Osprey Triple 2012

Another awesome day shooting target, field and clout! Forgot my quiver and all that usually comes with it (tab, arrow puller, pens, tassel, knife, pouch…) but luckily Michelle and Mark came to the rescue! My flatmate Nikki was Lady P and both Craig and Gav got to show off their new ’3D Appreciation Society’ T-Shirts [...]

Fancy Dress Archery Charity Shoot

This weekend I took part in a fancy dress shoot hosted by RN Southcoast Archery Club. Not quite sure what the charity was but there were plenty of people there and so hopefully a lot of money was raised. The round was a Stafford – 72 arrows at 30m indoors. First time of attempting it [...]

Yay!!! Red Tassel for clout archery ahoy!

It seems I’ve leapt over another colour award and gone straight to red! Background: I’m a rubbish clout archer and decided I wanted to get better. In clout archery you are awarded tassels for achieving a certain score. I had a black tassel from my first clout (ooo 2-3 years ago?) and from a practice [...]

Clout Archery – 2012 will be better!

So some of you may have read my previous posts about my lame attempts of clout archery. It was slowly getting better then field archery took over massively during 2011 and I didn’t get round to doing any clout comps at all. Anyway – I had my first practice in years on the 2nd of [...]

My 2011 Archery year!

2011 marked my third full year of archery and competitions ranging from target and clout, to wand and field! I will try to chronicle my favourite bits of the year with as many pictures as possible! January: Westcott Indoors Always a fab shoot and always a pleasure! Great way to start the new archery season [...]

New Longbow

I’ve ordered another bow to add to my growing arsenal of projectile weapons! So far I have: Bowtech Equalizer compound, Hoyt Nexus recurve with G3 limbs KAP Winstar riser with challenger limbs An Andy Soars AFB My self-made stick bow Next year I plan to do Dunster week which includes a Western round just for [...]

British Barebow Champs 2011

This weekend will be my second go at the BBCs (http://www.archerygb.org/members/tournaments/entryforms/barebow_championships.php) I had an awful shoot last year and didn’t even make it to 400! My handicap suggests that I should be shooting around 420. Never-the-less I managed to come 19th in Britain and 49th in the World but I really hope to do better! [...]

Belvedere Summer Shoot – 2011

The weekend just gone saw my only visit to Belvedere this year (their other shoots have clashed with many dancing events). I was also asked if I could shoot my Primitive bow and be part of an instinctive team for the John Lincoln Instinctive Team Memorial trophy. How could I say no? I would be [...]

South West Challenge 2011

This was one of the highlights of the year last year, so I was very excited about this one too! The wonderful Penrose families ( Ken & Kay, Mike & Helen) kindly invited us to join them on their travels around the various campsites and evening get-togethers which made it even more fun. In fact, [...]

Which bow should I shoot at the NFAS Nationals?

Votes please! Can’t decide? I’ve lost my Barebow form, and always have so much fun shooting primitive (although I don’t shoot it that well) Plus I never really gave AFB a chance either? Hmmm just wondered what you guys think… Sam x