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