3 Arrow ABA on Goanna Range 20/09/14

 

A small group of keen archers turned out for the regular Saturday afternoon 3arrow ABA. Welcome to Stuart who shot a great score for his 2nd time out. The 2 old boys made it up the hill and rolled back to the clubhouse leaving everyone to finish without them. Great to see Mike with a bow in his hand again. Yes he does actually shoot. New member Ben spent the day on the practice butts after a little "bow reconstruction".


Scores were.........

Great Weekend At Manning District Bowhunters Branch E ABA Shoot.13th & 14th September

Last weekend 11 Macleay Valley Archers travelled to Taree for their Branch E ABA Shoot.They had  a total of 87 shooters turn up for the weekend. Every body seemed to shoot a little hot & cold as we shot all 3 of their ABA ranges over 2 days. Taree put on their usual friendly hospitality along with great facilities to make for a enjoyable weekend. Standout for the weekend was Kathy with an excellent 756 2 arrow round on Sunday about 100 points over her personal best. Scores were,

Junior Boys Bowhunter UnLimited C
1st place Jayden Moore 308   230   594   1132

Veteran Ladies Sighted
1st placeGloria Potter  350 318 658 1326

Veteran Mens Sighted
2nd place Cecil Apps  370 366 678 1414

Ladies Bowhunter UnLimited C
2nd place Kathryn Hodgman  336 338 756 1430

Ladies Bowhunter UnLimited B
Vera Nichols Macleay 342 370 DNS 712 (only shot Saturday)

Mens Bowhunter UnLimited B
4th place Garry Ward Macleay 384 350  734 1494

Mens Bowhunter UnLimited A
2nd Place Brett Hodgman Macleay 378 380  758 1516

Mens Freestyle Limited Compound A
2nd place Glenn Freeman Macleay 328 234  562 1164

Mens Freestyle UnLimited B
2nd place Daniel McKibbin Macleay 388 370 772 0 758 1530
Gary Nichols Macleay 374 378 DNS 752 (only shot Saturday)

    




 


 






   

Visit From Bellingen Archers

        We had the pleasure of hosting a visit from Bellingen Archers on the weekend. Bellingen is a target based club and they took the opportunity to try out some IFAA and ABA field archery. Everyone appeared to have a great day with a lot of fun had by all. It was a social shoot with the emphasis on trying out the new format and having the chance to mix with other archers.
        On Saturday morning we shot an International Round on the IFAA range. That involves 10 targets with 3 arrows per target out of 150 total. Scores were quite good with many positive comments about our new IFAA range.

Score for the morning were

    MVA                                 Bello'
Bruce     138                Grahame        84
Brett       115                 Mark          100
Dan         137                Riley          111
Al           126                Darren        120
Garry      119                Karl              30
                                      Mell           108
                                     Fernando      18

     After a lovely lunch of steak sandwich we had the choice of shooting a round of ABA (out of 400) on the Goanna Range or a full 14 target round of IFAA Field, (out of 280), on the Yowie range.
Our visitors seemed to love the challenge of field archery and went away at the end of the day discussing what they could do at their club to provide a field range.

Scores for the afternoon were,

     ABA

      MVA                   Bello'
Cec          368          Mark       284
Jarrah       196         Darren     334
Chris        346         Grahame  318
Tim         DNF        Riley        322
Harry       164          Karl         168
Gloria       290

        14 Target IFAA Field

Bruce    254
Al          261
Glen      202
Garry    249
Brett     228
Kathy   192
DAN    248


      Next week we have 11 Archer travelling to the Manning for a Branch E ABA shoot. So there will only be limited numbers at the club next weekend, so any beginners may wish to put it off to the following weekend.