St. Nicholas Shoot – Sunday 2nd December

Pictures of the day can be found here

SWAC vs SUAC 2012 – Wednesday 14th November

Our annual friendly shoot against SUAC (Southampton University Archery Club) was an extremely close fought match tonight. With just 23 points in it, this year we were just beaten by the team of 6 archers from SUAC, with a total team score of 2972, to 2949. *comedy shaking of the fist*
Well done guys! See you next year ;-D

Full scores were:

SWAC
Mark Phillips 564
Stewart Bell 522
Nigel Jones 481
Jo Sullivan 468
Tracy Goddard 426
Pete Dixon 488

SUAC
Chris Skipper 537
Stephen Fawcett 527
John Bowes 518
Ruth Walton 493
Yvonne Zanker 454
Liam McDonnell 443

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Abbey Wand Shoot – Sunday 11th November

Peter Durtnall, Dave Malson and Alan Biles flew the flag for SWAC at the Abbey Bowmen Wand shoot in St.Albans today. The weather was fantastic, tea and coffee plentiful (once the urn got up to speed) and there was more cake available than you could shake a large stick at.

 

Dave Malson claimed Barebow honours with an amazing 58 points (more than the winning recurve archer) and Alan Biles managed bronze with a credible 20 with three wands in one end (although that was the high point of his day). Peter came in with 18 but failed to make the podium.

 

Lalique Trophy Shoot – 21st October

SWAC came ‘second’ today at the annual Lalique trophy shoot against Bath Archers, where
much cake, much tea and much fun was had by all

Well done to everyone that shot, some great personal bests and thanks to Bath Archers for a great day.
We’ll get’em next year ;->

More photos can be found here

Sarum Clout Shoot – Sunday 30th September

Thanks to all that came to our Sarum Clout Competition on Sunday.

I am very pleased to be submitting a claim for Michelle Loxley’s new Ladies Compound National Record for a Double One Way Clout 140 yards score of 284 (previous National Record was 268).

I am also very pleased to submit 10 Tassel Award claims from this competition.

Full results and tassel claims can be found here

I hope that the the South Wilts Archers food tent and working party gave you a satisfying and relaxing day. I hope you all had an enjoyable day in good company and I look forward to seeing you all at the next Sarum Clout

Peter Durtnall, Tournament Organiser

SWAC Autumn Open Shoot – 2nd September

Despite the good forecast, 106 archers set out in the rain (which had conveniently just started!) on our 40 target mixed game course (mostly 3Ds). Fortunately the rain didn’t last too long and we only had a few short showers during the rest of the day.

 

Thank you all for your kind comments about the course, we are pleased you found it challenging. Even though we had not made any major changes to the course layout, Pete & Al worked their magic again. Thank you also to all our other workers, especially Ali’s catering crew who kept you fed and watered all day.

 

We hope to see you at our Not The Boxing Day Shoot on Saturday 29 December.

 

Alan White

Field Tournament Organiser

Principles of Bow Tuning Session – 26th August

Principles of Bow Tuning at Trafalgar School

I will be running a session on Principles of Bow Tuning on Sunday morning 26/8/12 from 10.30 am at Trafalgar School. The purpose is to show how to tune your bow. You will need your bow kit with a pressure button plus 1 of your arrows fletched and 1 unfletched.

I have delayed this announcement until today as I have been waiting for the 5 day weather forecast for Sunday. The Met Office is currently showing sunshine and showers with a gusting cross wind at times. This is not ideal for accurate bow tuning but you can still learn how to do it. You will then be able to set up a target and do your own bow tuning when the weather is better. I will be running further sessions over the next few months.

I would like an idea of numbers so if you want to join in please email me at peterdurtnall@btinternet.com

Peter