Last day of their course, and the November beginners class finally got decent enough weather to get outdoors, there was a wonderful blue sky to match their blue extremities in the very chilly air. A Clout Flag was set up over 70 yards away, and everybody managed to reach it, even the youngest - very impressive with that 12-pound bow.
Just as impressive was everybody's side-to-side aiming and shooting skill, which was brilliant from the start, but of course it took a few ends for everyone to master the distance. After about twenty minutes it was time to go back inside to shoot the final (scored) mini-Round. Although it wasn't as tight as it was at the end of the June course when there had to be a shoot-off, or August when both Ladies and Gents tied, there was only one point separating the ALL the gents shooting recurve, that's one clear winner and three second places, and the gent shooting longbow was only twelve points behind with 73 out of a possible 100. The Ladies were also tightly clustered, and the Juniors were in among them or close behind.
This was the final beginners course of this year, over sixty have been taken through, and the standard of talent has been awesome.
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