Club News & More
17/04/08: St George's A.C. APRIL Newsletter
Newsletter (This is an Adobe PDF document. Right click and click on 'Save As' to download to your pc).
18/10/07: St George's A.C. Open Clout Results 2007
2007 Open Clout Results (This is a MS Word document of 31kb)
17/09/07: Peter Cooper Handicap Results
Peter Cooper Results (This is an Acrobat PDF document of 13kb)
21/06/07: Tournament Results
Open Western 2007 (This is a MS Word document weighing in at 34kb)
6 Gold End
Stuart today, 03/06/07, shot a fantastic 6 gold end at 50 yards with his flatbow (No more excuses for avoiding competitions!).
WELL DONE STUART
Indoor Shooting stops for the Summer
The last indoor shooting sessions will be the 10th April at Wetherby and 13th April at St. John Fisher. Indoor shooting will start again in September. Details of when will be announced at the AGM.
Outdoor shooting will commence on Tuesday and Thursday evening from 7pm on the 17th and 19th April at St. John Fisher. As always we will still be shooting on Sunday mornings from 10am.
Please ensure that there are a minimum of two adults present prior to shooting.
St George's Newsletter - Issue 5
The club newsletter is now availablke for download.
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Indoor Competitions 2007
Mark Berry & Steve Bennett will be attending the following Indoor Shoots and you will be very welcome to join them...
1. Wakefield Archers, Wakefield, Portsmouth Round, Sunday 14th Jan 2007
2. Saville Bowmen, Liversedge, Portsmouth, Sunday 4th Feb 2007
3. YAA Indoor Champs, Wakefield, Portsmouth, Sunday 11th March 2007
4. Chorley Bowmen, Chorley, Comined FITA (18 & 25m), Sunday 25th Feb 2007
Should you wish to attend, competition application forms can be downloaded from the YAA (Yorkshire Archery Association) website at
www.yorkshirearchery.co.uk/upcoming.html.
Should you want any further information, please contact me :-)
Indoor Shooting Commences
Indoor shooting commences at Wetherby Adult Training Centre and at St John Fisher's School, Harrogate. Wetherby has already started as of the Tuesday 19th of September and St John Fisher's will re-commence on the Friday 6th of October. Shooting start times, at both venues, are 19:15hrs.
Outdoor shooting at St John Fishers's School, on a Sunday morning, continues throughout the year.
Please ensure that there are a minimum of two adults present prior to shooting.
Have-A-Go at Archery
If you have ever fancied having a go at Archery, now's your chance to come and shoot a few arrows at Spofforth Village Gala on the 28th August 2006.
Tournament Results
Open Clout 2006
Open Western 2006
Barbara Williams Clout 2006
On Sunday 7th May 2006 St. George’s Archery Club held their 4th Barbara Williams Memorial Clout shoot on St John Fisher School’s playing fields in Harrogate.
Barbara Williams was a much-loved club member with a great enthusiasm for archery, particularly Clout, and her estate kindly donated a silver tankard to be used as a prize for a club competition set up in her memory.
Clout is a form of archery where archers attempt to drop arrows as near as possible to a flag placed at 180 yards for gents, 140 yards for ladies and various distances dependent on age for juniors.
Despite the wet weather there was an excellent turnout of both experienced and novice archers with a range of different bows who, using a handicap system, were all able to compete against each other.
The prizewinners were:
Overall - Carol Fairbrother
1st Gent - Clive Roebuck
1st Junior - Max Dutton
To view images of the event, please head on over to the gallery.
St George's Newsletter - Issue 3
In this edition of the St George's Newsletter....
New Club House and Equipment Store - The latest news. Club Social Evening great success. Diary of Events. Tournament News and much, much more...
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2nd Annual St. Georges Archery Club Snowman Shoot
On the morning of Sunday 29th of January over 30 archers of St. George’s A.C. Harrogate left their nice warm homes to participate in the club’s annual Snowman Shoot.
The morning was cold and clear with the temperature a little above freezing. Assembly was at 10:30 and thankfully our Field Captain, Clive Roebuck, kept his introduction and explanation of the rules short and sweet thus saving us from the onset of hypothermia.
The Snowman targets, which had been created by Carol Fairbrother the shoot organiser, were printed on the back of a 122cm target face.
The scoring followed G.N.A.S. 9 for the ‘golden’ carrot that was his nose, 7 for his red scarf and hat band, 5 for the blue sky, which was adorned with snow flakes, 3 for any black area these being his top hat, pipe and other bits and 1 for a white which was the predominant colour on the target.
The colours were placed so that all the higher scoring colours were surrounded by colours having a low value making high scoring difficult and generating various mutterings at the target face when collecting arrows.
Further scoring temptations were four balloons attached to each target face outside the scoring areas; these were worth 10 points if you could burst one. Miss and you had a zero unless of course you managed to hit a balloon which, due to the breeze, had partly blown into a scoring zone.
Four dozen arrows were shot at distances of 50, 40, 30, 20 yards depending on bow type and experience, after two dozen arrows had been shot we had a welcome break when copious amounts of chilli, hot soup and bread rolls were consumed followed by some wonderful confectionary.
On completion of the shoot commemorative snowmen containing sweets were awarded by our Lady Paramounts to the winners.
This included a prize for the most noses and the usual ‘worst white’ which proved very entertaining to judge due to the target design.
Despite the cold weather the event was enjoyed by all who attended and once more proved to be good fun.
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