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Field Archery Day 2018

5th July 2018Ely ArchersEly Archers Archery Newsanimal targets, donate ely archers, field archery, field archery ely, fundraise ely archers, fundraising ely archers

On Sunday 1st July we held our annual mock-up field archery day on the Amherst field. We have a slight lack of woods or trees, but did try and use the line of trees to shoot through. Last year we shot at black and white targets we printed ourselves. This year we opted for 8 full colour animal targets all placed at random distances from 9m to 22m.

Scoring was based on a simple 1,2,3 or Miss. This time around we also used our own equipment, last year we made everybody use training bows.

We held two rounds of scoring, with a special head to head barebow round at the end shooting a single arrow closest to the centre circle. We had Bart against John, and Malcolm against Alison. In the final we saw Alison and Bart shoot it out, with Alison the winner.

This was really just a bit of fun, but hopefully in the future through grants and fundraising we will be able to purchase some proper 3D animal targets. So if have not signed up to our free online fundraising scheme – please do so now and help our cause at https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/elyarchers/

Netherhall WA Weekend Wins

21st June 2018Ely ArchersEly Archers Archery Newscambs county championships, netherhall 70m, netherhall wa weekend, netherhall wa1440, peacock archers, peacock archery, peacock archery wa weekend, witchford archers, witchford archery

Netherhall and Peacock Archery held their World Archery weekend shoot on 16th and 17th June. On the Saturday the rounds for the senior recurves were 70m rounds, the compounds shot 50m on 80cm targets, whilst the juniors and cadets shot 60m. The Sunday shoot incorporates the outdoor Cambridgeshire Archery Association championships.

Daniel and Mel shot on the 70m targets and finished the ranking rounds with scores of 510 and 471 respectively. This put Daniel in 18th and Mel in 26th. It was then onto the head to heads where you shoot 3 arrows per end, the winner of each end scores 2 points, if you tie that’s 1 point each. The first archer to 6 set points wins. Daniel was knocked out in the first round 6-2, Mel was knocked out in the first round 6-0.

Sunday was the turn of the WA1440 round with Mel shooting 144 arrows across 4 distances of 90m, 70m, 50m and 30m. Harry was shooting a similar distances of 60m, 50, 40m, 30m.

Mel finished with a score of 879 which was enough to win the 2018 Cambridgeshire Outdoor Gents Recurve Bronze medal.

Harry meanwhile scored 1,273 out of 1,440 which was a Junior Master Bowman score. This made Harry the overall winner of the Metric II round and also the winner of the 2018 Cambridgeshire Outdoor Junior Recurve Gold medal.

Well done to both our Ely Archers medal winners.

Netherhall WA Weekend 2018

Netherhall WA Saturday 2018

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8 Long Metric Club Records

3rd June 2018Ely ArchersEly Archers Archery Newsbowman, long metric

Warm, calm and overcast weather greeted us this morning for our Long Metric round. 8 new club records today from Ian F., Mike B., Jon P., Richard, Iain, Jasmine, Kim and Daniel.

A new 3rd class badge goes to Mike B. on his compound. Jon P. has earned his 3rd class badge on his barebow, but only needs one more score for a 2nd class badge.

Daniel scored his first Bowman score with 493 on the 90m and 70m Long Metric. Wojciech also scored his second 1st class score on the 70m and 60m distance – just one more to go! Well done everybody.

6 New Club Records

10th May 2018Ely ArchersEly Archers Archery Newsarchery club records, club records

It was a very nice, warm and sunny morning for shooting on Sunday 6th May 2018.

An amazing total of 6 new club records obtained shooting a National rounds. New club records for Jon P., Kim, Iain, Jasmine, Rob and Maggie.

There were also 1st class scores for Wojciech and Daniel shooting a Long National.

Jon P. obtained his first barebow 50yd 252 score from within his first 36 arrows of his Short National round score.