2011 Christmas Shoot & Party

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What a great day it was Grandad didn't have the best shoot & I chose not to shoot so I can go to the break basking in the glory of having finished ahead of Grandad on our last encounter. Rather clever that.

Thanks to everybody who made the day a success. Congratulations To Alastair, Gloria & Martin on taking home the shooter of the year awards. Dave (Feathers) McManus was awarded the club member of the year award. Not an easy award to win as the results are in somebody Else's hands. Cec came a well deserved second. Katy won the highest leech award as well as making a very desirable cup cake display. Stewart & Kath brought a fruit platter and I brought my appetite. Garry finished the year on a high scoring 770 for the day.

Scores were:-
Home Brew Garry 770PB, Coins Alastair 760, Dion 752, Don't mention me Steve 748, Cola Karen 740, DJ Gene 728, Martin McFly 704, Grandad Cec 654, Brad 642, Figers Ray 632, Sam 630, Cup Cake Gloria 596, Feathers Dave 548, Corey 524 PB, Liam 278, Bruce 214 PB.

To all our members and those that tune in, we wish you and your families a very happy Christmas & a super 2012. Keep checking over the Christmas period as I will post things as I get them. Take care

Teabag

Flooded again

Just thought I would share with you. This is the third time in three weeks, but by far the worst since June. These photos' are our drive way on to the property.

Just received this from another happy camper

Hi Teabag.
Annette and I would like to thank you all for your hospitality over the week end Christmas shoot.
We were the ones who were so keen to come we arrived on the Wednesday before the shoot.
We both had a great time Annette had her first ever shoot and would like to thank the club for the lend of one of its bows
she had had only three lessons with Peter and did not have a bow of her own (that is now corrected).
Once again thanks for everything we had a great time and will be back.
By the way if you find the results would you send me a copy thanks.
Kind regards.
Bryan & Annette Trethewey.
Moonterra Archers

thank you

Just thought I would pass on this info. 4 of our visitors from the weekend have said how much they enjoyed the shoot, ranges & general atmosphere. I will try & bring the emails with me at the weekend, I say try because we just may be flooded again.

Don't forget this is our Cristmas party so should be a good time.

cheers Teabag

Branch Christmas shoot 3rd & 4th Dec 2011

Lets start with the negatives. Firstly I have lost the results so I can't give you the scores & only some Placings.

Pathetic, lousy, discouraging, apathetic, disgusting, disappointing, soul destroying are some ways to describe the turn up from our sister clubs. 34 starters 16 from Macleay, 4 from Manning, nil from Namoi ( Flooding ), 2 from Avon Plus Peter & Lynne who didn't shoot, 6 from Hunter, Nil from SAS, 4 from Moontera, nil from Boolaroo, 2 from Tuggerah a club with only about 6 members. Now for the good bits:- fantastic, awesome, incredible, super, unbelievable, magnificent & supercalafragalistic don't even come close to describing the weekend. Toilets flushing tick, food wow, Ranges tick, socialising tick, decorations tick, raffle prizes tick, weather tick tick tick, scores tick. I am now in my mid sixties and have played sport competitively since about the age of 12 as a result I have been in many clubs both as a member and as a committee member indeed I am a life member of 2 clubs, the only reason I mention all this is I just wonder if the general membership realises how special the Macleay club is. Everybody likes to see a club member do well even if they themselves haven't set the world on fire. The junior members are nice people to be with and are happy to help when asked. There is no backbiting or behind the scenes assassination attempts, everybody contributes as best they can. One family left whilst several of us were sitting around, somebody said "what a lovely family" and every body agreed. That seems to be the general feeling we all share for each other. Now lets talk about the canteen Narelle, Karen, Neil, Gloria & Cathie take a bow what a fantastic job you did, all with a smile and production like efficiency, it was good to bask in the good feelings your efforts created. Please notice I haven't mentioned Karen & Neil's rather horny Saturday night. Neil was a little limp in the horns from very early in the evening. The courses were great, even if I could have used a map to get around, just shows you can't stay away for to long. On a sad note I got thrashed by a young lady who couldn't remember to take her bow with her when she entered the range. It was funny watching her jog back to the muster point shouting " Don't shoot, Don't shoot". The same young lady and her Hubby camped so far away they nearly got hit by the north bound interstate train and called a taxi to get to the club house. Garry got the better of Steve in their on going tussel, Cup cake shot the best scores she has ever put in on an ABA weekend. Sunday's round was fun although it probably made it a little hard to catch those that may have been ahead. Finally in an incredible display of fire power Teabag finally got the better of Grandad. The axe and knife went longer than the 3arrow round, the new area allowed us all to watch and those competing could still feel like they were part of the group. The Collambatti Cane Toad shoot went really well and looks like becoming a regular fixture. All in all a great weekend. Thanks Darrin and co for the flushing toilets. Sorry to anybody I have missed it isn't intentional.

Cheers Teabag

A picture is worth a 1000 words

To Darrin, Cec, Ray & Dave plus anybody else that had anything to do with the above "THANK YOU"

ABA Shoot 12th Nov

A mixture of 22 experienced and new archers made it around the anthill range without getting too wet on a threatening afternoon at Tamban for the Macleay Valley Archers weekly shoot last Saturday afternoon.
Steve Harris shot a tremendous 388 to tie Alistair Smedley for his first overall win at the club. This was a personal best for Steve and reflects his ability, which has really started to show through over the last twelve months and a triumph by some eight points over Dave McManus with whom Steve has developed a friendly rivalry. It was great to have a few of our younger adult shooters such as Tim Hodgman, Jacob Fuit and Dion Ussher come out for a stroll around the range and we even had a visitor (Matt Hodgman) from the Namoi Valley (Gunnedah) club.
Scores for the day:
Steve Harris 388 PB, Alistair Smedley 388, Dave McManus380, Glenn Freeman 378, Ces Apps 376, Karen Smedley 374, Garry Ward 372, Sam Harwood 356, Josh Scott 350, Ray McManus 318, Gloria Potter 316, Peter Scott 308, Beau 292, Peter Brenton 292, Mark Muphy 228, Finn Murphy 204, Stew Benington 196, Brad 186.
A big thanks must go to club stalwarts Brett Hodgman and Darrin Symonds, who both gave up a chance to shoot so they could start preparing the club grounds for the Northern NSW branch Xmas shoot to be held on December 3rd and 4thwhich will see archers from all over the northern region gather on the Macleay for the last branch shoot of the year.
Ces apps and Glenn Freeman also should be congratulated for coming 1st and 3rd respectively in their divisions at the recent branch 3D titles held in Singleton.
There are still a few club shoots left for the year so anybody interested in giving field archery a go is more than welcome to join in the fun and should contact Ces Apps 65627047.

Thanks Garry for keeping me up todate. I think I will just stay away permenantly. Don't mention me Steve, Bp Glenn, Cola Karen & Grandad are all becoming just to hard to beat. All thats improving for me is my tea making ability. Really brings a tear to the eye. Well done everybody.

Cheers Teabag