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