National Clout Championships at Bradford

Here are some pictures from the GNAS Clout Championships on 16th October, and also some from the Leicester and Rutland Metric Clout the following day.
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Bradford - Saturday

Andrew Neal of Northern Counties introduces the Lady Paramount

Graham and Jon wait for Assembly to begin

Three kinds of Bow  -  Long-, Recurve-, and Rain-

Still, the Lady P found something to laugh at

Unlike some of the archers...

We weren't the only archers to trek up from Sussex, Josh and Richard Britton were there too. Hope to see them out and about next year.

For the Presentations, Liz put on the traditional ankle-length green dress

And presented the trophies. Winners included charming little lads like Tom Wooley...

And then there was David Burnett...

Jon won the Silver Salver for the best clout of the whole tournament, which meant best of all the arrows shot, by all kinds of bow

Liz was runner up in the Ladies Recurve competition by a margin of just seven points...

and she received an engraved goblet and a bottle of wine from her nemesis Tracey Cross, who will be next year's Lady Paramount

The Third-place Lady was 17 year old Maddy Meatyard shooting the full Ladies Distance. Watch this space...

We were comprehensively binned by the Stalybridge team, who are right back on form

Sunday - Rutland
Graham and Jon opted to shoot 185 metres, which is a tad more than 200 yards. Jon was the only recurve shooting this distance, but there were three other Longbows beside Graham, all from Kettering, including Dave Burnett and Russ Duffin (both appear in the GNAS Champs pictures above, Dave in the Awards ceremony and Russ with the Rainbow), and also Henry Sherrey who shoots a terrifying warbow.

Graham was a bit more sensible 

 There was also a colourful longbow archer on the ladies line, a student from Loughborough

Finally - the results. Liz first Lady Recurve, Rod first Gent Barebow. And Liz topped it all by scoring her first Six-Clout-End, and will receive a badge from GNAS. This is a new badge for FITA-sized clouts, and has only been awarded from this year. It is doable, but only a few succeed, unlike the GNAS six clout badge which only one person in the entire western arm of the Galaxy has achieved, and that was using a Compound.

Here it is on his hat...