Golden Globe Award

After just six sessions at an Archery Club, Declan blew everyone away by nailing the Bauble to the wand - in the first end!
(see the Xmas Wand Shoot report further down)
HERE's the nearest we got to a Group Christmas Photo...

BA Postal League DEC v Supermarine

December saw another postal shoot against Supermarine this time. This month we lost out by only 19 points. If Will's persists on scoring less that 580, I vote we kick him out if the team for not trying hard enough ;-)

Archer Hits / Score / Golds
Simon Bulley 60 / 562 / 26
Michael Vitties 60 / 556 / 24
James Robb 60 / 554 / 20
Graham Hobbs 60 / 551 / 22
John Prior 60 / 537 / 15

Total 300 / 2760 / 107


Arundown Team Total Score 2741
Russ 571
Will 567
Rod 539
Hamish 533
Graham 531

Festive wand shoot

Our archers braved the cold on Sunday for a Christmas wand shoot with extras. Baubles adorned each wand and the race was on to hit it first. It wasn't a long race though, with Declan getting a direct hit in the first end! Russ and Simon also hit the baubles. The overall winner was Russ with a score of 25 followed by Will with 16 and Emily and Liz tied on 12. A festive drink and christmas cake followed before retreating back into the warm again!!

Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year. See you all in 2009!!!

BA Postal League - December

I was wrong last month about only getting another twenty points before our aggregate score would take a knock because it exceeded the 'threshold' - I'd used the Compound League allowance of 80 points over the Division Score, recurve teams get a 200 point allowance (in both cases it's 40 points per team member, but only two in a compound team). So... even though we got 30 more points this month than we did in November, our total score stands, and in fact we all have to average 570 before the score gets reduced - so no need to hold back!
Team Total Score 2741
made up of:
Russ 571
Will 567
Rod 539
Hamish 533
Graham 531
We did win our November match against Scorton Archers - Their scores were...

Archer Hits - Score - Golds

Mark Farrow 60 - 565 - 33

Steve Cook 60 - 536 - 18

Louise Farrow 60 - 533 - 16

Paul Scudamore 60 - 517 - 17

Mike Fielding 60 - 492 - 11

Totals 300 - 2643 - 95