31st Sheila Brown Memorial Shoot

Myself and Russell attended the shoot last Sunday. You should never complain that the weather is too hot in this country, so I won’t.

We were shooting a York round, which kicks off with a morning shooting of 6 dozen at 100 yards. The scopes became difficult to focus as the day went on and the heat haze blurred the vision. After a 40minute lunch we shot 4 dozen at 80 yards and then the 2 dozen at 60 without a break.

The Sheila Brown is a longstanding and popular event and attracts many top class archers.

I also learnt a top tip - If you don’t want to get lumbered with the scoring as soon as the whistle blows on the first end speed walk to the target on the pretense that you are keen to check your arrows. The last archer on the line has no choice but to grab the score card and in doing so becomes the scorer.

Mole valley hosted a well run shoot and Mark Davis presided as the Judge. I have shot at a few of Marks’s tournaments and personally think he’s one of the best out there!


A total of 32 archers shot in the Gents Recurve and the scores on the day were:

Russell came 20th, scored 754, with 132 hits and 28 golds achieving a good 1st class score

Richard came 11th, scoring 915, with 142 hits and 41 golds achieving a Bowman score and taking a Black Rose.