Working Bee, Meeting & IFAA 25/10/14

               We got a few jobs done on Saturday morning in preparation for our shoot on the 29th of November. Before the shoot we had a quick meeting to discuss arrangement for hosting the Branch E Christmas Shoot. Everything is in hand and we have our next club meeting on the 15/11/14 followed the next week with a working bee on 22/11/14. We only had a small field of starts to shoot 14 targets of IFAA field . Scores are out of 280 and at marked distances out to 80 yards shooting 56 arrows. Dan 2 has joined the longbow crew with a newly purchased longbow and spent the afternoon building character. The weather was pretty hot and it was a baptism of fire for those who hadn't shot a round of IFAA before.

Scores were

Steve            Freestyle Unlimited       109
Jayden          Bowhunter Unlimited    161
Dan              Longbow                          42
Vera             Bowhunter Unlimited     165
Stew             Freestyle Limited           106
Alex             Recurve Barebow             55
Kathy           Bowhunter Unlimited     218
Brett             Bowhunter Unlimited     245
Vince            Bowhunter Unlimited     162 

Next week we will be shooting ABA again and  a few members are travelling to Inverell for the Branch E Indoor titles.

ABA 3 Arrow 18/10/14

           A great day was had by all as we shot the Goanna Range in perfect conditions. Of the 18 archers we had 3 recurves and 2 long bows. Some impressive scores were shot with Stuart shooting a very respectable 232 with Dan's longbow. Dan managed to tie with Alex on 286, both with recurves. Dan has bought another bow. Bets are on to see what he turns up with next week.
          Gary gave everyone a lesson with an impressive 392 Freestyle Unlimited. Great shooting.
But...undoubtedly the happiest archer of the day was Kathy with a massive PB of 384 a huge effort. Apparently her husband shoots too and to her great excitement he only scored 382.

            Next weekend we are having a working bee Saturday morning from 9:00 for those that can make it to sort out the new container and do a little cleaning up before our branch shoot at 29th & 30th November. We will also have a short meeting to discuss details for that weekend. We will be shooting 14 Targets of IFAA in the afternoon.

Scores for 18/10/14

Gary    392 Freestyle Unlimited
Cec      360 Freestyle Unlimited
Steve   224 Freeestyle Unlimited
Stuart   232 Longbow
Calvin 162 Longbow
Dan     286 Recurve
Alex    286 Recurve
Donna 228 Recurve
Danial 338 Bowhunter Unlimited
Bruce  382 Bowhunter Unlimited
Vera    368 Bowhunter Unlimited
Brett    382 Bowhunter Unlimited
Jayden 336 Bowhunter Unlimited
Rob     358 Bowhunter Unlimited
Vince  326 Bowhunter Unlimited
Harry  180 Bowhunter Unlimited
Jarrah  278 Bowhunter Unlimited
Kathy  384 Bowhunter Unlimited

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.

Working Bee & ABA Shoot Saturday 30th

Last Saturday we had our monthly meeting. It was too wet again to shoot. We are hoping it will clear up this weekend as we will be having a working bee on Saturday from 9:00. We will still be shooting in the afternoon as long as it stops raining.

Club Meeting and BBQ on 23rd August

            Well ... not much to report from last week due to the wet miserable weather. Those who turned up did not go far from the fire and shot a few indoor arrows. Except for a 3 crazy souls who ventured out but it too wet to score. They must have been long bowers.
           Next Saturday 23rd August we will be having a club meeting after the regular shoot at around 4:30. All members are encouraged to attend and have a say. There will also be a BBQ and salad available after the meeting for anyone interested. A good chance to socialise after the meeting.