3D champs just round the corner

Just a brief posting today. This weekend will see the annual NFAS 3D Championships, just outside Osmaston village north of Derby.
Over 600 archers will descend to shoot 2 courses, one each day.

There are 4 courses, 2 courses (A+B) for those archers shooting wooden arrows and 2 for archers shooting metal or carbon arrows (X+Y). The course will be 40 3D targets located in a mix woodland of a deer park.

Not expecting to shoot well as not had practise but hope it will be a good weekend, though the weather is not looking great for Sunday.
Here are a few photos from last years

NFAS 3D Championships 2011

Distance calculator for NFAS shoots in UK

distance calculator

In a time when fuel costs have been rising along with the costs of living, more and more archers are selecting the shoot they travel too not only on the quality of the course but increasingly based on the cost of getting there. Many are car sharing, in an attempt to keep costs down, but this isn’t always easy. Lets face it getting 2 people and bows, arrows, cases etc in a fully loaded car can be a challenge.
For this reason I thought I’d let people know about this really useful website for all NFAS  archers trying to work out how far shoots are from their home.

You enter your home postcode and then select the NFAS shoot club. It calculates distance and directions. Details are available off the this excellent archery blog website The Cooked Stick http://thecrookedstick.blogspot.co.uk/

Here is a direct link to the distance calculator.

http://www.theoldtoxophilist.co.uk/

Hope you find this of use

Congrats to fellow archer Sam

Just wanted to say congratulations to Sam (Samantha Moss) on having her county records being accepted. Well done Sam and hope to see you at the NFAS 3D Champs in June. Drop me a line if you are going and / or camping.

You can read her archery blog Samwise musing  here its well worth a visit.