Jolly Archers held their Autumn shoot on Sunday 18th September 2022. Paul and Daniel both attended and both shot the York round. This is 72 arrows at 100 yards, then 48 arrows at 80 yards and finally 24 arrows at 60 yards – 144 scoring arrows in total with a maximum score of 1,296. Shorter distance rounds were available – including Herefords and Bristol rounds.
It was a changeable but dry day with a variable breeze coming across the field, felt more at the target end than at the shooting line.
It was good to see a number of longbow archers having a good time where at one point instead of dropping an arrow one of them launched their whole bow across the shooting line which then couldn’t be recovered as it was too far away and it sat there until it was safe to be recovered.
In the end both Paul and Daniel came 2nd in their York categories. Paul missed out on 1st place by just two points and ended with a score of 1038 which allowed him to claim his 1,000 blue rose award badge as the shoot was a UK Record Status event. A York national gents barebow record which was also a Grand Master Bowman score was also recorded on the day by an archer from Kettering with a score of 954 out of 1,296.
