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May 8 2014

Long Eaton shoot results

Bluebells at Long Eaton wood

Bluebells at Long Eaton wood

I’ve not had chance to write up a review of the excellent Long Eaton Archers shoot yet but they have released the full placing list so I thought I’d post the link to that for now.

http://www.lefa.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=90:1405-open-shoot-04-may-2014&catid=6:open-shoots&Itemid=16

The review will follow shortly.

Thanks for reading

May 1 2014

Shoot Report – Pride Park – April 2014

Unlike those who attended the Scottish championships our Easter Sunday started wet, very wet and not helped by grabbing the non waterproof jacket by mistake. Thankfully the heavy rain stopped by about 12 and stayed away for the rest of the day.
It would have been nice to go to Scotland but we had not been able to secure leave from work in time to book our place.So it was an early start and drive up to Derbyshire for Pride Park’s Easter shoot. 
Despite the weather the welcome was friendly and the food hot. It was good to see Jill had recovered from her mishap of the previous week at the SVYF shoot when her riser snapped (previous post).
Sorry there aren’t any photos but I had buried my phone in my only dry pocket. 
You can see a previous shoot report here for Pride Park.

The course comprised 36 targets of mixed 3ds and paper faces.

The course itself is spread over 2 woods, one large wood and one much smaller one which offers up and downhill shots. The smaller wood would prove to have one of the best shots of the course, a paper face of a musk ox across a hollow.  Great position and use of dead ground. Well done guys.

In short it was a very friendly and enjoyable shoot if a little wet.

Thanks for reading.

Apr 30 2014

British Pathé Tuesday

Great find and blast from the past.

Love the feather fletching on metal arrows.

takotsubo's avatarThe Infinite Curve - an archery blog

It’s British Pathé Tuesday, and time for some Cholmondley Warner-style bowmaking, fletching and archery from 1961 in glorious Technicolor, fetching outfits, and staggeringly RP accents. Enjoy. 


archery 1961

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