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Barebow Indoor Cambs County Champions 2023

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Harry, Louise, Alex, Daniel, Alison, Pete, Luc, Julian and Lindsey all shot at the Cambridgeshire County Indoor Championships on Sunday 12th February 2023 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 first year the shoot was UK Record Status so this meant official bow inspections and 2 minutes of shooting for 3 arrows.

Pete had an intense day shooting against Stephen Barnes from Ramsay Ravens, but Pet held his nerve and came through in the end. I think all Barebow archers had a tough day down one end of the hall trying to ignore a broken ceiling light that constantly flickered on and off like a slow strobe light. If the cold hall didn’t get to you the light may have.

Overall, a brilliant result for the club with lots of medals.

Here are the results from both the Jolly Archers shoot and the incorporated Cambridgeshire Indoor County results:

County Shoot Results

  • County Champion Gents Barebow – Pete
  • County Champion Gents U18 Barebow – Julian
  • County Champions Team Barebow – Pete, Alison and Daniel
  • 2nd Ladies Barebow – Alison

Jolly Archers  Open Portsmouth Results

Single Rounds

  • 1st Gents Barebow – Pete
  • 1st Gents U18 Barebow – Julian
  • 1st Barebow Team – Pete and Alison
  • 3rd Ladies Barebow – Alison

Double Rounds

  • 1st Gents Barebow – Pete

Full Results

Jolly Archers Open Portsmouth 2023 Results

CAA Indoor Championship 2023 Results

Wins at Peacock Archers WA18

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On Sunday 29th January 2023 several Ely Archers members made the journey to Bottisham to take part in the annual Peacock Archers WA 18 competition.

Paul (R), Mel (R), Pete (BB), Luc (R) and Chris (BB) attended the shoot. In the end Ely Archers came away with 2 medals:

2nd Mens Recurve – Paul (540)
3rd Mens Barebow – Pete (471)

I understand Paul and Luc also did rather well in the raffle!

Peacock WA18 2023 Results

Paul collecting his award

Paul collecting his award

Petes Target Face

Pete’s Target Face

Ely Archers Win 2nd Team Frostbite

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Grey Goose Archers hosted the second 2022/23 team frostbite of the year. Freezing fog and frozen ground but with full sun and no wind. Perfect conditions really.

Unfortunately only Grey Goose and Ely Archers could put teams together. Ely Archers actually took more people than we required with Julian (BB), Alex (R), Simon G (R), Daniel (C) Mel (C), Mike W (R) and Pete (BB) shooting.

A great fun afternoon with homemade cake and scones with cream and jam together with tea and coffee.

In the end Ely Archers came through with the win and brought the mini cup home.

Thanks to Grey Goose for hosting.

Portsmouth 2022 Results

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Thank you to everyone who attended our 13th annual Portsmouth competition on Saturday 19th November 2022. 19 members of the club shot on the day, and it was great to see a lot of Ely Archers shooting shirts on the line in the first session.

In the end you all raised £210 for the East Anglian Children’s Hospice (EACH) from the sale of the raffle tickets. Thanks to those who looked after the raffle and cake table during the day and of course all of you who supplied raffle prizes.

Thank you to all the club member volunteers who helped set up the sports hall the night before. Thank you to those who then took the targets and stands back again on the Saturday evening and all those who helped on the day, we couldn’t do it without you.

Now for some results, and there were lots of medals for Ely Archers:

Single round results:

Junior Gents Barebow Winner – Julian Moynihan
Gents Recurve Winner – Paul Beck
Ladies Barebow 2nd Place – Alison Pritchard
Gents Compound 2nd Place – Jordan Richards
Ladies Recurve 2nd Place – Louise Tapp

Double round results:

Gents Recurve Winner – Paul Beck
Gents Barebow 2nd Place – Peter Lens
Ladies Barebow 2nd Place – Alison Pritchard
Gents Compound 2nd Place – Jordan Richards
Ladies Recurve 2nd Place – Louise Tapp

Team recurve results:

Ely Archers Winning Team – Paul Beck, Louise Tapp and Harry Tapp

The full results can be found here: https://www.elyarchers.org.uk/events/

CAA End of Season Handicap Shoot 2022

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Alex and Jordan attended the Cambridgeshire Archery Association (CAA) end of season handicap shoot on Sunday 2nd October 2022. The shoot was a free to attend shoot hosted by the City of Cambridge Bowmen. The round selected was a National archery round, with a choice of distances on offer from 80/60, 60/50, 50/40 and 30/20.

The weather for the afternoon was a light wind with Sun and the occasional cloud. Warm but not too hot.

The shoot was a handicap-adjusted shoot with separate categories for seniors and juniors, archers shot their round of choice and the results were handicap adjusted. Each archer had to present their current handicap rating to the tournament organiser before the shoot, which is supplied by your clubs records officer.

A handicap adjusted score of 1440 means you are shooting to your normal standard, above – you’re shooting better than normal, below and not as good as usual.

Jordan shot a 60/50 yard National and ranked 17th equal with a score of 582, the adjusted score was 1423.
Alex shot a 60/50 yard National and ranked 33rd with a score of 373, the adjusted score was 1377.

In the end 39 archers from the county attended from a number of different archery clubs and it was a really good shoot. It’s well organised, free, and worth attending in the future if you want experience of a local friendly shoot – it will hopefully be back again next year!

CAA End of Season Handicap Shoot 2022 Results

CAA EOS 2022