Development session tonight & Club Shoot on Saturday

Hi allA couple of things:

1. It is the first development session for the new joiners tonight. We need members to come along and help, it’s from any time after 5.30pm.
Even if you can’t get there for the start, please come along later, the more the merrier.

2. Club shoot on Saturday, 1pm for 1.30pm start.
We are shooting At George/Albion/Windsor rounds:

York 6 4 2 1296
Hereford/Bristol I 6 4 2 1296
Bristol II 6 4 2 1296
Bristol III 6 4 2 1296
Bristol IV 6 4 2 1296
Bristol V 6 4 2 1296
St George 3 3 3 972
Albion 3 3 3 972
Windsor 3 3 3 972
Short Windsor 3 3 3 972
Junior Windsor 3 3 3 972
Short Junior Windsor 3 3 3 972
New Western 4 4 864
Long Western 4 4

As an imperial round it is 5 zone scoring,
yellow = 9,
red = 7,
blue = 5
black = 3
white = 1

Club Grand Prix points are available and scores count towards outdoor classifications.
As each distance is 3 dozen, 252 badges are up for grabs too!!

As you can see, its a 9 dozen round so we need a prompt start.
There’s a round for everyone, from 100 yards to 30 yards.

Hope to see you there.

Shoot Straight

John

Summer postal shoots – starts on this coming Saturday

The summer postal starts in May.

The summer postal is shot every month from May to September, Usually the first Saturday of the month, the round is a Short Metric [3doz @ 50m, 3Doz @ 30m on a 80cm face].

The first shoot is this Saturday 1pm set-up for 1:30pm start.

The club is entering 2 compound teams (of 2 archers) and 2 recurve teams (of 3 archers). If you can
hit the target at 50m come along and add your score.

If you can’t yet get to 50m, join in and shoot one of the other Short Metric rounds:
Short Metric 50m and 30m
Short Metric 2 40m and 30m
Short Metric 3 30m and 20m
Short Metric 4 20m and 10m

All rounds will qualify for Grand Prix points.

You can keep track of the Postal results and your Grand Prix Points on the web site :

https://clophillac.co.uk/news-and-anouncements/

regards
Dave (Records Officer)
djm953

Spring Fita 4 – a thank you

Good afternoon,

Last weekend’s FITA4 competition was another success, notably this time for the two new national records that were set — by Domagoj Buden (WA50 Senior Gent Compound, who scored 712 out of 720) and Adam Carpenter (WA50 Junior Gent Compound, 699 out of 720), although Domagoj declined to claim the UK record, instead claiming the Croation one.

It wouldn’t be possible to put on these competitions without club members’ help. I’d therefore like to thank those of you who gave up your time, whether you were onsite or at home cooking, and whether you were there for a few hours or several days:

On Friday: Terry, Ian H., Dawn, Suzi, John, Ian C., Lesley, Mary and Chris;

On Saturday: Terry, Lesley, Dave M., Fred, Becky, Romilly, Marion, Debbie, Clive, Steve, Suzi, and John;

And on Sunday: Terry, Dave M., Lesley, Debbie, Andy, Clive, Paul C., John, Dave J., Mark, Rad, Roy, Sarah, Gary, Steve, Suzi, Richard, and Paul H.

My apologies to anyone I’ve missed!

To anyone who wasn’t able to be there last weekend, may I remind you that there’s another Clophill FITA4 competition on September 21st and 22nd and we will need some help setting it all up on Friday 20th and taking it down on the 22nd. Any time you can give over the weekend itself will be greatly appreciated, too, even if it’s only a couple of hours. If you’d also like to compete in the F4, entries are open now and you can email clophillcomps for an entry form or look on our website.

Regards,

Marc.

Shooting for the county – if interested, please read

Dear all We have new County Team managers, they will be familiar to you, it is Suzi and Terry.

I am charged with canvassing Clophill members for those that would be interested in shooting for the County and making representations on your behalf to the County Team Managers.

The first part of selection is for you to shoot at one of the two selection shoots, both are held at our field on:
1. 28 April
2. 5 May
Please see the attached for further details.

If you are interested please let me know (by replying to this email) which shoot you will come along to, or both ( I presume that is OK – I’m sure “The Management” will let me know if not). Please let me know before 21 April as Suzi/Terry want to put together a target list.

Also, if you are interested but cannot make either of the shoots, please let me know along with a couple of your outdoor scores and I will plead your case.

I look forward to hearing from you.

John

County Team Invitation.docx

Use of the field and parental supervision

In view of a recent enquiry we, as a committee, have reviewed the rules of shooting as regards the use of our field and also our responsibilities with regards to children and young people.

General use of the field by Clophill members

The AGB rules of shooting advise:

(a) When any shooting is in progress there must be a minimum of two people present each being a minimum of 18 years of age, one of whom may be a non-archer to act as a lookout. The archer is responsible to inform the lookout of all safety aspects applicable. Where two adult archers are present and shooting together they will alternate on the shooting line so that the non-shooting archer can act as the lookout.

(b) Juniors. When junior archers (ie archers under 18) are shooting individually or in groups they must be supervised by an adult member (excluding honorary members) of Archery GB and a second adult must be present.

(c) On private land which is fenced all round, where the public has no legal right of access and with a warning notice displayed at all entrances and points of access, the following concessions may apply notwithstanding the provisions of 103(a) and (b) above: (i) Solo shooting by senior archers (ie archers 18 and over) is permitted. Any member shooting on their own is doing so at their own risk in respect of personal injuries. (ii) Provided that they are an adult member (excluding honorary members) of Archery GB, one parent/guardian alone may supervise his/her own child(ren). “

As our field is fully fenced senior archers may shoot on their own, but please note in (c) above that there must be a warning sign displayed – so please remember to drop the Clophill Archery Club sign so it reads Archery in Progress.

Children and young people

Archery GB’s safeguarding policy it is clear that:

“A child or young person ……. is any person under 18.”

Therefore all juniors, 18 and under, must be supervised at all times by a parent or appointed guardian behind the shooting line whilst shooting. This is to satisfy safeguarding rules as per AGB – the policy is available to view on the AGB website.

If that parent or guardian is a member of AGB no other person is required. If they are not, another person who is a member of AGB must be present.

As a club we are bound to comply with AGB’s rules of shooting as the insurance they provide is dependant on the rules being followed.

Thanks all

Clophill AC Committee

A Perfect Round you say! – Congratulations

A huge congratulations to Clophill Archers Suzi and Lesley who both scored perfect 300 scores at the Kestrels Worcester on the 3rd Feb.

As you can imagin this perfect score means that they both hold a new joint County record as well as equalling the National record obviously!
Please make sure you congratulate them when you see them at the club.

Biggleswade Chronicle report – Worcester 2019.doc