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