Start for 2013

 We start back officially on the 26th January, however we are holding the 1st leg of the international IFAA mail match on the 19th of January.

In the mean time I would like to wish everybody an enjoyable new years eve and a prosperous 2013.
Cheers Teabag

MVA archers of distinction

Karen, Alastair & Martin

Christmas Break-up 2012

 

Gee I had a good time. It was a shame more, of the more senior members couldn't make it. I'm a little biased here but I thought the targets were outstanding, all the 3, 4 & 5's were hand painted full colour and the 1 & 2's were computer generated colour targets, not only were they fun to shoot, visually pleasing they were hard to score on. The score zones were clearly visible, (well may be not on the Christmas tree.) But the higher the point score the more chance of getting nothing. Just ask Coins on a series 2 Alastair went for full points as you do missed the 20 by about .5mm and scored nothing, undaunted he tried again, missed in a different spot by about the same amount and again came up empty. This amused him greatly and he showed us the target at tea. I didn't hear one complaint about the targets and one seasoned shooter said "I have shot many novelty targets over the years, but they were by far the best." If you look at the scores you can easily see they were not easy.

 

 Can I thank Narelle for making the salads,truly a labour of love.

The presentations were held and several trophies were handed out. some of the winners were Liam & Donald. The look of surprise on their faces had to be seen to be appreciated.

The trophies for the Christmas shoot were as follows:

Men's sighted, Neil

Ladies sighted,Karen

Veterans sighted, Teabag

Veterans unsighted, Ray

Junior sighted, Liam

Junior unsighted, Donald.

The main awards are the perpetual shields. Juniors was again won by Marin Ussher who has shot well all year despite the fact that he must have grown about 20 feet.
 This year ladies was claimed by Karen Smedley who has been able to lift her base performance by a good margin, so much so that she is a major force at each weekly shoot.
To make it a family affair Alastair was able to once again take home the men's shield. Well done Alastair a good consistent performance in all conditions.
Macleay Valley Archers has had a good year tournament wise, we have had archers at all the major shoots and as a club we have punched above our weight. Our club has archers that hold National records, are champions at the following National, State and Branch as well as postal, indoor, ABA and 3D.
Dave posted the magical 400 in an ABA round. Whilst Gloria raised her average scores by the highest Margin, making her the most improved established archer.
Our average attendace was just over 12 with 19 being the best we could do.

Could I also say thank you to Cec for all the un-noticed things you do. THANK YOU.

And now to the scores. Let me say that Granddad shot as well as I have ever seen him. It's magic watching the old fella send shaft after shaft into the score zones, it's even more magical when I beat him..... yes dear reader Teabag actually beat him. ya-hoo.
Scores:- Scribe Neil 372, Cola Karen 370, Don't tie with me Brett 370, BC Liam 356, Martin McFly 352, Teabag 350, Coins Alastair 346, BP Glenn342, Granddad Cec 338, Crusty Chris 336, Sugar Ray Sam 326, Cupcake Gloria 318, Yellow Peg Stewart 292, Nick 224, Jake 160
Bare Bow:- Fingers Ray 340, Leach Bait Bruce 298,Donald where's your trophy 302, Nurse Kathy 268.
I nearly forgot to mention a few things firstly Neil & Ray both shot really well. Martin shot from the red peg. Bruce is getting better & better, but today's hi lite would have to be the Performance By  Kathy. Now Kathy is Brett's wife not sure if that's good or bad, although she did seem to be getting rather special coaching. As we all know archery is not the easiest of sports to co-ordinate all things enough to get the desired result. Kathy on the other hand appeared to handle it with ease. We were in the group behind so I had several opportunities to watch her shoot. Her release was really good and I have seen many archers with years of experience not release as well as Kathy was able to.
On the 19th January next year we will be holding the first leg of the IFAA international Mail match.
We are officially starting back on the 26th of Jan.
To all my friends, readers & Granddad, have a safe and very happy Christmas and New year.
I will add things over the break so feel free to check every now & again.

Merry Christmas and a safe new year.
Teabag

Christmas party shoot

These are the group 5's for the weekend. Ignore the junk in the background, they are just a few of my favorite things. Which just may come in handy, well one day. Photo is a bit dark even though we had the headlamps on and the spots.
cheers Teabag

3 Arrow Goanna range 8/12/12

Well it wasn't as hot as last week, but we finished just as wet. Ray started with a magnificent burst and had reached 150 by target 8. Man he was shooting well. Garry had scored 340 out of 340 at target 17, 3 targets to go, 400 maybe, in the 390's almost guaranteed. Boy is archery a funny sport Garry found a way to finish with 376. We didn't talk much about it afterwards and outwardly Garry was really upbeat, but it must have hurt. Alastair and Brett were, as usual, all calm & collected and both finished with very acceptable scores given the constant rain for the last half of the course. Rain has got to be the natural enemy of Freestyle unlimited shooters. First the scope gets wet, then the peep and then for visually challenged archers, their glasses fog up. This results in complete but temporary blindness. I can see through each piece by it's self but put the 3 together and I wouldn't see a heard of Elephants at 15 yards.Glenn, Cec and Liam were swept away in the wall of water that crashed down on them from the heavens. Fortunately Granddad arrived back at the club house in time to make my victory cuppa tea. Let me repeat that dear reader.......MY VICTORY CUPPA.

Next week is our final shoot for 2012 It will be a novelty event followed by Christmas Celebrations and trophy awards. Some are camping over so you are most welcome to stay the night.
Just a small word of caution Karen was bitten by a spider (Twice) resulted in a trip to the medic's and some nasty blisters, swelling and very traumatised local area. Please be careful as even little critters can hurt.

Scores for the day: Coins Alastair 384, Don't tie with me Brett 380, Home Brew Garry 376, Teabag 366, Cupcake Gloria 336, Yellow Peg Stewart 316.
Bare Bow Fingers Ray332, Leach bait Bruce 310, Don 260.
DNF BP Glenn, Granddad Cec, BC Liam

Branch E NNSW has just started a face book page northern NSW branch ABA.  I have no idea about face book, but if you are a facebook user have a look and press like ( don't know why, but apparantly this is a good thing) Feel free to post items as it is the branch page and you are branch members.

Stay happy see you all soon.
Teabag

1st & 2nd of Dec. Macleay & Hunter

 

 

We also had a family of four visit the club in the morning to try archery. New coaches Alastair and Karen Smedley introduced them to art of archery and had them all hitting the practice butt after a few practice shots. Riitta and Coroson Kybb and Julio Garcia enjoyed shooting the recurve bows, and young Luca Kybb is keen to try when we have a smaller bow available.

 

Other members of the club visited the Hunter Bowman club in East Maitland for the Branch Christmas Shoot. Team Macleay shot well despite searing temperatures: Mens Veteran Sighted Division: Mike Potter 1st (1472), Cec Apps 2nd (1398); Ladies Veteran Sighted Division: Gloria Potter 1st (1332); and Mens Freestyle Unlimited Flight 2: Glenn Freeman 2nd (1452). Max score 1600.

Scores (Max 400): Alastair Smedley 376, Karen Smedley 366, Sam Harwood 316, Barebow archers: Ray McMannus 324

Team Macleay was split in two this week with Coins , Cola Karen, Sugar Ray Sam and Fingers shooting at Macleay. Whilst BP, Cupcake, Granddad & Teabag went to Hunter bowmen.

These 8 archers battled searing heat, Humidity, searing heat, wind, searing heat, storms, searing heat, ticks, searing heat, leaches, searing heat, and each other. Oh it was very very hot as well.
Results were very close.
Team Away scored:
Cupcake 358, Teabag 386,  Grandad 378, BP Glenn 364,  Total 1486
Team Home scored
Cola Karen 366, Coins 376, Sugar Ray Sam316, Fingers 324, Total 1382.
Its official Team away was indeed first.
Man it was hot, I discovered a little know fact that in this sort of heat all my man bits are not needed I drank several cans of softdrink, copius quantities of tea and several litres of something like Staminade and not once did I need the loo, it all just leaked out everywhere. Sort of rendered bits of me totally obsolete.
Till next time stay safe.
cheers Teabag

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1 arrow, club meeting 24 -11 -12

Lets start with the club meeting all in all it was a quick, quiet meeting and that usually means everybody is happy. Which I think we can say is the case.

Don't forget the clubs christmas shoot is on the 15th of December ( I think) and you can camp over.

Next week is the final branch shoot for 2012. The branch is trying to organise some entertainment for Sat night via a no-talent quest. So far 3 of our members have allowed their arms to be twisted and will feature on the night. Brett is even bringing his own balls.

Finally the shoot. I shot a pretty terible score and didn't reach the end. To hot and humid for little me. Strangely I couldn't buy a twenty, but I came home very happy with my shooting. It just felt right except for the 1 I launched into space. Line was impecable all day. I replaced my lizard tongue rest with my old drop down rest in an effort to correct a small problem I am having letting down with the hinge release, I must not have it quite right as it made over 10metres difference to the sight settings. Hence I spent most of the day hitting low. Archery really is a funny sport, you can shoot somewhere near a PB and be unhappy or shoot like S**T and come home happy. Go figure.
Feathers is still trying to shake the flu so from all of us to you feathers, get well real quick we miss you. Grandad shot a 376 for the 4th time in a row.
Scores for the day:-Coins Alastair 386, Granddad Cec 376, Cola Karen 368, Mad Max Stuart 366, Don't tie with me Brett 360, Cupcake Gloria 328, Yellow Peg Stewart 274, Teabag 272.
Bare Bow Fingers Ray 306, BC Liam 216, Don 214.
Till next time Travel Safe
Cheers Teabag

Just one off them days!

Have you ever felt like this?

cheers
teabag

weekend of the 17th & 18th Nov

Firstly has anybody seen Fingers he was last seen in the bale press and we are a little concerned he may have been baled up and ready to go out on the range. Maybe this weekend we will find him.
I think things were a little quiet at the club last weekend. as I wasn't there if there is any news that you would like to pass on just let me know ( email address at the side).
Gloria, Glenn and myself travelled to Singleton for the branch 3D shoot. below is how an exec member saw the weekend 

 

SAS shoot was brilliant – nice weather (except the darned flies – pesky persistent things). 53 shooters Saturday, 54 Sunday. No 400’s, ranges were good. I’ve decided that SAS now stands for Singleton Ant Society as they seem to have every species of ant imaginable on their ranges (from little to whopping great bull ants) only a few people got bitten though so not too bad. SAS have tried to kill them, but they just seem to pop up somewhere else overnight.

I have to agree. The flies were very pesky, I had forgotten how anoying the little beggers can be, and ants, literally millions of them in all shapes and sizes. Poor little Lucy who is only six got bitten through her clothing and boy does that little girl have a set of lungs. The poor little darling, Dad took her back to the campsite, Mum gave her some much needed tlc. And little Lucy became her normal self again. Not sure what Mums do but it sure works.
Our contingent accquited themselves very well. Scores below:-
Cupcake Gloria Flt/2 womens  3A 368 1A 366 2A 674 total 1408 First
Bp Glenn  Flt/2 mens                  3A 350 1A 368 2A 684 total 1402 Second
Teabag     vet sighted                  3A  358 1A 324 2A 684 total 1366 First

We all had a good time and looking forward to next weekend. We need to now who is going to Hunter. A little plan I am trying to hatch so let me know.

Till next time take care.

Teabag

all things as normal

Good news gang, everything will be as normal this coming weekend, BBQ, Drinks, Ice and club bows etc. will all be in attendance at the club this weekend. Different cooks and waiters. but all is good.
enjoy.
cheers Teabag

10/10 goanna range

Firstly a correction to last weeks scores BP Glenn only scored 378 not 388 as was listed. For 10 points the bribe needs to be a little bit higher. I have my pride you know. Now for this week what pure unadulterated joy it was to wonder around our beautiful bush, with only a few sticks and such for equipment. In the rain. which turned a few patches into mud which I managed to examine from close quarters when I slipped on a wet Branch and reduced my height from about 185cm to about 15cm. I can report it was raining down there as well. Wooden shafts bend remarkably well when hit with 120kilos travelling at 35 feet per sec/second. All 5 off them.
For those that couldn't make it and if you read the title are wondering what is a 10/10. Simple really you shoot the first 10 targets as a 3 arrow round and the second ten as a 1 arrow round. It was an idea that was put forward by the branch score recorder in branch F, to allow for a shorter form of the full 2 round game.
The result was for the top guns it made no difference. Ray, Dave, Liam, Muriel and Myself all found the 1 arrow section reduced the score in the normal way. Nobody complained about the round, I found it interesting and Muriel who was having her first go at archery Really liked it as her arm was getting tired, thus the 1 arrow made it easier.
I actually would like to see all beginners start with this round. Particularly in winter. Why? Glad you asked, several reasons actually some just plain selfish. 1. The beginner gets to try both the 3 & the 1 arrow format very early. At our club it can be weeks or even months before they try the 1 arrow round. 2. It does make for a quicker round for that group and for all who are behind them, we had 4 in our group Muriel & mainly I were using everything at every target with the result that for the first 10 targets we were holding up the group behind us at every target. In the last 10 we pulled away from them. 3. Newcomers do not have the initial bow strength that we all develop over a few weeks Unless they are young or weightlifters and this format allows them to shoot less arrows as they become tired.
Scores sighted: Granddad Cec 376, BP Glenn 366, Rabbits Nic 350, Pig Hunter Cooper 342, Karate Matt 340, Cupcake Gloria 332,
Bare bow: Fingers Ray 272, BC Liam 254, Don 244, Feathers Dave 232, Muriel Sellers 156 PB, Teabag 104.
Next week some of us will be away at the branch shoot at Singleton. Grandad will be getting married, sorry at a wedding. So he won't be bringing any BBQ stuff, drinks, ice or club bows. If anybody wants any of this please arrange with Cec what to do etc.
Till next time stay happy.
Teabag

Leach bait Bruce

Hi Bruce, I thought you might like this web address:
Cheers Teabag
http://www.bickerstaffebows.co.uk

3a Goanna Range

I have to say that nice man who cooked the egg & bacon rolls did a fantastic job. Good looking fellow as well.
Tom & Jessica arrived for the first time, well second time actually but last Sunday really doesn't count. Dad only brought daughter because she wanted to have a go, next thing you know, Maid Jessica is shooting against dad. I am pleased to report that they both enjoyed themselves and may be joining. I love seeing families take up the sport together. If you are a junior and a bit reliant on Mum or Dad's paycheck it makes it so much easier to get new bits when they play as well. Good move Jessica. Another new comer was Steve er, um, Steve Harris least that's what I think his name is. Shot really well for a beginner. Hopefully he enjoyed it enough to come again. Glenn arrived with a bright blue bow, freshly powder coated shoots well, eat your heart out Jacob.
Scores for the day:-
 BP Glenn 378, Granddad Cec 376, Don't mention me Steve 376, Don't tie with me Brett 376, Uni Tim 374, Cup cake Gloria 358, Nic 358, Teabag 344.
We had a really big barebow section today so deserve a section of their own. Feathers shot a massive 350 well done Ray.
Fingers Ray 350 PB, BC Liam 318, Tom 262 PB, Leach Bait Bruce 252, Jessica 246 PB, Don 194.
That's about it for this week.
Look after yourselves.
Cheers Teabag

Karen, Gloria,Brett & Alastair made up the shooting part of the Macleay indoor team:

Whilst Daffy Duck second from the left as you are looking at it, was there for his good looks.
What an awesome team it was. As you can see Daffy (alias Teabag) was the only one without a medal. All team members had competition. It really was a good weekend, everything almost ran like clockwork and the catering staff wouldn't have been out of place at a footy grandfinal. The volume and quality was first class.
Scores:- round scores out of 300, match out of 600 with 120 arrows shot.
Coins Alastair 300 with 33 X's and 299 with 37 X's total 599 70 x's second.
Cola Karen      279 and 280 Total 559 Second
DTWM Brett   279 and 284 Total 563 second
Cupcake Gloria 250 and 254 Total 504 First
 Some really top shooting happened at the weekend such as  Ray White  594, Alana Buscombe 12 Years old on Sunday 579, Alex White 13 on Monday 586 but the absolute top award must go to Scott Buscombe. 300 54 X's and 300 55x's so out of 120 arrows Scott missed the X, 11 times Hell I don't even hit it 11 Times.
Cheers all
Tea bag

3A anthill 20/10/12

Can you believe 20 rather demented souls trudged around in the heat of yesterday, we travelled for about 5 hours to get to the shoot and were heard to complain the the cars aircon wasn't working really well, when we stopped and got out we found out just how good the aircon was working. Boy it was warm, made sleeping on the benches really difficult. Team Smedley were once again at the pointy end of the event. Fellow club members lift your game as this is becoming a bit of a habit, I do my bit by not shooting so it's up to you. In what I think is a few firsts A husband and wife team tied with 388 each, also they came first as the blog writer it was up to me to decide a winner, since I am used to making hard decisions I shall declare Kola Karen the winner. I shall now present my case to support my decision.Karen's highest score is 388 there for she achieved 100% of her demonstrated and known ability, whilst Alastair on the other hand has shot a 400. So by only shooting 388 he has only achieved 97% of his known ability. hence and indisputably Karen wins, besides I think it was her that supplied cake. Geez bribery comes cheap.
Well done to all that finished yesterday I didn't envy you at all. Yellow peg Stewart cracked the 300 barrier again. Alan & Jessie went round the range and both acquitted themselves well as did Don I think all 3 shot PB's. Chris shot a 364 which gave him a PB for the day. 364 really lifts you out of the beginners class well done Chris. It amazed me how many tied scores we had. Bruce went really well and finally managed to get one up on Ray. The Ussher family performed very well with a 380 & 372. Granddad wasted a good round with me not shooting. Scores for the day:
Cola Karen 388, Coins Alastair 388, Martin McFly 380, Home brew Garry380, Scribe Neil 372, Granddad Cec 372, Don't tie with me Brett 370, Frosty Chris 364 PB, Bp Glenn 360, Sam 350, Cupcake Gloria 348, SWR Brad 348, Uni Tim 330, Yellow Peg Stewart 316, Leach Bait Bruce 308 BB, Fingers Ray 304 BB, Don 256 PB, Alan 240 PB , Jessie 166 PB, BC Liam 164 BB.
   Till next time stay happy.
Tea bag

What a super weekend. The queen, the president and both Julia & Tony arrived to see how the happy people spend their weekend, boy were they surprised. The first of the summer cyclones arrived as well and created havoc with strong winds, heavy rain & a touch of snow. All in all a very entertaining weekend.
Ok I wasn't there and made all that up, naughty Teabag. So what really happened, well it appears that Martin & Alastair waged all out war for supremacy , with both of them scoring 390 out of 400. I believe that was a PB from the red peg for Martin. I think I will move a motion that all juniors must let all seniors win. Yep that seems fair. Don also decided he could put up with us all again, hope you enjoyed the day Don.
The surprise of the day was Matt & Cooper arriving to shoot. I have no idea how Matt remembered where we were, they both shot really well. Ray has continued to shoot well and is heading rapidly to masters grade, keep going Ray

Scores for the weekend:-
 Scores (Max 400): Martin Mcfly 390 (PB), Coins Alastair390, Hitchhiker Dion 374, Granddad Cec  372, Karate Matt 364, BP Glenn 360, Frosty Chris 356, Fingers Ray 332 BB, Pig Hunter Cooper 324, Yellow Peg Stewart 262, Don Osbourne 216, Builder Peter 178 BB.
Cheers Teabag

Come & try weekend Oct 2012

Well that was an interesting weekend. A big thank you to the members who organized the weekend and then gave up 2 days to help the club prosper. Fingers spent most of the weekend in the bale press. I think he has a love affair going on. Several people took advantage of the weekend and gave archery a whirl. I thought a few of the newer members may have used the weekend to fine tune their style.
The promo trailer moves on to the next venue, so hopefully it will help convert a few new archers.

Several members and a few visitors went round the range on Saturday whilst on Sunday we shot an indoor round, very confusing, we shot indoor whilst being buffeted by strong winds, well Fingers & I were buffeted, we were on the end of the line, We also appeared to have lost the roof and walls, anywhere else in the world and we would have been outdoors, just shows what a good imagination can do.

Mid afternoon after everything was repaired and put away, 4 of us went around the range. By target 11, I had to call it quits I was actually ahead of Granddad, Cupcake & Fingers. Bugger when your hot your hot but in mycase I was just stuffed. All in all a very pleasant arvo. Geez Fingers was shooting well. Annoying little bugger.
Saturdays Scores were:-
Coins Alastair 390, Martin Macfly 384, Granddad Cec 368, Fingers Ray 324 BB, Yellow Peg Stewart 308, Lincon 304, Linda 266, Conrad 256, Kellie 228, Tom 228, Jamilla 184, BC Liam 182 BB, Mat 164, Leach Bait Bruce 150 BB
   
Now Linda, Jamilla, Lincon & Conrad went home to Woollongong after the shoot, great family and welcome any time. Kellie came out to have another go and all indications are she may join, which would be great.

Special mention to Bruce who went round with his home made Long Bow, the workmanship is fantastic and when he gets a few issues sorted his bows will be valued by all.
Cupcake & I have to go to Qld for the ABA AGM so wont be there next week and may or may not be back for the week after that, so till next time Take care
Cheers Teabag

ABA 3arrow 29th Sept

Hi all I am proud to announce the winner of this weeks shoot is.........C.... Hold that thought, I just remembered some other things.
Firstly don't forget next weekend is the come and try weekend. This should be a good time for all from the person who just wants to give it a go, to really old people like Granddad, Fingers & Yellow Peg. I just realised that 2weeks ago I celebrated 52 years of playing with a bow & arrow in a club scene. I can still remember my dear old Dad lecturing me about the cost and how this better not be a flash in the pan. Sorta wish he was still here so I could say "Told you so."
On Saturday 52,347 people turned up to give it a go, hope they can say "52 years ago I started at the Macleay Valley Archers." 2 separate families travelled all the way from Wollongong, which as we all know is the W in NSW. I don't think they knew each other but had heard about how friendly our club is so made the small effort to be here. I suppose they could have been here on holidays, nah that doesn't make sense.
At the end of the shoot I did my world famous impersonation of a landed fish closely followed by Cupcake leading the entire club on a bush walk.
Oh the joy and sounds of  happiness reverberated through the tranquil bush setting.
I would like to thank everybody for their efforts in finding Cupcakes eyes, for how else could she see my beauty. THANK YOU.

Now back to my original thought..... Hi all I am proud to announce the winner of this weeks shoot is.........Cola Karen.
Yes she finally did it again and this time Hubby didn't spoil the headline. for those that are interested I may have exaggerated the number of new comers, I think we had about 11 turn up. With so many and my tired befuddled brain just can't sort out who was who. I do know that several people had a great time including a family from the deep south who went round the range with us and also supplied their own bread when we ran out. I tried to explain we are a depressed area, so all is good.
Stuart brought a brand new but very large cannon to shoot. He offered to let me pull it back but at 82# draw weight my hemorrhoids would have been dragging on the ground. Thanks for the venison samples, they went down a treat.
Scores for the day:-
Cola Karen 378, Mad Max Stuart 372 PB, Coins Alastair 366, Granddad Cec 358, Teabag 350, CupCake Gloria 344, Fingers Ray 338 BB, Yellow Peg Stewart 328, Conrad 300, Linda 280, Lincon 278, Frier Tuck Gary 226, Jamilla 180, Builder Pete 166 BB
Till next time Cheers Teabag

Come & Try Day club members as well

Macleay Valley Archers  

will be hosting a

“Come & Try Archery Weekend”

on Saturday 6^th October 10:00am onwards

& Sunday 7^th October 10:00am to 2:00pm

 

  We will be catering for beginners through to experienced archers with a weekend at our range at Brentons Rd, Tamban Forest

(sign-posted from Great Nth Rd Frederickton on the weekend).

Our qualified coaches and experienced archers will be available all weekend to assist you. All equipment will be provided FREE OF CHARGE. Bring the whole family for a fun day out. Come for an hour or two or stay all weekend. Camping is available on Saturday night. We will be running beginner tuition, video analysis for the more experienced, instruction on bow setup, equipment selection and arrow construction.

For more information see our website

http://macleayvalleyarchers.blogspot.com

or ring

Cec on 0265627047

or

                                      Brett on 0408480131

Sat 22nd Sept 3 arrow Anthill Range

Hi all Sorry about last week but as you know we were away at Tuggerah for the Branch IFAA titles 6 of our members made the trip and we came back with 2 branch champions, well done Karen & Gloria.
Karen shot 2 PB's including a 500 on the second day and Cupcake had a PB in terms of arrows broken......4 in one go whilst falling over, must curtail her drinking next time. Ooh! ouch! sorry I was only joking.
This week most of the Macleay Valley turned up to have a go & 23 archers wondered around the range. I think we even had a couple or three people join the best club in the land. Alastair shot a sizzeling 392, closely followed by Gary on 388 and Brett on 386. This is just an observation but the 5 archers who shot the IFAA last week all returned really good scores this week. Dave took out the prized Long bow section with a pretty smart 206, whilst Marty shot from the red peg and still shot 378. Cec & I went round with a new family who shot really well not quite up to my standard but very, very, close.
Scores for the Day: Coins Alastair 392, Home Brew Gary 388, Don't tie with me Brett 386, Cola Karen 380, Martin McFly 378, Scribe Neil 370, Nick 370,  Grandad 368, Mad Max Stuart 366, CupCake Gloria 362, Hitchhiker Dion 358, Fingers Ray 334, Yellow Peg Stewart 312, Teabag 304, Sam 292,  Tom 284, Mick 266, Leach Bait Bruce 250, BC Liam 232, Feathers Dave 206, Gordon 164 PB, Matt 157, Nic 102,
I should also mention that Fingers Ray shoots bare bow which means no fancy stuff on his bow, Ray isn't the only one in the club shooting this way but 334 is a very good score.
Til next time cheers and stay safe.
Teabag

3 arrow 8th Sept 2012

Hi all I am proud to announce the winner of this weeks shoot is.........Cola Karen. 

This is a well deserved result and shows what a level playing field archery is.
 Well that would be the headline if only her hubby had played the game. Alastair you are a real spoil sport.

 Despite not shooting I must have done something right as both Granddad & Karen made me a cup of tea, Pure Bliss

 In a move that had us all pinching ourselves in disbelief Bruce and his Fair maiden arrived for the day, I think that is a first for 2012. Now all we need is the iron chef to lob up. I took my swag and pillow laid it out in the club house whilst the active people went round the range.

 I was awakened by the start of world war three. The tanks were attacking and severe injury  seemed only seconds away. Turns out I had panicked for nothing, it was only the neighbor taking his very large D something bulldozer for a stroll. Did give me a start though. Poor Granddad couldn't see the last target again. It's a bit like watching a train wreck in slow motion, never mind Daylight saving will fix it for you.
Chris shot a well deserved PB, Fingers had a great barebow score. Young Nic tried a few shots from the red peg, Nic if you are reading this concentrate on the green peg until you can consistently score in the high 360. It is really hard for you to judge your improvement if you keep chopping and changing.

Scores:  Coins Alastair 386, Cola Karen 384, Bruce 376, Granddad Cec 366, Cupcake Gloria354, Chris 348 PB, Fingers Ray 338, Nambucca Gary 330, SWR Brad 296, Sixpenny Zac 290, Yellow Peg Stewart 288, Nic 204.  

1 arrow Sept 1 followed by meeting

G’day Mike,

Myself and my two sons, as well as one of my sons friends attended a shoot on the 1st of September.

We found the friendship and guidance brilliant under the hand of Brett and the friendship of all of the members very welcoming.

This is a new sport for us and we will have no hesitation in joining you all again for a great challenge.

Thank you.

Mick.Tom.Nick Burke. 

Well that about says it all doesn't it. It confirms what I have been saying about this club for a long time now.  Well done Brett and all the members who made this family feel welcome.

We also had a lovely polite young lady get her Dad to bring her out to the club as she wanted to try archery after trying it at camp. I hope she takes the sport up as we need more ladies and this girl looks like she will make a very good archer. With the exception of Granddad most scores were a little of the boil this week, may have been the wind or it could have been general disappointment that Teabag had a painful day.

Scores:- Granddad Cec 384, Don't tie with me Brett 374, Rabbits Nic & Coins Alastair 372, Cola Karen 358, Cup Cake Gloria 342, Chris 328, Sam 326, Jake 280, SWR Brad 274, Leach Bait Bruce 252, BP Glenn 248, Finger Ray 246,  Long bow Baily 230, Yellow Peg Stewart 206, Young Nic 140, Teabag 16. Any body have a fix for really sore shoulders?

 For those that didn't know, Bruce is a trained ship-rite I think that's the right word. He did an apprenticeship in timber boat building. Well after seeing a few long bows he has started making one for himself and he showed us at the club at the weekend. I'm in love, the workmanship was simply stunning. I believe an oldish club member has already ordered one for him or her self. I am being vague here to protect Cec's identity. If any of you have a slight interest in trying the mystical art of Longbow shooting Bruce's bows would be a good place to start.

To all the Dad's Have a happy Fathers Day.

See you all soon.

Cheers Teabag

Long bow theme song

Well after much ado I still can't work out how to attach the theme song, so drop me an Email and I will send it to you.
Cheers Teabag

2nd leg of the eco shoot 25/8/12 2 arrow round

Oh what a lovely club this is. This week they have handed their blog over to the Macleay Valley Longbow Association. I must say both of our members would like to thank MVA for this kind offer.
Just a couple of observations up front. 1.It took 15 seconds to get ready. 2. Glued on points tend to come loose after 26 years.3.  Four arrows is not quite enough. 4. I can have all my arrows on the way to anything longer than a series three before the first one lands. 5. Do not, I repeat do not get to target 17 and announce proudly that you haven't lost any arrows, as no matter how far target 17 is you will loose an arrow. 6. You can shoot long wooden sticks, shorter carbon shafts or medium length alloys all with different spines, out of the same longbow and get the same result. 7. Hitting the butt is reason for wild celebration. 8. getting 40 on a long series 4 target almost causes one to wet his pants with excitement and smug satisfaction. 9. At target seven I scored 34 and more than doubled my score for the round so far, try that with your fancy compounds.10. longbows make a practical way of providing shade to scope users without putting yourself in any danger.simply hang hat on longbow and then lean across to needed area. 11. We have our own theme song. Which I will try to post on here some where. 12. Nobody expects you to hit anything.
and finally coming last is like a badge of honor. Moving on to less important matters. Granddad had a Robin hood last week. Coins Broke 2 arrows this week and the asked Cola Karen if he could have more. Then in an act of bravado or stupidity beat her by two. Due to the fact I was wondering around in a world of my own I don't really know what else happened. Nearly for got SWR Brad nearly chopped his arm in half. simply amazing what a small piece of string can do to bare flesh, he liked it so much he did it twice.
Scores. Teabag Pb 238, Martin Mcfly 784, Teabag Pb 238, Coins Alastair 780, Teabag Pb 238, Cola Karen 778, Teabag Pb 238, Don't tie with me 768, Teabag Pb 238, Rabbits Nic 744, Teabag Pb 238, Scribe Neil 738, Teabag Pb 238, Granddad Cec 734, Teabag Pb 238, Cupcake Gloria 686, Teabag Pb 238, Frosty Chris 680, Teabag Pb 238, Nambucca Gary 678, Teabag Pb 238, Sam 626, Teabag Pb 238, Fingers Ray 570,  Teabag Pb 238, Sixpenny Zac 548, Teabag Pb 238, Yellow Peg Stewart 496, Teabag Pb 238, Jake 480, Nic 420, Teabag Pb 238, SWR Brad DNF 318, Teabag Pb 238, Bailey 220.Teabag Pb 238,
Cheers teabag

ABA Eco- shoot 18/8/12

Well is this late or what. As you know we had visitors over the weekend so the time I set aside to do the blog came but not in the usual way. Monday was a blur of ABA stuff, bed and eating. Tuesday our son & I went to Sydney and back. Gee I simply am not as young as I used to be, so once again it was tea then bed.The club shot a 2 arrow both score round as part of the ABA national Eco shoot. Martin Mcfly returned a very impressive 780 and Cola Karen was in hot pursuit with a 772. Granddad was having trouble beating Cupcake and in a moment of triumph broke her arrow rest when she wasn't looking, so that got rid of her.( only joking) From the evidence before me it would seem that the more senior members of the club really missed Teabag, how else do you explain Coins at 754, Granddad670 and  BP 612. Dean & Sean Irvine had a great family tussel with the senior member of the family triumphant in the end. Liam who has trouble shooting with dad balanced the father son win loss ratio when he crept past Bruce Chris & Nic both shot impressive rounds. Stewart shot a solid 470. well done to all.
Scores:
Martin Mcfly 780, Cola Karen 772, Coins Alastair 754, Frosty Chris 688, Nick 680, Granddad 670, BP Glenn 612, Diamond Dean 566, Opal Sean 540, BC Liam 514, yellow peg Stewart 470, Leach Bait Bruce 488, Cupcake DNF
Cheers everybody.
Teabag

Club working bee 18th August

Working Bee - 18 August 2012

This Saturday morning there is a planned working bee.  Club bows and arrows are in need of repair in preparation for the Come and Try day, as well as other work around the club. Kick off is at 10am.

ABA 11/8/12

It was blowing dogs off chains but that didn't deter the Macleay archers last weekend. While the wind played havoc on the practice butts, it was a little kinder out on the range. A new sight for Nic had him posting a personal best, beating his previous 2012 result by over a hundred points, and that was without having had the time to set it up correctly. What will he manage next week? Perhaps he will beat his Dad - it was a close thing on Saturday and they ended up tying. Our two newest visitors, Shannon and Jake, came out again despite the weather, so they are obviously keen to get into archery.

Scores (Max 400): Alastair Smedley 374, Karen Smedley 366, Chris Garrett 326, Nic Garrett 326 (PB), Ray McMannus 296, Bruce Crawford 294, Jake McElwaine 288, Shannon Brown 284, Liam Crawford 282

400 score day unbelievable 4/8/12

Hi all, sorry this is late we had family commitments yesterday and when we got home the bushfire behind us was really close, the valley was full of smoke and we could see the flames roaring away. I guestimate about 500-700meters away. We could hear the crackle and hear trees falling plus the hills were a lovely orange glow. We readied the car and caravan, worked out who would drive what and to where, Got a few clothes ready and made a mental note about the computers plus photo albums brought the dog inside, Plus slept in our clothes just in case. Nothing like a real situation to make you focus on what's important to you. This morning we can still see smoke, but a heavy dew plus cold night have helped. Hopefully we wont have any wind.
Saturday was shot in true Olympic spirit we had 22 shooters turn up and everybody seemed to have a good time. Flight 1 is the highest grade you can get in our sport if you use sights, whilst we all strive for that goal only a few make it. I think our club has 3 senior and 1 junior flight 1 shooters. You need to get over 380 several times to obtain this grade.
Now Cola Karen has been knocking at the door and this week returned a PB of 388. Her excitement was palpable  as not only was it a solid flight 1 but is usually enough to win the day. Karens eyes darted to the board every time a top archer returned. Her husband Alastair was first with a 386, Brett was next with a 384 , things were looking good Dion had a bad shoot, so that left only Feathers Dave, who has been running hot over the last few weeks. Dave's  was the last score posted, followed by stunned silence, then a ripple of excitement and loud long applause.
I looked at the board blinked, clapped and stood stunned. Feathers Dave had just returned a perfect score 400 out of 400. It was also a PB. As far as I know this is only the second time this has been done at our club in many many years and the first one on the Goanna range. Alastair has achieved this feat on the anthill range.
There are so many variables in archery that 400 is really a very hot score and everything has to go right on the day.
Dave congratulations from us all, really well done.
Scores:- Feathers Dave 400 PB, Cola Karen 388 PB, Coins Alastair 386, Don't tie with me Brett 384, Grandad Cec 382, Don't mention me Steve 370, Martin Mcfly 366, Cupcake Gloria 362, BP Glenn 354, Hitchhiker Dion 334, Chris 312, Old yellow peg Stewart 282, Butcher Pete 270, Fingers Ray 242, BC Liam 244 PB, Jake 222, Baily 208, Leach Bait Bruce 182, Hoppy Josh 180, Jacob & Nic 116, Shannon 106,
Cheers all Tea bag

Club Meeting after shoot 4th August

1) Club Meeting
The next club meeting will be held this Saturday (4th August) after a one arrow round. All members are welcome to attend.

Fuel Saver Eco Shoot

 Fuel Saver Eco Shoot
MVA will be hosting two shoots in August as part of the Fuel Saver Eco Shoot. The competition is two rounds of 2 arrows with both to score, on standard ABA targets and at standard ABA distances, scoring 20/18/16/0. Dates for this years shoot at MVA are 18th and 25th August 2012. Nominations to Karen by 18th August. Entry fee is $10 which will be collected on 25th August for those that have completed both rounds.

Club ABA 3 A 28/7/12

Well I am having a bit of trouble working out if I'm just easy to please or is the club just a super club to belong to. Saturday came around as it usually does, so off toTamban was the order of the day. The dog was in her kennel, bows were loaded, gear checked and off we went. About an hour later we arrived at the destination of our choice. We sat around for about an hour just chin wagging then started the BBQ where I incinerated a few hapless sausages, which most chomped through with a little effort, heck I had 3 so they couldn't be that bad. The vegetarians in the group applaud their choice every time they see me at the BBQ. There is nothing quite like the aroma of burning sausages and tortured onions to tempt the taste buds. Then shoot groups were drawn up and Cup cake, Coins Alastair & Cola Karen were the lucky winners of more time with me. Finally all was ready and of we trotted to the Goanna Range to see what surprises Fingers had in store for us today. 5 targets later I decided it was time for beddy-bies, but not before motivating my group to outstanding results. All in all I just have the best time. The good natured banter, willing help and genuine friendship all make Saturday at MVA a fantastic experience. Shooting arrows just adds to the enjoyment.
Scores:- Coins Alastair a whopping 394, Martin Mcfly 388, BP Glenn 378, Cola Karen & Grandad Cec 376, Cup cake Gloria 366, Scribe Neil 362, Mad Max Stuart 348, Chris 340, Home Brew Garry 338,  Finger Ray 328, Old Yellow Peg & BC Liam PB 310, Leach bait Bruce 290, Tea bag DNF
Really well done Alastair that really is a mind blowing score.
cheers all Tea bag

Well done MVA

G’day Mike.

My son and I recently had a look at your Club.

We were made very welcome by Brett, Cec and lots of other members.

We are hoping to come more often, we are also on the hunt for bows for sale, My son is 12 and is looking for a bow (not sure what yet) to suite him.

I am looking for a Recurve Bow to have a crack at.

Hope your recent tournament went well.

catch up soon.

Mick,Tom and Nick. 

warning if easily offended please don't read

Hi all I thought i'd post this as a community warning so to speak. Let me start by saying despite not shooting Sunday I had a fantastic weekend. By Tuesday my man bits were sore and causing me some discomfort . A quick check of the area told me they were hot and felt swollen. I tried really hard to have a look but a complete lack of flexibility and middle age spread made that impossible.As far as flexible goes genetics and sporting injuries mean that I can't even touch my toes, actually I get excited when I can reach my knees. I have worked out that middle aged spread is natures way of lowering my center of gravity which in turn helps me to stay up-right as I waddle around on 2 unstable legs.It also means that anything south of the navel is simply below the horizon. Now as I lent forward to try and see the problem, the problem area moved backwards allowing it to still stay below the horizon. Not to be out done by this small problem I marched into the bathroom for a look in the mirror. Now the mirror is over the sink, my eyesight is crap so I still can't see properly all though the said equipment does look about as red as my cars taillights. There is now nothing else I can do except find the good wife and ask for help, so of  I go, pants around the knees shirt held up and offending area out there, I spy her ladyship at the computer and call out she turns and makes a rather funny sound, and muttered something that sounded like "not now I'm to busy" Not knowing what she was mumbling about, I marched up put the offending area as close as I dare and asked for an opinion re the swelling She then asked how she was supposed to know, I was expecting a bit much as it was over 40 years since she had last looked that closely. After much begging I finally heard a satisfied hum! and she pronounced yep there are 2 ticks in residence, stand still. Next thing I know my scrotum is being bathed in a liberal amount of fluid, for half a second this brought back happy memories of 40 years ago, then the slow but intense burn started. What the heck was that I inquired. Stop complaining I was told. Through tear filled eyes, I caught a glimpse of flashing stainless steel. The longest sharpest and biggest pair of tweezers I have ever seen rapidly disappeared below the horizon, followed by 2 tugs. I stood there somewhat shaken by all this, my pants had dropped to my ankles, the burning told me that my man bits and I were still attached to each other and the tears were slowly drying up. At this point she who must be obeyed, told me to move off as I was interfering with here game of scrabble and she was only 100 points ahead. Moral of this rant check carefully for ticks.
cheers Tea Bag

NNSW Branch Titles 21st-22nd July

WOW!, WOW!, WOW!, What a weekend, half our members turned up to play and play they did. Martin's new bow works 1548, hoppy Josh 1510, Gloria first time over 1400, Cec 1550, Garry 1496, Brett 1530, Karen 1500, Dave 1582, Alastair 1568, Kate 1st, Zac 3rd, Peter 3rd, Glenn 4th, Ray moved into A grade and still pulled a 3rd. Kate shot really well and I hope we see her more often. Stewart, Brad, Bruce, Liam & Teabag only shot day one. I must admit the weekend is a bit of a blur, It was sort off like watching your kids get married, you are not the main act but you can't help but feel pride. This club has one fantastic vibe. Thank you to who ever placed all the seats out on the range they really helped me stay upright and I for one really really appreciate it. The members of our shoot group even commented about how good they were. I guess the thought of mouth to mouth didn't thrill them. One family from Hunter came over and said what a great shoot it was. Granddad, Cup cake, Cola Karen and Feathers all came over to thank me for motivating them to the dizzy heights they all reached on the weekend. Well I'm sure that's what they meant to do, how else can their scores be explained. Scores 3a, 1a,2a total position
Stewart  282, 294, DNS 576, xxx
Karen     372, 356, 772, 1500 1st
David     394, 396, 792, 1582 1st
Glenn     368, 290, 652,  1310 4th
Alastair  384, 394, 790,  1568 1st
Bruce     278, 172, DNS, 450 xxxxx
Ray       290,  314, 536,   1140 3rd
Brad      308, 298, DNS  606 xxx
Josh       370, 370, 770   1515 2nd
Kate      262, 234, 424    920 1st
Zac        376, 318, 528   1222 3rd
Martin    380, 388, 780  1548  1st
Liam       282, 118, DNS 400 xxx
Gloria     350,  354, 728,  1432  1st
Garry      366, 370, 760,   1496 1st
Peter       290, 262, 468,  1020 3rd
Brett       390, 388, 752,  1530  1st
Cec        386, 390, 774, 1550   1st
Tea Bag  372, 344, DNS  716 xxxx
Top score Dave 1582 also top score of the weekend
Cec thanks for the fun you made me really proud, you too Karen. I really enjoy archery but trying to beat you two plus Gloria makes it twice as much fun.
Thanks everybody.
Tea Bag.

ABA 3A 14/7

Well in a state of euphoria I wrote down all the names & scores then put them somewhere safe. Then lost them, more or less in that order. From memory Brett shot 386, Alastair 380, Tea bag 372, Granddad 364,
Cupcake 356, sorry but that's all I can remember, if the missing link turns up I will update the scores. Finally I scored more than Cupcake. Granddad and I went head to head all arvo until about target 11 where I had a brain fade, missed with my first, hit exactly what I aimed at with the second, problem was I hadn't aimed on the target, but the bale slightly to the side. Lovely shot it was as well.Finally my third hit the a zone and Granddad moved 12 points ahead, with a lovely 20. By the time we reached the last target the gap had narrowed to only 6 points. Our last target was a group 1 rabbit. How on earth can you pick up 6 points on a group 1? All afternoon the light had been dull and on some targets it was like starring into a mine shaft, so it was on the last target. I peeped through my new 6 power lens, but no matter how long or how hard I looked   the rabbit was nowhere to be seen. Fortunately the print was mounted on red corflute and I could make out a faint red line around the edges. In a stroke of brilliance I figured the rabbit had to be in the middle so I aimed at the middle......Bingo 18. Now granddad thought this quite funny and proceeded to explain how he could see the target. Cupcake went next and scored but said how hard it was to see. Then came granddad glasses off, glasses on, glasses off followed by strange noises mumbling about not been able to see. Arrow released followed by questions about its' location, which non of us could answer. Granddad stayed at the peg whilst the rest walked forward to find his arrow. That took a while, then we announced that he had missed. We all got out of the way and allowed him to miss again, by now I couldn't keep a straight face and my sides were getting sore from laughing. His third shot just managed a lowly 4. oh! heaven. I really would have had more sympathy if only he hadn't said he could see the target.
I should point out Granddad had the flu and by the last target had run out of steam. I should, but I'm not going to. Heck I beat him fair & square him & Cupcake.
Cheers all don't forget next week is the Branch titles here at Macleay.
Tea Bag

ABA 3 arrow and working bee

Great working bee about 10 members arrived to contribute their time & energy. The practice range was mowed, new butts installed signage added. looked almost to good to use. The camping area was increased by about 43.5%, toilets cleaned admittedly it was a man clean but hey! canteen cleaned and the ranges started. All in all a very good effort. Thanks everybody.
As we wonder along life's journey it surprises me just where the roads lead. As you know distance and my driving speed means the trip home takes about an hour. Now this trip used to be quite pleasant, I would offer sage like advice on how my good wife could enhance her scores and we would pat me on the back about how well I shot, even if Cec & Karen had beaten me. All in all a pleasant journey home.Oh how the trip home has turned into a nightmare. Now all we talk about is PB's (hers), what I can do to catch her. Why my PB's only go up by a couple of points every 12 months. Why if only I could have hit target 12 with my first arrow and changed those two 16's into 20's I would have got close to she who must be obeyed and then we start on how much Cec and or Karen beat me bye. All in all a horrible trip home.
Scores for the day:- Feathers Dave 388, Steve 386, Coins Alastair 386, Home brew Garry 380, Cupcake Gloria & Grandad Cec 374, Jacob 372, Tea Bag 368, Scribe Neil 366, BP Glenn 360, Yellow Peg Stuart 328, SWR Brad 304, Finger Ray 300, Leach Bait Bruce 284. 
Steve & Jacob are visitors from Goulburn, thanks for your company.
cheers Teabag  

ABA 1 arrow 30 June

Hi all. As you now Cupcake & I went to Sale for the national IFAA titles, we then went to Geelong to see Sons, daughter in laws, Grand children and great grandchildren plus an old school mate from primary days ( about 55 years ago) & a brother and his wife. We survived torrential rain, floods, earthquakes and days with a maximum temp of 8 degrees. Spent a day Gold prospecting and found a gate, some metal pipe, nails, soft drink cans, several pie dishes but no gold.We shot 5 days of IFAA, spent a Saturday afternoon at an Archery Australia club shooting target, did the Tuggerah shoot and finished up at the club. All in all we traveled just over 3000 klms and shot between 700 & 800 arrows. We had a fantastic time and really enjoyed ourselves. But just like slipping into a pair of favorite slippers we felt most comfortable at our home club with special friends. It was a pure joy to be bitten by ticks and leaches, even took one home and let it wonder across the lounge room floor. Fat little bugger he was as well. We shot with Alastair & Cec. It took a little while but I finally lowered them to my standard. Unfortunately, in the process I dropped my own scores. Cupcake again beat me as did granddad. Fortunately my other nemesis left the country when she heard I was returning. Well that's my story.
At next years AGM could I suggest that we have any nominations for range captain be subjected to some form of psychological testing. The one we have now is causing total havoc. Who in their right mind sets the first ten targets at minimum distance and the last ten at any distance. Feathers & Fingers are just plain evil.
Scores for the day:-
Feathers Dave 386, Home Brew Garry 376, Coins Alastair and Granddad Cec 362, Cupcake Gloria 328, Teabag 320, Chris 272, BC Liam 228, Leach bait Bruce 214, Finger Ray 180, Nick 152.
Cheers Teabag














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Macleay Valley Archers - Shoot Results 23 June 2012

Macleay Valley Archers - Shoot Results 23 June 2012

A full days archery for some of our members, shooting two styles of archery. Brett challenged himself by going barebow compound, which means no assistance from high-tech gadgets such as scopes and sights. He returned a very sound score for his first ABA barebow attempt in the afternoon, having used the morning IFAA round to work out where he should aim at the targets.

It was lovely to have two visitors from the Monterra Club shoot with us (Brian and AnnetteTreheway, 346 and 264 respectively), as well as first time vistor Elijah who shot an excellent 244 from the cub peg.


IFAA Scores (max 150): Alastair Smedley (135); Garry Ward (129); Joshn Scott (120); Karen Smedley (117); Brett Hodgman (47)

ABA Scores (max 400): Dave McManus (392); Alastair Smedley (384); Cec Apps (378); Sean Irvine (342); Stewart Bennington (334); Ray McManus (324); Dean Irvine (314); Brett Hodgman (308); Liam Crawford (274); Chris Garrett (258); Bruce Crawford (224); Nic Garrett (198)


Next week (Sat 30 June): regular ABA round starting around 1.30pm followed by our club meeting
Thanks Karen for helping to keep the blog up todate.
Cheers Teabag

Hello

Shot the Goanna range after changes were made to it at last weeks working bee. Targets moved, and pegs adjusted which made for an interesting round. Two new benches installed on the range, which will be welcome rest spots after the up hill stages.

Scores: Brett 380, Alastair 372, Cec 370, Karen 370, Garry 368, Glenn 364, Neil 356, Dion 356, Zac 316, Gary K 308, Ray 286, Liam 284, Stewert 266.

Two new shooters were welcomed, Warren and Ethan, who spent time with Brett on the practice butts before shooting a couple of targets on the Goanna range.

Next week, International IFAA round in the morning (10am for 10.30am start), followed by a regular ABA round starting around 1.30pm.

Best wishes
Karen
Thanks Karen for keeping me in touch. We will loose internet today and probably wont get it back till we get home.
Cheers Teabag

girls girls girls, won't they ever learn. first gloria beats me by a fairly large margin, then karen beats all comers at the club. simply not cricket.

well done girls.

The scores from last Saturday are:

Alastair	Smedley	378
Brad	Farley	314
Bruce	Crawford	216
Cec	Apps	362
Dave	McMannus	380
Dean	Irvine	340
Garry	Ward	362
Neil	Ussher	316
Ray	McMannus	310
Stewart	Bennington	318
Karen	Smedley	382
Liam	Crawford	290
Sean	Irvine	312

As you can see Friar Tuck found this & thought it might be useful to new members

Thought you might be interested.
Friar Tuck

How To: Strip, Clean and Fletch an Arrow (1 of 2)

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Possible last post for a while.

Hi all,Gloria & I and a few others are going to Sale for the Australian IFAA titles. Cupcake & I are leaving early Sunday morning. After Sale we are travelling to Geelong to see old school friends and a few Sons, Daughters, Grand-daughters & Great Grand-kids.. We hope to pick up the Tuggerah shoot on the way home at the end of June. As a result we will be away all month. If anybody sends me stuff on my email I will try to get it posted but can't promise anything.
Cheers teabag

May 26th ABA 3A & Int IFAA

Hi all, First things first next week is a 1 arrow ABA followed by the club AGM. If you want a say in the clubs direction this is a good meeting to attend, nominations have been received for all positions, so you won't get dobbed in for anything.
With regard to the weather this week, see last week and double it.As you know the club decided to run an international IFAA in the morning. 7 off us took part Garry Ward only had time to shoot in the morning so that allowed him to shoot where normally he would have missed out good move from my point of view. Scores were pretty good Particularly Alastairs.Maximum score 150, results were Alastair 136, Brett 128, Karen 127, Gary 126, Mike 110, Gloria 108, Ray 82.


After all the coming & going settled down we had 13 Archers attack the ABA round. 6 Archers shot their best score for the year, due to the fact that my eye sight isn't the best & I was on cloud nine which is a long way from anywhere, I didn't see who they were. Liam shot another PB as did Teabag.

 Brett scored a massive 390, top shooting Brett. Alastair shot his usual very solid 386, boy is he consistent. Karen & Cec both shot magnificently, they showed outstanding style, grace & endurance. Arrow after arrow crashed into the A zone. Their form was so good they wouldn't be out of place at any shoot in Australia, all in all a super display of archery......oh! nearly forgot I beat them both. I had so many cups of tea coming I could have had a bath in the stuff. To say I was thrilled is an understatement.

 The Kempsey old age retirement village had entered a team comprising of Ray, Cec, Gloria & I, loosely called the pensioners club. In an act of complete confusion Glenn arrived late and joined our group. With prostrates being what they are in old fellas, members of our group kept disappearing followed by the sound of gently running water, only to have them reappear with a happy smile. What a happy little bunch of vegemites we were.
Scores for the day :- Don't tie with me Brett 390, Coins Alastair 386, Teabag 384 PB, BP Glenn 380, Cola Karen, Martin McFly & Grandad Cec 378,  Hitchhiker Dion 376, Scribe Neil 372, BC Liam 284 PB,  CupCake Gloria 338, Fingers Ray 318, Leach Bait Bruce154.


Macleay Valley Archers Inc Club member of the week, "Cola Karen Smedley"


Till next time Cheers Teabag

ABA 3 arrow 19/5/12

Oh joy of joys what fantastic weather, Approx 4.5 million archers turned up to enjoy the day & what a day it was, little to no breeze, blue sky, sunshine, birds all a twitter, flowers turning their heads to the sun, leaves playing a symphony of nature, (yes I know there was no breeze) the beautiful sound of a small crystal clear babbling brook and good friends all combined to make this one special day. The longer I spend in archery the more sure I am that this sport attracts a certain type of person, the type of person that you would be happy to take home to meet mum so to speak. This year hasn't been the best for me both health wise and shooting wise & sometimes it's hard to know if the shooting effects my health or does the health effect my shooting. I haven't actually finished a round since Easter and my shooting was going down hill rapidly. It had got to the point where I looked forward to going to the club to socialise but not to shoot. A few weeks ago Cec had climbed out of his sick bed to come & help he even shot poorly at Avon to encourage me. But Avon was the worst weekend shooting wise I have had in as long as I can remember. My bow was a brute to shoot and it was all to difficult. Hence plan B, I rang Alastair and asked if he could have a look at the bow for me & he happily said yes. I arrived at the appointed time and spent the next 2 hours offering advise to him on how to fix my bow, all of which he, thankfully, ignored. After all the adjustments & muffled threats were finalised my old bow was back.
It somehow had transformed from an ugly duckling into a beautiful Swan. Thank you Alastair, thank you Cec, between you, you have returned my love of archery That folks is why archery is special, Your main rivals will help you when you need it. It was great to see members of the Scott family arrive thank heaven for photo ID or we wouldn't have had any idea who they were. Grandad claims to have lost his rake & shovel. As if. Don't forget membership fees are now due & for most of us so are the ABA fees. More on that later. The AGM is on the Second of June.


Next Saturday 26th of May we will be holding an international round in the morning starting at 10:00am followed by lunch and the normal 3 arrow in the arvo. This is not compulsory but allows those that want to, to shoot more arrows.
And now the scores:- Coins Alastair 392, Grandad Cec 384, Scribe Neil, Martin McFly & Teabag 372, Cola Karen 368, Mad Max Stuart 358, Home Brew Garry 348, CupCake Gloria 332, Swr Brad 320,  Pea Wee Josh 314, old Yellow Peg Stewart 300, Finger Ray 280.
Club Member of the week Ray "Fingers" McManus