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

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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