South Wiltshire 150th Anniversary Sarum Clout

Another beautiful day at a beautiful location below Salisbury Cathedral, but for the second year running the mysterious turbulence of the air in the Watermeadows played havoc with expectations. As in 2008, what seemed to be perfect conditions did all kinds of weird things to arrows in the air.

A weird shoot in other ways too, we had to shoot a second set of sighters when it was discovered that the distances had been measured in metres rather than yards, and everybody's arrows dropped about sixteen yards short on the first attempt.

If this wasn't distracting enough, at about that time a Charolais  Bull decided to take up station almost within touching distance of the shooting line, behind a single strand of barbed wire .

 Liz won the Lady's Recurve class with a season's best score of 200, Rod was second in the Gent's recurve with 153 and Jon was third with 138. This was the first time the Arundown registered Club Colours have been worn at a National Record Status shoot, and made it onto the classy corrug- ated iron podium.

Liz 200
Rod 153
Jon 138
Russ 117
Graham
(L/bow) 42

Summer Selby September Results

Thanks to those archers who have shot for Arundown in the Summer Selby League this Season. I have added the league scores which include August results. Although the A & B Teams were hit by big score adjustments, it looks like the A Team could win league 9. If we are lucky enough to win a league, I will award medals to the archers which contributed the highest scores to that team throughout the season.

Team A
Name, Score, Hits, 10’s, X’s
Richard Cobden 615, 72, 12, 4
Jon Stafford 602, 72, 13, 6
William Martin 574, 72, 12, 5
Total 1791, 216, 37, 15 - Adjusted Score 1499 (Ouch!)
Opponents: Barnsley A, Score ??

Team B
Graham Brown 534, 71, 10, 0
Russell French 490, 68, 5, 1
Rod Brown 480, 68, 8, 1
Total 1504, 207, 23, 2 - Adjusted Score 1386
Opponents: Club AZ, Score 1323

Team C
John Nolan 459, 70, 5, 1
Liz Bowyer 451, 71, 3, 2
Heath Saxby 226, 43, 1, 1
Total 1136, 184, 9, 4 – No Adjustment
Opponents: Eastbourne B, Score ??


Team A Season Contributors
Name, Total Score For A, Selby Rounds Shot / Months Selected For A
Jon Stafford 2788, 5 / 5
Richard Cobden 2318, 4 / 4
William Martin 1166, 2 / 2
Russell French 1060, 5 / 2
Rod Brown 1049, 4 / 2

The Scores So Far (inc. August Results)

DIVISION 9
ARUNDOWN A 4, 4, 0, 6430, 12
SURREY B 4, 3, 1, 6397, 10
WINNINGTON PARK A 4, 2, 2, 5948, 8
PURITON GOLD B 4, 2, 2, 3088, 8
BARNSLEY A 3, 1, 3, 4679, 5
LALEHAM A 4, 0, 4, 3510, 4

DIVISION 14
SPROWSTON 4, 3, 1, 5660, 10
DEBEN 4, 3, 1, 5510, 10
CLUB AZ 4, 3, 1, 5484, 10
HIGH WEALD B 4, 2, 2, 5587, 8
ARUNDOWN B 4, 1, 3, 5543, 6
PERRISWOOD 4, 0, 4, 3457, 4

DIVISION 18
ARCHERS OF RAUNDS A 4, 3, 1, 4559, 10
GRAVESEND C 4, 3, 1, 4008, 10
ARUNDOWN C 4, 3, 1, 3436, 10
EASTBOURNE B 4, 2, 2, 4388, 8
QUANTUM B 4, 1, 3, 2926, 6
BYE 0 0 4 0 0

Another County Record for Jon

Jon's been trying all summer to beat the Single One-Way Clout County Record for rounds shot 'at home' - it stands at 103 (although the Arundown record is 105, but wasn't registered as a County record).
Today he EQUALLED it, but then improved his second round score to 117, and shoved the County Double Round 'Club' Record up to 220.

ARUNDOWN CLUB COLOURS **NEWSFLASH**

We have received confirmation that the club colours are now registered and will appear in the new Shooting Colours Register for 2009/10. This means that our members can now wear our colours at record status events from 1st October 2009.

If you still don't have your shirt and would like to buy one, don't forget to contact Liz with your order.