BA Postal League Dec 2008 ~ January 2009 Official Results

1 Arundown AC 3, 6, 0, 0, 8187, 62
2 Supermarine Bowmen 3, 6, 0, 0, 8055, 63
3 Cantebury Archers 3, 6, 0, 0, 7920, 64
4 Shrewsbury Bowmen A 3, 0, 0, 2, 7613, 25
5 Perriswood Bowmen 3, 0, 0, 2 7378, 2

We should get the results in from the other teams for the end of season very soon. We look to be in very good position above Supermarine. Fingers crossed!

In March we were up against Perriswood Bowmen, whose results were as follows:-

Richard Harding, 60 hits, 502 scored, 8 golds
Nigel Davies 60 hits, 486 scored, 10 golds
Kit Mitchell 60 hits, 443 scored, 4 golds
Joram Los 60 hits, 432 scored, 4 golds (JB)
Lucy Kirby 60 hits, 415 scored, 5 golds (JG)

Totals 300 hits, 2278 scored, 31 golds.

Supermarine won the match against Perriswood in January.

Our scores for March >>> TOTALS 299 hits - 139 golds - 2789 scored. Average Score 557.8

2009 Indoor SCAS & SCAA Arundown AC Championship Results

Firstly, a big thanks to Chris Tucknott for organising the whole event and to the judges Mark Davis, Roger McMullan, Richard Hillier and Phil Bussingham for their services throughout the day. Also a thank you to all the other individuals working behind the scenes to make this such a successful day.

The full results are avialble for download, but I have summarised Arundown's performance here:-

SCAS Individual (Portsmouth - 60cm face @ 20 yards)
4th - Elizabeth Bowyer (ladies Recurve) 60 hits, 24 golds, score 550
4th - William Martin (Junior Gents Recurve) 60 hits, 19 golds, score 550
15th - Russell French (Gents Recurve) 60 hits, 25 golds, score 546

Sussex Team (FITA 18 - 40cm face @18 meters)
7th place - Arundown AC A 240 hits, 47 golds, score 2005
22nd place - Arundown AC B 229 hits, 11 golds, score 1635

Sussex Individual (FITA 18 - 40cm face @18 meters)
1st place - William Martin (Junior Gents Recurve) 60 hits, 11 golds, score 526
6th place - Richard Cobden (Gents Recurve) 60 hits 16 golds, score 526
13th place - Simon Beach (Gents Recurve) 60 hits, 7 golds, score 475
19th place - Richard Gargon (Gents Recurve) 60 hits, 3 golds, score 461
24th place - John Nolan (Gents Recurve) 59 hits, 3 golds, score 408

Ranks are within category and Sussex ranking is excluding visitors

Next year we should do even better, as our newer archers get more experience and their scores start to climb.

Don't forget to read the post below about the summer season!

What's happening at Arundown AC during the Outdoor Season

I was asked what shoots the club will be attending this summer season and how it all works. During the summer the club will have scheduled shoots within the Sussex Albion League and we are also entering 4 teams in the Selby Summer Postal League. You do not have to enter these as we will ask you when the time comes if you are able to shoot.

Albion League
http://www.sussex-archery.org.uk/tag/albion-league/
We will shoot against a number of other Sussex clubs, shooting an Albion Round. We will host at least one shoot at Arundown and the others will be away. On the day we are hosting, it's an early start and we all muck-in and help set the field up. Rod Brown is sorting this out.

Round
Albion - 36 arrows @ 80yds, 36 arrows @ 60 yds and 36 arrows @ 50 yds with 122cm target face.


Selby Summer Postal League
This is a postal shoot, so we will be competing against other clubs within a league. Each month we will be shooting against other clubs within a league. A recurve team consists of 3 archers and a longbow team is made up of 2. This year we will be entering 3 recurve teams (Arundown A, B & C) and a single longbow team. Each month we will all shoot and the top 3 scores will make up team A, the next 3 team B and so on.

Rounds
Recurve - Short Metric (36 arrows @ 50 meters, 36 arrows @ 30 meters) 80cm target face
Longbow - National (48 arrows @ 60 yds, 24 arrows @ 50 yards) 122cm target face

Clout Events
As you may know Liz, Russ, Jon, Rod and Graham are our club clout specialists. Last year Liz, Jon and Russ won the National Clout Team Championships. Those of you interested in clout should talk to Rod. Clout archers will be attending a number of clout events during the summer season. Due to the lack of popularity with clout in the Southern Counties, a number of the shoots are held north of the country.

Local Club & County Target Shoots
We do not have any formal organisation of shoots. If you are interested in attending a particular event, talk to others at the club and find out who else will be interested in attending. Usually a small group will attend and organise a car share. Soon you will get to know who attends what type of events.

I have listed local shoots below. The list is not exhaustive and dates may clash with other events in which case you need to make a choice. For a more comprehensive list look at the Mayflower Archers tournament diary http://www.mayflowerarchers.co.uk/ The Sussex Outdoor is in August this year, with a FITA 18 being held earlier on. Keep an eye on the Sussex Archery Site as an annoucement will appear soon.

I would strongly suggest that junior archers attend Doreen's County Junior Shoot on July 18th in Ditchling. This is a yearly gem in the junior shooting calendar and I cannot talk highly enough about it.

Clubs hosting shoots / travel
Mole Valley Bowmen, KT23 4DW, Bookham 43 miles 1hr 10mins
AC Delco, Eastleigh, 1hr 15mins
Fox Archers, Otford Kent 1hr 20mins
Spelthorne Archers, Sunbury-On-Thames, 63miles 1hr 37mins
Guildford Archery Club, Normandy, Guildford, 38miles 1hr 25mins
Newhaven Archery Club, Firle, West Lewes, 30 miles 51minutes

Local shoot diary

April
April 12th - AC Delco Bowmen, Easter Fita.. ALL Prizes are Easter Eggs.
Club shoot
Contact: Chris Hatt - acdelcobowmen.hants.org.uk
http://acdelcobowmen.hants.org.uk/forms/2009_acdelco_easter_fita_entry_form.pdf

April 19th - Hastings & St.Leonards, Soup Shoot.
Club Shoot
American Round.
Contact: Kevin Doswell
See blog older blog post

May
May 10th - Newhaven A.C.
Club Shoot
Annual Western Shoot
Contact: Mrs.N.Chadwick
http://uk.geocities.com/newhaven_archery/AnnuaL_Western_Tournament_2009.pdf

May 17th - Mole Valley
Club Shoot
Wand
http://www.molevalleybowmen.org/Wand2009EntryForm.pdf

May 24th AC Delco Bowmen
Club Shoot
Hereford/Bristols Eastleigh Hampshire
http://acdelcobowmen.hants.org.uk/forms/2009_acdelco_trinity_hereford_entry_form.pdf

May 31st - Fox Archers, 2nd Fox Shoot.
Club Shoot
St.George,Albion & Windsor
Contact: Lynn Archer - lynnarcher54@googlemail.com
http://www.freewebs.com/foxarchers/Fox%20Entry%20Form.doc

June
June 7th Crawley Archery Club
Club Shoot
Western Handicap Shoot
http://www.crawleyarcheryclub.co.uk/

June 7th - Spelthorne Archers
UK Record Status & Rose Award
York, Hereford & Bristols
Contact: Bob Robinson - tisrob@btinternet.com
http://www.ukarchery.org/Spelthorne%20Archers%2024th%20Open%20YHB.pdf

June 10th Guildford Archery Club
St George/Albion/Windsor
Club Shoot
http://www.guildfordarcheryclub.co.uk/Entry%20Forms/PDF%

20th Guildford Archery Club
Club Shoot
Westerns
http://www.ukarchery.org/Spelthorne%20Archers%2024th%20Open%20YHB.pdf

June 28th - Mole Valley Bowmen, Sheila Brown Mem.Shoot.
UK Record Status & Rose Award.
York, Hereford & Bristol
Contact: Paul Grinham - mail@molevalleybowmen.org
http://www.molevalleybowmen.org/SB2009entryform.pdf

July
July 18th - Ditchling Archery Club, 39th Junior Shoot .. All Rounds for U18 Juniors
Contact: Doreen Cannon

Fareham UK Record Status FITA 25

Three archers from Arundown attended the record status shoot today in Fareham. Shooting a 60cm 3-spot at 25m can be a daunting task for a recurve archer, as a miss is too easily achieved. Being a FITA shoot, each archer had 2 minutes to shoot their 3 arrows. I personally found the time limit very tough and often found myself alone on the line.

Many thanks to Linda, fellow RN South Coast Archers and judges for providing another well organised and friendly shoot.

Congratulations to William Martin who took a silver medal, coming second behind the Junior Boy 2008 SCAS Indoor Champion.

Scores on the day: -
William Martin 528, 60 hits
Richard Cobden 532, 58 hits
John Nolan 355

GNAS Rule 307 Dress Regulations

The infamous Rule 307 basically outlines an acceptable dress code which should be worn at tournaments.

If you speak to archers who have been in the sport for many years they will tell a familiar tale of a lapsing adherence to the dress codes. I have recently attended a record status shoot where some archers turned up wearing camouflage trousers or denim jeans. The judge did take the offenders names and said they would be removed from the line if the wore non-conforming clothing at any future event.

These cases are most likely a blatant disregarding of the rules and not a simple case of misunderstanding them. Much time and effort is put into setting up a tournament and most are run at little or no profit, so the least an archer can do is turn up in appropriate clothing.

My personal concern with this rule relates to an acceptable green (dark green to be precise). At the event I mention I did wear green trousers, although they were light and not dark green. Technically I felt I could have been as guilty as those wearing blatantly incorrectly coloured clothing, so I felt it necessary to clarify an acceptable green.

I contacted GNAS and after some discussion, the person responding agreed that Olive Green would be an acceptable green in their eyes. However, GNAS don't believe it is necessary to go into further details. Ultimately, what is acceptable is down to the judge attending on the day. So, as far as green is concerned any green which is not Khaki and a form of dark green (including Olive Green) should be acceptable. However, I have now purchased whites (that's real white - white and not cream - white) so I don't have the dilemma of an acceptable green playing on my mind at the shooting line.

So, if you attend a tournament please wear appropriately coloured clothing!

BA League Update

OUR SCORES FOR MARCH
TOTALS 299 hits - 139 golds - 2789 scored. Average Score 557.8
YES, that's FIVE HUNDRED AND BLOOMIN FIFTY SEVEN point EIGHT points each
Individual Scores:
Rod Brown 566 - Will Martin 563 - Russ French 559 - Richard Cobden 557 - Hamish Mattheson 544.
If Hamish had noticed one of his arrows had a broken nock before he shot it (it missed) he would probably have scored 553 - and put the average within a whisker of 560. Liz Bowyer (540) and Simon Beach (534) also shot scores that would have got them into the team any other month.

Hastings & St Lenards Bowmen - Sedlescombe Soup Shoot 19th

The soup shoot at Sedlescombe is an established fixture in the Sussex archery calendar. This year’s competition will take place on Sunday 19th April at the Sports Field in Sedlescombe.
Shooting an American round is a nice way to start the outdoor season and there is always a good turnout for this event. Entry forms can be obtained by contacting Kevin Doswell on 07976 306059.

American Round = 2.5 dozen arrows at 60, 50 and 40 yards (90 arrows in total)

Myself and John Nolan are attending and likely sharing a car with a Worthing Archer. If anyone is interested, they will need to enter themselves and talk to other club members about a car share. This is not a record status shoot, so it is slightly less formal and being a soup shoot, there is hot soup being served to keep archers warm.

A good end to the BA Postal Season

This mornings shoot concluded the BA Postal Portsmouth 2008/2009 winter season competing in Division 19. Some very strong shooting brought the highest score yet achieved in a BA Postal shoot this season by us. We have not yet received this months opponents score,but if we have won this month us winning the league depends on how Supermarine has fared in January, February and March. We will stand a very good chance of racking up the highest total, but the league order is based on wins. As and when the result come in myself or Rod will post them up.

I tried to look at opponents web sites, but they are not as active as ours so we are going to have to wait.

Thank you to all those who have shot and contributed to the scores over the months. Also, a big congratulations again to William Martin for achieving a new County Junior Club Record of 580 during a postal match.

Some 2008/2009 scores I have to hand to chew over are below: -

November 2008
Arundown 2711
Scorton Archers 2643

Supermarine Bowmen 2663
Shrewsbury 2618

Cantebury Archers 2622
Perris Bowmen 2448

December 2008
Supermarine Bowmen 2760
Arundown 2741

Cantebury Archers 2636
Shewsbury 2576

January 2009
Arundown 2740
Shrewsbury 2554

Cantebury Archers 2662
Scorton Archers 2420

February 2009
Arundown 2730
Canterbury Archers 2667

Canterbury Archers Postal Results

The results for Canterbury Archers, our opponents in February are as follows: -

Gary Pritchard = 60 hits, 19 golds, 545 scored
Glyn Levis = 60 hits, 22 golds, 537 scored
Chris Clark = 60 hits, 22 golds, 531 scored
Mark Byles = 60 hits, 17 golds, 530 scored
Judy Hutchings 60 hots, 16 golds, 518 scored

Total 300 hits, 96 golds, 2667 scored

Arundown's Results

Will Martin - 60 . 566 . 30
Russ French - 60 . 551 . 31
Rod Brown - 60 . 546 . 18
Liz Bowyer - 60 . 534 . 21
Jon Stafford - 60 . 533 . 18

TEAM TOTAL - 300 hits - 2730 scored - 118 golds