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GNAS Awards |
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Another GNAS award that you can achieve is the Six Gold End. As the name suggests, if you shoot 6 golds in a single end then you can submit a claim and receive your badge. The award can only be claimed from a round shot at a tournament or at a club target day. If you are at a tournament you must get a judge or the tournament organiser to confirm your end BEFORE pulling your arrows from the boss! On a club target day you should get the Field Captain or senior club member to do this instead and sign your score sheet. The downside is that the award can only be claimed at the 2 longest distances for your gender/age category (i.e. 100 or 80 yards & 90 or 70m for senior gents). Handicap Improvement Award Just like many other sports, archery also has a handicap system. In addition to giving archers an indication of how well they are progressing, GNAS provides us with a Handicap Improvement Award. It is awarded to the archers who improve their handicap the most in a single season. If you are shooting for the first time (or switching bow types), you must provide 3 scored rounds in order to obtain your first handicap. You need to provide a minimum of 8 scored rounds in a single season to be eligible for the Handicap Improvement Award. The award must be worn by the holder on Club Target Days at which they are present. If you attend a handicapped shoot, the organisers will need to know your current handicap so your score can be adjusted accordingly. The idea, as with all sporting handicaps, is to give everyone a fair chance of winning the competition, regardless of their relative skill levels. Rose Awards In 1992 GNAS introduced the Rose awards to give incentives for archers to shoot the traditional York, Hereford and Bristol rounds. They start from a score of 800 on the York round (for men) and Hereford (for women) and Bristol rounds for juniors. Compound bows shoot the same target face and distances as Recurve bows. Rose Status is only available to tournaments that qualify for UK Record Status. The Rose award is an enamelled badge with a white rose in the centre. The badge is square with cut off corners for Recurve archers (Freestyle or Barebow) and round for Compound archers (UnLtd or Ltd). The Juniors' badges are small and square. There are different colours for the different score levels - 800 for a white badge, 900 for green, 1000 for blue, 1100 for red, 1200 for gold, and 1250 for purple. From 2006 a shield shaped award was introduced for Longbow archers - the score levels required are White-225, Black-300, Blue-375, Red-450, Gold-525 and Purple-600. Why a Rose? In 1844 the first Grand National Meeting was held at York. The round shot then was called the York Round and has remained as 72 arrows at 100 yards, 48 at 80 yards and 24 at 60 yards ever since. The White Rose is the emblem of Yorkshire. The maximum possible score for a York or Hereford is 1296. Until 2000 the top award available was the 1200 badge, then the 1250 award was introduced.
As always, you can’t go back and claim
a lower score badge if you obtain a higher score badge first. |
