10th Portsmouth Competition
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
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
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.
Harry regains JMB
Well done to Harry Tapp who re-gained his Junior Master Bowman classification (now as Gents U16) after scoring two more JMB scores at the Junior National Outdoor Championships (JNOC) at Lilleshall on the weekend of 1st/2nd July 2017.
Harry shot in a Metric II on the Saturday scoring 1194 and coming 16th in his group of 35.
Harry then shot a Bristol II on the Sunday and scored 1146 and came 12th out of 36 in his group.
Well done Harry.
Field Archery Day 2017
We decided to set up our first field archery day on Sunday 2nd July 2017. We decided to have printed animal targets on both Danage stands, small floor ‘have-a-go’ foam bosses and a small layered foam target on the floor.
As the targets weren’t up to much and to make it fair we all had to use beginners training bows and arrows, and shoot them as barebows.
We shot at 8 targets, one even had you standing on a levelled tree stump. Our scoring round gave you 2 points for a direct kill shot and 1 point for hitting the animal. Overall the maximum score was 96.
Ian 52
Malcolm 51
Rob 48
Alison 47
Dan 46
Karl 43
Mel 36
Mike W. 36
Joshua 29
Mary 28
Emily 23
Alban 21
Bart 18
Medals were handed out the top 3 archers. Alison, Mary and Emily for ladies and Ian, Malcolm and Rob for the gents.
View all the images here: https://www.elyarchers.org.uk/gallery/field-archery-day-2017/
