Feb 25 2026

Episode 141 – Equipment review – NFAS target faces

I’ve recorded this episode of the podcast as a video on my thoughts on the National Field Archery Society championship faces (NFAS). It seemed more logical to record a video when talking about target faces than just having it as an audio podcast.

For those that don’t know NFAS produce a selection of target faces specifically designed for the big game round used at clubs across the country and at the National Championships in September.

It is available on Spotify, Amazon, Music and YouTube, the latter being shown below.

In the video I cover the positive and negative points of the targets faces, along with my thoughts specifically on the mess version we use at our club. We have been using these styles of faces for a couple of years and in our experience they work pretty well, especially in wet conditions but there are a couple of negative areas where they could be improved.
There is one downside you need to consider and that being, the faces are printed on a white mech fabric and can suffer from being shot out, with the threads breaking. I show a couple of examples in the video.

There are currently 80 target faces, 20 per group, which means you could set 2 full 40 target courses and not repeat a face. We’ve used quite a few of the Group 1 target faces on our open shoots and they have been very well received. I especially like the Tiger and Golden Eagle faces, though the African lion I struggle will as it melts into the background.

You can order these directly from the NFAS website, where in the downloads section you will find the order form. https://nfas.net/downloads

Let me know what you think of the faces. Does your club use them?

Overall I think the quality of the images is great, with it being nice to see some NFAS specific faces. There has obviously been a lot of work involved in putting these together.

The mess works well for us at the club as it out last the equivalent paper face. Like all target faces they will get shot out over time, especially if you have a number of good archers nailing the centre time and time again.

Personally I would like to the scoring lines to be marked in a darker colour, so they are more easily seen as the light grey doesn’t work well on many of the faces.

In the video I mentioned a top tip I recorded in a YouTube short a while back, when it comes to securing the mess faces to target bosses.

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Most of all remember to enjoy your shooting and as always thanks for listening, watching and supporting.

Feb 21 2026

How to score a Big Game round

By far the most popular round in the National Field Archery Society is the Big Game round. It is the one that is used at both the 3D championships in May and the paper face National champs in September.
It’s also the one that most clubs use as a basis for their open competitions.

The scoring of this can be confusing for new archers and a few years back I recorded a video explaining the scoring. I’ve updated this recently using the official NFAS faces.

I probably need to record one explaining the scoring on 3D targets at some point.

For reference below is the original version.

I hope you find these useful and if you have any questions then drop me a line. As always thanks for listening and supporting the site. Enjoy your archery

Feb 7 2026

Episode 140 – 2026 with and thoughts on NFAS proposals and rant about bad tour operators

Welcome to the first podcast of 2026, crazy to think we are already in February. I hope 2026 is treating you well and any new year resolutions you made are still going well.

As always here is a link to the amazon music version

I will admit to having a bit of a rant at the start of this episode concerning the appalling service we have received from TUI airlines following our long flight delay when returning home. After everything that happened end of last year we decided to book a ski holiday, which was fantastic but the flight home was delayed for hours.

Anyway lets change the subject to more archery related. In the episode I  give my thoughts on the proposals that have been sent out to NFAS members for voting on this year concerning rule changes. Some of which I like others of which I am less keen on.

Let me know what you think.