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Parkfield Archers Shoot

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On Sunday 1st October 2017, Mike W, Rob, Mel, Ian C, and Daniel journeyed just down the road to Parkfield Archers at Wimblington to take part in their End of Season Handicap shoot.

The round shot was various incarnations of the Western round.

Rob shot a Short Western (50 and 40 yards) on his American Flatbow whilst everyone else shot a standard Western (60 and 50 yards).

We managed to miss the rain, but it was very windy. At one point Mel’s target Danage boss fell over with his arrow still in it, breaking it.

Despite the weather Ely Archers all managed to come home with medals:

Western 2nd Place – Mike Williamson
Short Western 2nd Place – Rob Edson
Overall Archery Team – 3rd Place – Mike, Mel, Ian and Daniel
Ian also managed first choice on the raffle prizes – even though he’d gone home already.

CAA End of Season Shoot

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On Saturday 30th September 2017 Mel and Daniel attended the CAA end of season handicap shoot in Cambridge.

The shoot was totally free to attend and open to just Cambridgeshire based clubs. The rounds available were Long Metric rounds. Daniel and Mel both shot a Long Metric I which is 70m and 60m.

Most Cambridgeshire clubs were represented, bar about 3 clubs. This meant just under 50 archers attended. Plus the weather was kind and the Sun warm on their backs. The field used is on a rugby pitch near Addenbrooke’s hospital and you have a nice view of trains running behind the field.

In the end Daniel came 9th out of 39 seniors with a score of 529 and Mel came 17th with a score of 458.

If the shoot wasn’t handicapped Daniel would have won the Gents recurve Long Metric I. That’s handicap shoots for you!

10th Portsmouth Competition

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Ely Archers are hosting their 10th Annual Portsmouth Competition on Saturday 18th November 2017 at the NEW Littleport Leisure Centre!

For more details and to enter please see our events page.

Clout Day 2017

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We managed to lay out 3 distances today and even put out for the 1st time a 180 yard distance which did seem an awful long way away. Although Daniel and Mike Thorley did find themselves shooting around 220 yards in the first end of sighters and over shooting. It took most us about 3 or 4 ends to work out where to aim.

Daniel won the 180yds with 61 points with Mike Thorley coming second with 45.

John won the 140yd distance with 39 (although officially the 140yds is Ladies only, so really Mary won with 29 points).

Laura and Caleb drew on the 100 yards with 11 points each (although Laura did get 1 more hit than Caleb).

Smashing Time at Zombie Shoot

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Ely Archers set off for The Quarry to undertake the Zombie Shoot on 20th July 2017.

Thanos, Lousie, Mike, Jack, Daniel, Harry and Malcolm divided into 2 teams. We ended up with Ely Archers at the top of the zombie leaderboard for archery clubs and Malcolm got 1st place on individual scores.