Operation a Success but Patient died

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Arundown hosted the Sussex Albion League Division 3 3-way Decider this Sunday, with maybe the largest number of archers shooting an outdoor Round on the Angmering Field since the last Hereford Tournament we held when we first moved to the school. There were thirty-one shooting the Albion and two juniors shooting the Short Junior Windsor.

80-yard Trudge

 The shoot seemed to go well enough, but the weather turned a bit bleak after a promising start
Particular thanks to Graham for the Tea and gear maintenance, Liz for the scones and Alex for field marking.

The Shooting Line

 At far right of the picture above you can see Marc in his famous Sherwood Forest cap. He shot his new longbow, and even though it was only the third time he'd used it he scored 248, very respectable when you consider Mike Rowlands of Holbrook, a very experienced Longbow man, scored 269

The Target Line

We didn't win either of our matches as most of us were a bit off-form, but that certainly didn't include Alex who scored a PB of 784 and was the second highest scoring Recurve archer, beating some Bowman-classification archers in the process. Graham scored a solid 730, but from there on down none of us exactly shone. So it looks like demotion...
Matt shot his first ever round, and because he was shooting compound-barebow got a double adjustment: 100 taken off for compound, 180 added on for barebow.
Team results: Eastbourne 3142 - Holbrook 3021 - Arundown 2844

Sussex Championships July 10th

This is my first blog entry for Arundown AC so it's quite a momentous occasion for me. Many thanks to Krusty and Liz for tinkering under the bonnet to get this first blog of mine off the ground.

I really enjoyed the Sussex Champs on July 10th.. the weather was lovely.. a slight following breeze. Although I still did put up my little tent which looked so diddy alongside some of the motor-homes on the shooting line.

I was fortunate that both Liz and Alex were able to make the shoot too with Rod also loitering around eating ice cream. Yes I did spot him enjoying one but sadly I did not manage to get one myself. Rod also did the scoring for the match. Thanks for that Rod.

On my target was Dwight Hagley (RC) from London Southfields, I have shot with him before in London. Chris Ellis (LB) from High Weald, and Terry Maskell (C) from Hellingly.

It was convenient to share the two scopes that were on the line. This was very useful as it saved a lot of time.

Our own Alex was on the next target to me. He says he had a good shoot and enjoyed the day. On one of the photo's I managed to capture one of his arrows leaving the bow.

Well done to our Liz who scooped up the 2nd place LB.. just pipped to the post but Liz did have more hits and more golds than the winner. Well done Liz...!! Superb shooting..

Apologies for the photo's being out of order.. but you get the jist.. I hope.. now some commercials..

Stevie C..

County Championships

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PBs or near PBs by everyone on Sussex Championships day at Crawley, which is a nice flat ground in pleasant surroundings right behind Tesco's and overshadowed by the beetling tower of the Gatwick Ramada Inn.
Highlight of the day was a titanic confrontation between our Liz and their Marilyn in the Hereford (again). Liz led from the start with a tremendous 148 at 80 yards, and after the 60 yards the leader Board looked like this with 10 dozen shot and just 2 at 50 yards to go..

Marilyn must have dug in at this point (although she swears she didn't know she was this much behind) and by the end had crept 9 points ahead. So both Marilyn and Liz did better than they did at Mole Valley two weeks ago, but Liz improved spectacularly, increasing her score by 50% on all distances, and scoring 260 for the second half , which is over 30 points up on her club record National (same as the 2nd half of a Hereford) from last month, and closing the gap between the two by over 90 points.

 

Nemesis (for now...)

 

Alex and Steve both did extremely well for their first big rounds of the year, even though I think they both would have liked another twenty five points or so.

 

Tried very hard to get a picture of an arrow leaving Liz's Longbow, but this all I managed - look hard, then look at the detail cop further down the page (click to enlarge)

 

Liz's First Longbow Hereford

from Results of Sheila Brown York-Hereford Tournament
- Mole Valley Bowmen:
Ladies Longbow - Hereford
1 Marilyn DEWAR Eastbourne Archers 80 9 368
2 Liz BOWYER Arundown Archery Club 73 4 273
3 Pauline PRINGLE Lintman 60 1 232

CONGRATULATIONS  ON A GREAT SHOOT
Keep it Up!