ABA 3 Arrow Round 26/2/11

Well it's official I AM OVER SUMMER, sorry to all you people that love the heat but I have made a request to the powers above to consider 29.5 degrees as a suitable summer heat. There is simply no need for 30+ days, thats just showing off. That said it was a great day, complete with two visitors who are just starting their archery journey. Thanks Rod & Toby for making the trip. Hope you had a great time. 21 shooters turned out for the day and all had a good time.

Martin shot 390 to top score for the day. Well done . Pig Hunter Cooper had a 334 PB well done Cooper.

The canteen again worked very well and actually makes us look more professional. My personnel apology to the executive chef, the slight over sight re your photo will be corrected. May I take this oppotunity to go public with my humble yet most sincere apology, in an effort to correct my ways I have submitted to 100 lashes with the birch cane ( that made for an interesting evening) scrawled 1000 lines across the blackboard, acknowledged my three evenings of home detention which must be served & finally on the 30 of March I am to be keelhauled from the Sea Urchin immeadiately before its departure for the days fishing. It appears that the new found feeling of clubmanship is still hard at work infecting all & sundry. The targets were put out by two or three happy volunteers, teenagers were happy to man the canteen when required, a gaggle of juniors wondered off to get the targets. All this happened with no fuss. Thanks everybody it sure makes for a happy club. Brett if you are reading this Flt 1 & flt2 at Hunter Bowmen both had 1508 as the winning score.

We have started the club member of the year program. The rules for this year are Turn up on the day for a club shoot 1point, working bee 3 points, away shoot 2 points, first 5, second 4, third 3, and at the end of the year upto 20 bonus points will be allocated by two members to whom ever they see fit. so one person could get 20 points or twenty people could get 1 point. There that's as clear as mud. MEETING NEXT SAT 5th AFTER THE SHOOT.

And finally to the scores:-Martin 390, Coins Alastair 386, wheels Jacob & thongs Shane 382, Strings Bruce 376, Grandad Cec 370, Exec chef Darrin 364, Don't tie with me Brett 360, Mat 358, Scribe Neil 356, Gary 350, Ben 350, Zac 340, Pig Hunter Cooper 334 PB, Old Dry Fire Gloria 332, Nicholas 330, Sam 302, Feathers Dave 258 Long Bow, Old Fart Mike 36

On a sad note at next weeks shoot we should consider taking up a collection for Feathers. Poor chap had to shoot this week with a stick and a piece of string plus a couple of pieces of old dowel complete with chook feathers. Never mind with the new club spirit I'm sure we can all help out.

cheers Old Fart

Are you a Hunter

A question was asked at the ABA meeting that asked " what proportion of your members are hunters and could we pass this information on to the Zone controller.

Your choices are

1. Hunter only.
2. Target shooter only
3. Do both.

Could you give this some thought and let Grandad, Executive Chef or perhaps me or Steve know the answer.

Thanks Mike

ABA Hunter Bowmen 19 & 20th Feb.

Twelve archers made the trip down south into the land of 3000 degree days. Saturday just wasn't fun, for me anyway. By late afternoon a thermometer in the shade was registering 41c. By tea time I just wanted to die so rather selfishly I really don't know much about the weekend. Despite our best efforts to sabotage Feathers by shortening his long black thing with knob he still came out on top. As usual the younger members didn't seem to notice the heat, whilst us oldies just wanted to survive. At this point I should mention that in the continuing battle between Master & pupil, the master again came out on top. We actually tied on score but the master had 36 a's to my 35a's. At this rate I will have to live to 125 to get good enough to beat him. Bugger. It was nice to see Gunnadah Mat and his senior manager turn up. I'm sure his Dad enjoyed the catch up time. Results are below.

Top Macleay score for the weekend Martin with 1530 well done MartiN

Place Name Total 3a 1a 2a

3rd Martin 1530 384 384 762

4th Mat 1466 366 382 718

7th Tim 1428 366 358 704

1st Brett 1508 384 374 746

1st Neil 1386 360 328 698

3rd Gloria 1224 306 324 594

1st Dave 1516 374 376 766

6th Darrin 1480 358 350 772

7th Cec 1470 368 372 730

8th Mike 1470 374 360 736

5th Jacob 1482 384 370 728

6th Dion 1476 380 382 714

The only PB I know about is old Dry Fire who shot a 1 arrow PB.

cheers to all
Mike

Macleay Valley the club of excitement 2011

Hi all sorry to be a day late but as they say better late than never. I have to say I have never been prouder of a club I've been a member of than this weekend. Stand up & take a bow Macleay Archers. The buzz & excitement was thick in the air and several members felt it. Huge amounts of work had to be undertaken and about 1/2 the club turned out to help, some who couldn't come Sunday came on Saturday to do their bit. Everybody did their bit & more complete with smiles & happy banter. It really was a fun place to be. The club looked like the parking lot for Ride-on -mower racing we had trailers, mowers, brush-cutters, Back-pack sprayers, big cutter things. the list goes on & on. Some members came Friday, Saturday & Sunday.The practise range & camping area were all mowed, Ride on mowers disappeared out on to the ranges followed by members with chain saws, pruning tools & rakes. The canteen kept the members watered & fed. It was just an exciting place to be. Thank you all so much it was just fantastic.

And now for the bit you have all been waiting for the scores.Top score this weekend was Strings Bruce with a jaw dropping 390, thats so good it almost brings a tear to the eye. On a more low key note grandad Cec again ground his heel on my toe and beat me into submission, at this point a collective sigh & utterance of poor Old Fart should have escaped from your lips. The score for the 3 arrow round are as follows:-

Strings Bruce 390, Don't tie with me Brett & Hitch-hiker Dion 386, Feathers Dave 378, Coins Alastair 376, Grandad Cec & DJ Gene 374, Old Fart Mike 370, Marty 366, Bowless Aaron 364, Executive Chef Darrin 352, Don't mention me Steve 346, Old Dryfire Gloria 304

5/2/11 ABA 1 arrow hot hot hot

Yuk, Awful, Very Hot, Blimey, Hell on Earth, Oven Like, well that's my take on Saturdays weather. Man was it hot, it was far to much for whimpy me but 11 others performed very well. Feathers set the range on fire with a blistering 386 well done Dave. Coins Alistair spent 2 days completely rebuilt his bow with all tolerances set exactly. Such dedication was rewarded with, wait for it, Exactly the the same score as last week. Dispite the heat everybody seemed to enjoy the day. Scores were:-Feathers Dave 386, Don't tie with me Brett 384, Coins Alastair 380, Sponge Tim 368, Martin 368, Neil 364, Gary 362, Don't mention me Steve 362, Grandad Cec 354, Ben 308, Old Dryfire Gloria 258, Old Fart Mike Simply melted away.

A big thank you to the members who made the effort to turn up for the meeting, well done.

A few things that were voted on & passed:-

1. The club will start work on 4 yes 4 flush toilets.
2. We will be having a club champion this year, believe it or not this takes a lot of work on somebodies part, so show some interest. Mens, Ladies, Juniors & Cubs will be recognised. I think that was the plan. If I have this wrong it's grandads fault as he stated we would have Adults, Ladies, juniors & Cubs. found that really funny. & I did make sure the girls heard it.
3. We will be awarding a club person of the year the format for points will be explained as soon as it is finalised.
4. Trip to archery expo cancelled.
5. Indoor to go ahead. There are some reservations, so if you have an interest please support this club venture. A teams format will be combined with a postal challenge against Taree. Please look for a venue near town at little to no cost.
6. The Canteen will be womaned each week, (that's the female version of manned) So to get drinks etc you pay at the canteen.
7. Please put your thinking cap on as we are required to formulate a 5 year plan re the club, so put your ideas forward.
8. The club is to install an honour board to honour past achievements of our members.
9. Thought given to increasing the number of arrows shot on a Saturday.

That's about all I can remember so as you can see a lot happened, the next meeting is the first Saturday shoot in March after the shoot.

Next Sunday is a working Bee. There is a list of jobs on the chalk board. The Goanna range is at the moment, unshootable so we need your help.

cheers Mike