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 [...]

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

Ouch – no fun being sore :(

For the first time ever I had to stop and retire from a competition. It was the worst feeling in the world. I had accepted the fact that I’d have to shoot a bow not designed for target archery (as I couldn’t pull my recurve),  but I didn’t want to ever not finish. This weekend [...]

Reasons to be cheerful

Whoop whoop! So many reasons to be cheerful! My first NFAS outdoor shoot in 2011 starts this weekend at Druids …and Liz is coming! I have managed to score over 500 points for a Portsmouth round shooting barebow I have joined EFAA and will be looking forwards to the new adventures it will bring Scottish [...]

Westcott Indoor Archery 2011

I’ve had a long weekend of archery related thingys! Prior to this I had just set a new PB for an indoor Portsmouth round (493 barebow), so despite not being an indoor archer, I’m still doing ok One day I’ll hit that magical 500… Anyway, on Saturday I took part in Westcott’s Indoor 3D shoot [...]

NFAS Nationals 2010

This was my second time competing at the NFAS Nationals, this time with a different bow on a separate course. We were pitched near our buddies Pete and Jo, with the addition of Craig from XX Archers and Leigh & Celeste Batten (so we knew we’d have fun!). Later that evening (after a few drinkie [...]

South Hams 2010

So this weekend I had an awful cold – very snivelly and felt rubbish. The lovely Wendy and Paul from South Hams FAC had convinced me to go to their shoot near Plymouth for their club’s first ever official shoot. I got up at 5am, drove to Mike List’s house to car-share with him and [...]

Toad Hollow Weekend Shoot 2010

I don’t want to write lots about this weekend as I have made a short film to capture some of the high lights!) In short – I shot rubbish, but had one of the best experiences ever! Amazing course, amazing company, amazing food! I took loads of pictures too! I had a play with work’s [...]

My little friend!

Thought this was cute – had to share it! Woke the little guy up when practicing with my flatbow!

Belvedere Bowmen – August 2010

Hadn’t picked up my Flatbow since the Fleet shoot the previous week as I had been playing about with the compound that has been loaned to me by the lovely Trish Jones. I’d spent Saturday morning shooting it around our woods with no sights or stabilizers – I only knew what my rough 20yrd and [...]