Eastergate Gun Club Charity Day 20th June

I think this was our fourth Charity Have-A-Go for the Eastergate Clay Pigeon Club. Another enjoyable day for those who of us who ran the Archery Butts - Emily and Richard Cobden, Ciaran and Declan Ross-Thomas, and Sam and Rod Brown. After supervising nearly seventy punters, we were allowed to try our skill with the guns. Evidently two of us hit more clays than any of the punters, and a third equalled the best. Declan had clearly done this before, but Ciaran who had never shot a gun before had an amazing succession of five consecutive hits on one stand.
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Eagle Bowmen Clout weekend in Penrith

The Arundown Hotel opened for business last weekend as the usual contingent of Clout archers took to the road and headed north. After a 6 hour drive to Penrith and another hour to put up the tent, Russell, Jon and Liz settled in along with a strong group of competitors ready for a good weekends shooting.



Saturday started the proceedings with a FITA tassel shoot, where Russ and Jon elected to shoot the compound distance of 185m. Jon came first with a new Sussex and Southern Counties Record of 272 with Russell a close second with 264. Liz shot the women's distance and came in first with a new Sussex record of 306.



With a fabulous sunny start to the day, we were hoping the rain that was forecast would not arrive, and apart from a few light spots we were very lucky on Sunday. Shooting a two way GNAS clout, Liz joined the men in the hope of getting two UK records and a white tassel. Unfortunately missing one record by 2 points, and the white tassel by 3, but collecting the UK record for 180yrds double two way with a score of 72, 18 points above the previous record. The men had competition from Peter Gregory who came out top of the field, with Jon in second place with 156 and Russ in third with 152.

New County Record at Ditchling!

Simon Beach, John Nolan and I attended the Ditchling Windsor this Sunday. A Windsor is a GNAS Imperial 9 dozen round, with 3 dozen being shot at 60, 50 and 40 yards with a top achievable score of 972.

With a very slight breeze and a cloudless sky, we were blessed with gorgeous weather for the day. This was the first Windsor Ditchling have held, but with the success of this year I am sure this will become a regular event.

Simon showed excellent improvement scoring 806, compared to his Western score of 626 at Newhaven. This was a big improvement of 5 points in the handicap rating for the rounds moving from 48 to 43. John was happy with his days shooting and ended on 662.

I shot my best round since I took up the sport 2 years ago and managed to take the gold in the gents recurve and smashed the County Open Record for the Windsor. I managed to hold it together and scored consistently high over all 3 distances. I closed the 60 yards on a round 300, at which point I knew a 900+ score was possible as long as I did not screw up (it’s been known). A number of 6 gold ends at 40 yards took my score well above 900 at the last distance.

Old Record: -
Open: Richard Cater scored 899, Club: High Weald, Date: 8th August 2007

Club: R Le Bouedec scored 900, Club: Eastbourne, Date 28th September 2001

New Record
Open: Richard Cobden 918, Club: Arundown, Date 15th June 2009

June Summer Selby League - 26th

As we cannot pack enough free weekends into the month of June, we have to shoot this month’s Selby on a Friday.

We will be setting up the field on Friday the 26th with sighters shortly after 7:00 PM. We need to get the field setup ASAP and get on with the shooting. We will have to shoot in ends of 6.

Make sure you have 50m and 30m sight marks this Friday.

You will be busy as you need 80, 60 & 50 yards also – read below……

Albion League Match 21st June (next Sunday)

We have a home match against Bayeux next Sunday. Presently we are talking to another club and this may become a 3-way. We need volunteers to set up the field and as many archers as possible willing to shot an Albion round (9 dozen arrows, with 3 dozen shot at 80, 60 & 50 yards). If you want to help speak to Rod Brown.

Make sure you sort your 80, 60 & 50 yard sight marks out! You will need to do this Friday night.

If you want to learn about the Albion League, read my post on it.

ARUNDOWN CLUB COLOURS

Here are the full details of the Arundown Club shirts which are now available to buy:

Sizes (chest size):
Small (38")
Medium (40")
Large (42")
X-Large (44")
2X-Large (46-48")

Price: £18.35

Email Liz with full details of your order including which side you would like the Arundown badge to appear on the front of the shirt, ie. left handed archers have badge on right, right handed archers have badge on left.

Southern Counties 2-way Clout 2009

Liz retained her Southern Counties Ladies Recurve Title in rather tricky weather conditions. Her first half was a new Sussex County Record, with a landmark score of 100; the very variable wind in second half gave everyone's scores a bad knock, and Liz was able to keep ahead of her biggest challenger, Barbara Williams. Russ took third place medal in the gents recurve class.