are coming to the club to shoot and fix a few small problems so if you turn up bring your work ethic along with the bow. Next working bee is Sunday 21 August and now the scores:-Coins Alastair 766, Martin McFly 766, Feathers Dave 760, Scribe Neil 736, Grandad Cec 732, Cola Karen 728, Chef Darrin 720, Teabag 714, Home brew Garry 712, BP Glenn 698, Fletcher Sam 684, Karate Matt 668, Macksville Daniel 646, Pighunter Cooper 616PB, Dryfire Gloria 502, Fingers Ray 472, Traybit Zac 118, Dion, Nic & Jacob all shot a 1 arrow, Jacob had his Bowtech turn into a Blowtech sorry to hear that Jacob.

Well that's about it for know.

cheers Teabag

ABA 3 arrow 30/7/11

Great day, lots to talk about so go grab a cuppa and sit back. firstly next week is the club meeting it will start at 12 noon followed by the first round of the ABA national fuel saver shoot entry fee is $10.00 so it will be a 2 arrow both to score, round 2 will be a fortnight later. The state 3D titles at Gunnedah will be sandwiched between the 2 fuel saver shoots, then on the final weekend we will have our IFAA weekend. we had 14 archers compete this week. I think there must be something in the water around here as we are seeing new bows sprouting like mushrooms, out of the 14, 7 were new or near new bows and another member has a brand new one at home getting set up. We also had more new shooters than flies around the compost heap, the clubs future looks really good, a big welcome to the following David first time at archery. Went home happy despite the large bruise on his arm. Kate shot for the first time and did really well. Richard & Ethan also shot well for new comers. Cec, Darrin & Steve went to Taree on Sunday for some practice on 3D, which brings me to my next point.

For those that have been reading this over the last 9 months ( well done ) you would be aware that Grandad & Teabag stage a weekly battle. Over that period grandad has come out on top far more than Teabag has, however over the last 4-5 weeks Teabag hasn't done a bad job of keeping Grandad honest, now however Teabag feels somewhat guilty as Grandad has had to buy a new bow and travel to Taree for extra practice. The only logical explanation is Grandad's pathological fear of being beaten by Teabag. Narelle please accept my apologies for causing all the extra expense in your family, I do however have a plan, He He! Watch out Grandad.

Alastair deserves special mention for his fantastic score of 392 really hot shooting that. On the down side he has fixed Karen's bow so we can expect her back at the pointy end of the field real soon.. Scores for the day are:-Coins Alastair 392, Feathers David 386PB, Don't tie with me Brett 384, Homebrew Garry 366, Grandad Cec 362, DJ Gene 362, Chef Darrin 360, Teabag 354, Princess Kate 346 PB,Don't mention me Steve 344, Fletcher Sam 332, Peewee Josh318PB, Fingers Ray 318BB, Ethan 282 PB, Dryfire Gloria 296, Bruises Dave 254PB, Richard 154, Traybit Zac 124.

Well that's about it for this week

cheers Teabag

Easy way to help the club

As most of you are aware several businesses sponsored targets at the club, all the money raised is used for the benifit of us the member, hence the reason for this request. I realise that we don't all use their services every day and so do they, but if each member family bought 1 weeks supply of meat from the butcher who sponsored us or fuel or BBQ gas or fruit & veg from the servo. imagine how happy the business would be to support us again next year. Give it a try and let the business know you are from the club and have decided to give them a try because they supported the club you belong to.We changed our butcher to L-bo butcher for that reason and told him why we were there we enjoyed the meat and now he gets all our meat business. If we didn't like it we wouldn't have gone again. The side benefit from this and letting him know why were there is that he has indicated he will go again next year. So just give it a try with any sponsor that has a product you can use. But let them know why. If you don't like their product, price or service then don't back up for a second go.

Thanks for the help

Teabag

Thank you

I really didn't get the time to say this over the weekend but I have a few minutes spare at the moment and I just wanted to thank everybody who contributed to the IFFA Range Brett, Garry & Dave worked hard for the benifit of us all, the old brigade filled bales, The girls painted, Alastair apologised to several tree branches as he introduced them to the chain saw Steve help drag bales around and many more members gave a hand. If I haven't named you please forgive me but the mind is old and feeble. Without all your efforts the club would still be IFFA less.

Thanks everybody.

cheers

Teabag

IFAA 23/7/11

12 archers arrived to give our brand new IFFA range the once over. A few minor modifications may be needed but all in all everybody enjoyed the challenge. Due to our highly organised state we shot a mix of field, hunter & Animal faces from nearly the correct distances. It may be fair to say we we are not the best shots in Australia but we certainly were the best in Kempsey and probably set a world record for this particular mix of faces. Once again Teabag had to make Grandad's cuppa, he has done it so often he doesn't need to ask how he likes it. Real bummer that!

Scores for the day were Martin 251, Dave 233, Cec 217, Glenn 202, Josh 200, Garry 197, Neil 182, Ray 148, Gene 143, Gloria 133, Zac 65, Mike 46.

IFFA will probably be shot on the last weekend each month, ( not next weekend). A few members are travelling to Taree on Sunday the 30th to shoot 3D if you are interested make arrangements next Saturday.

Got to go know cheers to all

Teabag

Coming weekend

Don't forget this weekend (all being well) will be our first IFAA shoot. Really looking forward to that. Darrin is looking for a team to go to 3D at Wingen, if you are interested see Darrin this Saturday for details. Gloria & I are interested. Also a few members are travelling to Taree to shoot 3D on Sunday.

cheers Teabag

ABABranch titles 16th&17th july

9 archers got leave passes to attend the branch titles & three archers brought back first place medals and a couple of second places well done MVA.

Steve Harris has found a sure fire method of shortening his draw length, simply use a high poundage bow for the weekend. Sure pushed his bow arm halfway across his body. Nobody wanted to shoot with Dave and his new bow, seems the creaking scares us mere mortals. The old fart brigade did real good Cec & Ray both won their sections with Teabag & Dryfire coming second in their classes. Freestyle unlimited flight 2 was our greatest achievement Darrin came 1st only 16 points lower than the highest adult score shot over the weekend in flight 1, Dave came 3rd.

Scores for the weekend Cec 1454 1st, Mike 1406 2nd, Gloria 1032 2nd, Steve 1438 5th, Brett 1456 4th, Darrin 1520 1st, David 1476 3rd, Glenn 1472 4th, Ray 1024 1st..

Sorry for the short report but I am way behind and only just got the computer back.

cheers Teabag

handicap Results 9/7/11

Hi intrepid reader sorry for the delay with this but my computer is having a melt down.

Scores are Ray 443.2, Darrin 416, Glenn 408.89, Garry 403.11, Mike 402.89, Steve 402.44, Sam 401, Brett 392.44, Alastair 389.33, Dave 385.56, Cec 368.22, Zac 346, Gloria 345.78.

Ray has had an amazing result, nice to see the old timers brigade holding their own. If only we could see what we are aiming at & the muscles didn't protest as loudly. I tried to pull a 60# bow back the other day & only succeeded in dislodging my sphincter muscle. No body volunteered to put it back either, that's friends for you.

cheers Tea Bag

9/7/11 ABA 3 arrow

Well that was an interesting day. You could throw a small rug over the entire field. Some good scores were shot and we had more new bows than children at the local kindy.

Dave gave his new PSE its first run Brett had baby Elite out in public for the second time & I think Garry had his new arrival with him, Cec moved back in time to his Elite which had been under the bed for the last 12 months. Actually Elites seem to be the bow of choice at the moment. Still no Karen, not sure if she had to work, still has the flu or Alastairs sabotage was more severe than first thought. Next weekend most of us will be at Taree for the Branch E titles. The IFAA range is only a tiny bit away from being finished, thanks everybody for all you have done. Brett, Garry & Dave have put in a lot of effort for our pleasure.

Top score for the day was Darrin whilst Zac shot a PB. Cec improved by a massive 18 points & Ray shot 340 with fingers & Barebow. Well Done.

Dave & Steve moved a few targets and distances around last week and both last weeks & this weeks scores reflect that the course may indeed be slightly more difficult.

Scores are Chef Darrin 382, Coins Alastair 374, BP Glenn, Homebrew Garry, Don't tie with me Brett & Tea Bag all scored 372, Don't mention me Steve 370, Feathers Dave 368, Grandad Cec 344, Fingers Ray 340, Fletcher Sam 326, Dryfire Gloria 266, Threepenny Zac 208PB.

Cheers Teabag

2/7/11 ABA

Hi all. the results from yesterday are:- Martin Mcfly 392. May have been from the red pegs but I don't know, Sorry abut that, Feathers Dave 386, Coins Alastair 384, Don't mention me Steve 382 PB, Don't tie with me Brett ( new bow & all) 376, Chef Darrin 374, Home brew Garry 370, Scribe Neil 332, Grandad Cec 326, Fingers Ray 302.

Steve & Dave altered the course and as you can see it really helped their score. The less said about Grandad's score the better even if I have very sore ribs from Laughing. Thanks to all who turned up to the working bee. The IFFA range is not far from being usable. Just a quick note to Mrs Hodgman. Why do you need a new bow to shoot less than the score put up by the old bow. Over to you Brett.

Cheers Tea bag
Handicap scores:-

Steve Harris 416.25, Darrin 409, Ray 406.5, Dave 404, Martin 402.25, Alastair 401.5, Garry 401.25, Brett 396, Neil 373.5, Cec 349.5.

Brett Has A New Baby.

Brett would like to announce the arrival of his new baby. Weighing 4.1lbs it arrived on Sunday. Shane assisted with the delivery.It's arrival has caused some concern within the household as the Boss is concerned that the new baby is getting more attention than she is. Not sure what sex it is yet ...but it does have a 12'' B Stinger. Father and baby are doing fine. For those that like the details....2011 Elite Pure,Ninja Black, 60lb, L/H, Axcel Armotech HD Sight,B Stinger Stabilizer.

Excuses Now..??....None!

June 25 ABA 1 arrow & AGM.

Paradise returns, what a fantastic day good weather, good company & some really good scores. Brett 390, Alastair 388, Gary 382 & Martin from the red pegs 382 all deserve special mention. Well done you four.

18 shooters enjoyed their walk through the bush with the occasional plunk of arrows disturbing the silence. I'm not sure whar Zac's parents feed him but whatever it is the leeches love it. You may remember last time Karen shot she beat her husband, silly girl, she then had to travel for work and hubby promised to fix something on her bow whilst she was gone. Well Karen couldn't shoot at the weekend some how her bow is broken. Alastair claims it was like that all the time and he noticed it whilst he had the bow in the press. Probably true, but at least it stopped Karen beating most of us. Well done Alastair, good to see you taking one for the team.

In the on going battle between Grandad & Teabag, Teabag came out on top, normally I would spend some time gloating about my fantastic victory, but not this time I have decided to be more mature and point out how well Grandad shot. He scored really well on all the targets he managed to hit. At his age pulling that big heavy bow isn't easy and he gets tired but that didn't stop him from trying really hard and besides 20 points isn't really that much. There well done grandad.

Brett's 390 is pretty special any score in the 390 -400 range should put you on cloud nine, in Brett's case it has caused concern as he only picked up his new bow late Saturday and now wonders which one he should use Our AGM presented no surprises with the only change being Garry Ward is our new Secretary taking over from Neil who due to work commitments didn't offer himself again. Thanks for stepping up Garry and to Neil Thanks for all you did.

Scores for the day. Brett 390, Alastair 388, Garry 382, Martin 382, Jacob 376, Darrin 374, Mike 360, Glenn 358, Neil 356, Dave 354, Cec 340, Gloria 338, Matt 330, Steve 328, Zac 308, Ray 290, Cooper 290, Ben 224.

At the shoot the incorrect winner of the handicap section was announced sorry Ray, the results are belowAnd the winner is:
Gloria Potter 420.29, Garry Ward 415.14, Brett Hodgman 411.43, Darrin Simonds 410.29, Alastair Smedley 406.57, Jacob Fuit 398.67, Neil Ussher 397.14, Ray McMannus 392.67, Glenn Freeman 392.00, Mike Potter 391.14, Marty Ussher 391.14, Cooper Gray 389.50, Dave McMannus 371.14, Matt Gray 370.50, Zac Kitchin 368.00, Cec Apps 363.71, Steve Harris 359.71, Ben Ward 292.67.

I know not everbody cares about the handicap scores but if you saw the look on Gloria's face when she was told you would know that to some people it means a lot.

cheers everybody Teabags

Monday20th June

Hi all, sorry this is late but we only managed to get home late yesterday due to the flood. The trip into our property via Dungay Creek was a little hairy as the rocky bottom was all loose and unstable and the water was lapping about 100mm above the bottom of the van door plus it still had a bit of power. I never would have tried it when we first came here 2 years ago, so I guess I am getting old & stupid are slightly more experienced. Gloria & I would really like to thank Mama Cass, Breanna, Zac & Jordan, this family put up with us from Tuesday through to Sunday, all without complaint, Mama Cass even gave us her bed. A really big thank you to the four of you, We are not really sure how to repay you all other than to say THANKS.

7 Macleay shooters wondered of to the land of vertical water, the locals referred to it as Avon Valley. Dryfire & I arrived late Wednesday arvo and set up camp, complete with the usual heckling, our site was only just big enough and indeed we hung over the boundary on 3 sides a chilly nip was already in the air and the gauge dropped to .5 over night. Thursday & Friday were quite pleasant days with the clouds slowly rolling in over the hills. This was a two edged sword rain but warmer nights. Saturday had light misty rain with the occasional heavy shower and really heavy rain at night. Despite the weather you could hear peels of laughter echoing around the ranges and most people seemed happy. Sunday was pretty damp and poor old Brett Paddison slipped in the mud & sprained his good ankle. I must admit I missed him on Monday.

The Avon members must have been really proud and exhausted all at the same time. The meal on Saturday night was out of this world. Spit roast Beef & Pork with baked Potatoes, Pumpkin, Corn & Peas all of which could be cut & eaten with plastic knives & forks. It would have won any episode of master chef. The amenities block comprised of 3 buildings all linked with roofing and veranda. Building 1 was the ladies toilet block with 4 stalls mirrors and a seat outside for long suffering husbands to sit and wait on. At the opposite end was the Men's block with all that anybody could want. building 2 was the shower block with 4 showers and a waiting room. Behind this building was the water supply system. I think this was borrowed from Cape Canaveral Space Centre. If you have seen the space launch then you have seen Avon's hot water system. It comprises a 30' tower which holds a 1000 litre tank at the top, on the next level down is another 1000 litre tank and a smaller feeder tank which feeds down to the next level into 2 rheem storage hot water units & then to the showers. very impressive. Poor old Garry had release aid problems and did the face punch which resulted in a few stars and a broken tooth. Gloria did the same twice and has the bruise to prove it. Steve won his division on a shoot off 44 to 43. Tim came third. Gloria brought home a gold and I jagged a silver, just as well Grandad didn't come or it may have been bronze. well done to all.

Scores field hunter field hunter total

Gloria 343, 365, 370, 346, 1424 1st

Alastair 485, 504, 515, 509, 2013 16th

Steve 471, 470, 444, 470, 1855 1st

Tim 414, 437, 404, 428, 1683 3rd

Garry 474, 485, 467, 469, 1895 8th

Brett 463, 481, 471, 469, 1884 9th

Mike 441, 445, 479, 453, 1818 2nd

Top score for Macleay Alastair.

I think I should mention what Justin Olexienko shot remember the max. is 560. Justin shot :-

548, 536, 549, 548 WOW

Just quickly 4 of us shot at the club on Saturday and it was surprisingly dry Alastair started like there was no tomorrow and it took a large amount of ribbing to slow him down Gloria shot her best score for months. Grandad & Tea bag waged a battle royal with the lead swapping every few targets, unfortunately Grandad won by wait for it 2 points.

Scores Coins Alastair 380, Grandad Cec 374, Tea Bag 372, Dryfire Gloria 338.

Well done to all that have read this far, see you real soon Tea bag

ABA 1 arrow 4/6/11

What a beautiful day, we sure are lucky to live in Australia. We didn't quite get the rain that was forecast, thank goodness. It was enough to flood us in for about 30 hours and a normal sedan just wouldn't have made it then. however all is well that ends well. I think we need to send the McManus Family to the sports institute for the usual blood & urine tests Fingers wins the Handicap event by a ridiculous margin, and refused the test at the club. The old fella shot a masters score, 358, barebow and his son Feathers won the day of the bow with a PB of 388. On reflection I reckon they have been sitting at home chomping hormone tablets by the bucket load. Despite their dominance the day produced a result that all could be happy with...oh maybe not all. Teabag surged past Grandad with a victory nearly as decisive as last weeks loss. Dryfire had a great day which meant Tea bag also enjoyed the trip home. Pea wee shot well again. We had two Zac's shoot on the day and as one is slightly taller than the other the tall one is Christened Sixpence with the shorter to be Tray bit. For those to young to remember or recent imports to Australia in the days of pounds shillings & Pence Sixpence was referred to as a Zac and threepence was a tray bit. Good old Aussie slang. I guess after all this you want to know who scored what. So here goes:- Feathers Dave 388 PB, Martin Mc Fly 382, Coins Alastair 376, BP Glenn 372, Tea bag Mike 368, Home brew Garry 364, Fingers Ray BB 358, Chef Darrin 356, Fletcher Sam 348, Grandad Cec 344, Sixpence Zac 336, St Nicholas 330, Nambucca Gary 328, Dryfire Gloria 324, Pee Wee Josh 300, Tray Bit Zac 138.

Handicap Results:- Ray 491, Sam 446, Gary K 424, Gloria 410.2857, Glenn 409.4286, Dave 406.8571, Josh 400, Mike 399.7143, Garry W 397.7143, Alastair 394.5714, Zac K 394, Martin 391.1429, Darrin 391, Cec 367.7143.

Look who came last. He, He.

Zac W and Nicholas insufficient results.

As most of the club will be away next week for the long weekend there will be no food or drink, so it will be BYO to all who go out to the club.

Cheers Tea bag

Handicap results
Glenn Freeman 429.67
Garry Ward 416.00
Karen Smedley 414.67
Ray McMannus 414.00
Cec Apps 409.00
Gene Shea 404.40
Dave McMannus 403.00
Josh Apps 403.00
Gloria Potter 393.33
Alastair Smedley 386.00
Brett Hodgman 380.67
Matt Gray 376.67
Mike Potter 371.00
Josh Scott 368.00
Cooper Gray 338.00

Wow there was some really close results Dave & big Josh tied even though the handicap is adjusted to .1 Tea Bags managed to beat the smallest members of the club, absolutely stunning performance that. Nice to see members are asking

"well who won the handicap" Thanks once again Alastair for adding one more level of interest.

As I am typing this it has started to rain, if we can't make it next week could somebody send me the scores and any funny stories, I suppose I could just make it up like I usually do.

Thanks all

Tea Bag

1 arrow May 28 2011

Hi all and welcome to another day in the life of MVA.Iam sitting here looking out over our valley, Gloria has left for church with a last minute shopping list. If we get the weather that is forcast for us over the next few days we will once again be flooded in probably for about 4 days hence the last minute shop. I really enjoyed yesterday Glenn & Cec are great to shoot with and make it a really good day. I once again called upon my sportsmanship and allowed 10 archers to beat me, sadly Grandad was in that ten. Grandad displayed a rather rotten streak and smashed my lucky arrow, broke the nock and cracked the shaft for 30 mm. Damned thing was in the 20 so I really don't understand how grandad hit it. Cola Karen had a quiet trip home, what can you expect when you beat hubby. Karate Matt just coudn't give up the 2 points I needed to tie with him. Don't tie with me Brett used the wrong pin as did Coins Alastair, funny part was Coins only has 1 pin on his slider. Pee Wee Josh has returned with a new bow and a cheer squad that would fill the Titanic, really nice to see such a happy band welcome all to our club. Security Josh brought his brand new doesn't touch anything arrow rest, I am really looking forward to seeing it in action.BP Glenn in a club first won both of the bow & handicap well done Glenn. Home brew Garry shot really well as did Feathers Dave. All in all a great day. I will post the handicap scores as soon as I get them till then of the bow scores are:-BP Glenn 388, Grandad Cec 384, Feathers Dave 382, Home Brew Garry 380, Security Josh 378, Cola Karen 376, DJ Gene 372, Coins Alastair 368, Don't tie with me Brett 362, Karate Matt 342, Tea Bag Mike 340, Old Dryfire Gloria 308, Pee Wee Josh 284, Fingers Ray 274, Pig Hunter Cooper 254.

See you all next week provided it doesn't Rain.

Cheers Tea Bag

Handicap Results for 21st

Scores are Cec 397.3, Bruce 394.3, Glenn 396.7, Jacob 403.2, Shane 377, Steve 399.7, Brett 380.7, Tim 385.3, Mike 395, Darrin 410.8, Alastair 400.7, Neil 399, Dion 273.5, Gloria 384.7, Karen 407. As can be seen most people shot below their average, So for some reason the majority found the ranges harder than normal. Thanks Alastair.

See ya all real soon

Tea Bag

2011 State IFAA titles

MVA had 2 archers make the trip down to the big smoke to compete in the State IFAA shoot.

Martin Ussher travelled down with Garry Ward and the results are:- Martin, field 489, Animal 262, Hunter 471 total 1222 1st place.

Garry Field 462, Animal 266, Hunter 483 total 1211 4th place

Well done you two, perhaps you could send me an article on the shoot so we can all enjoy your trip.

cheers Tea bag

ABA 3 arrow round 21/5/11

Just to start on a depressing note Bad news I'm afraid.........the handicap results will be a little late this time. On the plus side I am proud to say Darrin was this weeks handicap winner. The look on his face was priceless. Tea Bag did the sporting thing and lost to Grandad, Cola Karen, infact just about everybody. Ah well one step forward 2 backwards.As I am feeling really sorry for myself we might move on to the scores. A few really impressive performances this week, firstly Feathers Dave just keeps getting better & better. Dad chewed his ear on the way home last week re shooting high so I guess he was to frightened to get it wrong this week. What can you say about Cola Karen soft spoken, only shoots every blue moon & still hasn't learnt how to miss. The girl shoots like a machine and I for one would love to see just how well she could shoot. I really think with only slightly more effort she would be world class. Now this brings me to Andrew Madden, this was Andrew's first visit to the club and his first go at ABA he has only had his bow about 3 months, so in all ways he is a rank beginner.So what happens he wonders in with a score of 350 from the red peg. What a bloody cheek didn't he read the book that states very low scores are required to start with. We have decided to contact him as soon as a members position becomes available.

Scores:-Feathers Dave 384, Coins Alastair 382, Wheels Jacob 380, Strings Bruce 376, Chef Darrin 374, Grandad Cec 372, Don't mention me Steve 368, Cola Karen 366, Tea Bag 364, Don't tie with me Brett 362, Range master Shane 360, Scribe Neil 358, Sponge Tim 356, BP Glenn 352, Sneaky Andrew 350, Old Dry Fire Gloria 296, Fingers Ray 264, Hitchhiker Dion 244.

I am not really sure how to describe the bag of bits Dion used to propel his arrows. I have been in and around archery for over 50 years and in all that time I have never seen such a pile of bits & pieces I think Dion deserves an award for bravery just for using the contraption he called a bow

Club meeting will be first week in June. AGM at end of June. Club fees NOW due! All postions on the management committee will be declared vacant please nominate for positions you may be interested in

Cheers Tea Bag

Video on back tension

thought this might interest a few members

http://youtu.be/0qkJ2oDZrRI

Re the handicap system

Our handicap system works the same as most handicap systems on earth. In other words all things being equal we would all finish close to 400. However because we all are capable of shooting better or worse than our average our handicap score can be over or under 400. With more results to work from, for each person, the gap should narrow. Golf, horse racing, yacht racing etc all work very close to this principle. in other words the competitor who can on any week shoot higher than their average will be the winner. It really doesn't matter that 400 is the maximum score from the bow. If you check golf it isn't unusual for the winner to be way below what Tiger woods would score ( before his melt down). I find it difficult to understand how any club would laugh at the scores, however each to their own thoughts. For me it just adds one more level of fun & actually gives the up & coming archer a chance to be first. In the Sydney to Hobart yacht race all attention focuses on line honours, where the million dollar maxis battle to be first across the line, however they also have a race winner which often comes from the smaller boats. The reason for this is they all have a yardstick which is applied to their times to get a winner.

cheers tea bags

ABA 3 arrow 14th May

First off Happy Birthday Ray, nice to see old age is achievable. Apart from no milk the day went really well, even the black tea at the days end was pure nectar from the Gods. May be the fact that my humble servant had to make it. There was some discussion re 2points formally Old Fart re his nick name. the feeling was he should be called Tea Bag, so till further notice Tea Bag it is. I don't know about you but by mid arvo I needed a spotlight to see the target, it really got dull in the bush. A nice turn up of 17 toxophilites arrived to enjoy the company & for the third Saturday in a row something on the car broke, starting to get really annoying. Scores for the day were:-Martin McFly 386, Security Josh 378, Feathers Dave 376, Sponge Tim 372, Don't tie with me Brett 370, Home Brew Garry & Karate Matt 368, Tea Bag Mike 364, Bowless Aaron 362, Scribe Neil 360, Grandad Cec 358, BP Glenn 348, Fingers Ray 326, Pee Wee Josh 316, Pig Hunter Cooper 310, Old Dry Fire Gloria 262, Fair Maiden Cass DNF.

A couple of things to note, as far as I know this was only Pee Wee's second try at archery. Dammed good effort that. Fingers Ray shot bare bow, so he needs to be watched as well, may be a good set of hobbles. Fingers is Feathers father who frequently fires finely feathered shafts favourably.

Handicap results:

Brett 390.3, Dave 432.7, Cec 396.4, Mike 438.4, Garry 409.3, Neil 404.3, Matt 404, Aaron 405, Glenn 391.2, Josh 406, Tim 402, Gloria 382.2, Martin 400.5, Cooper 391.

If you shot your average you will have a score of 400. Each point you are above or below 400 indicates how much better or worse than your average you shot. for example Brett was 9.7 points below his average whilst Josh was 6 points above. Thanks Alastair for the results.

Cheers Tea Bag

Membership Dues

Well well, that time of year is rapidly approaching, so start saving your pennies to pay your club membership fees, which are just about due.

New Dunny

Ray, Dave, Matt & Cooper did a great job with the new Dunnies and all this despite being supervised by a small army from the management team. We had Cec, Mike, Steve, Beau & Jacob all making sure the workers had support in all there decision making. Fortunately there was only one shovel & non of the management team were qualified in its use.

When finished we will have an official opening were our President will take the first leisurely seat on the presidential throne & then report back to the cheering crowd at which point streamers will be thrown and a flock of brown pigeons will be released. This being symbolic of its intended use. I know it's asking a lot but if we could all not go untill they are finished we should be able to open the day with a bang.

1 arrow 7/5/11

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY to all the MUMS. Have a great day.

Well that was an interesting day wasn't it. Weather A+, Company A+, Burgers A+, Cuppa A+, Shoot, well for Grandad & I it was just awful, more so for grandad as I beat him, but really we should have been hung, drawn & quartered. Geez we shot like two really old infirmed geriatrics. One thing I learnt and passed on to grandad is that it is extremely hard to score on a series 4 target when you don't move the sight from the previous series 1 target. We also ran our first handicap event which works like this (I think) the program averages your 6 highest scores from your last ten results, deducts the average from 400 and that's your handicap, which is then added to your score for the day giving you a handicap score. There clear as mud. For example your 6 best scores from your last ten when added, total 2220, divided by 6 =370, therefor your handicap is (400-370)=30. today's score was 376 plus handicap 30 final score would be 406.

Our handicap winner was Feathers Dave by 1/2 point from Don't mention me Steve with Martin McFly third.

Scores for the day were

Martin McFly 396, Coins Alastair 382, DJ Gene 372, Feathers Dave & Don't mention me Steve 372, Strings Bruce & Wheels Jacob 368, Hitchhiker Dion 360, BP Glenn 354, Rabbits Garry 352, Scribe Neil 350, Long Beau 336, 2points Mike 308, Grandad Cec 302.

Congratulations go to Beau on his 336 and a special mention to Martin on his 396 Well done

General Meeting

The general meeting will be held this coming Sat. 7 May. I'm guessing it will be before the shoot.

cheers 2points

Macleay-Vegas Indoor shoot 30/4/11

Hi everybody. First a little house keeping. To days working Bee has had to be moved & the same with the general meeting. Will post news on these important events as they become available. Alistair has developed a spread sheet that will allow us to run a handicap event as often as we like. The program was trialled & the only problem seemed to be I came second. Thanks Alastair for all your efforts, I can only imagine how many hours went into it.

The Boss & I left home in bright sunshine, after days of rain our driveway was under about 400mm of fast flowing water, the only real problem with this is that the bottom becomes unstable and very hard to keep traction. As we drove through Kempsey we saw a big black cloud and started to wonder if we would get home. On arrival at the club we met up with 4 other archers, Aaron was nowhere to be seen but his big black cloud was, first the rain came straight down with such volume that it was hard to see the cars parked about 5 meters away. Then the angle started to change till finally it was wetting the entire roofed area from one side to the other. The six of us fitted snugly in the canteen & only reappeared when the rain became normal again, at this stage the road was under about 50mm of running water, all the tables, chairs & books etc were drenched so we had lunch & a cuppa. We decided once again to hold the Macleay- Vegas indoor shoot, changed the rules slightly with the teams to be family members. As soon as this decision was made Josh sent out smoke signals and the Hodgman family arrived with the Harris family in the back seat, 3 minutes later the Smedley family arrived. Perfect 6 family teams and then BP Glenn arrived on his own.....no problems as the BP is an abrieviation for borrowed by Potters. Due to the lay out and volume of entrants we could only shoot 1 round which was 20 arrows, the same as we shoot on most Saturdays. The format allowed for plenty of socialising. Scores out of 200 were:-Teams Smedley & Hodgman 195, Team Apps 188, Team Potter & Freeman 182, Team McManus 180, Team Harris 160.

Individual out of 100

Coins Alastair & Feathers Dave 99, Sponge Tim 98, Don't mention me Steve & don't tie with me Brett 97, Cola Karen 96, Security Josh 95, Grandad Cec 93, Old Dry Fire Gloria & BP Glenn 91, Rooster Ray 81, Beau 63

Just a quick thankyou Last month we set a new record with over 900 hits on this site for the month. Thank you it really makes the weekly distortion of the truth worth while.

Cheers 2points

Cancelled Moonterra shoot

Hi all as the heading implies the ABA 3D shoot at Moonterra on the 14th & 15th of May has been CANCELLED.

cheers 2points

OOPS!

In a most unprofessional manor the post re the Safari in Alice Springs was a little early I now think it is the year after ( post has been altered) It appears next years is at Mildura.

Please accept my most humble & sincere apology

ANZAC DAY 2011

Anzac Day 2011 Thank you for your sacrifice " LEST WE FORGET"

2013 Safari

Year after next the Central Australian Archers are hosting the safari in Alice Springs. Several of us, money permitting would like to go, so how much interest is there?

ABA 3 arrow 23rd April

What a big weekend. 3 major events Easter where we celebrate what was the birth of Christianity, Anzac Day where we remember the sacrifices our forbearers made to make sure we can live the life we enjoy & finally the thrashing of 2points by grandad. 10 archers got leave passes to come out to play. We enjoyed a much better BBQ than last week, due totally to the iron chef being skilled to a much higher level than 2points will ever be, Bliss oh bliss we had white tea, which I must admit 2points really pigged out on. The scores were not as high as usual and are as follows:

Coins Alastair 378, Grandad Cec 370, Feathers Dave 366, Don't mention me Steve 364, BP Glenn 362, Iron Chef Darrin 352, 2points Mike 350, Old dry fire Gloria 274, Beau 232. Rabbits Garry DNF.

Steve filled us all in on the worlds, which had about 500 shooters and the host club were catering to about 1500 people each day WOW that would test any club to the limit.

Next week is the next club meeting it will be held BEFORE the shoot. There is a working Bee next Sunday so please try to make both events as JFK once said " ask not what your club can do for you but instead ask what can I do for the Club." That may not be an exact quote but I'm sure that's what he meant.

Cheers 2points

Easter 2011

For those wondering....yes we will be at the club today-not sure how many will turn up. If you can't get there I hope your Easter is going well.

Cheers 2points

world titles results Final

Sorry these are late but they weren't up this morning. Well done MVA. & Steven Apps from Canberra, But we might as well claim him as ours Family rules & all that.

Brett Hodgman postion 37

Tim Hodgman position 46

Steve Harris position 63

Steve Apps 20

If the results go up for the sarfari & wehave any members shooting I will try to post them as I find them.

Cheers Mike

world titles results day 3

Day three and all our boys are holding up under the strain. The standout for us is still Tim. There are 82 shooters in their section with only a handfull of points seperating the top ten. Top score is 1628

Brett 41 total so far 1504

Tim 43 total so far 1486

Steve 66 total so far 1414

As you can see Steve has continued his steady march up the ladder.

Well done Brett, Tim & Steve

Also thanks for the words of encouragement from Darrin.

cheers Mike

world titles results day 2

Hi I haven't found any more MVA members but did come across a Steven Apps who was doing well. Any relation?

Positions after day 2 Brett 38, Tim 45, Steve 69. Brett must have mixed feelings re Tim. Brett would be bursting with pride at how well Tim is shooting and at the same time looking over his shoulder as Tim is only a few points behind each day. Steve is on the improve as well.

cheers Mike

world titles results

Just a quick post. I'm not sure who went from MVA and there are 28 pages of results so I may have missed anybody if I have I am really sorry so far I have found:-

Brett 34 place after day 1, Tim who shot really well 44 day 1 & Steve 76 on day 1.

cheers Mike

Macleay-Vegas Indoor shoot 16/3/11

Hi All, well for those that don't know the wife & I live on a rural property about 40 minutes west of Kempsey, we have to negotiate 3 creek crossings to come to town & get flooded in or out on a regular basis. About once every 7 weeks to be pedantic. So when Friday comes we check the creek heights and the weather to guess whether we can go to archery or not. After this ritual we go to bed and look forward to our day out on Saturday. Well this week we were awakened at 4:00 am to the sounds of rain playing a timpany on the roof and the creek starting to roar, a combination that usually means we are flooded in for a few days. Not happy Jan! Several unsettled hours later we got dressed and discussed what we would do, after making our decision we rang Grandad to see if the shoot was still on and if it was, could we stay in his van if we couldn't get home, somewhat amused by the question Grandad said yes to both so of we went. 12o'clock, still raining and 4 idiots oops i mean 4 keen archers had turned up so we all had a cup of tea, black as nobody thought to bring milk. We had a BBQ lunch ---still raining. We called a meeting to decide what to shoot & eventually ( still raining) decided to hold the inaugural Macleay-Vegas indoor shoot. A most prestigious event . Nominations were accepted from Grandad Cec, Bp Glenn, Old dryfire Gloria & 2points Mike. Rules were formulated Due to Grandad only having the index and pages 2-48 missing, teams were selected and then we had a cup of BLACK tea Oh! still raining then the shoot was on The Macleay-Vegas indoor certainly brings out the pressure cooker atmosphere as teams and individuals jockeyed for position. As we could only shoot 1 team at a time the other team had ample opportunity to help the opposition with all sorts of hints and advice. The stakes were high as the loosing team had to make a cup of BLACK tea for the winners. I am proud to say that the young guns team of Bp Glenn & 2points held of the antique vets team of old dryfire & Grandad.

Scores for the day were

2 points 232, Bp 230, Please note that margin, Grandad 226 & Old dryfire 206

Teams Young Guns 462

Antique Vets 432

I would like to close by saying Gloria & I had a great day and really enjoyed our time at the club.

Thanks Glenn & Cec for making the day special

ABA 3 arrow 9th April

Just a quick apology first, I have loaded a few pictures from the many that the Ussher family kindly supplied. The photo's were selected at random & sight unseen & were supposed to load in medium size,well 2 or 3 have come in at the size of Victoria, hence we have a nice shot of a tree, half of Martin & most of Brett. I can't change it yet for a couple of reasons 1/I don't know how & 2/ they take so long to load and I don't really have the time.

Hopefully I will get better.

18 hopefulls took to the Goanna range including a brand new husband & wife team who judging by the peels of laughter that came from their group had a great time. Although watching Grandad shoot could reduce anybody to laughter. Yes he beat me again & I am just being bitter.

Scores for the day were generally very good.

Mrs Ussher let us down and again let Martin come out to play and once again he thrashed us, hopefully old age will catch up with him really soon and he returns to the level of a mere mortal. In fact the entire Ussher family did well, Dad Neil appears to be riding a hot wave at the moment and son Dion has mastered the art of forgetting his wallet, not a problem with dad there to provide the necessary help.

Scores for the day are

Real name Martin 390, Grandad Cec 382, Feathers Dave & Strings Bruce 380, Iron Chef Darrin & Don't tie with me Brett 376, Wheels Jacob 374, Security Josh 372, Scribe Neil & 2points Mike 370, Rabbits Garry & Hitchhiker Dion 364, DJ Gene 356, Zac 344, Gary K 316, Old Dryfire Gloria 304, Graham 286, Jacqeline 212

ABA 3 arrow 2nd April

Hi all,

Well today went really well 12 archers turned up and 2 scores that were pretty good Ben Ward shot a PB from the red pegs 336 And Martin really turned up the wick & shot a 394, we wondered if Mrs Ussher could find him a few jobs at home on Saturday, just to give us mere mortals a chance. I called in to the vets on the way home and had Old Dryfire checked out for performance enhancing drugs. How else do you explain 198 last week & 338 this week. Both scores look like causing old fart much consternation as last week I suffered through total misery & this week looks like being total happiness. I have learnt that "Yes Dear" said with just the right amount of feeling seems to work in both cases. In the on going battle between Grandad & old fart it would be easy to look at the scores and say Grandad did it again, but allow me to put forward a differant point of view. point 1 Grandad used all 20 targets where as old fart only used 19 & that means grandad had an average of 17.7 per target hit whilst old fart averaged 18.526315 per target hit, so based on that result I ask you who shot the better, to support that theory Grandad himself stated that 2 points wasn't worth mentioning.

One of the members has requested that old fart be known as 2points from know on, something to do with my friendly supportive nature that allows all & sundry to beat him by 2 points... So hence forth Old Fart is now 2 points. To any body whose name I have spelt wrong I am really sorry.I have found many different ways to spell your names, but it may really be the fault of your Mum & Dad. So sorry to all I do try really I do. And now the scores:-

Real Name Martin 394, Feathers Dave 382, Coins Alastair 376, Don't mention Me Steve 370, BP Glenn 366, Grandad Cec 354, 2points Mike 352, rabbits Garry 352, Old Dryfire 338, Ben 336PB, Lenny 324.

Cheers 2 points

ABA 1 arrow 26/3/11

Hi all a very pleasant day was had by all not to hot, not to cold, Just about right. After a slow start 16 archers slowly wondered to the start line, As one member said to me after the big weekend he was feeling a little jaded, I think that about summed up the day. Scores were

Real name Martin a whopping 392, well done Martin, really good shooting. Strings Bruce 388, Don't tie with me Brett 386, Wheels Jacob 384, Coins Alastair 382, Feathers Dave 370, Old Fart Mike 368, Grandad Cec 366, Rabbits Garry 360, DJ Gene 358, Scribe Neil 354, Don't mention me Steve 344, Justin 316, Jack 310, Harry 202, Old Dry Fire Gloria 198.

The April monthly meeting was held if you want a copy of the minutes please ring Neil, and we get to do it all again in May. One major item that was approved was the purchase of another container.

Cheers Old fart

Which member has a throwing knife so BIG we all wondered what exactly he is compensating for.

Which members wife has boundless attraction for blood sucking little critters. 1 leech nearly drained her left leg.

Which lady canteen worker has really tight glutus maximus muscles. Well she did on Saturday.

Finally the snoring competition was won by which member.

Meeting Change

The next club meeting has been brought forward by a week so it will be next weekend. See comments for reason.

cheers Mike

Zone E ABA shoot @ Macleay 19th & 20th Feb

Sorry for the delay but I had it all done this morning had 1 score to enter & lost the lot. Not happy Jan.

Scores for the weekend name, 3 arrow, 1 arrow, 2 arrow, total, place

Cooper Grey 326 266 430 1022 1st

Zac Kitchin 358 368 746 1472 1st

Gene Shea 366 380 706 1452 2nd

Ben Ward 358 356 660 1374 3rd

Sam Harwood 312 336 650 1298 4th

Martin Ussher 388 390 776 1554 1st

Bruce Crumpton 384 386 768 1538 1st

Tim Hodgman 368 358 718 1444 4th

Mat Hodgman 358 376 706 1440 5th

Garry Ward 370 360 684 1414 6th

Steve Harris 366 334 702 1402 7th

Aaron Partridge 352 318 624 1294 8th

Brett Hodgman 382 388 768 1538 1st

Neil Ussher 378 316 730 1424 1st

Gloria Potter 284 182 458 924 3rd

Darrin Simonds 374 362 764 1500 2nd

Mat Grey 358 380 736 1474 3rd

David Mc Manus 374 362 730 1466 4th

Glenn Freeman 364 350 748 1462 5th

Cecil Apps 338 366 720 1424 7th

Mike Potter 364 dns 730 1094 8th

Dion Ussher 386 376 760 1522 1st

Alastair Smedley 386 378 718 1482 2nd

Jacob Fuit 382 362 730 1474 3rd

Top Score for the Macleay Archers Martin Ussher 1554.

Neil Ussher gets my vote for a top result well done Neil.

Thanks to every body for all that you did to make the weekend a success.

To all the non-shooting Ladies Narelle, Cassie, Bree & Karen Thanks for giving up your weekend.

A bonza effort.

ABA 3 Arrow Round 12/3/11

Hi all. Those of you who read last weeks missive will hopefully remember that Old Fart finally beat Grandad not just beat him but thrashed him by the almost unheard of margin of 14 points, the down side of this thrashing was totally unexpected & resulted in Grandad losing his bounce when he walked, his demure nature vanished but worst of all the twinkle in his eye was no where to be found. This turn of events really saddened Old Fart. As a result of the above Old Fart is proud to announce that the status quo has again been restored. Grandad in a display of incredable bravery crept passed Old Fart and beat him ( yet again) by the smallest of margins, a margin so small as to be almost inconsequential. Old fart believes that to be beaten by this small a margin is nearly as good as a win but has the side effect of restoring Grandads demure nature. The bounce is once again in evidence,but best of all the twinkle has returned at about 4 million candlepower. All these benefits and all it took was a narrow win of 14 points. Mrs Ussher & her mother, bless her heart, arrived to do their annual cleaning, I have never seen two people do so much in so much time and still be happy at the end. To both of you thank you so much.

Members started on the working bee straight after the shoot and today are the final touch ups.

We had a new prospective member arrive. Ilia has just relocated to the area from Toowoomba in Queensland. Ilia welcome not only to the club but enjoy your stay in this beautiful part of the world. Several target sponsorships have been sold and members are asking their bosses which is really nice. 18 archers turned up to try their luck, 19 actually but poor old feathers broke his 1986 American and went home to see what repairs he could make. Scores for the day were really very good and are as follows:-

Strings Bruce and Real name Martin 388, Don't tie with me Brett 386, Thongs Shane 384, DJ Gene 378, Coins Alastair & Wheels Jacob 376, Grandad Cec 374, Sponge Tim & hitchhiker Dion 372, Karate Matt 370, Don't mention me Steve & BP Glenn 368, Old Fart 360, Justin 292. Old Dryfire 276. I48 Ilia 222

Steve told me 6 people passed their BPC well done. Finally next week is our hosting of the Zone E shoot Best of luck to everybody.

Cheers Old Fart