ccarchers.webs.com

New links have been added to our website

http://ccarchers.webs.com

New pictures to be added soon

Sabden Fold Open

Cath and Paul will be going to this open shoot on 31st October 2010 instead of Avalon. Will let you know what this shoot is like soon.

Indoor Shoot Venue

Conisbrough Castle Archers are now in possession of Keys for their New indoor venue on March Street
 and we will start shooting there from Saturday 6th November 2010.

Avalon open

All the members of Conisbrough Castle Archers that were going to this event have now changed their minds. This was due to the distance to travel and the late start time of this shoot. We will visit them again on their next full open shoot.

Avalon Haloween Open Shoot

Only 6 more sleeps to go.

Can't wait!

Gallery Update on web site

Just to let you all know the Gallery on the web site has been updated today.

It can be found at http:/ccarchers.webs.com/gallery.html

Hope you like this better than the original gallery and the error ridden last attempt.

More pics to follow soon.

Paul

At last this thing has let me get back into my own account, yippee

New Website Address

Hi All,

Please note that we have a new website address.

http://ccarchers.webs.com

This will be updated as soon as possible with all the clubs latest new information and details.

Many Thanks

KOTK

Lyme Valley August 8 2010

A 6:30am wakeup call on a bright, sunny morning heralded the start of my first field shoot. And what an amazing course to choose to take my Field Archery virginity on.

Lyme Valley, for those unfamiliar, is set in the midst of prime Staffordshire woodland; the course laid out along a narrow valley that follows a gentle winding brook. Never having shot a field course before I have very little to compare it against, but I felt each target was well placed, the pegs were challenging and the progressions were good.

Karen and I both started well, although I had the best of it, and by halfway we were some 30 points apart; I on 242 with my Longbow and Karen not far behind on 210 with her Hunting Tackle recurve.

Lunch intervened at 1pm, seeing us just over half way round the 36 mixed big game and 3D’s. When we got back underway at 1:45 we feared that relaxed muscles would have grown stiff through lack of use, but as it turned out we both started the afternoon well-24’s for the both of us and a raft of 20’s. Unfortunately for me though, that was as good as it got. On the run in to the final targets my luck deserted me entirely and I blanked the last two.

Dropping so many points on the run-in and with Karen shooting her personal best, it was hardly surprising that at the end of the day we closed with me on 470 and Karen on 484; both personal bests and Karen doing especially well with no blanks.

The only gripe we had during the day, and this was not a reflection on the course itself, was that several groups took excessive time to move through the course. These seemed mainly to be what others in our group called ‘twiddlers’... otherwise known as compound archers and freestyle archers to us laymen...

One group in particular was made up entirely of these twiddlers, which made progression on the long shots very slow. But considering all that, a great day was had by all and many commented that it was the best day Lyme Valley had put on. As it was my first I could hardly deny that claim.

Paul Davis.