Last Sunday of each month… When we go outdoors the typical format is that members meeting on the field discuss what they’d like to shoot and targets get set up accordingly. That means that anyone can, pretty much, get to shoot what they want to shoot – all good. But… …we thought that this outdoor…
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The Chairman’s Award If you were at the skittles evening you may have spotted that “Archie Spooner” didn’t put in the anticipated appearance. The decision was taken that The Chairman’s Award should be made at the forthcoming club AGM so that proceedings can be minuted appropriately. So, that being the case, if you’ve not made a…
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Work Party at the Field Saturday 2nd April It’s not so long now until we move outdoors and to best enjoy that the field needs a bit of TLC. To facilitate that we’re having a Work Party at the field on Saturday 2nd April from 10am (and if we don’t get everything done the plan…
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Two nice contributions… The first, is the time given to the club by Lesley in chasing down and securing the “green token” pillar at Waitrose, Locks Heath. Thanks for your work on that Lesley. A direct consequence is the second contribution, £178 to club funds! That’s a nice boost and has allowed us to invest…
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24th Talisman Bowmen Junior Indoor Tournament GALLERY – GENERALGALLERY – PRESENTATIONS What a great day! While it was cold and drizzly outside there was a warm welcome and a buzz of anticipation inside as 50 young archers prepared to shoot it out at our 24th annual tournament. From the youngest archer aged just seven across all age…
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Okay, it may not be the “Outdoor Season”, but… A few of us shot on Sunday and had a cracking morning. Other than a very brief light shower for an end, it was bright, not too cold and we even had some sun! (you can see highlights in the mud 😉 ). And, it…
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Waitrose are giving us a hand! Lesley has been in discussion with Waitrose and has secured us one of their community support Green Pillars! If you’re not familiar with them, basically, when you shop in Waitrose you’re given a green token. There are three perspex pillars and you pop the token into the one that supports…
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Happy New Year! Here’s to a 2016 full of great archery! This is the perfect time to think about the year ahead, consider any archery goals you may have, perhaps you want to up your score a bit, become great at grouping or attain a particular Archery GB Classification – the world’s your oyster as they…
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Archery GB January Postal Portsmouth Competition You may have seen in the Winter 2015 issue of “Archery UK” (page 58) that Archery GB are running a postal competition. Basically, you need to submit your best score for a Portsmouth round shot in January 2016. There are categories for senior and junior ladies and gents, and…
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Junior Tournament Update…. All good news! We hit the thirty entries mark just before Christmas, which put us nicely ahead of the game on entries compared to previous years and there are more entries coming so, we should have a nice, well-attended event to offer our local juniors a good competitive event. As we have…
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