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Please bear with us as we undergo a few website updates and changes. In the meantime, you can join the beginners course waitlist via beginners@northamptonarchery.co.uk

Please note that our beginners courses are currently closed but we are accepting enquiries and will update asap.

If you are already an archery gb member and wish to shoot with us, please get in touch, we are always accepting new members

Lou

Club secretary

secretary@northamptonarchery.co.uk

16/07/23

Mick Wins Bronze At Stage One of National Tour

Podium – National Tour Stage One, Barebow

Congratulations to Mick Lovell who won a bronze medal at Stage One of the Archery GB National Tour on Saturday 30th April, at Lilleshall. This is the first time that Barebow has been included in the National Tour as a separate category and Mick certainly made the most of this! The day presented us with near-perfect weather. This is an excellent start for Mick at the National Tour & we look forward to seeing him compete at others through the season.

We Have County Champions

On Sunday 6th March Archers of Raunds hosted the Northamptonshire County Archery Championships, where five members of Northampton Archery Club competed. They performed with excellent results with Mick Lovell, Paul Hopkins and Denitsa Dimitrova all bring crowned County Champions in their respective divisions, a big congratualtions to them. The full results of all five archers are –

Barebow Gents – Mick Lovell 1st place
Barebow Junior Ladies U18 – Denitsa Dimitrova 1st place
Longbow Gents – Paul Hopkins 1st place
Recurve Junior Ladies U16 – Lisa Owen 2nd place
Recurve Gents – Ioannis Chrisinas 10th place

You can view the full results here.

Mick presented with Northamptonshire Tri-Counties barebow trophy

Mick Lovell was recently presented with the Northamptonshire Tri-Counties barebow trophy.

He won this by competing as part of the County Team on 3rd October last year and achieved the highest scoring barebow round in the winning team. Congraulations Mick.

Fun at Halloween Shoot at Sywell

An unseasonably warm evening for the Halloween ping shoot this year saw 18 archers plus spectators arrive at Sywell in the pitch dark to take part. Four targets were laid flat on the ground and illuminated pumpkins were set on the gold of each one.

The rules were, as usual, made up more or less as we went along. This year they ended up as normal five zone scoring with a direct hit of a pumpkin counting as 10. Random ghosts witches and pumpkins were scattered on the ground between the targets also counting as 10. Grass counted as zero. Targets were about 30-40 yards from the shooting line.

It was a very starry night so we had plenty of reference points for aiming. To level the playing field even more between experienced archers and beginners glow sticks were attached to all arrows to completely remove ballistic integrity.

Most arrows, as usual, scored zero. Only twenty arrows actually landed on the targets all evening. Not a single pumpkin, witch or ghost got injured in the process, although several pumpkins did have lucky escapes.

After a break for drinks and snacks we returned to the field to shoot a volley: All archers shooting in unison to voice commands. This didn’t make any difference to the final scores, and resulted in only one additional archer (George) actually hitting anything.

Prizes were awarded as follows.

Junior Lady: Hazel Dalley

Junior Gent: Toby MacFarland

Senior lady: Karen Wilkins

Senior Gent: Paul Hopkins (That wasn’t the highest score but everyone thought I must have cheated)

Thanks to everyone who helped set up and pack away afterwards and especially to Lou for the photos & refreshments and George (Genny) Bond for keeping the lights on – well, most of the time.

NAC is back at John Ashby Sports Hall

It has been great to see our club back at John Ashby Sports Hall following the start of the pandemic. I was unable to make the two Saturdays, but joined in for the first session on Saturday 23rd November.

I was greated by warm faces, everyone seemed to be happy to be able to shoot inside. We had a mix of those who had recently finished their beginners courses, members who haven’t shot for a long time and our seasoned members – all helping out where it was needed.

Getting the hall set up is always a challenge for us to be able to start shooting at the advertised time of 9.15am, especially now we have a much shorter time to shoot in, so we welcome members to join us for 8.45am to begin this.

We look forward to seing more of you on a Saturday through the winter.