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