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