Category: Events

although club shoots do fit this category its mainly for fete’s, parties and social events.

Medals for NAC in County Indoor Portsmouth Championships

NAC performed very well in the County Indoor Championships on Sunday 11th March at Rothwell. David Quemby received a silver in the Gents Compound with a score of 575, just two points behind Martin Ross who took gold. David went on to get a gold however in the double round with a score of 1136. Susan Corless won a gold for the ladies double recurve with a score of 1052, and Paul Hyde took a bronze in the gents recurve with a score of 1120. Mick Lovell also shot but despite scoring well, missed out on the metal. New club records were set and these will be included in the next records update later this month. Well done and thanks for representing NAC so well.

Sport Relief Shootathon – Full Steam Ahead

NAC is shooting a 24 hour sponsored Shootathon at Carlsberg Social Club, Old Towcester Road, Northampton from 10pm on Friday 23rd March to raise money for Sport Relief – a great cause. We aim to shoot 10,000 arrows in this time. We’re sure that the whole event will be great fun, and GNAS members from around the county are being invited to join in. Further details of the event can be found on this page and at the Sport relief web site. If you would like to make further inquiries please contact Dave Taylor at chair@northamptonarchery.co.uk.

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WOAC, Jim McKeown Memorial Shoot, 2012.

Woac hosted the Jim Mckeown memorial Shoot over the weekend of 11th & 12th February in which several members of the NAC attended.

Both Paul Hyde and David Quemby took part over the two day event and others took part on the Sunday only. Missing the Saturday was a treat for me as the schools heating system had failed and the temperature was well below freezing (and very cold indoors too). Sunday was almost tropical in comparison as temperatures rose above freezing but several layers of clothing was still the order of the day.The shoot was a FITA 18 and WOAC use an electronic audible system, (saves blowing a whistle), the other feature of the electronics was that it was “timed”, so after the first audible warning you get so many seconds to approach the line and place an arrow on the rest, shooting then commenced after the second audible warning when a countdown system took over allowing 40 seconds (average)  per arrow. If a shot is made after the zero audible warning then a penalty is imposed, so too if you run out of time you shouldn’t release an arrow after the zero has sounded.

The NAC team consisting of Susan Corless, David Quemby,Mick Lovell and Paul Hyde managed a very respectful 2nd place in the team categoryand yes youv’e guessed it Susan achieved another personal best with some impressive shooting and so another club record will be claimed. The most fantastic news of all is that Dave Quemby and Paul Hyde took first and second place in the Quadruple round which one would assume will also set new records for the NAC.

Individual scores can be seen on the WOAC website.

Well done to all who took part once again showing that the NAC is back where it should be.

 

 

New Years Day Shoot at Kettering.

Eleven members of the NAC journeyed to Kettering to compete in a “Roving Clout shoot” competition which was hosted by the Kettering Archery Club.

It was early in the morning when they arrived all fired up and ready to go (early New Years Day, I don’t think so!), one consolation was that it was a lovely day considering the time of year. The “eleven” turned out to be a third of the overall entrants taking part in the “clout” on the day. The attached photograph shows the “eleven” and young Niamh (little red riding hood) was nominated as the team captain.

John Bosworth (from Kettering archers) explained to all the archers present how the “clout” should be shot and the different distances, and scoring methods etc with some archers on full draw and others would  “ping”

(For those who don’t know, a “Clout” is a form of archery in which archers shoot arrows at a flag (known as “the Clout”) from a relatively long distance and score points depending on how close each arrow lands to the flag.

Scoring zones are defined by maximum radii from the flag pole. Each arrow scores points depending on which scoring
zone it enters the ground in. An arrow embedded in the flag pole is counted as being in the highest scoring zone. If an arrow is lying on the ground, it is considered to be in the scoring zone in which its point lies.

The scoring zones may be marked on the ground. Where this is not practical, a non-stretch rope or chain marked with
the radii of the scoring zones is attached to the flag pole and swept around it to determine which arrows are in which zones.

A designated person collects the arrows in each zone, sorts them into sets, and lays them on the ground. Each
archer in turn points to his or her arrows and calls out the scores in descending order. A single clout round consists of three dozen arrows, shot in ends of 6 arrows.)

The final shoot of the day consisted of a “Volley” which involved a 3D Pig at different distances, (as usual not all bows let fly at the same time). A “volley” is to release arrows together so as to blacken the sky with arrows like medieval warfare.

Our star turned out to be our Team Captain, Niamh, who was the only one to actually hit the 3D pig and so collected a most respectable score.

A great day was had by all with 8 medals being won in total.

 

Boxing Day 2011 “Ping” Competition.

This years Boxing Day “Ping” competition was held at the Sywell Shooting Range. The weather was very kind to us as it was a very mild 11- 12deg C  December day although at times it was rather cloudy with a fair breeze.  It’s fair to say that the majority of club members turned out for this years event. There was mulled wine and mince pies to be enjoyed by all whilst the totals were being “totted up ” by Dave Q.Close to the end of the shoot the chairman tried to escape back to the safety of his home but was cleverly ambushed by the junior members who pelted him with what looked like cotton wool snowballs. Last year of course he had similar treatment but they were using real snow. One of our longest serving  members  ( honoree ) “Pete Bond” joined us at this years event and he was thrilled with the increase in the senior membership and so impressed with the numbers of juniors coming through and taking an interest in the sport. It was nice to see Pete back at the field with a bow in his hand and he was told so by our vice chairperson Pam Joseph. On the day there was a high number of good scores but the overall winner was Pete Bond with Paul Barrett in second place and  Beryl  (our very own Bez) with Mick Lovell (topside) both in joint 3rd place. Thanks to all who participated to make this a memorable day.