On Sunday 15th September Deborah, Simon and Chris attended the Jolly Archers Autumn Shoot. Deborah shot the Bristol II, with Chris and Simon shooting the Bristol III.
2nd Deborah – Recurve Women
3rd Simon – Longbow Men
4th Chris – Barebow Men
On Sunday 22nd September was the free CAA end of season handicap shoot at Netherhall Archers in Cambridge. Jordan shot the Long Windsor, Daniel the Windsor, and Simon the Windsor 50. It was a rainy start to the day with lots of rain at the first distance. Updated handicap results kept appearing on a white board after each distance. After the first distance Jordan was in 1st place, Daniel in 2nd and Simon about 6th. After the second distance the results were the same. After the raffle results were announced with Jordan coming in 3rd and Daniel gaining 1st place with his Longbow. Having 3 archers in the top 5 is a really good result, especially in a handicap based shoot.
1st Daniel (Longbow)
3rd Jordan – (Compound)
5th Simon – (Longbow)
On the weekend of the 15th and 16th June 2024 Peacock Archers held their annual World Archery weekend. This year saw a venue change, where we moved to a very nice field on the site of the Jolly Archers (but not on the normal Jolly Archers field).
Saturday saw World Archery distances of 70m for recurve and longbow and 50m for barebow and compound. A single 72 arrow qualifying round was shot before lunch with the head to heads happening after lunch. The morning was breezy but the wind really picked up in the afternoon. Unfortunately Jordan, Daniel and Pete went out in the first round, although Pete put up a fight and took his match all the way to a single arrow ‘closest to the centre’ shoot off. A memorable day, if not for the torrential thunder, lightning and hail storm that we had during shooting.
Sunday was a double WA 720 round incorporating the Cambridgeshire Outdoor County Shoot. There were many varied distances including 70m, 60m, 50m and shorter distances for the juniors. Overall a busier day than the Saturday (maybe because of more distances on offer), Paul was shooting 70m, with Daniel and Jordan on 50m. A lot better day weather wise and in the end Ely Archers came away with 2 medals in the County shoot:
2nd Cambs County Mens Barebow – Daniel
3rd Cambs County Mens Recurve – Paul
WA Weekend Saturday Rain and Hail
There were 3 trophies handed out at the end of the indoor season for 2023/2024. The handicap Portsmouth club competition, Friday night Vegas trophy, and the Friday night Bray league trophy.
Portsmouth Handicap Trophy Winner: Rob Edson
Friday Night Vegas Winner: Sian Evans
Friday Night Bray League Winner: Jane Gamble
On the final Sunday indoors we shot a fun head to head Hit ‘n Miss competition. The finalists were Noam (R) and Sean (C) vs Daniel (C) and Matthew (BB). Daniel and Matthew started the day shooting against Noam and Sean and lost their match, but Daniel and Matthew met them again the final and were victorious on the second occasion.
Deborah, Pip, Pete, Simon, Daniel, Paul and Chris all shot at the Cambridgeshire County Indoor Championships on Sunday 11th February 2024 at One Leisure, St. Ives. The Open Portsmouth shoot is run by Jolly Archers and incorporates the Cambridgeshire Archery Association (CAA) Indoor Championships.
This was the second year the shoot was UK Record Status so this meant official bow inspections and new this year a timer system.
Overall, a brilliant result for the club with lots of medals, last year it was nearly all barebow wins, this year lots of wins from the new longbow camp.
Here are the results from both the Jolly Archers shoot and the incorporated Cambridgeshire Indoor County results: