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

Free style archers led the way for the Macleay Valley Archers monthly IFAA shoot on Staturday the 29th of October. Alistair Smedley and Dave McManus both shot top notch scores and were closely followed by Karen Smedley, showing how competitive ladies can be, coming third overall on the day.
Scores for the day:
Alistair Smedley 256, Dave McManus, 252, Karen Smedley 237, Ces Apps 222, Glenn Freeman 216, Garry Ward 209, Brett Hodgman 204, Cooper Gray 204 Matt Gray 200, Ray Mcmanus 184 , Stew Benington 53.
Father and son team Mark and Finn finished on 70 and 97 respectively and the Brenton family, Tracey, Peter, Pat and Tim all shot in the 60s.
It has been fantastic to see lots of new faces around the club over the last couple of weeks and it would be a pleasure to see even more people giving this great outdoor pastime a try. The club has two qualified coaches and equipment available for new archers to try out. For more information contact Ces Apps on 65627047.

A big thanks to Garry for doing my job. Hopefully things will return to normal very soon.

cheers Teabag

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.